One of my local pizza chains has a system where they give you an order number and an ETA, and they text you when it's ready. Sometimes on super-busy nights I sh

One of my local pizza chains has a system where they give you an order number and an ETA, and they text you when it's ready. Sometimes on super-busy nights I show up at the ETA time to find a full parking lot. I know I'll need to park down the street and keep listening to my audiobook until the text comes, usually 7 or 8 minutes later. I can then walk in, give them a 3-digit order number, and depart with my pizzas. Of course they could always collect the info they need over the phone and provide you with an order number once they enter it into their system. But then it really isn't any faster than me just ordering through their web site. While we're on the subject of shaving seconds off how long it takes for us to order pizzas, I've noticed that this thread currently has about 10,000 words of user-generated content. At an average of 50 words per minute, it represents about 200 minutes of effort so far. (Back-of-the-envelope, suspicious method of word counting, but it's in the neighborhood.)