Super Bowl LX Wings and Pizza: How Much to Order for Your Party

The New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks meet in Super Bowl LX this Sunday, February 8, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. It's a rematch of Super Bowl XLIX. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. out on the West Coast, which is 6:30 p.m. here in Kissimmee, so every host in town has a whole afternoon to get enough food on the table before the coin toss.

The rest of the country is planning ahead too. The National Chicken Council expects Americans to eat 1.48 billion wings over the course of the game, about 10 million more than last year. The council says restaurants and stores started stocking up well before the big day.

We'll be making our share of those wings in our kitchen in the Walmart Plaza on Osceola Parkway, and if we were the ones hosting, we'd plan the spread like this, down to getting the order in before half of Osceola County has the same idea.

How many wings per person for a Super Bowl party

There's no official number, because every crowd eats differently, but about six wings per adult is a comfortable starting point when pizza is on the table too. If your group is wing-first and pizza is the backup, plan closer to ten each.

A wing is only a few bites, and it's the food people reach for first and keep reaching for while the game is close. Guests who come for the wings will treat them as dinner. The ones who come for the pizza will grab a couple between slices and call it a night. Little kids usually eat two or three and then go back to the bowl of chips. Teenagers count as adults, or more.

Our wings come in orders of 10, 20, 40, and 50, so round up to the next size. A party of eight adults with pizza lands around 48 wings, which makes the 50 an easy call. Leftover wings are a good problem to have on Monday.

You also pick Traditional or Boneless for every order. Traditional wings, bone in, are what the purists want. Boneless are easier for kids and for anybody balancing a plate on their knees on the couch. If you can't decide, get one order of each and let the room vote with their hands.

How many pizzas to order for a game-day crowd

Our XL is 18 inches, the big New York pie with wide slices you fold in half to eat. When wings are on the table, one XL for every three or four adults tends to be about right. If wings are a side thought, or your guests are hungry teenagers who skipped lunch, lean toward one XL for every two or three.

Mixing up the pies helps more than ordering extra of one. Get at least one plain cheese or one-topping pie, since that's the slice nobody argues about, and then add a pie with some personality. A few that work well at a party:

• Buffalo Chicken Pizza, with a buffalo sauce base, chicken, and mozzarella, finished with ranch and a buffalo drizzle. It's wings on a slice.

• The Bronx Bomber, our meat lovers, loaded with pepperoni, sausage, ham, salami, bacon, and meatballs.

• The Brooklyn Sting, with pepperoni, bacon, ricotta, crushed red pepper, cayenne, and Mike's Hot Honey, for the guest who wants sweet and spicy in the same bite.

• Veggie Pizza, with mushrooms, onions, green peppers, tomatoes, spinach, and black olives, so the non-meat eaters have a whole pie of their own.

If your crowd likes square slices, a Large Sicilian Pizza is a nice change from the round pies. Don't skip the garlic knots, either. They come six to an order with marinara, and they go faster than you'd expect.

Picking wing sauces your whole crowd will eat

Before you order, know that our wings are served plain unless you choose a sauce. Every 10 wings comes with one sauce and one ranch or blue cheese, and each extra sauce is 50 cents. An order of 20 gets you two sauces and an order of 40 gets you four, which is your chance to cover everyone.

Our sauce list runs Mild, Medium, Hot, Honey BBQ, Carolina Gold BBQ, Sweet Thai Chili, Teriyaki, Garlic Parmesan, Lemon Pepper, and Honey Mustard, plus Ranch and Blue Cheese for dipping.

With a crowd, pick one sauce for the cautious eaters and one for the heat seekers, then fill in from there. With 40 wings and four sauces, we'd go something like Mild for the kids and the careful, Hot for whoever brags about their spice tolerance, Honey BBQ for the sweet tooth, and Garlic Parmesan or Lemon Pepper for the people who want flavor without the red fingers. Sweet Thai Chili and Teriyaki are good swaps when your group leans sweet and savory.

Ranch or blue cheese is the one argument at a Super Bowl party that has nothing to do with football, so mix them if you know your guests are split.

If you're looking for wings in Kissimmee for the big game, our page Wings Worth the Extra Napkins has more on our wings and the full sauce list.

Ordering ahead on Super Bowl Sunday

Order early. With 1.48 billion wings in the forecast, you won't be the only one in town ordering on Sunday.

On Sundays we open at noon and close at 8:30 p.m. With a 6:30 p.m. kickoff, the stretch between mid-afternoon and the opening drive is when everyone in town remembers they need food. Get your order in early in the afternoon, so the food is there before the game is.

You can order online for pickup or delivery, or call us at (407) 933-8800. A few habits make game-day ordering go smoothly. Settle your headcount the night before, and let one person do the ordering so nobody doubles up on 40 wings by accident. Write down your sauce choices before you call or click, since that's the part people change their minds about at the last second. If you're picking up, check the bag at the counter for your sauces and dips before you head out.

Pickup gives you the most control over timing on a busy day, because you decide when you walk through the door. If you'd rather stay put and you're counting on pizza delivery in Kissimmee on Super Bowl Sunday, order early for that too. Our page Pizza Delivery and Pickup in Kissimmee explains how ordering works either way.

The specials that fit a Super Bowl crowd

Two of our daily specials were practically built for a living room full of football fans.

The Big Family gets you two XL one-topping pizzas, 20 wings, six garlic knots, and a 2-liter of soda for $52.99. By the math above, the two pies cover six to eight adults, and the wings stretch further when everyone takes a few alongside their slices. If your group is wing-first, add another order of wings. It's the closest thing we have to a party in one order.

The XL Pizza + Extra Wings & Soda is the smaller version, with one XL one-topping pizza, 20 wings, and a 2-liter of soda for $37.99. That's a good fit for three or four people, or a couple of friends who take their wings seriously.

For a bigger group, stack them. A Big Family plus an extra order of wings covers a lot of ground, and a specialty pie on top gives your guests something besides one-topping slices. If you need more pizza than wings, ask about our special on two XL one-topping pizzas.

Our daily specials are claimed in store, so plan on picking those up.

Don't forget halftime dessert

Halftime is when the room gets restless and the wing bones start piling up, so that's the moment to bring out something sweet. Four Mini Cannoli are easy to pass around the couch, and an order of six Zeppole is a fun little surprise when the commercials come on. If you'd rather have a slice of cake, our NY Style Cheesecake comes plain or with strawberry topping.

Get your order in early Sunday afternoon, online or by calling us at (407) 933-8800.