Domino’s Pizza Planning to Open a Pizza Place on the Moon

In 2001, Pizza Hut became the first company in history to introduce pizza to space when they made a delivery to astronauts in orbit aboard the International Space Station. Well, they are about to be one-uped, because an announcement made today by the Japanese arm of Domino’s Pizza boldly declared their intention of building the Milky Way’s first pizzeria on the moon. Tomohide Matsunaga, a spokesman from the company, told The London Daily Telegraph that because they anticipate a large population of astronauts living and working on the moon in the very near future, they started to seriously consider the project last year and have come to the point where they are now deciding on when the galactic pizza parlor may actually see the light side of the moon. Floor plans have already been released by the construction firm Maeda Corp, which reveal a two-story, dome-shaped building, with a diameter of approximately 26 meters, made from concrete that will include a basement where the pizza making will take place. Staff members would be required to live and work inside the lunar eatery. The company estimates the entire project will cost in excess of 1.67 trillion yen, or 21.7 billion dollars, and demand the transport of 70 tons of construction materials and pizza-making equipment to the moon on 15 rockets. They also discussed plans to keep costs down by using mineral deposits on the moon to make the concrete.