Something you should know about pizza delivery

[Synobun]

I think a good part of the problem is the American car obsession. Many places here ask for anyone who's willing to do soem exercise and walk around the neighbourhood delivering chicken, sandwiches, pie, cake, pizza, meat, anything that can be put into an oven. It's easy, and it's workable because everything is within walking distance. In the US ou're forced to do it by car/motorcycle because there is no other way to get there on time.

There's plenty of on-foot delivery on college campuses, but you are correct that just about anywhere else it's not feasible to do any type of on-foot delivery. Even doing it via bicycle is questionable at best and more suited for bustling areas like New York City.

 

[Hygro]

Pizza Guy

Your post on the "inflation" of pizzas was awesome, I'm going to use it in the future. I've been arguing we've been in a period of hidden deflation and now I have a really cool personal example of it.

 

[GenMarshall]

Listen, I see the actual numbers behind the scenes. One of the perks of being a manager. They charge you 4 dollars for breadsticks that cost them pennies.

I'm curious to know the cost of goods sold for a simple pepperoni pizza. I'm also wondering if you're working for a mom & pop pizza shop or a chain pizza shop (Dominos & Pizza Hutt).

 

[Joecoolyo]

It took me a moment to get the joke.

But :smileabit:

Every supermarket I frequent has a selection of cheeses. You know the usual suspects: Brie, Feta, Danish Blue, Rochefort and such like neatly displayed on their own little shelf. And then....

.... acres and acres of Cheddar: matured, smoked and just plain nasty-looking Cheddar.

Yet, I've never actually seen anyone buy any.

Cheddar is fantastic! How else would you make quesadillas or nachos?

 

[timtofly]

It took me a moment to get the joke.

But :smileabit:

Every supermarket I frequent has a selection of cheeses. You know the usual suspects: Brie, Feta, Danish Blue, Rochefort and such like neatly displayed on their own little shelf. And then....

.... acres and acres of Cheddar: matured, smoked and just plain nasty-looking Cheddar.

Yet, I've never actually seen anyone buy any.

Does that show how inefficient socialism is, forcing people to buy it? Or does that prove that capitalism works, else there would not be any cheddar cheese available?

 

[Archbob]

Price of Pizzas hasn't gone up that much since the mid 1990s if I remember. I can still get a large pizza for $8 with three toppings at dominoes.

 

[El_Machinae]

Pizza Guy

Your post on the "inflation" of pizzas was awesome, I'm going to use it in the future. I've been arguing we've been in a period of hidden deflation and now I have a really cool personal example of it.

It might be location specific. I can only dream of a $12 or a $10 pizza. Nevermind delivery.

 

[Takhisis]

I'm curious to know the cost of goods sold for a simple pepperoni pizza. I'm also wondering if you're working for a mom & pop pizza shop or a chain pizza shop (Dominos & Pizza Hutt).

The OP has already mentioned that he works for a chain store, somewhere in the tangle of textwall posts he's made.

 

[Rashiminos]

What is this obsession with cooking cheese? Is it a Swiss thing?

Close, mais non fromage.

 

[Archbob]

http://www.dominos.com/

Large Pizza $7.99

Pizza Hut is overpriced.

 

[Takhisis]

http://www.dominos.com/

Large Pizza $7.99

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[Archbob]

I understand that, I always tip my driver around 15%. But I'm just saying you can get a large pizza for $7.99.

 

[Rashiminos]

http://www.dominos.com/

Large Pizza $7.99

Pizza Hut is overpriced.

There had been a local Pizza Hut that refused to deliver... had been.

 

[Archbob]

I've put it orders of less than $20 and they delivered. Delivery charge is like 2-3 dollars usually but the store is like 3 blocks down so walking there and picking it up is not unreasonable.

 

[Hygro]

It might be location specific. I can only dream of a $12 or a $10 pizza. Nevermind delivery.

As our Corporate Fatcat pointed out, large pizzas can be had for 8 bucks. And they come with delivery.

Prices are definitely location specific, and a host of other things.

But as the inflation and deficit hawks misdirect our attention, we've meanwhile been in a deflation-pressured economy for 30-40 years. Inflation defines price levels, but price levels are all a relative concept, so if you ask people to look at one set of prices they might not attend to the other prices.

But eventually with enough deflation pressures the lowered prices will worm their way into every part of the economy the deflation touches. Like Pizza Guy's wages (dropped a lot) and the prices of pizzas (largely stagnant).

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Is Cheddar cheese at all? I have to wonder.

Mind you, if you're going to cook the stuff, you'd probably have a hard time distinguishing it from Gruyere.

