Note I did not buy any food for myself.

To head off questions:

  1. No, I couldn’t cook for her. I’m suffering from a long-term illness where I can’t eat solid foods and am extremely smell sensitive. My wife is at a funeral, so I had to order food.

  2. She’s extremely picky and refused to let me order anything but pizza.

  3. We live outside of town, in a not very big town, with very few pizza delivery options, and they’re all at least this expensive.

  4. No, I didn’t also have to buy her the cheesy bread or the second topping or the sauces, but it’s nice to get my daughter a treat and that is no excuse for the order being that expensive.

  5. We’re in Indiana, so this should be ludicrous in terms of pricing. This used to be the pricing I would expect when we lived in L.A. and ordered from a good local place rather than a chain.

Edit: Turns out what I should have been infuriated about is people repeatedly telling me to get takeout and having to repeatedly explain why that wasn’t an option, having people not believe I’m sick, and being repeatedly berated for not magically knowing food coupons exist on the internet when I never order food on the internet. Oh right, and also being a bad parent for not forcing food my daughter doesn’t like down her throat or starving her if she won’t eat it.

By the way, I have another thing to be infuriated about. A huge storm came in and this happened to our trees. I assume I will start being berated for not cutting them down before that happened, but because I have no power or internet at home and have to go to the library to post, your further posts telling me what an idiot I am and how I’m an awful parent and how I’m not really sick will take me a while to read. Sorry to ruin your day. Maybe you’ll find someone else to treat like shit.

Anyway, have fun telling me I’m the worst person on Lemmy, just don’t expect a quick reply.

Oh, and do tell me how stupid I am for not knowing that people who clear up and fix such damage have coupons on their website.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    Yea, pizza places have gotten out of hand in recent years.

    Adding a delivery fee (which doesn’t go to the driver) from locations that only do delivery.

    How about fuck you and your delivery fee. Which is why I refuse to have pizza delivered any more. Plus they invariably get lost, though we’re a few hundred yards from their store.

    Little Seizures sells the same pizza for half the price, or less, than Papa John’s, before those fees are tacked on.

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      The only LC here is inside a gas station, but I used to love their crazy bread years ago.

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      I’ve always been too much of a cheapskate curmudgeon to pay for food delivery and I’ve been increasingly baffled by people who pay hundreds of dollars a month to have cold, soggy fast food delivered at an eye watering premium.

      I get laziness, I really do. For me, personally, going to pick up food is the lazy option.

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        Completely agree here. If I do order delivery and it’s a third party delivering I always tip a fortune because I know otherwise they won’t care — and yet it still comes back nasty and cold.

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      I’m kind of the opposite. The only places that tend to have their own delivery drivers now are pizza joints.

      I cannot stand DoorDash, the delivery always sucks but I really don’t blame the drivers. The restaurants that say “we deliver” but then offload that shit to DoorDash, take 50% of the tip piss me off the most. And now the food is nasty because some dude in his car is working up a sweat trying to deliver 16,000 other orders at the same time.

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      The driver still gets an hourly wage, so they still need to pay them for delivering. I don’t understand how you expect delivery to be the same price as pick up.

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          Domino’s where I am just drop your order at the counter. Does yours have waiters?

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          Domino’s where I am just drop your order at the counter. Does yours have waiters?

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        they get paid like $2/hr when actually out on a delivery, it’s pathetic and is absolutely no reason to justify the fee

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          The people who order delivery must be subsidized by the pick up customers now?

          Because if you pay those wages from the price of the pizza, then everyone is paying for deliveries even if they don’t get pizza delivered.

          Notice nobody said the charge is too much, they immediately didn’t want to pay anything

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            Notice you said something factually wrong, got called out on it, and pivoted to a different argument.

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                  They do, except they have a $5.12 tip allowance

                  If they don’t make $7.25 an hour the employer must pay the difference

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                    Most food delivery people are classified as “independent contractors” and are therefore not subject to minimum wage. This is almost certainly not consistent with federal law but multiple legal challenges have failed due to corrupt judges and captured regulators.