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It is optional, yes, but in the past, there were no internet based middlemen taking a 30% cut. You paid the local kid driving the pizza to your house, not some
by ipython 2y ago
It is optional, yes, but in the past, there were no internet based middlemen taking a 30% cut. You paid the local kid driving the pizza to your house, not some nameless software developer making 200k+ a year.
- bradleyjg 2y agoVery few places delivered. The reason pizza is always the go-to example is because that was basically it.
- D13Fd 2y agoChinese food often delivers too.
- Turing_Machine 2y agoAnd that was because pizza has a very, very high markup to begin with. From a few years ago: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/much-profit-margin-pizza-62139.html https://smallbusiness.chron.com/much-profit-margin-pizza-621... Cost to make a pepperoni and sausage pizza: $1.90. Average sale price: $14.00.
- bradleyjg 2y agoHow do you square this with dollar pizza wars in nyc destroying so many formerly good places because $1 isn’t enough for real cheese?
- Turing_Machine 2y agoMaybe the overhead is a lot higher there? I know rents are high in the Bay Area, but IIRC they're much higher in NYC? Could be wrong, but that would be my guess.