Note I did not buy any food for myself.
To head off questions:
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No, I couldn’t cook for her. I’m suffering from a long-term illness where I can’t eat solid foods and am extremely smell sensitive. My wife is at a funeral, so I had to order food.
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She’s extremely picky and refused to let me order anything but pizza.
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We live outside of town, in a not very big town, with very few pizza delivery options, and they’re all at least this expensive.
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No, I didn’t also have to buy her the cheesy bread or the second topping or the sauces, but it’s nice to get my daughter a treat and that is no excuse for the order being that expensive.
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We’re in Indiana, so this should be ludicrous in terms of pricing. This used to be the pricing I would expect when we lived in L.A. and ordered from a good local place rather than a chain.
Edit: Turns out what I should have been infuriated about is people repeatedly telling me to get takeout and having to repeatedly explain why that wasn’t an option, having people not believe I’m sick, and being repeatedly berated for not magically knowing food coupons exist on the internet when I never order food on the internet. Oh right, and also being a bad parent for not forcing food my daughter doesn’t like down her throat or starving her if she won’t eat it.
By the way, I have another thing to be infuriated about. A huge storm came in and this happened to our trees. I assume I will start being berated for not cutting them down before that happened, but because I have no power or internet at home and have to go to the library to post, your further posts telling me what an idiot I am and how I’m an awful parent and how I’m not really sick will take me a while to read. Sorry to ruin your day. Maybe you’ll find someone else to treat like shit.
Anyway, have fun telling me I’m the worst person on Lemmy, just don’t expect a quick reply.
Oh, and do tell me how stupid I am for not knowing that people who clear up and fix such damage have coupons on their website.
Checked my local good pizza place. Made same pizza, the one you did but med instead. Local place was only $2 more: $17.50 vs $16.
It’s pretty much the same to order delivery from local or nicer places these days rather than the big chains.
Yeah, fast food decided to go for good restaurant prices. Fuck you McDonald’s, if I wanted to pay $25 for a burger and fries there are awesome local joints I can go to that make much better burgers
You fucked up by not using the coupons
Edit: sorry not trying to blame you, you wouldn’t know they do it this way, but they have extra high prices with really good coupons that are always active and can be used over and over. The best is the mix and match for $6.99.
I’m not downloading an app just to buy a pizza. I have 10 local pizza joints in my town of 17,000 people. Stop buying from national chains.
You don’t need the app, you can use the coupon via the web site.
Well duh. But if you only have a certain amount of money the big chain can be your only option, and in that case the coupons are essential.
Edit: also, there’s no reason to download the app besides slightly better tracking of the delivery. Website is still fully functional.
It was $15 for a large (16 inch) pepperoni from a local shop last week here. The shop next door to my apartment has an $18 “King” sized that is 20inches. $21 for a 26x18 field. $6 for cheesy garlic breadNo coupons needed. Extra sauces are $1 instead of 75¢, but they are made in house so i can accept that.
Both are admittedly more expensive than the Marcos 2 doors down from me, and i am not factoring in delivery charges, but not by much and certainly cheaper than what the OP posted here. I might also be lucky because my small college town has a piza shop for nearly ever 1000 residents, so they have to really compete with each other which keeps prices down, and the national chains really struggle against the better local options.
We order dominos kinda regularly. Check their coupons next time. I can tell you that I’ll get a large 5 topping, stuffed cheesy bread and wings for that price or cheaper. And I’m your friendly neighbor to the west, not in a major or midsized area.
This is pretty much true of any of the large pizza chains. Watch the specials, use coupons, take advantage of discounts for things like ordering through the app or texting (because reasons). It’s dumb, but you have to play their game to get a decent price.
That said, I can’t fault OP at all. Trying to grab a quick meal for a kid means you can’t spend the time to piss around and try to get a better deal.
people who pay full price for corporate pizzas and complain about it are hilarious.
you obviously have internet access. there is no excuse to pay so much. Use their website. Install their app. Even in the 90s pre-internet there were an endless supply of flyer-coupons/discounts.
Full price is a tax on stupid, gullible or the lazy. You paid the lazy tax. 🤷♂️
That all said: yes, the lazy tax / full price prices are insane. I have no idea why anyone would pay them, especially with the difference coupons makes.
also: 1) tipping is a good thing to do 2) if you can’t afford to tip, don’t tip. If you can, do. I don’t factor BS into prices and complaints.
Apologies for being stupid, gullible and lazy for something I almost never do and haven’t done in years. Clearly I should keep abreast with the latest pizza ordering trends.
Also, I used the internet to order the pizza, but I sure as hell am not installing their app.
And I did tip them and I can afford it and I wasn’t complaining about the tip. Why would I have tipped 20% if I had a problem with tipping?
