If you order delivery from The Forum at the Greenbrier in West Virginia, it shows up in this:
In Montrose CO, Buckaroos Slices and Scoops shares a delivery van with the liquor store next door, House of Spirits.
If you order delivery from The Forum at the Greenbrier in West Virginia, it shows up in this:
In Montrose CO, Buckaroos Slices and Scoops shares a delivery van with the liquor store next door, House of Spirits.
Here in the UK it’s pretty common for pizza delivery places to have their own vehicles. Even some Domino’s have company cars (or, often, scooters), although they do have a lot of drivers using their own vehicles as well.
Ledo’s, my favorite local pizza place here in suburban Chicago, has a similar fleet of small delivery trucks, too:
Ah, Ledo’s! I like ‘em too when I’m out that way — usually when I’m getting some Discount Tires put on down the street.
So, you now know where my favorite pizza place is, as well as where I buy tires.
On this, we will have to disagree.
The Domino’s near me has had a small fleet of delivery cars since 2014. Looks like they were all Nissan Versa’s at first, but come 2021 there’s also a couple of Mazda 3’s, a VW Jetta, and some Toyota Yaris hatchbacks. I thought maybe this was a company-wide thing but after seeing everyone else’s comments I guess maybe it’s just this one franchisee?
Yes, same in Germany. Pizza delivery is mostly confined to larger cities anyway, where it is often done by bike or scooter rather than by car. I have never heard of pizza delivery people using their personal vehicles.
My wife managed a restaurant chain that mainly did pizzas. they decided on getting a delivery vehicle because a lease was cheap, and there was difficulty getting drivers with their own cars. (When my wife had to make a quick delivery in our Audi one time, we got some comments about the upscale delivery vehicle.) The advantage of a lease was that when it got old enough to need serious maintenance, just hand it back. Her chief complaint was that everyone’s car was nobody’s car. She would have to clean it every so often because the drivers didn’t, and one time she found a 4-day-old half-eaten sandwich in the glovebox. Plus of course, like any rental car, people - teenage boys - were less careful about how they drove it.
Pizza Haven (Seattle) used to have company trucks with pizza warmers on the back.
This. Not just pizza places but any business that delivers small ticket items. I don’t know what other businesses are paying these days but…
Beginning on January 1, 2022, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be:
58.5 cents per mile driven for business use, up 2.5 cents from the rate for 2021
One of the niftier ideas in the industry involved robots prepping your pizza and putting ovens on trucks so your pizza cooked while it was on its way to you. 56 ovens on one truck? Zume failed, however. Wish I could have had a taste.
Might the rise of ride sharing services like Uber and Lyft, which brought to light that typical car insurance policies will not cover incidents while driving for said services (including pizza delivery), be a reason people are less willing to take delivery jobs that require using their own car, forcing companies to come up with their own options, even if it’s just the one “company” car?
I delivered for a Pizza Hut store in the 70’s. They provided a red Chevy Chevette for this purpose. It was outfitted with a warming oven powered through the vehicle’s cigarette lighter.
The thing got great gas mileage, but was gutless as hell. I remember flooring the accelerator and still not breaking 25 MPH on steeper grades, other cars passing me like I was standing still.
I remember the pizza tasting better back then too, but perhaps that was just the innocence of youth.
Does Pizza Hut still use their “Pixie Dust” or whatever on their pizzas as seasoning? That’s probably why.
Pizza Hut pizza? Yeah, it tasted better back then. I don’t have any insider information, but it seems the crust got greasier and the sauces got sweeter by the mid-80s. I couldn’t stand them by then.
As far as the money hole that a delivery driver’s car is: I had several friends who made a living as pizza drivers for Pizza Hut and other places. They made it work out financially by purchasing cars specifically for the job, usually for less than the cost of a normal repair bill. A 10 year old car with just enough life left in it to last the year and purchased for $300 was ideal. As long as they gauged it right, they had money to buy the next work car when it finally died.
But, that was ages ago. Cars actually last a lot longer and are more expensive to purchase now. I doubt it would be easy to make that work today.
Close by our old place, a family opened their 2nd combo pizza/ice cream store. The new place came with two very mini cars parked out front painted in store colors for pizza delivery.
One of the cars soon had an exterior door panel broken off. It hung around a bit. Then it disappeared. Then the other car disappeared.
Don’t go into the restaurant business unless you like losing money.