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Is this a joke comment? I'm starting to lose the ability to see sarcasm I think. Why would you have expected them to have been busy in the last six months?

bumby 5y ago
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your comment, but why does the expectation of growth in a pizza parlor come across as absurd? Dominoes had 13-14% Q1 same store sales growth over 2020 numbers. https://ir.dominos.com/news-releases/news-release-details/dominos-pizzar-announces-first-quarter-2021-financial-results https://ir.dominos.com/news-releases/news-release-details/do...
- RobertKerans 5y ago
  sorry, it just seemed a bizarre comment: you said it was less busy when you visited it, at a point in time when everywhere was less busy, nothing to do with overall sales Edit: sorry not OP
  - bumby 5y ago
    I’m not the original poster, but I would expect sales to correlate with “busy-ness”. To your point though, I guess if everyone was doing takeout, sales could still go up and the place could be empty. Where I’m located though, it seems like businesses have been open for dine in for months and people are filling the dining rooms
    - RobertKerans 5y ago
      Yeah, fair as does depend on country (and region)
sokoloff 5y ago
They were busier (for pickup) this winter than this summer. I checked my own order history at our previously favorite pizza place. We ordered about 5x/month from Nov ‘20-Mar ‘21 when large cheeses were $9+tax and there was often a line for pickup. We now order around 1x/month (at $13+tax) and walk directly to the counter. If anything, CV19 is much less a safety concern now than before.
- RobertKerans 5y ago
  sorry, it just seemed a bizarre thing to comment on: yes the sales may have been higher, and anecdotally you may have seen longer pickup lines (at what times?), but you gotta understand why it reads as a joke, because regardless of above, in-person business is almost universally likely to have been lower, restricted to pickups clustered at specific times
- f0xytr0xy 5y ago
  As a VP does that $4 difference really mean anything to you?
  - sokoloff 5y ago
    We've switched many of our family's Friday night pizza nights to "make pizza at home". Can I afford $4 more? Of course. Do I see the same level of value in a ~50% more expensive pizza? Of course not.
    - f0xytr0xy 5y ago
      The struggle is real.
    - f0xytr0xy 5y ago
      It’s a hard knock life, yo.

bumby 5y ago

Maybe I’m misunderstanding your comment, but why does the expectation of growth in a pizza parlor come across as absurd? Dominoes had 13-14% Q1 same store sales growth over 2020 numbers. https://ir.dominos.com/news-releases/news-release-details/dominos-pizzar-announces-first-quarter-2021-financial-results https://ir.dominos.com/news-releases/news-release-details/do...

RobertKerans 5y ago
sorry, it just seemed a bizarre comment: you said it was less busy when you visited it, at a point in time when everywhere was less busy, nothing to do with overall sales Edit: sorry not OP
- bumby 5y ago
  I’m not the original poster, but I would expect sales to correlate with “busy-ness”. To your point though, I guess if everyone was doing takeout, sales could still go up and the place could be empty. Where I’m located though, it seems like businesses have been open for dine in for months and people are filling the dining rooms
  - RobertKerans 5y ago
    Yeah, fair as does depend on country (and region)

sokoloff 5y ago

They were busier (for pickup) this winter than this summer. I checked my own order history at our previously favorite pizza place. We ordered about 5x/month from Nov ‘20-Mar ‘21 when large cheeses were $9+tax and there was often a line for pickup. We now order around 1x/month (at $13+tax) and walk directly to the counter. If anything, CV19 is much less a safety concern now than before.

RobertKerans 5y ago
sorry, it just seemed a bizarre thing to comment on: yes the sales may have been higher, and anecdotally you may have seen longer pickup lines (at what times?), but you gotta understand why it reads as a joke, because regardless of above, in-person business is almost universally likely to have been lower, restricted to pickups clustered at specific times
f0xytr0xy 5y ago
As a VP does that $4 difference really mean anything to you?
- sokoloff 5y ago
  We've switched many of our family's Friday night pizza nights to "make pizza at home". Can I afford $4 more? Of course. Do I see the same level of value in a ~50% more expensive pizza? Of course not.
  - f0xytr0xy 5y ago
    The struggle is real.
  - f0xytr0xy 5y ago
    It’s a hard knock life, yo.