In the Laws of Brachos, by R’ Binyomin Forst (p. 235-236), it is explained that pizza used to be eaten as a snack — apparently there were no sit-down pizza shops when the food was first introduced, and people ate it walking down the street. For that reason, the accepted halacha at that time was to recite mezanos. However, because now pizza is generally eaten as a meal, and after all has meal-like ingredients like cheese on it, then we say hamotzi on pizza, even if we are eating it only for a snack. Indeed, the author says that even if we only eat one crumb of a crust of pizza, hamotzi is the correct bracha.
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