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Within Next Five Years Your Pizzas Will Probably Be Delivered by Autonomous Cars, Domino's Pizza CEO Says (thestreet.com)
In an interview with The Street, Domino's Pizza outgoing CEO Patrick Doyle said in three to five years at the earliest he expects driverless cars and voice orders to shift the way the world orders pizza. From the report: "We have been investing in natural voice for ordering for a few years. We rolled that out in our own apps before Amazon launched Alexa and Alphabet launched Google Home...[and] we are making investments...to understand how consumers will want to interact with autonomous vehicles and pizza delivery," Doyle said.
title says it all
And you don't have to tip
So I have to walk out and not have it at the door? I may as well pick it up or better yet pay more for better pizza at some other place.
No more awkward figuring out what a late pizza delivered by a 29 year old man-child smelling like they bathed in pot deserves for a tip.
Part of the reason delivery works today is that shops rely on people desperate enough to try to make tip money as drivers during slow hours, essentially burning up gas, smokes and their own car shuttling food around town. If shops had to buy and maintain a couple of high-tech, breakdown-prone cars instead of letting a couple of near-deadbeats hang around the back door I can see their profit margins taking a dive.
The whole point is not leaving the house. Iâ(TM)m not interested in going to the lobby or the curb to get my food delivery. If Iâ(TM)m going to put my shoes on and go out Iâ(TM)ll just go to the supermarket and get real food.
...but you will have a $10 delivery charge. Those robots are not cheap to buy or maintain.
But, you won't have to worry about tipping the driver.
Autonomous vans driving around while making pizza themselves. Dominos locations in the future will just be supply depots where vans can be restocked and serviced.
lol
Pizzas are usually delivered on scooters, not in cars.
Zero-occupancy vehicles being merely one example thereof.
and then one there auto cars out cars get's a crash will they pay out or hide under a system of franchisees and subbed out rent a cars?
right now they don't really enforce the basic safety rule or pay drivers the full IRS mileage so the car up keep is poor.
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Exactly this. I ordered in because I don't want to go out. Its cold. Id have to get layered up, put on boots to trudge through the snow around the building to the parking lot. Whereas you will be parked in front of the wrong building.
I will order from someone else.
Note to all, I do tip well especially if the weather is crappy.
Artificial pizza meets artificial intelligence.
Sorry, if I'm not making my own pizza, I'm going to order from someone who makes good pizza.
And Domino's ain't that.
Pizza is the perfect food to enhance into being able to fly _itself_ to your door.
So your logic is that if you have to walk 20 feet, you might as well walk 20 feet, get in your car, drive for 10 minutes, walk another 20 feet, wait around for them to bring the pizza out, walk another 20 feet back to your car, drive another 10 minutes, and then walk another 20 feet?
The pizza that is.
to understand how consumers will want to interact with autonomous vehicles and pizza delivery
I'm betting they want free pizzas to be delivered to thier door by a sexy robot who got there in an autonomous car. I'm also guessing the autonomous car loaded with fresh pizza at night in many neighborhoods will fare about as well as that new 5th grader who wet his pants during his introduction to home room class.
I think the logic is rather that if I ask for delivery, I want delivery. If Domino's does not provide this, I'll order from someone else who does.
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When I want a pizza, I just go to a mom and pop pizzeria and have a nice meal with friend over a bottle of wine and a human waiter who talks to me.
When I want what they have, I just put some oil on a cardboard and eat that.
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So your logic is that if you have to walk 20 feet, you might as well walk 20 feet, get in your car, drive for 10 minutes, walk another 20 feet, wait around for them to bring the pizza out, walk another 20 feet back to your car, drive another 10 minutes, and then walk another 20 feet?
It what twisted Escher world or yours is the the front do of an apartment on the 10th floor of a building no more than 20 feet away from where an automated vehicle will drop off he pizza that you ordered?
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Um, wouldn't a drone be a lot easier, cheaper, safer, quicker, and every other 'er than a freaking autonomous car. :)
This guy needs to step back from tech predictions and improve his company's oily pizza!
Sure! And 3 years ago we were told that autonomous cars would be mainstream last year.
