re: Dominos Pizza's war on delivery apps

Dominos doesn't give af about other places. Delivery apps have cut into their business because lazy folks can have anything delivered now, not just shite pizza.

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You knew about your company’s up charge on food items. So don’t be mad when you receive no tip. Argue to your employer that they shouldn’t be charging 30%. Again, not my problem.

I just ordered $12 of food that is 6.7 miles from my house. You think I’m tipping you $7 on a $12 order? ?
I’d rather let the food sit for 2 hours and rot before I tip $7 on a $12 order

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I respect that. I drive for DD as a side gig. But I never order delivery through DD or any other app, unless I'm too drunk, hungry, and lazy at the time. Ordering through Delivery apps are too expensive, I agree.

As a driver though, I'm pretty selective on the orders I will pick up. My acceptance rate for orders is about 20%. This is because I can see the total payout including tips, as well as the total distance I will have to drive ahead of time. Not to mention, we don't get paid per mileage or anything like that. There is only the $3 basepay. That is it. Everything else is based off or customer tip. A delivery from 10 miles away will have the same basepay as a delivery from 3 miles away. I agree that is a shitty system, but it is what it is. I'm not making a career doing this, so I don't care to fight the power on it either.

So for example, your order here would show up as $3 payout to drive 7 miles. Personally, I'm never taking this order in a million years. I will let another gullible driver take that food. I don't care that you didn't tip, because in about 3 minutes, an order to go 3 miles, and make $7 will pop up. My general rule of thumb is I prefer to be paid $2 for every delivery mile I drive in order to accept an order.

With my method, I can make usually ranting $15-23 an hour. So I'm pretty content with the gig.

The drivers who accept shitty orders and then spit in people food, steal from the food or other deplorable shite are nasty af, and are probably the type of people who could not hold a regular job and be successful.

Gordon Gekko was right

Don’t have a clue about how delivery apps work. I live too far away from civilization.

The commercial drives me nuts though. Every time I hear it, my brain divides that $100K they spent into the $2K/state that it represents, and then I go down the path of how $2K could be meaningfully distributed across LA. I usually end up with the average mom & pop restaurant getting $5 or so in gift card purchases apiece—less depending on how well they spread it out. Not to take anything away from Dominos mind you. I’m sure those restaurants were happy, even if it only meant a single $5-$10 gift card sale. It’s just not exactly the windfall the commercial makes it out to be.

Domino’s will get kudos for doing this, but the real intent from Domino’s perspective is:

If you’re not ordering pizza from Domino’s, we’re going to steer your purchase to a non-pizza local business to keep money away from our real competitors.

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Domino's will charge you a delivery fee, and put on the box to remember to tip your driver because they don't pay for that.

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I've gotten back in the habit of calling places to place an order or use online/app if the app is by them. I was getting tired of spending 1/3 to half of the food cost on delivery fees and tips.

Especially with pizza. You order a large for $10. By the time tax, delivery, and tip are added it's $23.

I stopped using Waitr because why pay extra for cold food?
Learning to cook at home has made a huge difference for me.

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Their up charge from DoorDash, Waitr, Uber Eats is their issue not mine. Don’t like it don’t deliver for them.

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This is why your food is cold. Also if you get someone incompetent enough to take a non-tipped order its almost guaranteed they are eating some of your food.

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Bravo, Dominos.

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Yup