Pentagon Pizza Index Diverges: Regular Shops, Bar See Lower Traffic; Domino’s Above Normal

The Pentagon pizza-watch signal is only as useful as its sample, and this split reading shows why: a bar and neighborhood shops cooling while two Domino's locations run hot points to chain-level or delivery-driven demand rather than a clean base-wide cue. That ambiguity matters because such traffic data is increasingly read as a real-time gauge of defense-sector activity, and a mixed print undercuts the tidy narrative. Whether the divergence resolves toward one reading, or persists as noise, is the open question.