It is like the people who make these kinds of statements aren't aware of the difficulty of all the challenges involved and how unrealistic overcoming many of the challenges actually are.
Would you want one of those American autonomous cars instead?
Careful what you wish for, this could be your car this one has to park behind...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
There are some promising advances, but it seems optimistic to believe that there will be vast fleets of fully autonomous cars operating throughout the US within 5 years. Only a minority of conventional cars have anything like a self-drive mode.
Besides, Domino's is shit pizza, shittier as pizza than Taco Bell is as Mexican food.
The legions of local pizza places will still depend on stoners with aging Hondas and legions of fools with expensive cars desperate to do anything to make their car payments.
Not to mention that walking that 20 feet saves you a tip.
Dominos Pizzas will be freely available to passers by who happen to spot one of their roaming vehicles.
I doubt self driving cars will do any better.
This. When I ask for delivery I mean for someone else to bring it to my door. I don't want to leave the house. In other words, I don't want to get dressed, put on shoes and walk out to the curb.
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Domino's Pizza still sucks and I don't order it. Since they'll be putting tons of poor folks out of work, I'll probably boycott them on principle.
This is /.; don't trust the title.
The title says "Within Next Five Years Your Pizzas Will Probably", while the actual quote was "in three to five years at the earliest". That's two very different statements.
Either the editor can't read, or makes deliberately false statements in order to gain clicks.
Why not cut out the middle man and create autonomous, self-delivering pizzas? I have no idea how it would work, but whoever comes up with it would have a license to print money!
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Like I eat Domino's pizza.
Or, if you're living in an apartment complex, get dressed, wait for an eternity for the damn elevator, spend another eternity in said elevator, pick up the pizza, go through the elevator ritual again, find out that you forgot your door keys inside...
I prefer to have the pizza guy do the elevator dance.
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write themselves.
after moore's law, we have Doyle's law.
Old McDonald, had a law, ee-I-ee-I-o
that burgers gonna fly alone, ee-I-ee-I-o
and fly away to ppl's home, ee-I-ee-I-o
Taking advantage of people with cars desperate to make a few bucks? Hey, that's Uber's business model! Prepare to be sued.
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I know those autonomous vehicles cost a lot, and if people have to go out in the weather to meet a car with their pizza. What's the point? Might as well save the delivery charge and just go get it. Pizza drivers are that hard to find, that its worth spending a lot on these vehicles to save paying a driver?? Who's doing the math here at Domino's? Frankly the liability will probably go up not down, and many pizza places don't provide a vehicle for a driver. Sounds more like some dumb marketing scheme then anything.
This is what you get. Pizza delivery is definitely not a glorified job, but for those who need the money and lose jobs/can't get one because of it, you have politics to thank.
nowhere in the article does he say that your pizzas will probably be delivered by autonomous cars within 5 years.
Can the submitter/editors be that bad at reading comprehension or is slashdot just making up/ approving clickbait?
Of course there will be experiments and publicity stunts but there is no way that most pizza deliveries will be done by autonomous vehicles within 5 years, current delivery drivers are just too cheap to compete with.
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I still feel like all these silicon valley startups have neglected to get enough good data from northern states where snowfalls are common half the year.
A lot of people order pizza delivery when roads are too bad to go driving.
And a driving AI is only as good as the data it has.
Perhaps pizza delivery will become a "seasonal" job?
Without a Johnny Cab head.
Its almost like we have multiple communities and cultures, and something that works for one might not work for all.
Also, maybe having autonomous delivery doesn't mean drivers no longer exist. Like a gradual rollout to the areas that make the most sense, and leaving people to do the apartments.
I want my pizzas delivered by a Deliverator under the watchful eye of Uncle Enzo.
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I live in a car free zone of the city, so unless that driverless car just breaks the law everything I think it will still be bike or scooter.
First, you'd need to have a vegan pizza on the menu - and I'm not talking about vegetables as topping. Probably won't happen before another decade.
Second, you'd need to open a Domino's Pizza in my small town of 10K people. Never going to happen.
Third, autonomous cars are a lie from the industrial military complex controlled by the covfefe flat earthers.
