[coredog64]

Having been a pizza delivery driver, the $1 delivery fee doesn’t track. That assumes 5 deliveries per hour, or only 12 minutes per delivery. There’s transit time to and from the store plus handoff at both ends. If you live more than 5 minutes from the store, no pizza for you.

When I was delivering pizza, it was usually 30 minutes allotted for delivery: 15 minutes to make the pizza, and 15 minutes to get it into the customer’s hands. With transit time, I would have been doing good to get 2 deliveries an hour.

[mcphage]

> I would have been doing good to get 2 deliveries an hour.

You didn't deliver multiple pizzas on a single trip?

[coredog64]

Not to multiple addresses, no. It would only have happened for multiple pizzas to the same address. Having said that, I think it’s probably not the logistics win that it looks like. Unless two orders in the same area come in at essentially the same instant, your orders a buffering. It’s a coin flip if the closer address is for the first order, so there’s a cap on how long you can wait for the buffer to fill without breaching the SLA. And even nearby as the crow flies might not be nearby in a continuous trip (E.g. in my neighborhood, there’s only a short distance on a major street, and the rest is low speed streets with speed bumps).