# Want to piss me off as a dominos driver? Order 2 mediums... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355 "2020-03-12T18:44:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/41 "2020-03-12T21:24:07Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I can’t believe I still remember this almost 4 decades later: Always put the smaller box on the bottom. Makes sense! Glad that training stuck with you. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/42 "2020-03-12T21:40:20Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > The medium boxes slide in the pizza sleeve. I can’t hold onto them when driving. The sleeves are made for large boxes. Turn the sleeve on its side, then the boxes won’t slide around anymore. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/43 "2020-03-12T22:09:05Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > this is one-time you’re going to be told to “suck it up buttercup” because dominos has had that deal for 11 years (it was a response to the recession in 08) and isn’t going anywhere anytime soon and it’s what pretty much keeps them in the delivery business I left Dominos in 1991 and we had that deal then. Back then, the chief issue was people ordering one pizza, then seeing the deal printed on the box and complaining that no one told them (except that we said it every single time we answered the phone). As far as the OP’s issue, it’s definitely driver error. Back then we had one driver that was source of all the store’s complaints about damaged pizzas as far as smashed, toppings slid off, etc. She was simply too ham-handed with them. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/44 "2020-03-12T22:15:38Z")
Yeah, there was always that driver who carried the bag with one hand and their hip instead of both hands or didn’t do anything to ameliorate the slope of their front seat. (Why do I still remember this crap…?” ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/45 "2020-03-12T22:15:59Z")
People doing the math are doing it wrong. It’s not just the area, it’s the crust to topping ratio. On a larger pizza you get more toppable area and less overall crust, with a smaller pizza more crust. That is the reason I hate those personal sized pizza, not only do they charge more for that over slices, but you end up eating a lot more crust and getting less toppings. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/46 "2020-03-12T22:27:48Z")
For a cylinder of height (altitude) a, and radius z, the volume is pizza ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/47 "2020-03-12T22:28:27Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > People doing the math are doing it wrong. It’s not just the area, it’s the crust to topping ratio. On a larger pizza you get more toppable area and less overall crust, with a smaller pizza more crust… Adjust the math to 11” and 15” to eliminate the crust, then. There may be a greater ratio of crust but you still get more toppings with two mediums. Order a medium and large pepperoni pizza and count the slices of pepperoni. Medium is about 30 and large is barely 10 more than that. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/48 "2020-03-12T22:39:53Z")
OK, assume that the crust is an inch thick (which is probably an overestimate, but it makes the math easier). That means that a 12" medium actually has toppings 10" in diameter, and a 14" large actually has toppings 12" in diameter. So even if you’re discarding the crust entirely, a large is still only 72% the size of two smalls. Even the 16" X-Large, with a 14" topping diameter, would be slightly smaller (by about 2%) than the two mediums. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/49 "2020-03-12T22:57:55Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > …instead of 1 large. These dumbasses do it all the time because of a 2 for 5.99 deal. So i have to carry two medium sized boxes that shift in the pizza warmer box and sometimes get smashed making the toppings come off the pizza. Then these moronic bitches call the store to complain because they know I would crush them if they gave me lip at their door. > > Just order a large pizza and do half toppings on one side, half on the other. It’s not rocket science and it’s easier to deliver. So you’re pissed off because someone calls your place of employment, and orders something that’s actually on the menu, and you don’t approve, because you actually have to do your job and deliver it, in reasonably decent shape? And for some reason carrying two pizza boxes is more than you can handle, so you deliver the food in bad shape? And then the buyers complain to your management, because they pick up on your violent vibe (you say they know you would “crush them if they gave you lip”). The nerve! You really should find a different line of work, because obviously you’re not up to delivering pizza. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/50 "2020-03-12T23:00:03Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > People doing the math are doing it wrong. No, we’re not. And some of us actually like a good bit of crust on our pizza. Regardless, the difference still is on the side of two medium pizzas, given the math above. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/51 "2020-03-12T23:54:04Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > People doing the math are doing it wrong. Totally irrelevant. If I want two mediums, and the company offers them I should be able to get them, and get them in one piece without a bunch of grief and cry-babying from a lifer delivery boy. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/52 "2020-03-13T00:39:05Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Totally irrelevant. If I want two mediums, and the company offers them I should be able to get them, and get them in one piece without a bunch of grief and cry-babying from a lifer delivery boy. See my link in post #27. He wasn’t a delivery boy in 2016. I’m kinda skeptical that he is one now. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/53 "2020-03-13T01:21:25Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > See my link in post #27. He wasn’t a delivery boy in 2016. I’m kinda skeptical that he is one now. Hmm. Ok then. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/54 "2020-03-13T02:27:35Z")
I ordered two mediums once. It didn’t make the seance any better. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/55 "2020-03-13T03:54:45Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > … Then these moronic bitches call the store to complain because they know I would crush them if they gave me lip at their door. (Snipped) So the customers know when you hand it over that you’ve messed up their dinner? Do people usually take the pizza and flip the box open right then and there? Maybe I do it wrong but I’ve never done that. I don’t know how else they could be giving you lip at the door for smooshing their pizzas. But I sincerely hope you don’t live near me, but maybe I should avoid Domino’s just in case. I wouldnt want someone I “know would crush” me knowing where I live. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/56 "2020-03-13T04:07:03Z")
I think I have rarely seen a poster commit quite such a pathetic self-own. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/57 "2020-03-13T04:48:28Z")
It’s the worst self-own since the Galaxy Note 6! ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/58 "2020-03-13T05:04:42Z")
Measure the size by the diameter of the topping. Seven-inch topping (10 inch crust) is half the size of a ten-inch topping (13 inch crust). So two pies in 10-in boxes have equal topping to one in a 13-inch box. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/59 "2020-03-13T07:14:25Z")
OP could be replaced by a delivery drone. Less angst. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355/60 "2020-03-13T08:49:34Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > See my link in post #27. He wasn’t a delivery boy in 2016. I’m kinda skeptical that he is one now. You’re right, the Trump economy is so amazing everyone is actually employed in white collar jobs now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-piss-me-off-as-a-dominos-driver-order-2-mediums/849355.md?page=4)