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In other words, I don't want to get dressed...
So you answer the door naked when you order pizza?
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
That doesn't mean you won't still need a delivery person inside the car. When I order pizza at a dorm or a hotel and any multi tenant building , I'm generally not interested in going outside and finding the car to get the pizza from it.
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"If Domino's does not provide this, I'll order from someone else who does."
Doesn't matter to me. If I want a Pizza I sure won't order one from Domino's not even if they'd drone it beside my lazyboy.
Don't you? TV has taught me this is how to get away without paying.
Since when does being a Socialist mean 'someone who has a different opinion than me'?
It won't be Dominos autonomous cars; it'll be that minimum wage workers car. You really think a sad pathetic excuse for a pizza joint is going to lead this on their own dime? Nope, they'll maximize profit by shitting on the little guy, meanwhile they'll get that sweet sweet tax break to "trick"le down the profits onto the sad idiot who paid 100k for a car they'll never drive.
I wonder if the better solution in that case would be to have a drone do the delivery to the balcony. That would be a lot more efficient in general because the delivery person has to wait for the damned elevator instead of you.
Prepare to be sued.
apparently you were not prepared for reality, you really should just end yourself
Sometimes I think I have strayed a bit much from the path of wisdom, and become a little too much of a lazy bastard. And it's the worst, when we're thinking about "grubhubbing," usually because I'm too impaired to cook or drive.
Then I get on the Internet, read stuff like this, and feel a lot better. On an absolute scale, I consider myself to be a wreck of an irresponsible, underachieving, criminally-lazy dimwit. But relatively, I feel downright smug! Meet the driver out front!? That's no problem at all! Thank you, Internet.
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Umm... yeah.
Thinking about it, I did consider it odd that the delivery guy tipped me instead of me tipping him last time...
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If I want pizza I also wouldn't call Domino's. But from time to time I order there and get that ... whatever food that is they are delivering.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It's faster, significantly cheaper and usually better. Cleanup is negligible. I don't know why more people don't do this.
Domino's CEO has an interesting opinion, but I really want to hear what the CEO of Domino's insurance company thinks of the proposal.
Log in or piss off.
I have. Your point?
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Drones and pizza delivery are a match made in haven. I believe good drones have a 24 km endurance. That should be perfect for pizza delivery.
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Its almost like we have multiple communities and cultures, and something that works for one might not work for all.
Do you mean the sort of thing take totally invalidates hipp5's absolutist statement?
Also, maybe having autonomous delivery doesn't mean drivers no longer exist. Like a gradual rollout to the areas that make the most sense, and leaving people to do the apartments.
Funny how TFA has this quote:
Will people come out of their homes and apartments to get the pizzas, what do we need to do to make that process seamless. You have seen some of our work public on that. We want to be at the forefront.
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Though I suspect most people don't pay for pizza with cash anyway.
I can't help but wonder, though, which is cheaper:
Workman's comp for drivers who get robbed, or repair bills for self driving cars that get vandalized.
Wait, WTF? Weren't we all promised cool, sleek, aerodynamic FLYING CARS? Who authorized the downgrade to something as boring as regular cars, without drivers, that shuttle pizza hither and yon?
I want my flying car, or at *minimum* I want pizza delivery to change to something more like the first chapter of Snowcrash.
won't happen. not in five years, not in fifty. not here.
So you answer the door naked when you order pizza?
No, but I may be in my humble PJs. And it might be -20 outside, or raining sideways. And my driveway is long.
Or, I may be on crutches, in which case getting a pizza from the curb to the kitchen table is rather challenging.
In any case, I'd rather pay someone willing to do it a tip.
My homemade pizzas will be delivered from my oven to my table. Nobody can make a better pizza than one you make from scratch. It ain't that hard.
If I pay for delivery I want it at my door, not in a driverless car, honking at the curb.
So I have to walk out and not have it at the door? I may as well pick it up
To be clear, are you one of those self-centred people who live directly opposite a Dominos and still orders takeaway? If so your comparison is quite silly.
Why yes, I'd like a Marauder to shoot it thru my front door, so I won't hafta go outside.
