Online Pizza Wars
from the oh-yeah,-take-that! dept
We've made fun of the idea of a pizza portal for ordering pizza online (twice actually - not counting making fun of the ability to order pizza wirelessly). However, it appears to be a popular concept. Papa Johns Pizza is now advertising that they are the first pizza place to have all of their pizza places online. Other pizza places let you order online - but not from all their shops. Who said e-commerce wasn't going anywhere?
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It is a good idea
Of course the web site should be "done right", just like a pizza should be done right, but to me ordering on line is a good idea.
If I visit the web site I can see all the specials, the options and I probably won't be placed on hold as could be had I telephoned in the order.
As to market share. My city has a population of 1.5 million and most of the big pizza chains utilize commercial kitchens to prepare delivery orders. True, a web based ordering system probably wouldn't be viable for the small operation.
However, pizza from the big chains usually suck when compared to the small neighborhood businesses.
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Didn't Sun have this...
...I believe it was called pizzatool.
A friend who worked at their Mt. View facilities used it to order pizza for those late night coding fits in the mid 80's.
I believe that it interfaced to FAX, so the local pizza joint didn't need to have any special equipment or technology (no web page ecommerce database back-end required).
...you know, it's amazing just how much the past gets reinvented every day.
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