Er, um, you promised to ‘Crush’ a ‘bitch’ at the door, for giving you any ‘lip’!
But all anyone is talking about here is the square footage of the pizza, and if it’s a good deal?
The Dope never disappoints. (Unless you’re a woman, then, always!)
I don’t order pizza often, but when I do, it’s for a family of 6, and much more food than 2 mediums. From Dominos. I have never had smooshed toppings to my recollection, and they only take one trip.
It really seems like your anger is misplaced. While I agree with other posters that you’re probably “doing it wrong”, you should not fault the customer for getting the best deal. Maybe the company for offering the deal, but not the customer.
In either case, I do not think you have the proper temperament for this job.
Far too late to change it but you’re right. I *2 instead of ^2. :smack:
No, they don’t. A typical order might be two medium pizzas, a couple pastas, and a couple miscellaneous items. My drivers have been extremely careful to keep the insulated containers level and slide the items out with caution. Everything is always perfect (physically, that is).
So it’s already been proven that doing the 2 mediums special deal is an optimal strategy for dollar-for-sq-inch of pizza, which makes sense since that’s the whole reason it’s a promotion
As for the problem of the boxes sliding inside delivery sleeves, that’s not on the customer but on the management
And as for the problem of toppings getting smushed by the box due to stacking boxes on top of each other… Isn’t that why those little tables were invented like 30 years ago?
If one isn’t enough for some reason, due to the size of the pizza or stiffness of the box or number of pizzas being stacked… Just put a few more of them in there to distribute the load.
That would be on whoever is packing the pizzas.
And finally, if everybody is ordering these “2 mediums” deals and complaining about smushed toppings, it should only come back to you as a problem if your deliveries get more complaints than anybody else, which we don’t know if that’s true. Maybe there IS something about how you do it that makes this more likely. Are you delivering these on a motorcycle by sitting on top of a stack of pizza boxes?
Nah, people have called out the threats of violence too. But there’s only so much you can say about that, and it’s probably best for the board culture that such rhetoric doesn’t immediately inspire 10,000 response posts. OP certainly needs to get a grip, but the most entertaining part of this thread is how amazingly and objectively wrong he is about the product he delivers. I mean, good God, can you imagine handling 12 and 14 inch pizzas all the live long day and thinking one of the latter is equal to two of the former? This is even better than when Sammy Sosa tried to pretend he didn’t know the bat was corked!
Cake r square!
So I take it people are just not supposed to have parties? If I’m ordering pizza for a half dozen people, two mediums are probably a better way to go, unless everyone just so HAPPENS to enjoy the exact same toppings. Doubtful. And I’d rather have two pizzas to choose from than worry about all that olives on one have, mushrooms and pepperoni on the other bullshit.
This seems like an incredibly petty thing to complain about. I get having a minor frustration, but it sounds like your beef is more with Dominos than the customers.
I have never heard this before… my son will appreciate it when I share tonight!
Next topic:
“Want to really piss me off as a dominos driver? Place an order that requires change…”
We are all missing the big picture here: shouldn’t it be “two media pizza?”
Something they actually flog constantly in their ads, if I recall half-listening to them correctly. 
We have local ‘real’ little pizza places where I live (though you could also get Domino’s etc but farther away). Large pies are simpler, and those places don’t necessarily give you more for your money with medium specials.
Funny thread though, not only the (albeit complete chain yank, possibly, I hope so) OP theme but the math trouble. Sheds some light on whether stuff like basic geometry (which I guess a fairly small % of Americans could do right, especially without Googling it) is really so useless.
But the Medium is the message…
Nearest Domino’s is a half-hour away down in the county seat. Only UPS and DeFex (aka FedEx) deliver on our dirt track and I doubt they haul food orders. No delivery drones yet. For pizza we turn on the oven, phone the local bake-your-own pizza shack just five minutes away, order, get dressed, hand over a $20 at the drive-thru window for a giant that’s two dinners for two old farts, maybe stop at the market next door for a quart of Miller’s High Life, return home, slide pizza into oven, wait a bit, and feast. Easy-peasy.
Bears have left hibernation and are rummaging trash cans. We leave no pizza scraps. Sorry, bears.
Why would the delivery person be upset carrying two mediums? There should be no surprises.
Those were standard when I was a kid in the 1980s. I haven’t seen one in the wild in years.
They still use them. I’ve had pizzas delivered from Domino’s and Pizza Hut, and there’s always a pizza saver in the box.
I’ve never seen one on a Dominos Pizza; they changed the boxes to that octagonal shape, which was supposed to keep the pizza warmer and prevent the lid sagging onto the toppings.
I think a lot of folks in this thread are talking past the OP, to some extent. Most of the posters seem to think that Asuka is saying that the tops of the pizza are being smushed when he delivers them (which a spacer or the octagonal pizza box design would prevent). I think what he’s saying is that the sides are being smushed, due to the following.
Domino’s, like other chains, uses a fabric bag with a reflective interior to transport pizzas and hold in the heat. Drivers aren’t issued bags sized for the specific order; they get a one-size-fits-all bag, which means it needs to be big enough to fit the largest item on the menu (X-Large Pizza), which means that medium pizzas have a significant gap between the box and the sides of the bag, which means that they have significant room to slide around in transit. And the reflective material inside the bag doesn’t provide much friction. And the pizzas themselves are smaller than the box they are transported in, so if the box slides around, the pizza may slide around inside the box. The end result, is that by the time the pizza gets to the door, it has often slide around so much and so violently that it’s smushed up against the side of the box. Whereas a large pizza box fits much more snugly in the transport bag, so it doesn’t slide much if at all during transport, so large pizzas typically arrive un-smushed.
Is that right, Asuka?
All of that being said…I’ve been ordering pizza for decades. I won’t swear that this has never happened to any of my pizzas, but I don’t remember it ever having happened. It’s certainly not a routine occurence. I frequently order non-pizza items that come in even smaller boxes, and I don’t ever remember getting them in a condition that indicated they had been flung around inside the transport pouch. A couple of weeks ago, some friends and I ordered multiple medium pizzas, pasta, breadsticks, and a sandwich from Domino’s. Multiple different box sizes, all medium-pizza-size or smaller, and all arrived in perfectly good order.
I’m having trouble envisioning the maneuvers the OP would have to be undertaking to produce the results he’s complaining about.