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The Pizza Tracker

Posted by samzenpus on

If you are one of those people who just has to know the status of your pizza, accurate to within 40 seconds, Domino's has a solution for you. Pizza Tracker. Yes, Pizza Tracker is the cure for all of your slice anxiety. Chris McGlothlin, technology chief at Domino's actually says, "It's an emotional roller coaster when you order. Customers wonder: Did they get my order? Are they taking care of me? Will it show up?"

2 comments

  1. Sadly, more useful than you'd think. by Seumas · · Score: 1

    I don't order pizza that often, but this has been available here in Denver for at least a couple months. It's not as cool as it sounds as it evokes images of a little map with your driver and pizza moving around via GPS (I believe Dominos does that in the UK though). It does show the important information though. Such as when it enters each step of the process, when it should arrive, who is delivering it, etc.

    Now, some people might be content to just wait for their pizza. However, I have placed orders both online and over the telephone in several states and cities in the last ten years and I would say that ten to twenty percent of the orders are not a simple matter of "sit and wait for it to show up". In cities like San Francisco, Denver, Portland... I have had to call up and ask about my pizza two, three, four hours later... only to be told "we have no idea what you're talking about.. we don't have any record of an order".

    Now, at least, you will know within a couple minutes whether or not they want your business.

    Too bad Pizza is really the only food you can get delivered outside of a place like New York.

    1. Re:Sadly, more useful than you'd think. by Andrew+Kismet · · Score: 1

      Not in the UK! Absolutely crawling (not literally, at least I'd hope) with takeout joints for just about anything - if a place doesn't offer pizza, burgers, döner meat, chicken, fish and chips it's either not worth the time or it's a single-product takeout (Fish 'n' Chips, Chinese, Pizza, Burgers and so on).

      It's excellent when you can get a half-pound burger with salad delivered to your door in ten minutes. The benefits of living in a student city.