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do people still order pizzas over the phone in first-world countries?
by riffic 5y ago
do people still order pizzas over the phone in first-world countries?
- throwawayboise 5y agoIt's the only way I order take out. Faster and easier than using an app.
- reaperducer 5y agoYou're doing it wrong. You're supposed to write a long tale on Medium titled "Here's what happened when I tried to order food over the phone from a restaurant" Then make a Tiktok Video about it tagged #lifehack. It's the only way the loafing class will believe you.
- nelgaard 5y agoyes it is the fastest way to do it. And it cuts out the middlemen.
- reaperducer 5y agoI hate to break it to you, but A LOT of the best restaurants aren't available on apps, or even online. I recently moved to a new (large) city, and have found that nearly half of the restaurants in my neighborhood aren't even in either Google Maps or Apple Maps.
- jmrm 5y agoThat's totally true. There are a lot of nice restaurant in the middle of the cities, outside the centre or the most crowded places, where the food is great and usually cheaper than the others. At least this is my experience as an European. If you go to Lyon, Madrid, Rome, or cities like that, you will have this kind of experience.
- ben_w 5y agoSure, I’m in Berlin and living literally directly up from a Domino’s. Several of the good Pizza places near me (not Domino’s) don’t have an app, and half their websites list only a phone number and physical address for contact. One has an email address but says they don’t take orders that way.
- na85 5y agoYou know what's a shit experience? Ordering food on a fucking app. Every restaurant thinks they're special and they all want their own app. So if you have a regular group of restaurants that you order from you're installing potentially a dozen apps, all of which are probably riddled with spyware and security holes.
- crubier 5y agoBut what about UberEats and similar apps? You don’t mention it, but I’m pretty sure 90%+ of restaurants here in Lisbon are on UberEats, which provides a great UX. I never had to install any individual restaurant’s app. I didn’t even know they were a thing!
- dublin 5y agoThe only conclusion I can come to based on your comment is that you should never be allowed near UX design and development. Also, anyone who screws over their local restaurant by giving all the profit to UberEats, et al is a pretty crappy human. These companies are morally almost as evil as Facebook, Google, and Apple.
- crubier 5y agoYeah ok, sure, the dozens of UX designers doing A/B testing all the time at UberEats are all wrong, and you are the only person to know what good UX is. And as a user of UberEats, all my perceptions are wrong: The good experience I have is not valid, just an illusion, and I am dumb. And literally all of the 100M users of UberEats are also wrong, and pretty crappy humans. OR maybe you're just blinded by your ideology. Who knows!?
- BayAreaEscapee 5y agoIn fairness to the restaurants, Uber Eats and its competitors take a pretty good chunk of the price of the food. Restaurants run on thin margins. The commission that these food apps demand can make the difference between the delivery being profitable or not profitable. Plus, the restaurant loses the ability to completely control the experience the customer gets. If the pizza sits around for half an hour before it gets picked up, gets to the customer cold, and then the customer complains, how is that the restaurant's fault? I'm not negating your point: it is a pain and a risk to install a dozen apps. But I also understand why they do it.
- jmrm 5y agoDoing it over the phone or over other instant messaging app is faster and more convenient. I done that last Saturday, and the call lasted exactly 39 seconds. No app install, no registering, and no entering my card information.