Starting a pizzeria: the hours chosen by pizzerias that are already open
To start your pizzeria, look first at what pizzerias that are already open do: among 1,534 pizzerias in 12 French départements (administrative areas) whose opening hours are recorded in OpenStreetMap, more than one in two opens for lunch and evening (54.6%), the evening service runs from 18:00 to 22:00 (median), Monday is the most common closing day (32.0%) and, on Friday at 19:45, 1,484 pizzerias out of 1,534 (96.7%) are open at the same time. Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), data as of 7 October 2026 — sources and method.
Next, declare your hours in Pizza Planner Pro: your services for the week, day by day, and the baking capacity of each 15-minute slot.
A typical week, based on the opening hours of 1,534 pizzerias
Example week built from the median opening hours of 1,534 pizzerias in 12 French départements whose opening hours are recorded in OpenStreetMap (data as of 7 October 2026). It is not a recommendation: your hours depend on your location, your customers, your team and the rules that apply to you.
- Lunch 11:30–14:00, evening 18:00–22:00: the median hours recorded.
- Open 6 days out of 7, like the median pizzeria; yet 45.5% open 7 days out of 7.
Typical week, lunch and evening
| Day | Lunch | Evening | What pizzerias do |
|---|---|---|---|
| MonMonday | Closed | 32.0% of pizzerias close on Monday: the most common closing day 58.7% of the 836 pizzerias that close at least one day close on Monday | |
| TueTuesday | – | – | 9.7% of pizzerias close on Tuesday |
| WedWednesday | – | – | 5.9% close on Wednesday |
| ThuThursday | – | – | 3.7% close on Thursday |
| FriFriday | – | – | 1,484 out of 1,534 (96.7%) open at 19:45 The day of the week with the fewest closures: 2.6% of pizzerias |
| SatSaturday | – | – | 8.5% of pizzerias close on Saturday |
| SunSunday | – | – | 28.9% close on Sunday, the second most common closing day |
Lunch and evening: the profile of 54.6% of pizzerias, open 41 hr 45 min a week (median); the typical week above has fewer hours, made up of six days of two median services.
Typical week, evening only
| Day | Evening | What pizzerias do |
|---|---|---|
| MonMonday | Closed | 32.0% of pizzerias close on Monday: the most common closing day 58.7% of the 836 pizzerias that close at least one day close on Monday |
| TueTuesday | – | 9.7% of pizzerias close on Tuesday |
| WedWednesday | – | 5.9% close on Wednesday |
| ThuThursday | – | 3.7% close on Thursday |
| FriFriday | – | 1,484 out of 1,534 (96.7%) open at 19:45 The day of the week with the fewest closures: 2.6% of pizzerias |
| SatSaturday | – | 8.5% of pizzerias close on Saturday |
| SunSunday | – | 28.9% close on Sunday, the second most common closing day |
Evening only: the profile of 23.6% of pizzerias, open 24 hr a week (median).
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), data as of 7 October 2026 — sources and method.
This schedule is a starting point. In Pizza Planner Pro, you declare your own services — lunch, evening, closing days — and you change them when your rhythm changes.
The three choices to make before opening
Your opening hours
The lunch service runs from 11:30 to 14:00, the evening service from 18:00 to 22:00: these are the median hours of the 1,534 pizzerias recorded.
Pizzeria opening hours: what 1,534 pizzerias doYour closing day
Monday is the leading closing day (32.0% of the 1,534), ahead of Sunday (28.9%); Friday is the day on which the fewest pizzerias are closed (2.6%).
Which day should you close your pizzeria? Monday first, rarely FridayLunch and evening, or evening only
Of the 1,534 pizzerias, 54.6% open for lunch and evening, 23.6% for the evening only and 18.9% all day without a break.
Pizzeria open for lunch and evening, or evening only: what 1,534 pizzerias choose
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), data as of 7 October 2026 — sources and method.
Paris, Isère, Bouches-du-Rhône: what changes from one département to another
In Paris, a dense city (338 pizzerias recorded), 3.6% open in the evening only and 34.0% open all day without a break. In Isère (232 pizzerias), 38.8% open in the evening only; in Bouches-du-Rhône (166 pizzerias), 38.6% open in the evening only. Opening in the evening only is therefore not confined to one type of département: if your département is one of the ten published in our guide lunch and evening or evening only, its figures are there; otherwise, look at your street rather than at an average.
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), data as of 7 October 2026 — sources and method.
Where these figures come from
The opening hours recorded in OpenStreetMap were collected on 7 October 2026 for 1,534 businesses with ‘pizza’ cuisine, restaurants and takeaways combined, in 12 French départements. The shares are calculated on this sample; the hours are local times. These are displayed opening hours, not a measure of footfall.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors, data under the ODbL licence — Pizza Planner Pro analysis, data as of 7 October 2026.
Sample: 1,534 pizzerias in 12 French départements whose opening hours are recorded in OpenStreetMap: Paris, Rhône et Métropole de Lyon, Isère, Bouches-du-Rhône, Gironde, Haute-Savoie, Savoie, Puy-de-Dôme, Loire, Ain, Allier, Haute-Loire.
Planning your production from the very first service
Once you have chosen your hours, you still need to know what comes out of the oven and when: the guide to the production schedule sets out the method, and the one on Friday night helps you get through that service.
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