• Alto@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Used to deliver for them, can confirm all the above. Some other stuff:

    • Yes there’s less of each individual topping when you order a bunch of different toppings, but I promise you that you don’t want a normal amount of each topping on your supreme pizza. The center would still be raw, probably even if you put it through twice.
    • The 50% weeks are mostly a scam. It’s usually cheaper to use the other good coupons (e.g. mix and match) than to take 50% off normal menu price
    • Unless you’ve got a big/otherwise pain in the ass to deliver order, a $10 order is just as much work to deliver as a $60 order. I personally tip based off distance rather than total because of it, and most my coworkers also preferred this method.
    • Brooklyn pizzas are just normal pizzas using dough 2 sizes smaller (for example an XL brooklyn is just a medium dough stretched thin). In general if you’re looking to maximize food per dollar, normal hand tossed is what you want
    • For the love of God don’t buy soda from the store if there’s a gas station or something that’s not out of the way. It’ll be half the price at most.
    • The dishes probably aren’t being cleaned properly. If you’re lucky your local store has 1, maybe 2 closers who actually give a shit and try to do it right. I imagine that’s pretty standard in food service though.
    • If you order delivery 2 minutes before close, you’re braver than I. I had a hard policy of don’t fuck with peoples food but not everyone does, and you sure as fuck aren’t getting it on time.
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      11 months ago

      I’ve never fucked with people’s food; but I also never fuck with people who fuck with my food… cause I’m not dumb like that lol

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      I worked at Domino’s for 6 months and was the closer who actually gave a shit about dishes, 5 nights a week. They fired me for mixing up what day I was scheduled, once. I was easily the best driver/closer at the time, LMAO.

      If we actually took an order 2 minutes before close, it was always the fastest delivery of the night. Those orders literally never tipped me more than $1.50. Even the people who apologized for doing it.

      Not sure what the chicken thing is about, we didn’t do it whatever way he was saying.

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        Specialty chicken may have been different depending on the franchise. At mine, the opening driver would prepare a tub of it by literally cutting the boneless chicken in half.

        And yeah, being seemingly the only person in the store who gives a rats ass about food safety suuuucks. The amount of times I ended up redoing the entirety of the night before’s dishes because the closer didn’t give a fuck was insane. I never did that shit to help the company, I just was never going to be the reason people got sick.

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      After enough people kept asking me how much to tip because I was working/worked as a delivery driver I created the following

      Consider how much you don’t want to go get it yourself. Put an actual dollar amount on that. If it’s just a buck or two, bite the bullet and just go get it. Otherwise, tip that amount.

      I think a lot of people $10 don’t want to go get their own food when they’re considering delivery.

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        Well, my dominos is like a mile away, so that’s like 10 min of my time. So that’s worth like $5 tops, and delivery is about that much anyway.

        So are you saying I just shouldn’t order delivery since I’m not likely to tip more than $1-2? I’d much rather give $2-3 to a tip jar and pick it up myself if that’s going to be better for everyone.

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      11 months ago

      does the first also apply to toppings that are already small (e.g other cheese options)?

      e.g if you had a 2 topping pizza, and it was some cheese(e.g asiago) and a topping of choice, would the toppings still be minimized despite one of the ingredients barely taking up space

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        Can’t remember for sure, but I believe they didn’t start reducing til 3+ toppings. Dont remember if cheese was treated special or not, I was rarely the one making the pizzas. General rule of thumb, the total amount of toppings is going to be relatively the same past 3 toppings.