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Technically they didn't have to make any pizzas at all. I always felt like the story about the dough was embellished a little bit to avoid being charged with f

Technically they didn't have to make any pizzas at all. I always felt like the story about the dough was embellished a little bit to avoid being charged with fraud.

Slartie 6y ago
They had to produce something that could legally be called a pizza to at least fulfill the purchase contract with DoorDash and avoid making themselves legally liable. But what would probably have worked would be to pull this off with two restaurants, each ordering pizzas from the other, with them sending the same physical pizzas around all the time. Cold and old pizza is still legally a pizza, just a bad one.
- rainbowzootsuit 6y ago
  That reminds me of the Raines sandwich. "Minimum viable sandwich" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/raines-sandwich https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/raines-sandwich So this is "Minimum viable pizza"
  - rrjjww 6y ago
    Before clicking on this I thought it was going to be about Cuomo's order in this summer that all restaurants offering drinks had to be served with food. I went to at least a couple outside bars that were serving half a piece of white bread with a slice of American cheese on it for your "meal"
- ashtonkem 6y ago
  They have to claim that they made something that met the definition of pizza, but with the “buyer”, driver, and store colluding they could just lie.
  - Slartie 6y ago
    The first buyer is DoorDash however, and if they somehow want to take vengeance on you after you managed draining their funds in an otherwise perfectly legal way, they might just use the non-fulfillment of their initial purchase contracts as a wedge to take you to court (of course this assumes they somehow learned about that detail of your plan). I don't know if they would have any luck with that, but it's easy to prevent this from happening by actually delivering something that's basically a minimally viable pizza.
- Mokosha 6y ago
  They could simply make a single pizza, and then deliver it to themselves N times.
- Balgair 6y ago
  Reading through the article again, it is strongly implied that a lot of stores may have a similar arbitrage issue and the DD os getting taken to the cleaners over it. That and I don't think there are any legal issues over this as there were no contracts signed. If anything DD is the one in legal trouble over it.

Technically they didn't have to make any pizzas at all. I always felt like the story about the dough was embellished a little bit to avoid being charged with fraud.

Slartie 6y ago

They had to produce something that could legally be called a pizza to at least fulfill the purchase contract with DoorDash and avoid making themselves legally liable. But what would probably have worked would be to pull this off with two restaurants, each ordering pizzas from the other, with them sending the same physical pizzas around all the time. Cold and old pizza is still legally a pizza, just a bad one.

rainbowzootsuit 6y ago
That reminds me of the Raines sandwich. "Minimum viable sandwich" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/raines-sandwich https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/raines-sandwich So this is "Minimum viable pizza"
- rrjjww 6y ago
  Before clicking on this I thought it was going to be about Cuomo's order in this summer that all restaurants offering drinks had to be served with food. I went to at least a couple outside bars that were serving half a piece of white bread with a slice of American cheese on it for your "meal"
ashtonkem 6y ago
They have to claim that they made something that met the definition of pizza, but with the “buyer”, driver, and store colluding they could just lie.
- Slartie 6y ago
  The first buyer is DoorDash however, and if they somehow want to take vengeance on you after you managed draining their funds in an otherwise perfectly legal way, they might just use the non-fulfillment of their initial purchase contracts as a wedge to take you to court (of course this assumes they somehow learned about that detail of your plan). I don't know if they would have any luck with that, but it's easy to prevent this from happening by actually delivering something that's basically a minimally viable pizza.
Mokosha 6y ago
They could simply make a single pizza, and then deliver it to themselves N times.
Balgair 6y ago
Reading through the article again, it is strongly implied that a lot of stores may have a similar arbitrage issue and the DD os getting taken to the cleaners over it. That and I don't think there are any legal issues over this as there were no contracts signed. If anything DD is the one in legal trouble over it.