Used to deliver for them, can confirm all the above. Some other stuff:
- Yes there’s less of each individual topping when you order a bunch of different toppings, but I promise you that you don’t want a normal amount of each topping on your supreme pizza. The center would still be raw, probably even if you put it through twice.
- The 50% weeks are mostly a scam. It’s usually cheaper to use the other good coupons (e.g. mix and match) than to take 50% off normal menu price
- Unless you’ve got a big/otherwise pain in the ass to deliver order, a $10 order is just as much work to deliver as a $60 order. I personally tip based off distance rather than total because of it, and most my coworkers also preferred this method.
- Brooklyn pizzas are just normal pizzas using dough 2 sizes smaller (for example an XL brooklyn is just a medium dough stretched thin). In general if you’re looking to maximize food per dollar, normal hand tossed is what you want
- For the love of God don’t buy soda from the store if there’s a gas station or something that’s not out of the way. It’ll be half the price at most.
- The dishes probably aren’t being cleaned properly. If you’re lucky your local store has 1, maybe 2 closers who actually give a shit and try to do it right. I imagine that’s pretty standard in food service though.
- If you order delivery 2 minutes before close, you’re braver than I. I had a hard policy of don’t fuck with peoples food but not everyone does, and you sure as fuck aren’t getting it on time.
I’ve never fucked with people’s food; but I also never fuck with people who fuck with my food… cause I’m not dumb like that lol
I would suggest avoiding the clam chowder tonight
I drove delivery for years. The thing about the soda is so true that if I forgot your soda, I would just drive to the nearest convenience store, and grab whatever you wanted, eating the cost since you probably tipped me more than that soda costs. The faster I get to my next order the better off I am. Takes way too long to go back to the store for the “free” sodas.
does the first also apply to toppings that are already small (e.g other cheese options)?
e.g if you had a 2 topping pizza, and it was some cheese(e.g asiago) and a topping of choice, would the toppings still be minimized despite one of the ingredients barely taking up space
Can’t remember for sure, but I believe they didn’t start reducing til 3+ toppings. Dont remember if cheese was treated special or not, I was rarely the one making the pizzas. General rule of thumb, the total amount of toppings is going to be relatively the same past 3 toppings.
After enough people kept asking me how much to tip because I was working/worked as a delivery driver I created the following
Consider how much you don’t want to go get it yourself. Put an actual dollar amount on that. If it’s just a buck or two, bite the bullet and just go get it. Otherwise, tip that amount.
I think a lot of people $10 don’t want to go get their own food when they’re considering delivery.
Does delivery not cost extra over there? Here we have a delivery fee, that’s your “how much is laziness worth to you” charge, and tips aren’t expected anywhere.
There is. The driver doesn’t see a dime of it, unless you count the legal minimums for mileage they give you. We also got paid half rate when out on an order
Depends on the chain, for sure.
At the Pizza Hut I worked at (which I know is not standard, even among pizza huts) the driver is making minimum wage the entire time, and no mileage. We also got ~50% of the delivery fee.
Good. We shouldn’t start that shit what’s going on in the US. That’s why I never tip, unless it’s a really, really, exceptionally good service when they went out of their way to handle me.
Ignoring the fact that ordering online or with an app asks you to tip before the service actually happens, I don’t even know what exceptionally good delivery service would look like. I’m paying someone to drop food off next to my door within a certain time frame, there’s no way they can do it any better and a million ways to do it worse. Tipping deliveries is nuts. Thankfully I recently moved out of the suburbs and now have dozens of restaurants in walking distance, so I never use Doordash or whatever any more anyway.
I meant tipping in general. Of course with delivery, there is no room for anything exceptional. Therefore it’s exactly zero tip every time from me, they are doing their job. But fortunately tipping here is not expected, that’s what their salaries are for.
Not tipping delivery sucks.
Yeah “how much is laziness worth to you” is just a way of ensuring there’s never a mutually good deal.
But no delivery is traditionally tipped here, it’s why I always pick up. If I want food with no effort, I’ve got no effort food at home.
I used to live literally 3 or 4 blocks from a domino’s, and would always tip at least 20% for delivery (probably usually more, cause I’m tipping at least $5 on $20). Could I physically walk there?.. yes. Was it worth it to not walk… also yes.
But I guess most of the appeal of delivered pizza for me is, “I utterly don’t give a shit about anything. Please feed me with almost zero of my input, or I’ll actually just go to bed so that I’m not hungry anymore”
Delivery is the definition of, “how much would I pay to not go get food AND not cook right now, but still be able to stuff my face”. A fiver for a hand-delivered pizza, doesn’t seem that off the mark from what I’m indulging in
Hadn’t ever thought/heard of that one, that’s a good one.
Well, my dominos is like a mile away, so that’s like 10 min of my time. So that’s worth like $5 tops, and delivery is about that much anyway.
So are you saying I just shouldn’t order delivery since I’m not likely to tip more than $1-2? I’d much rather give $2-3 to a tip jar and pick it up myself if that’s going to be better for everyone.
I worked at Domino’s for 6 months and was the closer who actually gave a shit about dishes, 5 nights a week. They fired me for mixing up what day I was scheduled, once. I was easily the best driver/closer at the time, LMAO.
