A map at the start, sure, I'd bet these drivers had "The Knowledge" like a London cabbie.
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Like others have said, we had a big map. One thing I remembered though is how fucking often I would forget somebody's 2-liter of Pepsi or whatever. I would just stop and buy one on the way, and then later grab one from work and take it home.
I didn't work for Dominos, but I did spend a year delivering pizza for a different place when I was in college in the late '80s. We had the big laminated map of the area, but after a little bit we'd pretty much know every street and recognize the regulars.
And it was incredibly affordable compared to today.
prices didn't go up, wages went down.
I mean prices also went up
They also didn't charge you $20 just so the franchise can pocket it.
ex land pirate here ... we'd keep a map of the city on the wall for reference but it seemed like most of the drivers just remembered where places were if they'd been working there for any amount of time ... I answered phones and made the pizzas when it was still ok to throw the dough up in the air, etc. fun job
Hang on. They don't throw the dough up in the air anymore?!?!?!?
There's a pizza dough spreader machine now. Makes it more consistent.
Smaller places often still throw the dough, but chains usually have the machine so every pizza is the same.
eventually they’ll just sell warm pizza food cubes and avoid the hassle of yeast all together because consistency is exactly what everyone wants, … right?
With a chain restaurant... Yes. Consistency is exactly what people want.
Starbucks, McDonald's, Applebee's.
There's a reason they're all global brands, and it's not because they're all unique offerings, it's cause you can walk into any one of them and know exactly what you're going to get.
I worked in the kitchen and did deliveries the summer after I graduated high school.
We had a map under a piece of plexiglass on the counter. You'd have to look at it and memorize where you were going before you left.
We didn't have a 30 minute or it's free deal, but there was still pressure to deliver fast. Driving their car too fast, I hit the hump in the middle of an intersection and became briefly airborne. All four tires left the street.
That's rough, at least i had a crappy photocopy to work with haha
and the reason they stopped delivering within 30 minutes was cause it led to reckless driving and many, many, many traffic accidents and losses of life.
And now we will never have the beginning of Snow Crash happen irl. Damn.
"The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory."
I just reread that intro and it's so over-the-top awesome
I didn't know that, crazy.
Yeah pre internet lots of shit was easy to ignore.
Yep. There were many wrongful death lawsuits as well, i think which resulted in millions of dollars of payouts to families, and all the coverage really hit domino's reputation to the point they finally dropped the half hour guarantee in the mid 90s because of the financial blows from reputation loss and settlements.
Though I wouldnt be surprised if they try to bring it back via drone deliveries.
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Used to do it myself. The pizza place I worked for gave me a map of the town and said cya. Once went to the wrong street on literally the other side of town because close to same name streets but one was "drive" and the other was "ave" and I was tired.
Something that seems immediately apparent to me is that these folks are not fresh high school students. Adults used to work these jobs.
Sort of. I did this at 16-18.
Also, one person didn't do all that, still doesn't. Phones, oven, and delivery are all separate jobs, with phones and oven overlapping during slow shifts.
I can't even remember what jobs teenagers were supposed to have. Newspaper delivery? Ice cream bike guy? That's all I got.
teenagers as a group designation used to not be a thing. you were a child until you could do adult jobs and then you were an adult.
children would have menial jobs like coal miner, day labourer, the guy who sticks their hand into the mechanical loom when it gets stuck...
True, but not in the late 20th century when pizza by delivery was common but there was no gps
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And the pizza actually tasted better than it does today.
no shit, food in 1960 was full of additional flavoring chemicals.
The science of embalming food hadn't progressed as far at that point.
And health codes didn't stop them from filling it with all sorts of other stuff, and nobody looked to see that there were 5 sticks of butter and two handfuls of salt in each pizza.
I really liked being a pizza delivery driver pre-GPS. It did require some skill, but you learned quickly about how things work:
- Is it a complex of some sort (e.g., trailer park, apartment, condo)? Look for a unit map.
- Evens on one side of the street, odds on the other
- You learn all of those weird roads that have the same name in two disconnected parts of town
It was easily the best "shitty job" I've ever had.
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And if you couldn't pay for the pizza, they'd have sex with you
Sometimes they’d cut a hole in the middle and stick their dick in the pizza though which was weird.
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I have three local places that still deliver using their own guy and I order exclusively from them. It limits my options, but fuck the delivery apps. Anywhere else, I either dine in or pick it up myself.
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And you know what else kids? The food was actually good!
By the end of the century, modern fantasies is just going to be the 90s.
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