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> Yet Sela believes consumers have been abandoning local shops--even those with fresher ingredients, better flavors and ties to their communities--mostly becaus
by scrooched_moose 9y ago
> Yet Sela believes consumers have been abandoning local shops--even those with fresher ingredients, better flavors and ties to their communities--mostly because they lack the ability to take mobile orders.
That may be part of it, but among people I know the majority of it is cost. A 16" pizza at most of our favorite spots ends up around $25. I can get a 14" 3 topping pizza at Dominos for $7.99.
The local pizza is great and we get it a couple times a month, but it's not 3 times better.
- mprev 9y agoInteresting. Dominos in the uk is horribly expensive in comparison.
- twic 9y agoThis is something i don't get. There's a Papa John near me, on Green Lanes, N4. They charge 18 pounds for a large pizza. On either side of it, there are Turkish restaurants and bakeries where that will buy you an excellent three-course meal with a beer (okay, so the dessert might be the single piece of baklava they throw in at the end). How do they survive?
- akshat_h 9y agoI think a large pizza is 2-3 meals easily, so per meal cost is 6-9 pounds. It might be worth it in that sense, as compared to the Turkish places.
- twic 9y agoI did the maths, and a large American Hot is 1500 calories. Two meals, perhaps. A few doors down at Harran, you can get a large lamb shish kebab in a box, with rice, salad, bread, chilli sauce, and cacik, for £6.50. And the salad and bread are both really good!
- khedoros1 9y agoAbout 5 years ago, my wife and I were in London on vacation. We'd just gotten to our hotel from the airport, the rain was really coming down, and we opted to stay in. We ordered pizza from...well, I don't remember where, but the quality of the product was certainly chain-like. And the price was several times what I would've paid at home, even for something of a better quality. I think expensive food was just one of the defining traits of London, though.
- ahallock 9y agoLocal pizza is more like 100x better. I couldn't even finish a slice of Dominos, at least the one I ordered from on the west side of Cleveland. I've had better frozen pizza. I don't get who's ordering it. It's not even the 'good' kind of bad, like, say McDonald's fries that one indulges in on occasion.
- s17n 9y agoIn many places the local pizza place also sucks, the OP might have no idea what they are missing.
- subpixel 9y agoChain restaurants don't succeed by being better, they succeed by being consistent. The fear of having a bad meal is much, much stronger than the desire to have an exceptional one. This - along with price - is why McDonald's in NYC is packed with tourists.
- ryanwaggoner 9y agoSadly, I don’t think it’s even mostly tourists. Every McDonalds I walk by in NYC is always busy, even in parts of the city with fewer tourists.
- nxc18 9y agoMaybe you just have a bad dominoes. There are some great local pizza places where I live (SoCal), but they're 2x the cost, but not 2x better.
- gknoy 9y agoWe have several local pizzerias, each of which is several times more delicious than Dominos. However, they cost 2x (or more) as much, depending on the coupons that Dominos might have. I might enjoy eating it ~2x or 5x as much as Dominos, but if it's not in the budget, the choice is between Dominos or no-pizza.
- Spooky23 9y agoWhere do you live? Dominos is the worst. 3x is conservative. Look for a grande cheese pizzeria if you don’t live in a good pizza area.