Dunno how the pizza will fare, tho
I guess via drone, which means he will need to fly into a lobby, and up an elevator, into a hallway....
Hmmm, if only there was someone to do that already.....
Essentially a mobility scooter with an insulated cylindrical body of pizza-diameter, with slide-out drawers, a card reader and a cell phone. Throw on some standard lights for road safety.
The thing drives itself to your door, calls you on your phone to advise it has arrived, and when you put your payment card in the reader the drawer(s) with your pizza(s) slide open.
Easy-peasy.
You are the one with flawed logic some people live in places where winter means spending a few minutes to put on clothing to go out side and to do that for a Delivered Dominos pizza (the box is likely the most expensive part of the pizza by far) and your logic that there is no other way of getting pizza than to drive to Dominos how old are you?
I only order pizza from local non chain Greek or Italian restaurants on the rare occasions that i feel the need for pizza.
Like hell i would reward a place for putting people out of work.
So, what about living in an apartment? Also, I have to actually walk to the curb to get my pizza instead of it being delivered to the door? What exactly am I paying for? I don't want to put on shoes and a coat to go fight with some damned robotic car about my pizza. Drones might help that, but doubtful. Then what happens if there is a problem with the order or something else? Sounds really fun for about 5 seconds, then the reality sets in that it would basically suck for everyone except Domino's.
I don't think you'd even need that much range. Have a truck drive to a central area for multiple delivers and have a drone take it from there instead of having a constant back and forth. If there's enough demand you could have multiple drones operate out of a central truck. Hell, eventually you might be able to put the entire kitchen in the truck.
Exactly this. I ordered in because I don't want to go out. Its cold. Id have to get layered up, put on boots to trudge through the snow around the building to the parking lot. Whereas you will be parked in front of the wrong building.
I will order from someone else.
Note to all, I do tip well especially if the weather is crappy.
Exactly... the rare occasions when I order pizza are usually when the weather is crappy, and I don't want to go out myself. If people have to go outside in pouring rain, etc. to get their pizza, orders will probably plummet during bad weather.
In fact, I'd rather get in my car (in the attached garage), drive the one block to the pizza place, and sprint inside to do my business if it's pouring rain, not stand outside fiddling with a machine and getting soaked.
I would much prefer tipping and keeping someone employed than rewarding a business like multi national chain from America where reducing quality is always top priority, Also they deliver dominos pizza and well not jumping thru any hoops to order that trash when i have 3 of the 4 best pizza joints in the city in delivery range.
Must be an American thing to happily put people out of work to save $5 once or twice a month. By chance are you from California?
I would be very surprised if this came to pass in 20 years time, or if it does roll out prematurely, it will ba disaster of epic proportions. It sure is good PR nonsense for Domino's bottom line, though. 'In five years' time' is last decade's code for 'we are piping smoke directly up your asses. Give us your money.'
but brakes are still mechanical and will continue to be so for the forseeable future due to FMVSS requirements. {...} Yes, I am aware there are cars with electric brakes that can stop themselves... just wanted to clear up that "most" is more "a special few".
And due to the high popularity of adaptive cruise control (ACC) and forward collision avoidance systems (FCAS), the "special few" is becoming "quite a big percentage of the cars present on today's street".
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drivers also do inside work when not on the road. Still the cost of owning cars is lot more then paying $1 a run to the drivers.
This. When I ask for delivery I mean for someone else to bring it to my door. I don't want to leave the house. In other words, I don't want to get dressed, put on shoes and walk out to the curb.
I'm sure they'll find a market without you. Like back when I didn't own a car or when I've had a few beers. For me it's more the "fit for socializing" aspect, like if I haven't showered, haven't shaved, hung over, dirty/sweaty clothes and just want to chow down a pizza in front of the TV or PC. Personally I'd rather get my slob ass down to the curb with zero social interaction than greet the pizza delivery guy like that, in fact I might just opt for a frozen pizza instead. A small physical discomfort because it's freezing/raining is not a big deal to me, particularly not if I know there's a warm tasty pizza at the end of it.
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the share holders should show him the door for not even having a forward thinking vision.
