How many pizzas for 25 people?

[Lludmilla]

Hosting a 'pizza and cupcakes' party and wondering how many pizzas I would need to order to feed 25? (I'm crap at judging food quantities...) Bearing in mind that the main focus of the evening is the socialising, i.e. I'm not trying to provide a full meal as such (it's literally just pizza and cupcakes), but I don't want to look stingy either... obv depends on pizza sizes, but if anyone can help me guess at a rough ballpark figure assuming we're talking 'large' pizzas it'd be much appreciated... thanks in advance!

Just checked and the place I'm ordering from does a large size of 15 inches which they say serves 12 people (a slice each I'm guessing)...

Depends on who is coming (old ladies or teenage boys; adults or kids etc). But I’d say 4, maybe 5.

Well id like one for myself. Maybe 18?

I know this is MN and everyone is wealthy but would peope seriously order a pizza each from takeaway if they had 25 people coming over? That could easily cost £2-300! Plus cupcakes. This is just a social evening, that's a lot to spend on snacks.

Not a pizza each, but when we throw a party, yes, we spend about £100, about £50 on pizzas from a takeaway (usually 1 per 3 people), and the rest on snacks, puddings, breakfast food for the overnight guests and most importantly booze!

I don't think £100 is an obscene spend for an evening's entertainment for 25 people - £4pp, much cheaper than a night out! People usually also bring booze, so we 'reclaim' about £20 that way.

Maybe it's the fact that you've never done it that means you're overestimating?

(I insist on takeaway not oven pizzas because even though we've got a big double oven, it comes out in miserable slice-per-person quantities that way, and unless you're serving a group you're not a part of, it means someone stuck not enjoying themselves)

I don't think £100 is an obscene spend for an evening's entertainment for 25 people .

I don’t really understand this comment. I don’t think anyone would suggest it was. The poster was saying ordering a pizza each would be up to 300 quid plus cupcakes. Drinks would obviously be extra. It’s not exactly 100 all in is it?! I think we can safely say this evening will cost well over that.

I'd get 10, put 8 on display and keep a couple in reserve in case a few people hog the ones that are out.

I'd also make sure half of them were vegetarian. The last pizza 'thing' I went to, all the meat eaters ate the one or two veggie pizzas as well and some of the vegetarians missed out.

I’d probably have the plain cheese and tomato type of pizza as the main type because it’s a safe choice - I reckon most people will eat cheese and tomato pizza, even if it’s not their favourite topping.

Whereas with other toppings you get more people who won’t eat that type because they don’t like (or can’t eat) spicy toppings / ham / mushrooms and so on.