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I order Domino's around once a month. The reason I order them is because they're incredibly cheap ($8 medium pies with 3 toppings, at least half the price of local pizza shops), ease of use (online purchase is seamless), tracking (you can see the stage it is in) and consistency. Pizza to me is more or less a commodity product as I'm sure it is with a lot of Americans

All of these reasons are driven by technology. The process is automated so it runs very efficiently and with minimal human intervention. No person has to constantly be opening the oven to see the progress being made, which lowers the temperature of the oven and leads to inconsistency, and takes longer. The app is nice and most importantly the product is consistent. I think once I got received a pizza with a missing topping, but didn't follow up on it.

Until the pandemic happened I would order from Dominos every time their email list sent me a notification that there was a deal for a large 2 topping pizza under $7 with in-store pickup. That was about once every 2 months. Nothing mattered except the price.

When the pandemic started I stopped eating food prepared and handled by random people. I am surprised to see in these threads that so many people started ordering food prepared and handled by other people.

The prevailing risk of infection is from respiratory droplets. There's probably some limited fecal-oral transmission, but nowhere near as much as airborne.

Mucosal tissues are mucosal tissues. It doesn't really matter if you get it on them from a respiratory droplet that is temporarily in the air or one that has landed on your food.

But I agree. Surface contamination is a much lesser issue. And one I think it still makes sense to pay attention to.

Somehow my $8 pizza always ends up $20

it's the chocolate lava cake

Taxes, delivery fees, and tips will add another $7 even without sides or extras.

Maybe, if you can find a place that will deliver you a more-or-less similar quality pizza without the delivery fee, tax, or tip. But you can't. Yeah you can pick up a $10 pizza from a mom & pop that will arguably be better pizza, but nobody orders Dominoes for good pizza, they order it for consistency and convenience.

If you compare apples to apples you're paying $8 for a reasonably acceptable pizza.

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