If the cars are self driving, then why even have store fronts at all. Get yourself a food truck, automate the making of the pizza and have one person per food truck to actually walk the pizza to the front door. That way the experience does not change for the consumer while at the same time he saves on personnel costs as well as location costs.
I mean if you can figure out self driving cars, you should be able to figure out robotic pizza makers. It doesn't take much of an imagination to combine the two ideas. I guess this explains why pizza franchises are starting to lose market share to the local pizza places. Quality matters and this guy is more focused on the idea of self guided deliveries over making consistently quality pizzas.
So your logic is that if you have to walk 20 feet, you might as well walk 20 feet, get in your car, drive for 10 minutes, walk another 20 feet, wait around for them to bring the pizza out, walk another 20 feet back to your car, drive another 10 minutes, and then walk another 20 feet?
Different people live in different locations.
I live on the back side of the back building. From where I live, it is about 300 feet to where any delivery vehicle could stop, about 500 feet to the next pizzeria, and about 600 feet to another pizzeria. There are two more pizzerias within a 1000 feet radius.
If I have to get fully dressed, and walk out of the building complex through the front gate to get pizza, I might as well walk another 200-300 feet to get a better pizza fresh out of the oven, rather than have anybody deliver a 30 minutes old pizza.
Or you could build drone-only pizza kitchens in more places to cover all the area within the range of drones. Since a kitchen is almost always the smallest area occupied within a regular restaurant, it would cost a lot less to operate. There's probably savings to be made on permits and other things, too.
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It will be interesting to see how the car gets to my 31st floor apartment. We have one large elevator but it would only fit if standing vertical.
As the mom and pop pizza places I order from still don't even have computers.
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That means I have to walk down to the street to get my pizza from a car.
It's a better service when it's delivered to my door. Especially if it's raining.
Personally I'd rather get my slob ass down to the curb with zero social interaction than greet the pizza delivery guy like that,
It's nice that you live in a place with no neighbors at all. Otherwise, you cannot guarantee "zero social interaction". You're going to the curb, and there are people driving by in cars -- some of them you might know. All of them will see you at your, umm, best? If you are in an apartment building, you could run into any of your neighbors, even the cute girl you're trying to hit on.
With to-the-door delivery, you know the social interaction you will have. One person, who you are paying, and unless your friends are losers who have to delivery pizzas for a living, you won't know.
Of course, if you're still living in your parent's basement, they've seen you naked before, and you probably don't care what their neighbors think.
particularly not if I know there's a warm tasty pizza at the end of it.
We're talking Dominos here.
msMash will still be sucking dick for coke.
and BeauHD will be right next to her, mouth open wiling and waiting..
To be clear, are you one of those self-centred people who live directly opposite a Dominos and still orders takeaway?
He's probably one of those self-centered people who figures if he's paying delivery prices he deserves actual delivery and not "pretty close". He probably also thinks that if he's got to get presentable to go out in the weather to get his pizza, he might as well go someplace good.
The would be only reasonable. The raw product is refrigerated or frozen anyways. Just make it so that it is just ready when arriving. While I am eating either high-quality deep frozen pizza or making my own, I would try that.
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That's why he is in the cheap pizza business, and not the Autonomous Car business.
> Within Next Five Years Your Pizzas Will Probably Be Delivered by Autonomous Cars, Domino's Pizza CEO Says
Not *my* pizzas, I can guarantee you that. Domino's? YUCK!
If they're going to send my pizza in an autonomous car, they had better send someone in it to walk it to the door for me. Otherwise I'll order elsewhere.
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Domino's Pizza outgoing CEO Patrick Doyle, expert on AI and robotics, who has a lot of stock in Dominos and wants to hype it up, says .....
Try finding individual Class C commercial coverage for being a pizza delivery driver. Hint: If your insurance finds out you were delivering pizza when you got in an accident, they will at minimum not cover the accident and maybe even cancel your insurance.
I spent a half an hour once night a few years ago asking the manager of a Dominoes (I don't remember if it was corporate or franchise) about this, and he hemmed and hawwed and tried to blow it off as no big deal.
