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."

Comments

Interesting

[DakotaK]

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).

Re:Interesting

[mdxi]

DR SBAITSO was a front-end to an Eliza implementation, and is still the voice I hear in my head every time I see anything Eliza-esque.

Also, back in the late 1980s, I actually used the text-to-speech that came with SoundBlaster to order pizza from the local Little Ceasar's.

Cell phone pizza ordering

[MisterLawyer]

Domino's Pizza actually is pretty innovative in devising new methods for customers to place orders. IMO, the most convenient way to order a pizza would be from your cellphone web browser. Domino's was the first to try something like this, back in 2001.

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.

Re:RTFA your own article

[bug506]

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.

There's a Google cache of a cnn article here:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:KenjkJXJQ8QJ: money.cnn.com/2004/04/14/news/midcaps/dominos_ipo. reut/+%22Thomas+Monaghan%22+Domino%27s&hl=en

But is it compatible with MIT pizza command?

[pyrrhonist]

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.