It’s like you didn’t read anything I wrote. I’m surprised you didn’t tell me I should have gotten carry out.
and to bring up another reading failure on your part (geezus, squid), I didn’t say “use the internet” I said “website”. website or app, two different options. I didn’t you should order both from the website (internet?) AND the app (there’s those faulty logic operators again). Either option - one of which you used - would have had vouchers/coupons on banner ads around the page. Bundles listed in with the normal menu. And so on.
But mostly I’m facepalming for you having misread almost every single line in my comment - and then whining about ME not reading. 🤦♂️ ffs, squid.
but seriously - given you basically live on the internet these days, what was your excuse for not spending 30 seconds to get a coupon code to put into the website?
My lack of knowledge that they exist?
I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don’t usually do.
youre trying to tell us that you didn’t know coupons exist? Come on.
this is on you.
yes, full price is insanely expensive, but the fact that anyone would ever pay it - and be in a situation where paying it is worthy of a complaint - is insane.
You were lazy and you paid the lazy tax. You want to call yourself “and” stupid, sure, whatever. But call a spade a spade. Own your mistake and don’t blame Domino’s.
Internet coupons? No, I have never heard of such a thing. Amazon sure doesn’t offer them. NewEgg doesn’t offer them. eBay doesn’t offer them. Threadless doesn’t offer them. I don’t buy from anyone else.
I know that you all think I’m supposed to know how to order food from the Internet properly with no one telling me about it. I just want to know how you all think I was supposed to know without anyone telling me.
Now I’m confused if you’re being sarcastic or not. Do you think those sites don’t offer coupons? (because they do)
I don’t know how many times I have to say I never order food on the Internet, but I still never order food on the Internet Internet. Somehow, I was supposed to find out how to order food on the Internet cheaper by osmosis. That’s what you all seem to be telling me. The weird thing is, none of you seem to be saying that Domino’s is charging too much and then charging people less if they use a coupon, when they could just charge everyone less to begin with.
I said “or”, not “and”, but if you want to claim all 3, that’s up to you.
I didn’t suggest you had a problem with tipping. You suggested you had a problem with paying too much overall, and included the tip as part of your rant.
Not particularly helpful for you, but this seemed like the thread to chime in with that in general with pizza, it’s always MUCH better to go big. Pi*r2, folks. A single 14" Dominos is already pretty much identical to two 10" mediums, and that’s only if you like to eat the crust. Always do your math by dollars per area, not diameter.
absolutely. not only that, but it’s even worse once you factor in the crust::body& topping ratio.
smaller pizzas have more crust area to topping area. So if you like dry bread, get smaller pizzas. If you like sauce and cheese, get a larger pizza.
Did you order online?
Did you ignore the deal they shove in your face as soon as you visit the website that would have made the order much cheaper?
Lol you’re surprised at this? Don’t come to Canada, your eyeballs will fall out of your sockets. I would have sent her money to go buy groceries instead.
Then look at the price before confirming doofus
OP is not complaining about accidentally buying something without checking the price. OP is very clearly complaining about insane inflation, which I will argue is completely manufactured by corporations, therefore warranting complaints from OP and the rest of us.
The appropriate tip for delivery is based on mileage, not food price. $1 per mile from the store, minimum $3 tip. $8 on a $20 order is a garbage tip if it’s a 10-mile delivery to a fourth-floor walkup. $4 on a $70 order might be a decent tip if it’s a 1-mile delivery to a front porch.
That’s crazy… I can get more than 3 times as much food from Domino’s in a HCOL area for less money just by paying attention to the online deals and picking it up instead of delivery.
You tipped 20%? If that’s the case they’re calculating the tip on the taxes and delivery charge as well
It could be the “haven’t been able to eat solid foods myself in over a month”, but this post just reminded me of my favorite order from dominos that’d usually cover me for a couple nights
Cheesy breadsticks and a large thincrust with fixins, and now I’m doing the Homer Simpson drool, yes it was garbage pizza but it was good tasting garbage pizza to a lonely college student!
Almost a year, not over a month. Well, technically that’s over a month, but yeah, it sucks not being able to eat when food is one of the most important things in pretty much every culture (unsurprisingly). You literally cannot escape food. It’s everywhere. Restaurants, supermarkets, billboards, you name it. And when you can’t eat it, it’s just torture. Especially if you really want to eat it, which I do.
I’ve started craving nostalgic foods for myself as a coping mechanism, for me it’s being unable to keep anything down save for like 2 things consistently
I hope you come out of the other side of that, and I’ll bring you a pizza myself.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pizza place sell small pizzas for a decent value. They price them to not sell. I’m guessing because they aren’t as predictable for the amount of volume you might need.
It wouldn’t have been cheaper to go for bigger (ignoring deals), but it wouldn’t have been much more and you’d have leftover pizza for lunch the next day.
Damn, that’s lame! Domino’s used to be cheaper than Pizza Hut and decent pizza. I’d be annoyed too. If not for the sensitivity to food smells, you’d have saved money!
