pizza prices

From: cynicoid 5 Feb 2014 05:36
To: ALL1 of 27
Whilst waiting for my Dominos 2 for 1 to arrive and cursing because I swore I'd never pay their over inflated prices again (even when it's half price) I thought I'd have a look at prices in the US.

I paid £17.99 for my pizza, from Dominos US the same one costs £9.80 !

I knew there would be a price difference because of varying overheads, cost of ingredients etc. but the prices aren't even close. How come they can sell the same pizza in the US for half the price they do here, it's not the same with other products, although cheaper in general there's not such a huge difference.

I wonder if there's a list somewhere that shows the prices for Dominos around the world, I know that a McD's costs roughly the same wherever you go and is based on the US$, so what costs $1 at McD's in the US costs the equivalent of $1 everywhere else (with one or two exceptions, third world countries etc.).
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 5 Feb 2014 06:19
To: cynicoid 2 of 27
I blame the feds.
From: Radio 5 Feb 2014 06:34
To: cynicoid 3 of 27
Minimum wage? What does a dominos employee in the us make?
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 5 Feb 2014 08:29
To: Radio 4 of 27
Depends on what they do.  I delivered for them 100 years ago.  It was minimum wage plus tips.  I can't imagine anyone other than the manager making anything over minimum though. 
From: koswix 5 Feb 2014 09:02
To: cynicoid 5 of 27
Tax?
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 5 Feb 2014 09:11
To: koswix 6 of 27
Real ingredients? 
From: JonCooper 5 Feb 2014 11:46
To: ALL7 of 27
fuel costs? not just for delivery, but collecting/distributing ingredients?

From: Gobfounded (YVE) 5 Feb 2014 15:53
To: cynicoid 8 of 27
Either way, it's a lot of money for glorified bread and cheese, plus a tiny bit of other stuff.
From: koswix 5 Feb 2014 19:57
To: Gobfounded (YVE) 9 of 27
And it tastes like ass.
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 5 Feb 2014 21:23
To: Radio 10 of 27
quote: Radio
What does a dominos employee in the us make?

Pizza! ROFFLE

IGMC

From: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 5 Feb 2014 21:38
To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 11 of 27
Ha!  (highfive)
From: milko 5 Feb 2014 21:53
To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 12 of 27
And what's a Greek urn?
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 5 Feb 2014 22:20
To: milko 13 of 27
Jamaica?
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 6 Feb 2014 09:53
To: milko 14 of 27
A receptacle for flowers, ashes, and the like. In Greece, or of Greek origin.
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 6 Feb 2014 09:54
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 15 of 27
No, she flew.
From: DeannaG (CYBATRON) 8 Feb 2014 22:23
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 16 of 27
Around here it's still minimum wage plus tips.

I know two kids headed for college working for them. They're trying to help their parents with future school expenses. Nice kids. There are many who wouldn't even think about helping, let alone actually do it.
From: DeannaG (CYBATRON) 8 Feb 2014 22:24
To: Gobfounded (YVE) 17 of 27
My old man does his own. It's no more expensive, it tastes better, and we actually know what is in it.
From: koswix 8 Feb 2014 23:01
To: ALL18 of 27
We had a Domino's tonight because the weather is miserable and I'm too bloody knackered to even contemplate looking in the freezer, never mind cook of defrost something. Sadly Domino's is the only place that delivers to us :(

Think the box must have been carried vertically or something, but after we managed to seperate out the differen't pieces it looked like this:

https://twitter.com/benalderson/status/432217237425242112/photo/1

Still tasted like ass, but at least is was (kind of) warm and stopped me being hungry.
From: Chris (CHRISSS) 8 Feb 2014 23:20
To: koswix 19 of 27
I think I'm pretty lucky with the Dominos near us. I can't say I've ever had a bad pizza from there, in fact I find them pretty yummy. I never get delivered cos they always have a BOGOF offer on collections. Still expensive then.

I've also had pizzas from a couple of other Dominos and have had mixed results. Overcooked or just not so good.
From: koswix 8 Feb 2014 23:30
To: Chris (CHRISSS) 20 of 27
I find them quite greasy, salty and (not sure how they manage it with the first two) tasteless.

But they fill a hole and they deliver :$

Ten quid for a large pizza delivered to your door is just about acceptable if the circumstances are right.