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.
Yet tomatoes did not appear on European menus until the Sixteenth Century, when they were brought over from the New World by the Spanish conquistadors. Pizza as we know it today, with a crust, tomato and other toppings, was even later in history; it did not originate until the eighteenth Century in Naples. Mozzarella is made from buffalo's milk and had never before been used to make a pizza. 2  Ironically a cheese, basil and tomato pizza was already popular in Naples, but it did not have quite the same impact in the annals of pizza history.