San Diego celebrates National Pizza Day!

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Feb. 9 is National Pizza Day in the United States.

This means that San Diegans had an excuse to eat plenty of the delicious, Italian-inspired American dish on Thursday.

KUSI’s Allie Wagner went live at pizza joint Buona Forchetta in Coronado where the founder and the pizza chefs were cooking up celebratory pies.