In celebration of a new partnership with Chef Tony Gemignani, the 13-time World Pizza Champion and the undisputed greatest pizza maker in modern history, Princess Cruises, recognised for the Best Pizza at Sea, has established a new Guinness World Records title for “World’s Largest Pizza Party” at multiple venues aboard its fleet of Love Boats with hungry guests devouring more than 60,000 slices of fresh-from-the-oven pizza prepared by the line’s master chefs.
Chef Gemignani has created two pizzas exclusively for Princess Cruises, each with an exciting blend of savoury flavours and premium ingredients from Soppressata sausage and hot honey to agave pesto and fresh goat's cheese. He also provided recipes for three of his signature, award-winning pizzas, further enhancing the line’s position as offering the Best Pizza at Sea.
“There was great excitement on board as Princess Cruises set a Guinness World Records title for the World’s Largest Pizza Party at multiple venues,” said Callie Smith, Adjudicator from Guinness World Records.
Chef Gemignani is the most decorated pizzaiolo in American history, an award-winning chef, restaurateur, master instructor, philanthropist, founder of Slice House by Tony Gemignani and author of Pizza, The Pizza Bible and The Pursuit of Pizza. Born and raised in Northern California, he opened his first restaurant in San Francisco in 2009 - Tony’s Pizza Napoletana - offering several styles of pizzas including Classic American, Italian, Sicilian and Neapolitan, artfully made with artisan flours, an array of authentic sauces and seasonal ingredients, and finished in seven different, regionally-specific ovens. The restaurant was met with immediate success upon opening and was named the best pizzeria by USA Today and the top pizza restaurant by the Travel Channel.
The new Chef Gemignani-designed pizzas will take centre stage at Alfredo’s and Gigi’s speciality pizzerias, charming, sit-down venues offering an enticing menu of freshly prepared, individual-size pizzas, salads, wine, beer and more and voted Best Pizza at Sea by USA Today, as well as the complimentary Slice locations found on the Lido Deck of Princess Cruises ships.
Princess Cruises is now a two-time Guinness World Records title/record holder having broken a Guinness World Record for hosting the largest marriage vow renewal ceremony in multiple venues on the 11th of February 2020 after 1,443 couples participated onboard three ships. Similarly, Chef Gemignani, who was part of the previous record for the World’s Largest Pizza Party set in 2023, is now a four-time Guinness World Record holder, including the World’s Longest Pizza, Most People Tossing Pizza Dough at Once, Largest Pizza Base Spun in Two Minutes and Most Consecutive Pizza Rolls Across the Shoulders in 30 seconds.”
Here are the stats from the World’s Largest Pizza Party:
- Total weight of dough used: 6,512 pounds
- Total weight of flour used: 3,417 pounds
- Total weight of pepperoni slices used: 1,393 ponds
- Total weight of cheese used: 2,323 pounds
