Interesting idea. The website reminds me strongly of Grubhub from its coloring to the typing-taglines. Did this idea begin as a parody of GrubHub?
Not a criticism—-actually curious.
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#12It'd probably be valuable to add settings that consider allergies. Vegetarian and gluten free too. Looks interesting, though!
That’s the roulette part. Not everyone wins!
Aye hardly seems good spirited when not taking either of those into account would result in unpalatable food a high percentage of time.
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#1325 pizzas, with random ingredients, and delivery on New Years Eve to a major city: "Time To Your Door: 44-74 minutes" I doubt it. I can't afford to try it, but I doubt it. Will it take my $770 and deliver me 25 pizzas in less than 1 hour and 15 minutes on NYE? I would be absolutely shocked. I recommend adding a disclaimer, or a time "estimate" phrase, or something. Do the estimates come from Dominos? Are they real? S…
The estimates are real and from Dominos. Thanks for the feedback, that's a good catch. I'll be adding that verbiage.
I wonder of those involve Dominos "deliverator" van.
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#14This is awesome, I’m a little too chicken to put my money down though. It’d be fun just to see the random options or maybe other people’s previous randomness.
This exists on some other axis than fear.
Whimsy or something like that.
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#15Random between 0 and 4 toppings? 0 toppings is a pretty boring pizza...
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s the roulette part. Not everyone wins!
Aye hardly seems good spirited when not taking either of those into account would result in unpalatable food a high percentage of time.
> would result in unpalatable food a high percentage of time
That's the point. Do you understand what 'roulette' means in this context? When you play roulette you more often than not lose all your money and have nothing to show for it. Like an inedible pizza.
If you made it so you always got something nice to eat... it wouldn't be roulette, would it?
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#17Random between 0 and 4 toppings? 0 toppings is a pretty boring pizza...
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#18This reminds me of None Pizza with Left Beef, which just celebrated its tenth anniversary:
* original: http://www.thesneeze.com/2007/the-great-pizza-orientation-te...
* anniversary stories: https://gizmodo.com/reflections-on-the-10th-anniversary-of-n... and https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/hbd-none-pizza-w...
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#19This is awesome, I’m a little too chicken to put my money down though. It’d be fun just to see the random options or maybe other people’s previous randomness.
Anchovy Pineapple Pizza on the way!
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#2025 pizzas, with random ingredients, and delivery on New Years Eve to a major city: "Time To Your Door: 44-74 minutes" I doubt it. I can't afford to try it, but I doubt it. Will it take my $770 and deliver me 25 pizzas in less than 1 hour and 15 minutes on NYE? I would be absolutely shocked. I recommend adding a disclaimer, or a time "estimate" phrase, or something. Do the estimates come from Dominos? Are they real? S…
For far more reasons than I care to go into, the Dominos PULSE system[1] sucks at making delivery time estimates. The CSMs in store don’t use it, but can’t control what online orders see.
As a former manager, blowing through unrealistic delivery estimates for online orders were over half of the complaints I had to deal with.
[1] PULSE is the in-house Point of Sale system Dominos created. Except it’s not just a POS, it does inventory management, labor management, shift scheduling, delivery routing, etc. Theoretically it has every variable it needs to estimate delivery times. But there’s a disconnect between theory and practice, as most franchises don’t learn enough about the ins and outs of the system to customize a lot of the defaults or even to use all of the modules.