Pizza Delivery
 

You're always kind of at the mercy of pizza (or other) delivery places. You're trusting that for your extra bucks (sometimes enforced by the vendor, sometimes added by you as courtesy) your food is going to arrive in a timely manner, at appropriate temperatures, and everything you ordered is actually in the bag.

We have a couple places that do manage this for us. My dept. is a captive audience. We're not permitted to leave the building so if we want something, it means a phone call.

How to know when you order too often from the same place:

1. You're on a first name basis with the delivery guy.

2. He knows the story behind the "secret name" your department uses when they order food.

3. He brings an order for a staff member (who typically orders Fried Mushrooms, a Cheese Steak, an order of Hot Wings and a 2 liter Diet Coke) and says "You tell-a Joshie I'm-a worried about his cholesterol"

Re: Pizza Delivery
 

Whats that all about?

Many, many years ago, one of the guys had this girlfriend who was, much to his delight, very horny.

She would, however, approach him, often in public settings, or while there were people in their apartment to demand attention. And she would be very specific.

He didn't want her NOT to approach him, but he was sufficiently suave that he didn't want her blurting out her rather specific requests in front of large groups of people, including his parents.

So he made up a code word for her.

And that's the name we use when we order pizza.

Well, damn. Don't leave us all hanging. What's the word?

No shit wolf. Much like Scott Tenorman, that was totally not cool.

i ran a pizza delivery store. it ain't so glamorous:D

What, and let you be able to fuck up my pizza order?

hey now man, I'm a pizza delivery guy myself. Now, as a pizza consumer I understand that you want your pizza there really fast. But as a guy making an hourly wage of 5.15 an hour I will say that if you dont tip you go in the computers. And in the delivery guys massive chunk of memory devoted to the pricks that stiffed him. I couldn't tell you what I had for dinner last night, but right off the bat I can give you the names, adresses and orders of at least 5 stiffs. So remember, we're often busy, and we're trying our best. And most of the time it's the fuckin cooks fault.

One of the reasons that we are on a first-name basis with our pizza delivery guy is that we (staff) DO tip. Overtip a lot of the time, to make up for the patients who don't. Our guy doesn't mind that the patients don't tip really big ... he knows what our hospital is about, and that most of our clients don't have a lot of bucks to spare when they are treating themselves to a dinner not served on a plastic tray. We actually took a restaurant off our approved list because the delivery guys got hostile over low tips ... despite their compulsory $3 (yeah, three bucks) delivery fee.

wow that story reminds me of me and my ex-bf

When I was in college, many meals came from the 'dead' pizzas from the delivery place. We'd call and ask if they had any failed deliveries -- sometimes they were less than desirable combinations -- but for 1 or 2 bucks for a large, us beggars were not choosers.

Every now and again a patient will refuse to pay for food they ordered. When this happens, if we are hungry, and if it's something we might enjoy, we negotiate with the delivery guy.

Freshman year of college, the Domino's guy was making a delivery to my dorm but forgot to lock his car (actually, it was still running - but who'd want a 1990 Corolla on a spare doughnut tire?).

Anyway, some assholes got into his vehicle and stole all his deliveries. They stopped delivering to my dorm. That sucked big time.

It's not common to tip pizza deliveries in this country, as most of the places that deliver are delivery only i.e. no restaurant, so people figure the cost of the delivery is built into the cost of the pizza.

My ex-housemate was an actor however, which meant delivering pizzas a lot of the time, and she introduced me to the concept of tipping. Always keen to give money away and ingratiate myself with anyone who provides food I have tipped ever since.

Has it helped?
Nope.
I get a different driver every time, I have to wait at the window from 10 minutes after ordering because my name isn't on the doorbell and my sole pleasure is the look of delight on the driver's face when I say "Keep the change."

But hey - that's good enough :)

retain your doorbell anonymity and expediate pizza delivery by putting "PIZZA" on your doorbell. ;)