How is it that back in the day, they didn't have delivery fees for pizza?

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spanky1
09/30/2022
11:01 PM
#1
When I was younger, and even fairly recently, there actually was no delivery fee. You paid for the pizza, and then you tipped the delivery driver a tip. That was it.

Now, Dominos has a 5 dollars delivery fee. And then you're expected to tip on top of that. So a ten dollar pizza actually costs you twenty. Where does that delivery fee go? What's it for?

How did these businesses thrive when there was no delivery fee, but now they need one to stay in business?
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ArchNemo
09/30/2022
11:05 PM
#2
I definitely don't remember there ever not being delivery fees.
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Umbreon
09/30/2022
11:07 PM
#3
Don't forget the service fee on top of that. Which apparently doesn't cover for whatever the delivery fee is supposed to be.

Plus tax.
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VampireCoyote
09/30/2022
11:08 PM
#4
ArchNemo posted...
I definitely don't remember there ever not being delivery fees.

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XxKrazyChaosxX
09/30/2022
11:08 PM
#5
Keep the delivery fee, you filthy animal.
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Spurner
09/30/2022
11:11 PM
#6
Not only no delivery fee, but back in the day, Dominos was free if they didnt get it to you in 30 minutes or less (area restrictions applied). That didnt last and it became a discount if they were late. Not sure when that disappeared.
Rain_Dust
09/30/2022
11:11 PM
#7
In the 90s there was 100% no delivery fee.
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Jennywentnorth8
09/30/2022
11:16 PM
#8
Yeah I don't think my local Pizza Hut did delivery fees until like mid 2000's
SiO4
09/30/2022
11:36 PM
#9
Ya, this has become one of the Covid things.
Almost no one around here charged a delivery fee until recently.
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cjsdowg
09/30/2022
11:39 PM
#10
Spurner posted...
Not only no delivery fee, but back in the day, Dominos was free if they didnt get it to you in 30 minutes or less (area restrictions applied). That didnt last and it became a discount if they were late. Not sure when that disappeared.

When people started to die because of it.
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TetsuoS2
09/30/2022
11:41 PM
#11
unoptimized part of taking money from people basically.

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Imit8m3
09/30/2022
11:43 PM
#12
Greed.
The corporations are full of greed.
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Lord_Ephraim
09/30/2022
11:51 PM
#13
The delivery fees was a GrubHub/DoorDash thing. When pizza delivery businesses saw this, they realized they could get away with it too. Now it's almost $20 cheaper to do carryout for pizza. No fees plus deals for carryout. This is how Little Caesar's got away with $5 for their hot and ready takeout. Even if their pizza wasn't that good, it was cheap and edible.
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Jennywentnorth8
09/30/2022
11:59 PM
#14
Lord_Ephraim posted...
The delivery fees was a GrubHub/DoorDash thing. When pizza delivery businesses saw this, they realized they could get away with it too. Now it's almost $20 cheaper to do carryout for pizza. No fees plus deals for carryout. This is how Little Caesar's got away with $5 for their hot and ready takeout. Even if their pizza wasn't that good, it was cheap and edible.


Yep literally pulled the exact same thing that Sony and Nintendo did when they saw all the free money Microsoft was still making off of xbox live subscriptions.
hexa
10/01/2022
12:07 AM
#15
Spurner posted...
Not only no delivery fee, but back in the day, Dominos was free if they didnt get it to you in 30 minutes or less (area restrictions applied). That didnt last and it became a discount if they were late. Not sure when that disappeared.

The Domino's delivery drivers kept getting into car accidents trying to reach the houses within 30 minutes. Domino's got sued over it by people that were hit by Domino's drivers. So Domino's stopped doing it
thx1138
10/01/2022
12:09 AM
#16
The fine print says tip drivers because drivers dont keep the delivery fee for themselves, what greedy coporate nonsense is this?
WilliamPorygon
10/01/2022
12:20 AM
#17
It's because over the past 20-30 years corporations have developed a mindset that customers are just cows to milk for every drop of money they have
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fhqwhgads
10/01/2022
12:21 AM
#18
ArchNemo posted...
I definitely don't remember there ever not being delivery fees.
Really? Pretty standard for pizza and Chinese.
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Mistere_Man
10/01/2022
12:31 AM
#19
Because gas was like $1 a gallon then.
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Umbreon
10/01/2022
12:31 AM
#20
thx1138 posted...
The fine print says tip drivers because drivers dont keep the delivery fee for themselves, what greedy coporate nonsense is this?


Tipping culture in America teaches you to blame the customer instead of the company that's fucking you.
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TerraSeeker
10/01/2022
12:36 AM
#21
ArchNemo posted...
I definitely don't remember there ever not being delivery fees.
Me neither, but I never ordered delivery. I did work as a driver though.
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Compsognathus
10/01/2022
12:53 AM
#22
I can't speak to before the mid-2000s, as I wasn't ordering much delivery before then, but I remember most major chains had a delivery fee then.
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GuerrillaSoldier
10/01/2022
12:56 AM
#23
no competition
you couldn't order anything that didn't take forever besides pizza

this was up until amazon and then grubhub
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spanky1
10/01/2022
03:23 PM
#24
Bump
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MabusIncarnate
10/01/2022
03:26 PM
#25
Back in the day we didnt have internet to constantly cry on

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