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The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

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Re: The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

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FWIW this happens even with pickup. I used to use their 7.99 pizzas a lot when money was short. Their app tells you when the pizza is ready, about 30% of the time the pizza was not ready when their app said it was. This means the workers were gaming their timing system with fake pizzas. Often times I'd be sitting in their pickup area for 20 minutes after the pizza was supposed to be done.

>This means the workers were gaming their timing system with fake pizzas. Or it meant the person cutting and boxing your order was falling behind. At least ~15 years ago, the way Domino's timer works is that when the cook puts the order in the oven, they hit a button. ~8 minutes later it says it's ready, which is how long it takes to get through the oven. That was the only input for carryout, delivery had another for…

No one ever notices the no garlic spray order. I eat dominos weekly and every time I move, it takes a few weeks for the new store to catch on that I order without garlic, and they always know me after that. Any Dominos ordered while out of town is 75% chance of being wrong. I've given up at this point. Papa Johns and gets it it perfect every time, and I can forgive Little Caesars.

Re: The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

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Yes, that figure is more than 50% suicides - this is a common statistical ruse.

OK so US is 5.4 and Somalia is 7 "America -- slightly safer than Somalia!"

Well, I'd assume Somalia has a non-zero number of firearm related suicides as well

Re: The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

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>This means the workers were gaming their timing system with fake pizzas. Or it meant the person cutting and boxing your order was falling behind. At least ~15 years ago, the way Domino's timer works is that when the cook puts the order in the oven, they hit a button. ~8 minutes later it says it's ready, which is how long it takes to get through the oven. That was the only input for carryout, delivery had another for…

No one ever notices the no garlic spray order. I eat dominos weekly and every time I move, it takes a few weeks for the new store to catch on that I order without garlic, and they always know me after that. Any Dominos ordered while out of town is 75% chance of being wrong. I've given up at this point. Papa Johns and gets it it perfect every time, and I can forgive Little Caesars.

From when I worked the job, when cutting pizza the general flow was; remove from oven, prepare and box, then check what order it was for.

As adding the garlic spray is part of the prepare step, it's really easy to fuck up. It's not uncommon to mess it up, ask for a remake, then mess it up again. When you follow the same steps every time it's hard to skip one.

If you want a tip, the Brooklyn style (I think they renamed it?) doesn't come with the spray by default, so it's easier to stop yourself. Only other difference is the pizza has less dough.

Re: The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

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We've made our lives and society so busy and complicated. I've always been confused by how much we collectively value convenience products/services while simultaneously making everything more complex. I do hope that everyone is living the life they want and I'm just out of touch though. The idea of being away from home and my kids for 12+ hours every day and eating out before going to bed and doing it all over sounds…

>We've made our lives and society so busy and complicated "We" have done nothing. Our managers, bosses, and executives have made everyone else's lives miserable, for their benefit.

Don’t forget the politicians; they deserve our scorn as well

Re: The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

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California voters showed up in droves to prevent that exact classification change from happening, because your average voter is few IQ points away from needing help tying their shoes, and will absolutely eat up whatever lies Uber et al. will pump out.

Good, this is exactly what we wanted. Service worker classification is straight up wealth transfer from delivery users to drivers since competition is so tight and everyone ie being squeezed. The needs of the many outweigh the entitlement of the few. It's unfair for delivery app users to have to subsidize employment for drivers when its clear there's many willing to accept the current terms.

Gross take. Entitled, self-centered, and a ham-handed attempt to co-opt the term "wealth transfer". If you really have this little regard for folks who actually work for a living you should get in your car and go get your own shit.

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So now, as a society, we've decided that slumlords are the key to affordable housing? I swear if the bar gets any lower someone's going to have to rent an excavator to dig the hole.

slum lords, as in government housing like NYCHA?

Clearly not, although there's an entire other conversation to be had about the state of play of government housing.

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K so having bankrupted the restaurant industry, what's next?

Isn't America supposed to be the richest country in the world? You can afford to pay people a decent wage you just don't want to. You could double the price of a beer in NYC or Miami and people would still come.

Richest by what metric? Household debt is up, personal savings are down, and wages have been stagnant here for decades. I'm sure the roughly 750 billionaires currently living in the country are having a fine time of it though.

Re: The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

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> society taking a wrong turn to being driven by ratings on the I internet Workers being driven by ratings systems pre-dates the popularity of Internet gig economy jobs. By a lot. The customer ratings concept even infected places like your local doctor’s office a couple decades ago. Doctors have been complaining about how patient satisfaction surveys have discouraged them from bringing up obesity, smoking, or excessi…

My SO is a restaurant manager, and she has told me that the only reviews/ratings that have any positive effects are 5s out of 5. 4 out of 5? You might as well have put 0 or 1. It's extremely toxic.

To me that’s the crazy thing. You give a 4/5 and immediately you’re asked what was wrong.

It’s also why Netflix moved tot the thumbs up/down system. When they moved into new territories their recommendations system had troubles since some territories would rate everything as “bad”, because in that territory 3/5 meant it was fine and they enjoyed the show.

Re: The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

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We don't "need" to but we'd all be generally better off if ex-cons can find honest jobs to support themselves.

> There are certain combinations of crime and job that are sensibly going to be risky, but how do you prevent companies from being overcautious? Your words imply we do need to do that.

While your words imply that you have an ideological opposition to telling businesses what to do, and that external effects need to be ignored. Why do businesses have the right to do things harmful to society so that they can make money?

Re: The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

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The meme of a living wage is a nice one. It hits most moral frameworks as fair. The concern I have with it is it isn't defined. What does living mean? When I belonged to a high demand religion that is known for "helping" its membership, financial assistance was dedicated to the preservation of life only. Not the preservation or growth of the quality of life. So if you had a medical life transition and a mortgage, the…

When the majority of wealth isn't owned by a group roughly the size of the population of Fairlea WV we can start having meaningful conversations about what we can and can't afford.

I recommend we not wait that long to begin meaningful change, monarchies have a tendency to stick around until the guillotine is ready, and then many more than the monarchy fall to its impact.
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