What is this obsession with cooking cheese? Is it a Swiss thing?

Baked cheese and melted cheese are wonderful, as long as whatever you have with them isn't smothered with it (unless it's pizza).

@Hygro and everyone else talking about $8 large pizzas with toppings): In Canada, the only place you will find these is in the frozen food aisle of grocery stores, or very basic delis. You don't get them from pizza restaurants. Unless, of course, the place is having a sale, special offer, you have a coupon, etc. For example, I'm registered with Papa John's program where every time I accumulate 25 points I get pizza that is not insanely expensive. But it takes a lot to get to that 25 point level.

The cheapest chain restaurant pizza I know of is Pizza 73. Unfortunately, their pizza isn't very good. It's edible, but not what I'd consider a treat. Their side orders are much better.

 

[Archbob]

Yeah, I went to the lands of Canadia this past year in May/June. Everything is more expensive up there for some odd reason.

 

[Hygro]

Baked cheese and melted cheese are wonderful, as long as whatever you have with them isn't smothered with it (unless it's pizza).

@Hygro and everyone else talking about $8 large pizzas with toppings): In Canada, the only place you will find these is in the frozen food aisle of grocery stores, or very basic delis. You don't get them from pizza restaurants. Unless, of course, the place is having a sale, special offer, you have a coupon, etc. For example, I'm registered with Papa John's program where every time I accumulate 25 points I get pizza that is not insanely expensive. But it takes a lot to get to that 25 point level.

The cheapest chain restaurant pizza I know of is Pizza 73. Unfortunately, their pizza isn't very good. It's edible, but not what I'd consider a treat. Their side orders are much better.

8(cheap restaurant pizza in USA) * 1.07 (Canadian dollars acquired trading in 1 USD) * 1.29 (purchasing power parity or PPP multiplier, aka the price in US Dollars of what a one-dollar good in America costs if it is purchased in Canada) = ~11.04

Are your generally-cheapest large 1-topping restaurant pizzas around 11 canadian dollars?

 

[gozpel]

I understand what you're saying. It's just wrong.

In Australia you "don't have to pay tips", You don't HAVE to.
But I'm from Sweden and I always thought my extra dollar could buy this Taxi-driver
a coffee or a snack.

But down under you don't have to and you don't get abused if you decide not to.

Still, driving your own car has similar problems, not in the amount you have as it is just
ridicolous.

But some shops around Melbourne use the same trick and one guy figured out to make another dollar. He got on a motorcycle and delivered everything in half time and spent almost nothing on petrol. He survived 4 years of UNI doing this.

And now he's on a very different wage doing IT.

Maybe thinking out of the box can help?

 

[Synobun]

8(cheap restaurant pizza in USA) * 1.07 (Canadian dollars acquired trading in 1 USD) * 1.29 (purchasing power parity or PPP multiplier, aka the price in US Dollars of what a one-dollar good in America costs if it is purchased in Canada) = ~11.04

Are your generally-cheapest large 1-topping restaurant pizzas around 11 canadian dollars?

Around where I live, the cheapest large pizza is $15 and that is a single topping. Every additional topping is $1.75. When I lived in Niagara Falls, getting a "party" sized pizza with 5 toppings cost me around $38. Canada is not the greatest place for American-level conveniences. Makes me look forward to when I'll be staying in Seattle for a few weeks next year because I'll finally find out what it's like to use public transportation that actually works and eat cheap food.

Yeah, I went to the lands of Canadia this past year in May/June. Everything is more expensive up there for some odd reason.

There's a big long list of why that is and it really depends on the product you're referring to. A lot of stuff is because of American manufacturers artificially raising their prices (We need only an 8% increase to maintain profits? Why not 40% instead?!) when moving across the border, or because of the ridiculous Canadian dairy tax, etc.

I understand what you're saying. It's just wrong.

In Australia you "don't have to pay tips", You don't HAVE to.
But I'm from Sweden and I always thought my extra dollar could buy this Taxi-driver
a coffee or a snack.

But down under you don't have to and you don't get abused if you decide not to.

Still, driving your own car has similar problems, not in the amount you have as it is just
ridicolous.

But some shops around Melbourne use the same trick and one guy figured out to make another dollar. He got on a motorcycle and delivered everything in half time and spent almost nothing on petrol. He survived 4 years of UNI doing this.

And now he's on a very different wage doing IT.

Maybe thinking out of the box can help?

Most pizza joints don't allow motorcycles and the drivers have very little freedom unless the manager happens to be a decent human being (which is oddly rare in North America when it comes to managers and superiors).