If we actually took an order 2 minutes before close, it was always the fastest delivery of the night. Those orders literally never tipped me more than $1.50. Even the people who apologized for doing it.
Not sure what the chicken thing is about, we didn’t do it whatever way he was saying.
Specialty chicken may have been different depending on the franchise. At mine, the opening driver would prepare a tub of it by literally cutting the boneless chicken in half.
And yeah, being seemingly the only person in the store who gives a rats ass about food safety suuuucks. The amount of times I ended up redoing the entirety of the night before’s dishes because the closer didn’t give a fuck was insane. I never did that shit to help the company, I just was never going to be the reason people got sick.
Buy your pizza at a small independent local pizza place.
It’s going to be so much better than Dominos/Pizza Hut/Papa John’s/etc that is not even funny.
They aren’t open at 3AM
As someone who has exclusively worked nights for the last 6 years, I have never needed a shitty pizza at 3am. I’d go with frozen pizzas over dominos any day.
Fine and well when supermarkets were open 24/7 or if you have one already, but in this day and age, at least in my area, the pizza places are open later than the groceries.
Ok, but “if you have one already” is pretty easy to deal with. Put it on the shopping list now and get as many as you think you’ll need next time you go shopping, done. You’re free to get takeaway - I don’t care, it’s none of my business and you don’t need to make excuses - but if that’s the problem it’s hardly an insurmountable obstacle.
There are plenty of bad local places
They vary wildly near me, they don’t have coupons, and they cost 30-40% more than the chains.
Yeah. I think maybe I take for granted the incredible variety of food near me (yay multiculturalism!), but I’m always amazed to hear people choosing to go to Dominoes, Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, etc. over literally any local pizza shop. Even friends of mine in the same area with the same 1500 Italian places within walking distance, sometimes get Dominoes. Blows my mind.
“because he puts an addictive chemical in it that makes you crave it fortnightly”
For me, Dominos is never a place I would consider getting pizza from if I want pizza. I get Dominos when I specifically want Dominos and a regular pizza wont scratch the itch for the salt bomb that shares a passing resemblance to pizza.
Same thing goes for taco bell. Id never consider it an option if I want mexican food, but sometimes its what youre craving
It is grand to live in the age where the secrets of the pizza lords are passed as easily as the wind blows into the trees.
The pizza lords get what they pay the pizza serfs for
The pizza lords pretend to pay them and the pizza serfs pretend to work.
Worked at dominoes a decade ago, glad to see nothing’s changed and also
Oh fuck its been a decade oh fuck im old oh fuckkkk
Just stop getting older dude, easy peezy.
I don’t know if it’s available everywhere or is it common knowledge. I always sign up for the newsletter using a 10 minute mail box to get a half off code for a pizza.
Nice.
twists and bites
what even are these? are we talking about pizza?
They’re “appetizers”. Bread stick/knot things.
I stopped ordering and made my own. Much cheaper, and often faster.
Agreed. Much tastier as well. I personally use Adam Ragusea’s pan pizza recipe when I make mine at home. Usually have a couple pizzas worth of dough cold proofing in the fridge, so it’s as simple as stretch the dough, toss some sauce, cheese, and toppings on, and pop it in the oven.
Exactly how I do it, too.
You ain’t getting most from scratch pizza done in 30-45 minutes my guy. I like cooking probably way more than the next guy, but yeast needs to do it’s thing and most folks need at least 12 minutes for even a thin crust at 450-500 degrees. If you are doing the dough inside of 15 minutes you’re not getting the same style pizza and if you care you’ll notice it when the lack of the signature chewy crust. Probably more since most home cooks aren’t doing a really thin crust. You also aren’t getting soda, bread sticks, and the rest of the meal.
So yeah, it’s possible it’s faster. But often is not the correct frequency here. It’s quite the opposite.
I just make my pizza dough days in advance. I can cook it in a Dutch oven on the stovetop + under the broiler in 20 minutes total (I learned this method from Adam Ragusea).
Is it like an Ooni or wood-fired or oven at 900°F? No. But it’s far and away better than Domino’s.
So that magically erases time spent the previous day or letting frozen dough warm up?
You know you can make a large batch of dough at once, right? Takes me maybe 15 minutes of actual active time to make 6 pizzas worth of dough. If you don’t use it in time, literally just take the dough, put some olive oil on it, throw it in the oven and you’ve got some bread to go with dinner.
Don’t freeze your dough. Screws up your gluten protein chains, and it doesn’t cook correctly, even with a thaw and proof. That’s why Pizza Hut’s dough is such a weird texture. If you wanna freeze, because of a large batch, par-bake the pies. That works much better.
I just want to know if I can buy the garlic parmesan wing sauce anywhere. It’s the only sauce that actually tastes like it’s called. Every other garlic parmesan sauce I ever tried are always sweet and tangy.
Allow me to blow your mind.
Handmade Pan Crust, garlic parmesian sauce. Sausage, spinach, roasted red peppers. Cooked well done.
the more stuff you put on it the less you get
NAL but this is fraud due to calorie counts.
