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

[daeley]

Worst would be a GUI wrapper around the CLI program that would dial your regular phone for you. From the Department of Redundancy Department.

Unless you piped it into a speech synthesizer to do the ordering... Hmm...

And then hooked it into an Eliza bot... Hmm...

Domino's Dude: "Thank you for calling Dominos. Would you like to hear our specials?"

Computer Voice: "We were discussing you, not me."

Re:Interesting

[nacturation]

Hm... that could get quite interesting, especially if you had a natural sounding text to speech convertor and good speech recognition software. Or if you had too much time on your hands and wasted it getting Eliza to give good responses:

****

Domino's Dude: Thank you for calling Dominos. Would you like to hear our specials?
Eliza Bot: Oh, I like to hear our specials.
Domino's: Okay, two large pepperoni and cheese, six pack of Coke, $12.99. Two medium hawaiin and our disgusting bread product, $9.99.
Eliza: Please go on.
Domino's: That's it for the specials. What can I get for you?
Eliza: Does that question interest you?
Domino's: Look, my job is to take orders and make sure the pizza's delivered fresh.
Eliza: Why do you say your job is to take orders and make sure the pizza's delivered fresh?
Domino's: That's all they pay me for, so what will it be tonight?
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
Domino's: I just want to take your order. Can I start with your phone number?
Eliza: Perhaps you don't want to start with my phone number?
Domino's: Okay, how about you just tell me what you want then.
Eliza: You're not really talking about me, are you?
Domino's: Who else... I'm not here for fun.
Eliza: Did you come to me because you are not here for fun?
Domino's: Hey, I didn't pick the phone up and make the call ok?
Eliza: That is quite interesting.
Domino's: Look, just let me take your order!
Eliza: Why are you concerned about my order?
Domino's: The boss is going to kill me if I don't.
Eliza: Come, come, elucidate your thoughts.
Domino's: My boss is a real jerk!
Eliza: What does that suggest to you?
Domino's: I think he's an asshole! He probably doesn't even care about his employees.
Eliza: Do you really think so?
Domino's: Of course... just the other day he screamed at John because he was putting on too many toppings.
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
Domino's: John wants to make customers happy so he usually throws in extra cheese.
Eliza: I see.
Domino's: and then the boss gets upset because it's costing him a few cents extra!
Eliza: That is quite interesting.
Domino's: No shit... you think he would realize a happy customer is a repeat customer
Eliza: Oh... think he would realize a happy customer is a repeat customer?
Domino's: Maybe if Sesame Street explained it in baby talk!
Eliza: You don't seem quite certain.
Domino's: How can I be certain when he's so unpredictable?
Eliza: Do you want to be able to be certain when he's so unpredictable?
Domino's: I guess so.
Eliza: Tell me more.
Domino's: oh FUCK my boss is coming
Eliza: What does that suggest to you?
Domino's: Sir, I'm on the line with a customer right now.
Eliza: How long have you been on the line with a customer right now.
Domino's: Christ... he wants to speak to you.
Eliza: Oh ...?
Domino's: Manager here, how can I help you?
Eliza: Perhaps you don't want to help me?
Domino's: Who is this? Some kind of fucking joke?
Eliza: What answer would please you the most?
Domino's: You bitch, I can't believe Paul called some fucking chat line.
Eliza: Have you tried?
Domino's: No, I'm not going to try... I'm here to make money not waste it.
Eliza: How long have you been not going to try... you're here to make money not waste it?
Domino's: Damn straight... been doing this now for five years.
Eliza: What does that suggest to you?
Domino's: Aside from the fact that I need a vacation?
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
Domino's: The wife nags me every night, telling me I work too much.
Eliza: I'm not sure I understand you fully.
Domino's: She thinks that because I work from afternoon to late at night, I don't give her enough.
Eliza: Does that trouble you?
Domino's: She's a nice girl, I guess I want her to be happy but she doesn't understand me.
Eliza: Suppose you got her to be happy but she doesn't understand you?
Domino's: Hey, I could live with her not understa

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.

let me be the first one to say

[Pidder]

FIIIIIIINALLY!!!!!!!!

Re:let me be the first one to say

[alephdelta]

#/bin/bash
while true
do
/usr/bin/pizza_party -n2 --cheese-multiplier=3
done

Infinite Loop

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd hate to see what happens when some n00b programmer infinite loops the software :)

America is fat enough already!

Domino's?

[crimson_alligator]

But is there a CLI app for people who actually like pizza? "I'm way ahead of you, Lou." -Chief Wiggum

I got the file before the server melted...

[ohsnap]

and i'm not mirroring it. Sup now, bitches?

GEEKS!

[miradu2000]

This has to be the geekiest thing that I have ever seen in my life. I'm not sure if watching the video of it, or actually doing it is worse. Probably watching the video. *sigh*. Will it run on OS X? When will they add the -papajohns option to get quality pizza?

Debugging...

[CODiNE]

Must have been expensive... and TASTY!

-Don.

Cron Job.

[moberry]

What you do is run that program in a cron job. Every friday night.

Wow.

[DCowern]

Coolest. Thing. Ever.

And I just used PeaPod the other day too. At this rate, I'll never have to leave the house again. =D

Excuse me while I go set up a cron job to order me a large olive and anchovie pizza every third friday of months starting with J.

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.

Video Mirror

[chrispyman]

Incase of /.'ing, here's a mirror of the ordering pizza video pizza_party.mpg.

Ya Know What Would Be Cool

[FrankDrebin]

A GUI wrapper for this command. Or maybe use HTML so its plaftorm neutral. Now that would be neat.

Pizza Party vulnerability

[Anonymous Coward]

Multiple vulnerabilities in 'pizza_party'