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Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings

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Re: Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings

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$34.61 estimated for my random pizza. That's a hell of an expensive pizza.

I don't know where it gets ordered from, but a place in my town has pizzas that are about $30-$40 and they're worth it. For one, they're just amazing pizza, made by an amazing local entrepreneur, with a cool little pizza shop. For two, it's a meal out for 3 or 4 (they don't actually deliver), which isn't a bad price to eat out.

If it's Dominos, then I feel your pain.

Re: Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings

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As a owner of a dice I don't see a great need for this even if it was available at my location. The dice solution also has a lot more features such as covering allergies, absolutely-not-toppings or just adding drinks.

I guess if saving the surprise until you actually open the box is important you could either have a friend roll for you or give your local pizza place a dice (or url) and promise a tip if they roll for you. Who knows, maybe they would even like the idea of adding that to their menu.

If you want to complicate things a bit it should not be very difficult to just make a user script that makes a random order for you on your favorite pizza site.

Re: Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings

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> 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?

You understand the difference between something that's not very nice and something which someone cannot possibly eat at all, right? As a vegetarian, I can imagine some pretty gross combinations of pizza that I still can eat, but I'm at a massive disadvantage if I get something I cannot eat at all.

> I'm at a massive disadvantage if I get something I cannot eat at all

Yes.... like a game of roulette where you sometimes lose it all and get nothing out of it at all.

Re: Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings

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I wonder of those involve Dominos "deliverator" van. http://www.dominosdxp.com/

I saw Dominos pizza tech guy interviewed a while back about their delivery bags. He spoke of one day of not just keeping the pizza warm, but having it having cook while being delivered. Custom vehicles could make that happen and I'm sure somewhere in that organization someone is trying to mount a pizza oven in a 92 chevy.

That actually already exists by a startup in the valley: https://zumepizza.com/ http://www.businessinsider.com/zume-pizza-robot-expansion-20...

Re: Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder of those involve Dominos "deliverator" van. http://www.dominosdxp.com/

I saw Dominos pizza tech guy interviewed a while back about their delivery bags. He spoke of one day of not just keeping the pizza warm, but having it having cook while being delivered. Custom vehicles could make that happen and I'm sure somewhere in that organization someone is trying to mount a pizza oven in a 92 chevy.

I hope that guy had esprit up to here.

Re: Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings

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post #31
post #27

$34.61 estimated for my random pizza. That's a hell of an expensive pizza.

I don't know where it gets ordered from, but a place in my town has pizzas that are about $30-$40 and they're worth it. For one, they're just amazing pizza, made by an amazing local entrepreneur, with a cool little pizza shop. For two, it's a meal out for 3 or 4 (they don't actually deliver), which isn't a bad price to eat out. If it's Dominos, then I feel your pain.

It says on the page all orders are fullfilled by dominos. So yeah that is a pretty ludicrous price for a dominos pizza.

Re: Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings

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post #31
post #27

$34.61 estimated for my random pizza. That's a hell of an expensive pizza.

I don't know where it gets ordered from, but a place in my town has pizzas that are about $30-$40 and they're worth it. For one, they're just amazing pizza, made by an amazing local entrepreneur, with a cool little pizza shop. For two, it's a meal out for 3 or 4 (they don't actually deliver), which isn't a bad price to eat out. If it's Dominos, then I feel your pain.

On the website, it says Dominos.
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