The "Pizza Meter" dates back to the Cold War era. The theory would have been demonstrated prior to Iran's attack on Israel.

The explanation has to do with the fact that the orders arrived after eleven at night, the closing time of most restaurants. According to the Pizza Meter of Domino's Pizza, there was a record number of pizzas in the Pentagon and the White House on August 21, 1991, a date practically coinciding with the coup d'état in the Kremlin. On November 17, 1995, a phenomenon known locally as “pizza night” unleashing the Lewinsky-Clinton scandal occurred, which would later end in the end of the Clinton administration. The Pizza Meter was born from the idea that when many pizza orders suddenly arrive at the Pentagon, White House or the CIA, something serious is about to happen somewhere and that the U.S. is in on it. It was once a subintelligence tool taken into account by Soviet officials based in Washington.