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Phone is still the best way to order pizza

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Re: Phone is still the best way to order pizza

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Post by thaumasiotes »

ecshafer wrote: post #25
post_break wrote: post #9

I'm sorry but I don't agree. Dominos pizza has coupons, deals, etc. Trying to get those deals over the phone is a chore. Ordering specific toppings can be a chore since it's a relay back and forth vs a button. Multiple pizzas with multiple toppings? The delay just compounds. If you live alone and order one pizza or one style of specific themed pizzas then sure, it might be faster, if that's the metric of "best" but i…

But then you would have to eat... Dominos. I get that its not the same everywhere, but in the pizza belt, I couldn't imagine going there. Luckily my local place has a good website though.

> Luckily my local place has a good website though.

My local place has a website that doesn't quite meet the standard I'd hope for. But it does work, and if you order through it, they'll get your order right. It's a lot less hassle than ordering over the phone.

Re: Phone is still the best way to order pizza

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Post by anamexis »

hnal943 wrote: post #108
ineedasername wrote: post #91

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Because traditional pizzarerias don't have crust options like that, and if they do they are not the default. With my local place the call really is as simple as: Me: I'd like a large plain pie for pickup. Pizzeria: what's your name? [Name]. Okay $name, 15 to 20 minutes. And we're done. If you're ordering from a big 3 chain then you have to deal with a bunch of non-dedault options, but if you know what you want it can…

you don't order toppings? They don't ask?

"Plain pie" is New Yorkish for cheese pizza.

Re: Phone is still the best way to order pizza

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Post by nojs »

post_break wrote: post #9

I'm sorry but I don't agree. Dominos pizza has coupons, deals, etc. Trying to get those deals over the phone is a chore. Ordering specific toppings can be a chore since it's a relay back and forth vs a button. Multiple pizzas with multiple toppings? The delay just compounds. If you live alone and order one pizza or one style of specific themed pizzas then sure, it might be faster, if that's the metric of "best" but i…

> Dominos pizza has coupons, deals, etc

I find this part of the dominos model quite frustrating - you pay almost twice as much, or else spend an unreasonable amount of time dealing with the whole coupon thing. I guess it should be viewed as a tax against people who’s time is more valuable than hunting around the internet for coupon codes.

Re: Phone is still the best way to order pizza

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Post by reitzensteinm »

Scoundreller wrote: post #89
pizzasnob wrote: post #85

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You mean the "Chicago and the sprawl around it all the way up to Maine along the great lakes" right? https://i.imgur.com/GOvnHcv.png Sorry coasties, Chicago's the new pizza capital

Good choice of username for a new account. It's yours for life now!

Better to go with a throwaway per topic.

Otherwise in ten years we'll be reading an article on The Atlantic that leads with a CEO behind bars, jumps to a young kid learning about the world in his uncle's Pizzeria, then to a shady security team searching for the whistleblower by cross referencing HN posts against employee catering habits, and finally a retired FBI agent that steps in to provide protection.

So yeah, pizzasnob, please don't start talking about your love for dobermans.

Re: Phone is still the best way to order pizza

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Post by handmodel »

nojs wrote: post #123
post_break wrote: post #9

I'm sorry but I don't agree. Dominos pizza has coupons, deals, etc. Trying to get those deals over the phone is a chore. Ordering specific toppings can be a chore since it's a relay back and forth vs a button. Multiple pizzas with multiple toppings? The delay just compounds. If you live alone and order one pizza or one style of specific themed pizzas then sure, it might be faster, if that's the metric of "best" but i…

> Dominos pizza has coupons, deals, etc I find this part of the dominos model quite frustrating - you pay almost twice as much, or else spend an unreasonable amount of time dealing with the whole coupon thing. I guess it should be viewed as a tax against people who’s time is more valuable than hunting around the internet for coupon codes.

Pretty great price discrimination model - at least in the short/medium run.

Re: Phone is still the best way to order pizza

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Post by chihuahua »

technothrasher wrote: post #119
ecshafer wrote: post #25

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But then you would have to eat... Dominos. I get that its not the same everywhere, but in the pizza belt, I couldn't imagine going there. Luckily my local place has a good website though.

When I used to live in Rochester, NY I ate Dominos because it was the best pizza in town. Rochester is a pizza wasteland. Or at least it was when I lived there.

That might be the very definition of a wasteland - when Dominos is the best in town.

Re: Phone is still the best way to order pizza

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Post by extra88 »

technothrasher wrote: post #119
ecshafer wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But then you would have to eat... Dominos. I get that its not the same everywhere, but in the pizza belt, I couldn't imagine going there. Luckily my local place has a good website though.

When I used to live in Rochester, NY I ate Dominos because it was the best pizza in town. Rochester is a pizza wasteland. Or at least it was when I lived there.

Salvatore’s was better.

Re: Phone is still the best way to order pizza

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Post by fma »

There's a grocery store in the Southeast called Publix. They have a pretty awesome deli. You can order w/o creating an account. All you need is name, phone and email. You can give them a fake name, phone number and email if you want. You don't even need to pay on-line.

Any specials they have the week gets applied without an account, unlike other grocery stories (Looking at you, Kroger...selling customer's digital data).

Re: Phone is still the best way to order pizza

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Post by 300bps »

shagie wrote: post #75
Spooky23 wrote: post #10

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Weird. Literally the opposite of my experience. I don’t do delivery except pizza because I don’t want to pay a premium for cold food. Websites always have built in timers that take longer. Usually 45m. Meanwhile I can call a pizza place, have pizza and wings ready in 15m, pay cash or whatever and have hot food. Order online, chances are it’s sitting there for 10m to avoid getting penalized on the SLA for online order…

Dominos has a patent on this - https://patents.google.com/patent/US10262281B1/en - and its rather accurate. The "its done" in the app or web page and it is within a minute or so of being able to walk out the door with it or have it show up. And ordering with Dominos you get a dominos driver - not a middleman.

Ironically, I picked up Dominos pizza for the first time tonight in many years.

The app and the screen on the wall said that my order was ready for 10 minutes while I stood there waiting for them to finish my order.

The food was terrible. Their chicken actually used to be good! Tonight the whole thing was just gross.

Re: Phone is still the best way to order pizza

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Post by [deleted] »

AdamH12113 wrote: post #118
rafaele wrote: post #69

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Who is in the pizza "Big Three" anyway? Domino's, Pizza Hut, Little Caesars?

Today I learned that Little Caesar's is a bigger pizza chain than Papa John's[1]. As of 2018, the top five are: 1. Domino's, with 14,856 "units" and $12.2 billion in gross sales. 2. Pizza Hut, with 16,784 units and $12.0 billion in gross sales. 3. Little Caesar's, with 5,500 units and $4.0 billion. 4. Papa John's, with 5,199 units and $3.7 billion. 5. California Pizza Kitchen, with 267 units and $840 million. Everyth…

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