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Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by kbar13 »

sharkweek wrote: post #70
jedberg wrote: post #36

Back about six years ago now, we had a new guy come on board my team at Netflix as an SRE. He had come from Dominoes. He told us stories about how Dominos saw the writing on the wall and reinvented itself as a tech company, how every step in the pizza making process had an API. He showed us command line tools that you could use to order and track your pizza, so you could set it up in cron and then have it tell you wh…

Hang on, what? People order pizza to show up at half time? I have only been at Super Bowl parties where the pizza is there before the game starts, normally part of a giant spread of other heart attack foods.

food beforehand then when half time comes around you need more food

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by Spooky23 »

scrooched_moose wrote: post #19

> Yet Sela believes consumers have been abandoning local shops--even those with fresher ingredients, better flavors and ties to their communities--mostly because they lack the ability to take mobile orders. That may be part of it, but among people I know the majority of it is cost. A 16" pizza at most of our favorite spots ends up around $25. I can get a 14" 3 topping pizza at Dominos for $7.99. The local pizza is gr…

Where do you live? Dominos is the worst. 3x is conservative.

Look for a grande cheese pizzeria if you don’t live in a good pizza area.

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by mrbombastic »

avree wrote: post #72
benatkin wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In SF the only pizza place I ate at over a six-month period was owned by jwz, and the only pizza slices I ate were vegan ones. I'm not vegan, but I'm slightly lactose intolerant (or something). I think that pizza is probably a blind spot for many SF/SV startup people. Not surprised this startup is based in NYC. Is there an avocado toast startup? Edit: come to think of it I had vegan pizza in NYC a year and a half ago…

There's plenty of tremendous pizza in San Francisco. Hell, we even have Zante's, which makes quite unique Indian Pizza. The stuff at DNA Lounge is frankly crap compared to some of what you can get from the lesser known places. With that said, we're still nowhere on the level of NYC.

Please share some, i have had a few decent slices but they are few and far between. Arinell in mission is closest I’ve gotten to an NY slice.

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by rcach001 »

jacobwal wrote: post #88
Aco- wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

just curious what the name of his shop is? I'm always looking for good neopolitan pizza in this town.

Not OP but Kesté is great. This is their site: http://kestepizzeria.com/en/home/ Not to be confused with the Slice site, which is linked on Google Maps ( https://www.kestepizzavinonewyork.com/ )

Keste is delicious! They also have good prices.

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by boromi »

jacobwal wrote: post #88
Aco- wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

just curious what the name of his shop is? I'm always looking for good neopolitan pizza in this town.

Not OP but Kesté is great. This is their site: http://kestepizzeria.com/en/home/ Not to be confused with the Slice site, which is linked on Google Maps ( https://www.kestepizzavinonewyork.com/ )

I love Keste, also checkout motorinos (my top 2 fav)

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by lordnacho »

ardit33 wrote: post #4

Fun fact, some of the best "italian" pizzeria's in NYC are actually owned and/or run by Albanians. There is a whole generation of Albanians that moved in Italy (after the 90s), learned the trade there and eventually moved in NYC and opened their places. Fun fact number 2: A lot of greek places in NYC are actually operated by albanians. (for the same reasons as above). The main reason is marketing: People in the US kn…

A lot of Far Eastern cuisines are not made by the people you think. My parents ran a Thai/Viet mix place for a while, after having run a Chinese place. If you go to one of my favorite sushi shops in London you'll find people speaking Cantonese.

I think what happens is the restaurateurs see what's popular and figure they can pass for whatever other group it is. And the food is like software, you can learn another framework reasonably well if you have the fundamentals and a little experience.

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by baxtr »

covercash wrote: post #34

I hate Slice. They basically came in and registered similar domains to existing pizza shops but because they are better at SEO than the mom & pop places, their results out rank the real sites. They even went in and updated unclaimed listings on yelp, google, Foursquare, etc. and put their site. That would be fine if the pizza shops were on board with this. But none of the shops I order from had any clue their orders…

Now I hate them too. I hate companies with no decency and values.

There needs to be a new movement like the eco or fair trade stuff, where you know that the owners get a fair deal. I’m sure there is a market for that

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by enraged_camel »

matte_black wrote: post #92
adamqureshi wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spoke to the my local pizza shop in NYC. He said between grubhub, uberRush, yelp and now slice, they are eating his pizza profit margins. He said he has to deal with 3-4 software / hardware POS products for EACH service. They are sucking him dry. He can't make money BUT needs them to bring the business. Slice takes a 20% "slice" per order / of his business. Flour costs going up, he makes his own mozzerella. UberRus…

I'm curious why he simply hasn't raised prices for orders through those platforms?

Customers tend to be insanely price sensitive when it comes to low-end food such as pizza. So you can’t just raise prices because there is a certain limit to what people will be willing to pay before they decide to get pizza from one of the five other pizzarias on that street.

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by Fifer82 »

praneshp wrote: post #87
Fifer82 wrote: post #38

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Absolutely the same here and I am Scottish. I will eat pretty much anything, but even with a beer in Me, I can't handle Dominos. Fake cheese, Fake chicken, Fake mushrooms (I was amazed at fake mushrooms) all put together onto a tasteless base. Gives me the boke.

> Fake cheese, Fake chicken, Fake mushrooms What is fake chicken? Do you want a live, breathing chicken?

The youngest chicken possible, pumped full of saline and water so that when cooked and you cut it with a knife, the cross section looks like playdoh. It has no texture. There is no "grain" to the meat.

A chicken breast today (not fed on chemical feed) is £8-£10 each from a decent butcher or a farm.

You can get chicken breast from a cheap supermarket 10 for £2.99.

These aren't the same thing.

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by jgalt212 »

adamqureshi wrote: post #74
ShabbosGoy wrote: post #64

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Which will inevitably lead him to use poorer quality ingredients in order to survive. 3-4 POS is ridiculous for a small business. Why hasn’t this been solved yet?

He said he gets called from india about some app / software that offers a dashboard to connect uberRush, slice, yelp, grubhub guess what? they take a fee on top of the fees from each POS / Software provider he is using. Its a "Layer Cake" fee. Like that movie. Fee on top of fee. Each morning he wakes up to further confusion when what he REALLY wants todo is make damn good pizza. He also said no one comes to eat in hi…

love "Layer Cake". Sienna Miller at the peak of her powers.
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