The two situations in which the burden rate is used are: 1  Labor. 2  Payroll taxes and benefits are added to an employee's wages to arrive at the total cost of labor for that individual. 3  The burden rate is the dollar amount of burden (i.e., overhead) that is applied to one dollar of wages.
Modern pizza, as we know it today, originated in Italy as the Neapolitan pie with tomato and the cheese was added in 1889. The pizza is from Italy, but was not developed until after the cultivation of the tomato, brought back to Spain from Central America in the 1500's.
And, like those two very American ideas, it permeates our culture. In fact, pepperoni remains the most popular topping for pizzas in America, being served on more than 35% of all pizza orders. Most people, and rightly so, would have thought pepperoni was born in Italy. Although it is hard to say exactly when it was created, it probably popped up in the early 1900s when Italian butcher shops and pizzerias began to flourish on the streets of a burgeoning Italian-American society.