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Domino Pizza tracker

The article is centered around the pizza tracker, but I thought that tracker was fake.

Just for illustrative purposes.

Is it not?

https://www.the-sun.com/money/6927297/dominos-pizza-tracker-...

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My former boss wrote the first version of it when he was working for Crispin-Porter + Bogusky. He claimed that internally Domino's already had the infrastructure for their own telemetry and logistics and putting a python API on top of it to connect to the web was a no-brainer. To hear him tell it, it was his idea. Of course I later worked for a company that was helmed by the former Domino's CEO at that time who claimed it was his idea. Based on the technical backstory I would believe my former boss over the CEO. Of course the existing telemetry at Domino's could be garbage or fake...

That article is basically "they say, they say" argument between two Twitter users, not sure one could come to any conclusion based on that. It's also a The Sun article, FWIW.

I've always thought the tracker was real, at least here in Spain (it looks different than the US one in the article pictures), as it always seems to have changed at different intervals. Could also be just randomized a bit I guess. Long time ago I ordered from Domino anyways.

I'm sure some MBA douche presented the calculation at headquarters to save the money by making it fake, but when it was first released there was a massive campaign showing Domino's workers getting the orders printed out and hitting buttons at various parts of the process that actually did update the tracker.

I'm not sure about Dominos, but the last time I ordered Papa Johns, the pizza tracker had a disclaimer that said it was "for entertainment purposes only, and does not reflect actual events"

> includes the name of the employee baking each pizza

Yikes, I wouldn't put that info online. What's the point?

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