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I suspect pizza has historically also worked because there have been very few other options so little competition.
by trog 2y ago
I suspect pizza has historically also worked because there have been very few other options so little competition.
- danpalmer 2y agoPerhaps, but I see a similar pattern in the UK where there have been many competing options for a long time. ~20 years ago it was common to have Indian, Chinese, Fish & Chips, Kebabs, and Pizza available for delivery in most areas, often multiple of each. I'm not familiar with the US market but it sounds like Pizza was more common? Based on this my guess is that it's less about the competition and more about the middleman taking a cut.
- trog 2y agoI'm in Australia and the only thing I ever remember being able to get delivered, prior to VC funded delivery companies, was pizza. I guess in the UK (at least in cities) they were big and dense enough to support it but it's never really seemed feasible, at least in my city.
- danpalmer 2y agoI wonder if it's a cultural thing too. Immigration in the UK happened in a particular way, and it does seem limited to Indian/Chinese/Turkish takeaways in particular. Pizza takeaways are a thing but they're mostly US chains like Dominos.
- analog31 2y agoMaybe there's something about pizza. It's cheap, easy to produce at the needed scale, somewhat fungible, and can be delivered in a form that's tolerably edible.
- thecrash 2y agoWhen it gets down to it—talking trade balances here—once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out ... once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity—y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery