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 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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.