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Ordering pizza might be one of the few things that is better to do over the phone than online. It's far quicker to say "Pickup, a large pizza, half pepperoni, w

Ordering pizza might be one of the few things that is better to do over the phone than online. It's far quicker to say "Pickup, a large pizza, half pepperoni, well done", than to fight through the combobox salad of seemingly every pizzeria online ordering system.

jsight 7y ago
I disagree, but only because that order will get turned into a large pizza with all pepperoni pretty regularly. Modifiers get lost on phone orders very regularly.
- magashna 7y ago
  "Can you read my order back to me?" Not that hard.
  - CDSlice 7y ago
    Or I could just order online and make sure it is right the first time? Also, there is no way I'd just call in and say "Pickup, a large pizza, half pepperoni, well done" because that just seems incredibly rude so calling would take even more time. Much easier to load the website/app and enter your pizza
    - magashna 7y ago
      Every pizza joint around me has better deals when calling in. I can't imagine you've ever called a pizza place. It's a business transaction, there's no pleasantries on either side. It's not rude. They want to move on with the business as quick as you want to hang up. Maybe it's just a North East thing but my calls for pizza are about 10 seconds long and I've never thought "Gino is being rude, he didn't ask me how I was doing"
      - catalogia 7y ago
        Pizza orders can be even faster than that. For me it's often: "Hey dude, same thing?" "Yep." "Cash?" "Yep." Literally two words from me. A perk of being a regular customer perhaps, but honestly I order pizza maybe two times a month, not that much imho.
    - a3n 7y ago
      Aren't all of you glad that you can order on the web or by phone, as you prefer? Aren't all of you glad that you can use Vim or Emacs, as you prefer? Aren't you all glad that you can shave your yak in a bike shed painted exactly the way you prefer?
      - codeulike 7y ago
        Yes but this conversation was about how preferences have changed or not changed
- yellowapple 7y ago
  Modifiers get lost on online orders very regularly, too, as I've learned from the sheer number of Uber Eats orders I've placed where my request for "no bun" or "no bread" gets ignored.
rconti 7y ago
"Hello, Pizza Hut, can you hold? <music begins playing>"
lizardwalk5 7y ago
well, it seems like if the system is tracking you, then it should only be hard the first time. then it should default to your known preferences. unless you order a different pizza every time...
ghaff 7y ago
I'm not at all sure my local pizza place even has online ordering. But it's literally a matter of maybe 30 seconds to place an order on the phone. I suppose there are some advantages to having all your account info already stored if you're getting a delivery but that's not an option for me.
- zrobotics 7y ago
  Eh, at least the 2 local pizzerias that I order from can both locate my account from a phone number, so if I call & say I've ordered before they just need to confirm the address. One of them does have online-ordering; and while the page is decent I still find it faster to call. Haven't ordered from Pizza-Hut online, but ordering online from Dominos was absolute hell. There is no way to view your total without clicking through to checkout, and prices aren't listed. So the only way to find out what a specialty pizza costs is to add it to the cart, dismiss all the upsell popups about adding dessert and a soda, then view the cart. Plus, even on a desktop computer with a decent connection it loads so much crap. The page ends up being heavier than Youtube, and I fail to see why I need to load as much resources to order a pizza vs. watch streaming video. Not worth it, especially as their pizza is neither particularly good or particularly cheap.

jsight 7y ago

I disagree, but only because that order will get turned into a large pizza with all pepperoni pretty regularly. Modifiers get lost on phone orders very regularly.

magashna 7y ago
"Can you read my order back to me?" Not that hard.
- CDSlice 7y ago
  Or I could just order online and make sure it is right the first time? Also, there is no way I'd just call in and say "Pickup, a large pizza, half pepperoni, well done" because that just seems incredibly rude so calling would take even more time. Much easier to load the website/app and enter your pizza
  - magashna 7y ago
    Every pizza joint around me has better deals when calling in. I can't imagine you've ever called a pizza place. It's a business transaction, there's no pleasantries on either side. It's not rude. They want to move on with the business as quick as you want to hang up. Maybe it's just a North East thing but my calls for pizza are about 10 seconds long and I've never thought "Gino is being rude, he didn't ask me how I was doing"
    - catalogia 7y ago
      Pizza orders can be even faster than that. For me it's often: "Hey dude, same thing?" "Yep." "Cash?" "Yep." Literally two words from me. A perk of being a regular customer perhaps, but honestly I order pizza maybe two times a month, not that much imho.
  - a3n 7y ago
    Aren't all of you glad that you can order on the web or by phone, as you prefer? Aren't all of you glad that you can use Vim or Emacs, as you prefer? Aren't you all glad that you can shave your yak in a bike shed painted exactly the way you prefer?
    - codeulike 7y ago
      Yes but this conversation was about how preferences have changed or not changed
yellowapple 7y ago
Modifiers get lost on online orders very regularly, too, as I've learned from the sheer number of Uber Eats orders I've placed where my request for "no bun" or "no bread" gets ignored.

rconti 7y ago

"Hello, Pizza Hut, can you hold? <music begins playing>"

lizardwalk5 7y ago

well, it seems like if the system is tracking you, then it should only be hard the first time. then it should default to your known preferences. unless you order a different pizza every time...

ghaff 7y ago

I'm not at all sure my local pizza place even has online ordering. But it's literally a matter of maybe 30 seconds to place an order on the phone. I suppose there are some advantages to having all your account info already stored if you're getting a delivery but that's not an option for me.

zrobotics 7y ago
Eh, at least the 2 local pizzerias that I order from can both locate my account from a phone number, so if I call & say I've ordered before they just need to confirm the address. One of them does have online-ordering; and while the page is decent I still find it faster to call. Haven't ordered from Pizza-Hut online, but ordering online from Dominos was absolute hell. There is no way to view your total without clicking through to checkout, and prices aren't listed. So the only way to find out what a specialty pizza costs is to add it to the cart, dismiss all the upsell popups about adding dessert and a soda, then view the cart. Plus, even on a desktop computer with a decent connection it loads so much crap. The page ends up being heavier than Youtube, and I fail to see why I need to load as much resources to order a pizza vs. watch streaming video. Not worth it, especially as their pizza is neither particularly good or particularly cheap.