As for the 2 minutes away thing ... if you call at Friday night (and if they're anything like us), then there are probably 40 or 50 deliveries up before yours. Delivery time (first order, first deliver) usually depends on:
a) How many drivers are scheduled
b) How big the delivery area is and how far those runs are spaced out over them
c) How badly traffic sucks
Therefore, even though you may only be a mile away, drivers will be busy taking deliveries to addresses far past your house because they ordered before you.
Not to mention that with business on a Friday night, it can often take 10 to 20 minutes for someone to start *making* your pizza after you ordered it (even if it *is* a double conveyour belt oven).
Either that or they're just slackers. *shrug*
Request your pie to be well-done. They should push it back in a bit longer and make it nice and crispy for ya'.
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We DID request it well-done. There's a permanant note in our file on it. We empahsize it every time we get one. It's still raw dough.
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I don't know. I didn't live in the centre of London when I was 8, and if I did, I can't imagine I'd have ordered many pizzas.
The example I gave was from Walthamstow, which isn't in the city centre. Slap bang in the middle, I don't know. I suppose it depended on whether there was a local delivery place.
I imagine though that in the 80s, there'd have been a fair few less places covered than there are today.
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Yes. It's called a synonym. Something you use when you don't want to just keep repeating the same word over and over again.
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Synonym! Cheers Tim, I've always wanted to know what that was called.
Okay Jeff, listen. I shall break it down for you.
"The example I gave was from Walthamstow, which isn't in the city centre."
Walthamstow isn't in the centre of London. New sentence.
"Slap bang in the middle, I don't know. I suppose it depended on whether there was a local delivery place."
In the centre of London, I do not know what the situation is like.
Got that?
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Ah, 'cuz see, what I thought you were saying was that the pizza place wasn't in the city centre of Walthsmstow, but might've been 'slap bang in the middle' instead.
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Uhh, so let me understand this more easily. You live 2 minutes from a pizza place. You call for a delivery to a place that is 2 minutes away. They typically don't make it for 10-20 minutes after the call. So here's and idea. Call and order a pizza, wait 15 minutes. Drive down and pick it up, that way if it is still raw and uncooked, you can send it back to the oven while you're there. Then drive home. If it is really 2 minutes away then why hve it delivered??
On second thought, citing my previous post, driving is a bad idea. Don't do it.
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Yeah, I worked in a pizza place in Cape Cod one summer *stomach rumbles with the memory*. Anyway, they had that thing the Antagonist described. "Pickups", they were called. I'm sure your pizza place would do it if you asked, as it's less hassle for them too.
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I dont see how people could eat non-delivered pizza.. doesnt seem right somehow
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