In 1990 NYC they started dumping pizzas in the sewers and got a huge boost from the underground ninja scene. Maybe they’re betting on guerrilla marketing again instead of respecting their employees or developing a product worth leaving the home about.
To be fair, it’s wild that anyone still employs full time delivery drivers. Every pizza place I’ve worked at either had an employee doing double duty, or used a third party that got paid per delivery. Paying someone an hourly wage to do a job that isn’t even guaranteed to be required (depending on the night) is some franchise-only shit, and I’m not surprised to hear even they’re moving away from it.
I used to be a full time pizza delivery driver. We had other duties besides just delivering pizzas. Things that we’d do in between deliveries and at the end of the night after everyone else was sent home besides me and the manager. I guess I’d fit in to your example of an “employee doing double duty”. We also got paid a lower wage than everyone else since we were expected to earn tips.
We once got a new driver from another store in the same franchise. I was blown away when I learned at his old store they would literally just stand around doing nothing or read the newspaper in their car, waiting for deliveries to take (getting paid the whole time). That’s the kind of store that would save a lot of money by switching to Uber.
It’s kinda crazy how like these things that should benefit employees like minimum wage increases, end up resulting in them losing their jobs through no fault of their own.
America is fucked up lol
Coming to a city near you: $50 minimum wages, in line with middle aged white collar workers. Can’t wait to get paid as much as a fresh grad and get my job outsourced to another continent at 20% of the rate.
The only people able to buy houses now where I am are making >200k, and we’re talking budget 2br homes, not some megamansion and not even anywhere near a desirable part of a major city. I’m in IT… wages have not increased, instead they have decreased over the past 10 years except at the lowest income segment.
Meanwhile the wealthy elite are so obsessed over their commercial properties going up in value year over year at an unsustainable rate that they mandate us to show up right in the heart of the city making the housing crisis even worse. They win though because they already own nearly all the land. Paying landlords from birth till death is the future. Can’t for when we pay 90% of our take home pay to our owners.
This doesn’t change the policy and the benefits it will bring in the long run.
It’s crap for the delivery drivers though. But longer term isn’t forever and at somepoint that wage increase will directly benefit them as well.
@return2ozma Pizza Hut: Instead of worms in burgers (at 6x the price of ground beef), they must have worms in management’s brains.
New name for them: Pissa Hut-the outhouse of a restaurant
