When you think about a piping hot pizza, what is one of the first things you notice? If you said the melted cheese, we can be friends. If you didn’t, then please read on and I will explain to you why you were wrong.
Nothing beats that warm piece of pizza and the string of mozzarella that keeps stretching further as you take that first bite. I can never get enough cheese on a pizza. I have been known to order cheese-stuffed crusts with extra cheese on it as well. I know that I am not alone in my love of melted cheese on a pizza. The dairy industry is very aware of the popularity, and that is why the Dairy Checkoff has made some pizza partners and built product awareness for cheese.
Paul Ziemnisky is Group EVP of Health and Wellness, Insights & Innovations with Dairy Management Inc. He says the efforts of these partnerships is expected to drive even more demand for cheese for the rest of the year. Domino’s has been one of the partnership’s biggest advocates.
Combine that with the work they are doing with Pizza Hut and other global partners, they are seeing a growth of cheese consumption in other countries around the world.
It’s not just pizza that drives this consumption. DMI is working with other partners in fast food, like Taco Bell and McDonald’s, to move more product to markets that weren’t as developed before, and to keep increasing sales where they already were doing well.
Learn more by visiting www.usdairy.com/for-farmers.
