The Good Pizza Runs on Fast Wheels, is an opinion article about delicious pizza.
Pizza is a wonder food. Yes, it’s also wonderful, but it’s a wonder food first. There’s a touch of affection for this delicious creation and it’s ability to become anyone’s any kind of favorite, with just one pass through a piping hot pizza oven.
Pizza also travels. That’s another reason why it’s a wonder! There are heat bags designed to keep pizza nice and hot while it journeys. Pizza has a given route from the oven to the table, no matter the distance. There is every good reason to consider pizza a super food.
It would take a lot of cyber paper to list all the possible combinations that a pizza can do. Pizza also has another distinction that gets overlooked from time to time. It’s a distinction that helped form an entire market, that still runs strong. Pizza is a pioneer. With all this great stuff about pizza, one might wonder if pizza love is the only thing this post is about.
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It would be exciting and fun to make this article all about pizza and it’s deliciousness. It is swiftly moving in that direction, which makes this a good spot to shift gears. Shifting gears is a part of pizza delivery, and delivery is a part of this article. It all began in 1889 with the first pizza delivery, but we won’t need to go that far back to talk about delivery. Let’s try the late 80’s in the 1900’s, and see where that leads.
It was in the late 80’s that Domino’s began a marketing campaign to deliver hot fresh food in thirty minutes or less. This strategy was a hit, and people were very happy to have hot fresh food delivered to their homes with a guaranteed delivery time. As that concept gained in popularity, pizza delivery became mainstream. Now it is decades later, and the delivery market has grown to include almost every kind of merchant. And pizza, of course.
The concept of speedy delivery is still an active part of hot food deliveries. Solo drivers that use one or more delivery apps are familiar with pick up times, drop off times, and all the rest. There is a set time for each step of the delivery process, and though the consequences of missing some of these times isn’t severe, it’s still frowned upon. Both professionally and in the numbers. The thing about numbers is they add up over time.
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As a courier, having a sense of urgency while on a delivery, is unavoidable. Especially if the cargo is a piping hot pizza. That sense of urgency keeps the wheels moving and the cargo arriving on time and hot and fresh! Delivery apps have set times for each part of a delivery offer. These are coordinated with merchants and yield an overall estimate for delivery to the customer. It’s that last part that matters to the courier.
We’ve come a long way from the days of thirty minutes or less. That marketing idea was great and effective but the safety of drivers and the public became a more important priority, and technology was there to lend a helping hand. Pizza ovens became much faster and more efficient, ordering systems expanded and became more dynamic. Many of these advancements greatly expedited the time it takes to get a hot fresh pizza on the road.
Once on the road, the courier handles the rest. Experienced couriers know the shortest distance between two points is a straight line and they seek that straight line in each run. An experienced courier will typically have the delivery route selected before arrival to retrieve the cargo. A combination of these techniques and a few others delivers the best overall delivery times. Jack rabbit starts and extreme speeds not necessary. And hot, fresh food arriving on time, is a mission accomplished.
