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Pizza From the Command Line
Punk Walrus writes "Pizza Party is a free, text based CLI for ordering Domino's pizza via Quikorder, or for throwing pizza parties. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License, runs under most *nix shells, and can order pizza with only a few keystrokes. Includes video of actual ordering."
Hoo boy, 7.1 meg video file. Server meltdown in 5...4...3...
Something tells me that this isn't gonna stop at a commandline. I can easily see it evolving into a GUI program. Hell, I'd work on it if I knew how to program and had a Domino's in my area.
It'd also be cool to see this support the side-orders in the future. Dominos hot wings are pretty good (albeit they're not very hot).
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I've used Lynx before to order pizza from Pizza Hut's online store. It may sound easy, but all their web pages are .dll files! Not to mention it looks like shit in Mozilla.
How's that for ordering a pizza on the command line?
Unfortunately, most pizza places don't have pizza-ordering web pages that are easy to use on a cell phone. But I wouldn't be surprised if that changes in the next year or two.
This tool will be really cool when you plug it into your Network Management System.
*receive SMS at 1830 Saturday*
"Awwww shit...the Exchange server's down....but Pizza will arrive on site when I do!"
Missing option: --no-oregano
Around here Domino's likes to coat the thin crust pies with oregano. I don't mind a little bit, but I like a touch of oregano on my pizza - not a touch of pizza with my oregano! Seriously, there have been times when I couldn't see the actual pizza under the oregano.
My new favorite pizza is Courtside.
My old favorite, Santora's->Sedano's has been bought out by another local and now they make it "their way"... I fear I may never taste the original stuff again. Sorry about all the rambling.
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As wonderful as this might be (especially for those who are stuck working in a lab without a phone), there are still a couple of serious problems with the concept which could prove a hassle:
Pranking - Now, you could trigger a pizza order from your buddy who just happened to leave his shell open for a moment (or, worse yet, a virus/worm that triggered it). Also, people who were not particularly fond of the pizza place could jump from machine to machine across a college campus or wherever, triggering a flood of orders.
Delivery - If you happen to be someplace where you don't have a phone already, the likelihood that it's not easily accessible or would require you to meet the deliverer elsewhere might cancel out the benefit of placing the order on your machine. If they'll deliver to campus computer labs, for instance, I'd love it. However, I've yet to find any place that'd meet anywhere closer than out front of the building.
Identity - What happens if you leave the room and someone else then comes and takes your place at the machine? Without a solid way to prove that you were the person who placed the order, there could (potentially) be problems. Granted, among the other issues, this is the least, but it's still a possible headache for all involved.
So I can't really see too much use for it, aside from showing off your geek prowess (not that there's anything wrong with that). I'll probably try it out sometime myself, though I'd enjoy it more if it were possible to do this with all pizza places (instead of just Dominoes).
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We had something similar 10 years ago when I worked at Adobe. One of the programmers wrote a program that ordered burritos from a local restaurant. It had a drag and drop interface with icons representing toppings, and a "Fax" button that faxed the order in. Those burritos were tasty, but I can't remember the name of the restaurant.
Actually, it goes back a little further. The first incarnation was Pizzatool, a NeWS (Postscript GUI) application that did a graphical display of the toppings as you selected them and then placed an order with Tony & Alba.
Monaghan did sell Domino's, in that he no longer controls it. But he still controls 27% of the company, so he still makes a lot of money from it.
: money.cnn.com/2004/04/14/news/midcaps/dominos_ipo. reut/+%22Thomas+Monaghan%22+Domino%27s&hl=en
There's a Google cache of a cnn article here:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:KenjkJXJQ8QJ
The MIT AI lab had a pizza command years ago. I'm not going to post the entire man page, but here are some excepts from the 1991 man page. The BUGS section is especially amusing. Enjoy...
PIZZA(1) USER COMMANDS PIZZA(1)
NAME
pizza - "Hi-Fi Pizza" food-by-fax delivery orderer for the
MIT AI Lab
SYNOPSIS
pizza [-d(ebug)] [-h(elp)] [-m(ail)] [-s(leep)] [-t(est)]
xpizza [-d(ebug)] [-h(elp)] [-m(ail)] [-n(osleep)] [-t(est)]
DESCRIPTION
Pizza is a program that allows denizens of the MIT AI Lab to
order food for delivery from "Hi-Fi Pizza" (496 Mass Ave.)
quickly and easily. Pizza saves time by automatically gen-
erating and faxing an order that includes the user's phone
and office number, and contains delivery instructions that
vary depending on whether the inner lab doors are currently
open or not. Pizza also checks to see whether Hi-Fi is
currently open for business, and warns the user if it's not.
BUGS
The delivery instructions may no longer be valid by the time
the food arrives (e.g., if Pizza is run just before 5pm).
Also, Pizza doesn't know about holidays.
The global Locations file should contain the physical loca-
tion of every machine in the lab, plus locations for lounges
and conference rooms.
It would be nice if Pizza had a variety of restaurants to
choose from.
Some of the employees at Hi-Fi don't know how to work the
fax.
If the food arrives after hours, you have to be near your
phone when the driver calls up, and you have to physically
get up and go to the elevator lobby to get the food. Also,
you have to have money to pay for the food. What a pain!
NON-COPYRIGHT
Created 1991 by Michael Frank and Mark Torrance. This
software is public domain.
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I, like many others, was thinking the same thing about Papa Johns and Pizza Hut.
./configure it, ./make it, ./make install it, they will come.
Also, I, like many others, would be willing to pay for said software. Perhaps release it under the GPL (Generic Pizza License), in which it is free for those who want to be cheap, or you can get mad $$$ for those who want to give you props for your uber-geekdom. Of course I wouldn't eat Domino's if I were paid to do so, so I certainly wouldn't pay for the current version. Need Papa John's and/or Pizza Hut.
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