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That's more about the pizza than the delivery. Pizza scales really well. If you order chinese food for 10 people you're getting a lot of different things. For p

That's more about the pizza than the delivery. Pizza scales really well. If you order chinese food for 10 people you're getting a lot of different things. For pizza you're getting pizzas. They go in a standard stackable box that sits nicely in the front seat. If it's a busy time you can stack multiple orders of pizza together. Pizzas are higher margin than most foods, requiring not a lot of labor or expensive ingredients. People tend to order more pizza than they need because it saves pretty well. Pizza is pretty clean, at least to the extent that even the greasier ones won't leak through a good box. It's a common party food meaning you'll get more big group orders. It doesn't come with expensive ingredients. It's easy to package. If you start an order of 5 pizzas they should all be done at about the same time. And in some fiction your delivery workers work under threat of death from the mob itself.

grumple 4y ago
Funny enough, the Chinese and Japanese restaurants in my area are basically always on point and have the fastest delivery, despite having the most complex preparation. Why can I order sushi faster than I can order a few items that are pulled off a shelf and thrown in a bag? Especially when the cost of delivery as well as margins seem to be higher for the latter. You can't tell me it's harder to delivery a bag of snacks than a sushi roll.
- spywaregorilla 4y ago
  Sushi is pretty quick to make, and maki rolls moreso. It tends to be a high margin item due to a high price. A sushi order with $10 of profit can be delivered for $5. A few snacks with a profit of $1 cannot be delivered for $5. Maybe you can shrug and just pay a higher delivery cost : item ratio to make it happen anyway. But in my area the reason the asian restaurants are only faster is because they have their own dedicated delivery staff. That would just not work for random convenience stores because the order volume is low due to stupid prices. Margin $, Margin %, Transportability and Order Volume are the big ones in my guesstimate. Pizza is the ultimate choice across those 4. I don't think asian restaurants are better at this across the board consistently.

grumple 4y ago

Funny enough, the Chinese and Japanese restaurants in my area are basically always on point and have the fastest delivery, despite having the most complex preparation. Why can I order sushi faster than I can order a few items that are pulled off a shelf and thrown in a bag? Especially when the cost of delivery as well as margins seem to be higher for the latter. You can't tell me it's harder to delivery a bag of snacks than a sushi roll.

spywaregorilla 4y ago
Sushi is pretty quick to make, and maki rolls moreso. It tends to be a high margin item due to a high price. A sushi order with $10 of profit can be delivered for $5. A few snacks with a profit of $1 cannot be delivered for $5. Maybe you can shrug and just pay a higher delivery cost : item ratio to make it happen anyway. But in my area the reason the asian restaurants are only faster is because they have their own dedicated delivery staff. That would just not work for random convenience stores because the order volume is low due to stupid prices. Margin $, Margin %, Transportability and Order Volume are the big ones in my guesstimate. Pizza is the ultimate choice across those 4. I don't think asian restaurants are better at this across the board consistently.