I started with:
'does your company provide commercial class c coverage'
'No'
''Do you know of an insurance company that provides class c coverage?'
'None that I know of'
'If you don't provide coverage, and I can't find anyone in town who doesn't provide commercial class c coverage that your hourly wage covers, then how can you legally have drivers?'
'I don't know.'
And keep in mind this is california, where you are legally required to have insurance or they can impound or crush your car. Given that even government employees seem to tacitly allow this to happen without enforcement, or verifying delivery drivers have commercial coverage, even though none of the major insurance providers in California provide it is more than a little appalling. Much like under the table work, one small accident can ruin you economically for years.
I'd rather have the pizzas for free.
What if the self-driving car would not only deliver the pizza, but would prepare and cook it as well, en-route, so that when you walk up to the vehicle, it's as hot and fresh as it will ever be?
IMO, THAT would be worth paying for (if you're going to order delivery pizza, that is).
maybe a little robot would come down off a ramp and carry the pizza to your door
First we Run off of the industrial jobs and other Living Wage Jobs for people with Just a HS diploma. These people are forced to work low paying service jobs. Now lets Invent machines that eliminate the low paying service jobs.
I'm sure they will do just fine with out my patronage. An so will I. It is not like domnos is the only game in town for pizza delivery. Plus its not like delivery is the only option I have. Good thing about having other drivers in my household that I can tell to go get me a pizza. So there are plenty of options for pizza with out leaving the house.
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Some deliverator needs to chop off that asshole's head.
I think the logic is rather that if I ask for delivery, I want delivery. If Domino's does not provide this, I'll order from someone else who does.
What if Domino's is $5 cheaper, but you have to walk to the curb? Or $10?
If delivery to the door means having to pay a driver, that cost will be reflected in the price. You can choose to pay it if you want, and if you can find a pizza place that will do it. I suspect that the vast majority will choose the lower price and walk to the curb, so there will soon be no stores that provide delivery to the door. Well, until they put a robot in the car that will walk / wheel / fly it to the door for you.
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What does pizza cost in the US? 10 bucks cheaper would mean you get money if you order a pizza here...
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What does pizza cost in the US? 10 bucks cheaper would mean you get money if you order a pizza here...
Including delivery?
I just went to Domino's.com and created an order to check. The delivery charge for my mom's house (there's no pizza delivery service to my house; my area is too rural, but my mom is 30 miles away, so a reasonable proxy), is $2.50. Plus a tip, of course. Assuming two medium cheese pizzas ($12.99 each), four bottles of Coke and an order of bread twists with dipping sauce, plus delivery fee, the total is $45.09, so that's about a $7 for a tip.
Assuming the delivery surcharge of $2.50 stays the same, the main savings would be the tip. So, in this case, $7.
I don't know where you live, but if tipping is not the norm in your location, then the delivery charge will almost certainly be higher (adjusting for currency and cost of living), because $2.50 is unlikely to be enough to pay for the driver's time, unless the store is very close to your house.
What it boils down to is that unless labor is extremely cheap in your area, the bulk of the cost of delivery will be labor, not vehicle wear and tear or fuel. And whatever that labor amount is, eliminating the human reduces the delivery cost by about that much. In the US, labor costs are high enough that the savings is non-trivial.
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Any company that doesn't deliver it to my door won't get my business. I don't want to have to walk out in the snow or rain, or in my shorts to some robo car.
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Companies around here noticed quickly that you can charge a buck more per pizza, people accept that, but as soon as you charge for delivery you get sorted out. We also have a lot of small restaurants rather than a few big chains. Competition is good for the customer.
A decent pizza is about 7-8 EUR around here, depending on what you want on it. Usually they require you to order for at least 12.00 or so to make delivery free, but that's easily doable as soon as you have 2 pizzas or one large one in your order.
And on top of it all, you actually get a pizza. Not ... hell, whatever it is that Domino's is actually delivering.
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The logic is that if I have to put my inclement-weather clothing on and go outside, I may as well do something besides argue with a machine over a pizza. One big advantage of delivery pizza is that I can get it without going outside. If I still have to get bundled up, I may as well get something healthier.
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