Something you should know about pizza delivery

[timtofly]

It is really not the cost, but the demand. If they raised the price and people stopped buying them, it is better to keep the price down and make a sale.

 

[El_Machinae]

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?

Domino's large (14 inch) topped with just onions (cheapest I could think of) is $13.59, plus $3.50 delivery plus tax. A second large pizza is $10.60, plus tax, extra. 10 pizzas are $120.95, plus tax, $3.50 delivery

 

[Borachio]

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

Cheddar cheese is possibly the least interesting thing to come out of Cheddar. A spectacularly uninteresting place, imo. Apart from the Cheddar gorge, of course.

Still, maybe I malign the place.

I strongly suspect Cheddar cheese isn't cheese at all. But probably the result of a chemistry experiment, investigating the properties of plastics, that went wrong.

Might I recommend some of the more than 400 other cheeses that are produced in the UK? Even France can muster something like 300, non-Cheddar, cheeses.

 

[classical_hero]

On Tuesdays we can two large pizzas for $10

 

[bhsup]

Poland can into space, Classical_Hero can into pizza!

 

[Synobun]

On Tuesdays we can two large pizzas for $10

You're telling me that on Tuesdays, adult Australians can buy 3.2 pizzas after only an hour of work?

It takes 1.5 hours of work here for one pizza...

 

[Takhisis]

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

Maybe they pay their indentured servicemen better.

Poland can into space, Classical_Hero can into pizza!

bhsup can into irony!

You're telling me that on Tuesdays, adult Australians can buy 3.2 pizzas after only an hour of work?

It takes 1.5 hours of work here for one pizza...

But Australia is a Socialist Monarchist dystopia with poisonous kangaroos and man-eating koalas. You shouldn't follow their example, because it won't work in 'Merica.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Okay, so in response to me saying

"Sure, I get that you have a problem that they're screwing you out of the money you used to get and making it hard for you to survive on that wage, but it also seems like you just have a general problem with the principle of a company making a profit out of its employees, when that's surely just a given?"

You say:

What you're talking about has absolutely nothing to do with me, this discussion, or reality.

This bolded part is wholly a creation of your mind.

Again, and again, and again, I see examples of people discussing fantasy worlds instead of reality. This is why political parties cannot agree, because at least one of them lives in total la-la-land most of the time.

Which is just rude and stupid. Several times in your opening post you made the point that your cost to the company was less than zero, that they were making money out of you etc:

Because I'm bringing them more in delivery fees than they spend on me being there Way, way more.

It all comes from the tips I earned, and the delivery charge my employer adds on to the regular price of the meal. My cost to the company is less than zero.

My pay, however, is half of what it used to be. And my cost to the company is now nothing.

So you're just going to deny you said those things then?

Like I made perfectly clear in my original post, I'm not siding with the company, I'm not agreeing with what they've done, I'm not saying it's right or fair in any way whatsoever. All I said was that IN ADDITION to your seemingly legitimate grievances, you also said some things (as quoted) that suggested that you also had a grievance with the principle of them making money off you AT ALL. As if an employee costing their employer "less than zero" is somehow a bad or noteworthy thing. All employees cost their employer less than zero because the company makes a profit out of them being there. If your cost was MORE than zero then you'd be a charity case and the employer would have no reason to pay for you to be there other than the goodness of his own heart.

But anyway, it appears you're an antagonistic anus so there was obviously no point in trying to engage with you. I wonder why you get no tips

 

[Synobun]

But Australia is a Socialist Monarchist dystopia with poisonous kangaroos and man-eating koalas. You shouldn't follow their example, because it won't work in 'Merica.

It's worth noting that I am 100% in favour of a gradually increasing minimum wage based on age like in Australia, especially to the tune of $16/hr.

 

[Takhisis]

You're a Red and should be brought to the Reeducation camp.

 

[Synobun]

You're a Red and should be brought to the Reeducation camp.

I'm sorry, sir, please direct me to the nearest Atlas Shrugged reading seminar so I can pick up my objectivism badge.

 

[Archbob]

$16/hr is too high IMO, maybe increase from $7.25 to $10. The main issue here is that company should not be able to include tip for deliveryman as part of "base pay" because its not the company that is paying the tip.

 

[Synobun]

$16/hr is too high IMO, maybe increase from $7.25 to $10. The main issue here is that company should not be able to include tip for deliveryman as part of "base pay" because its not the company that is paying the tip.

$16/hr is probably unrealistic for America, yeah. I live in Canada and a $16/hr minimum wage would definitely boost everyone up to comfortable living rather than "maybe I can make it to next month" living which I'd like. In the United States, I imagine $10-12/hr would be perfect for most locations.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

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?

They cost more, plus delivery charge, GST (in Alberta; other provinces may have other additional taxes), plus tip.

Besides, who wants just one topping on a pizza?

On Tuesdays we can two large pizzas for $10

You eat canned pizza?

 

[Archbob]

I remember little Caesar having the buy one for 10 bucks get three free like 10 years ago while I was in college. That lasted a few months till they ran out of money

 

[KmDubya]

Little Caesar - Quantity has a quality all its own.

It wasn't good but you got an awful lot. It went well with the Milwaukee's Best. Ye olde college days

 

[Archbob]

Little Caesar - Quantity has a quality all its own.

It wasn't good but you got an awful lot. It went well with the Milwaukee's Best. Ye olde college days

Well yeah, I was getting 4 large pizzas for 10 bucks so I wasn't about the complain that they were world-class.

 

[bhsup]

Have a sack of white castles with it!

 

[woody60707]

I don't order pizza anymore because of the tip I have to pay on delivery. $11.99 for pizza, not bad. Then I have to pay a $4.00 delivery charge, and tax, and then on top of a delivery charge I have to tip. We are getting close to doubling the price here.

Nope, I rather just pick up a pizza, or just not get one.

 

[Borachio]

Well yeah, I was getting 4 large pizzas for 10 bucks so I wasn't about the complain that they were world-class.

Aye, but if they're little more than focaccia bread with a smear of tomato and cheese, that maybe not be a particularly good deal.