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I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

Note I did not buy any food for myself.

To head off questions:

  1. No, I couldn't cook for her. I'm suffering from a long-term illness where I can't eat solid foods and am extremely smell sensitive. My wife is at a funeral, so I had to order food.

  2. She's extremely picky and refused to let me order anything but pizza.

  3. We live outside of town, in a not very big town, with very few pizza delivery options, and they're all at least this expensive.

  4. No, I didn't also have to buy her the cheesy bread or the second topping or the sauces, but it's nice to get my daughter a treat and that is no excuse for the order being that expensive.

  5. We're in Indiana, so this should be ludicrous in terms of pricing. This used to be the pricing I would expect when we lived in L.A. and ordered from a good local place rather than a chain.

Edit: Turns out what I should have been infuriated about is people repeatedly telling me to get takeout and having to repeatedly explain why that wasn't an option, having people not believe I'm sick, and being repeatedly berated for not magically knowing food coupons exist on the internet when I never order food on the internet. Oh right, and also being a bad parent for not forcing food my daughter doesn't like down her throat or starving her if she won't eat it.

By the way, I have another thing to be infuriated about. A huge storm came in and this happened to our trees. I assume I will start being berated for not cutting them down before that happened, but because I have no power or internet at home and have to go to the library to post, your further posts telling me what an idiot I am and how I'm an awful parent and how I'm not really sick will take me a while to read. Sorry to ruin your day. Maybe you'll find someone else to treat like shit.

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Anyway, have fun telling me I'm the worst person on Lemmy, just don't expect a quick reply.

Oh, and do tell me how stupid I am for not knowing that people who clear up and fix such damage have coupons on their website.

OsrsNeedsF2P , (edited )

She's extremely picky and refused to let me order anything but pizza.

Lol, with attitude like that she'll be a delightful adult

Edit: I'll accept these downvotes. So far all the replies have been "well I let my kid do whatever they want, whatcouldgowrong.jpg"

Eheran ,

Hahaha, let me ask my toddler if he wants salad or chocolate.

TheMinions ,

Haha my son ironically hates both of these things. He would choose to eat air in his room.

neomachino ,

This is why whenever my toddler asks for Mac and cheese I give him a dry salad. Gotta build that character.

thefartographer ,

Mmmm... Garden droppings

FlyingSquid OP ,
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You don't have children, do you? She had the option of Pizza, Jimmy John's, Chinese or nothing. She said no Jimmy John's or Chinese.

Edit: I suppose technically I could have used Uber Eats or whatever, but that's even pricier.

natecox ,
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It’s crazy that you went way out of your way to placate the internet assholes and they still found something to be insufferable about.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Yeah, gotta love it.

natecox ,
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I just take it as an opportunity to block people these days. “You gave your kid pizza so you’re a shit lazy parent and no mitigating factor will be considered” is a pretty clear indicator that they don’t need any openings into my attention span lol.

Eheran ,

Nobody said that? Why make stuff up? People here talk about the pickiness being the issue. Children are picky unless you put the effort in to change that (most of the time, some just eat everything). It just sounded odd the way OP said it. If there were 3 options and the kid chooses one I would not call that picky to begin with.

thefartographer ,

You don't have children, do you?

I'm not sure that person has ever seen a child

PhlubbaDubba ,

Look man, picky eating is way more complicated than, "just make the kid get over it."

Trying to force food choices isn't gonna do anything but give the kid complexes about trying new foods due to the high pressure they were taught to see those experiences as.

protist ,

I'm pretty much with you on this one. A lot of these people sound like they have terrible boundaries with their children. I get OP's in a difficult situation, but I don't get why they're complaining about spending $30 on pizza when they agreed to pay that before it was even delivered. I'm not saying OP should've been like "you will eat what I say or you will go without dinner," but really, as a parent you can give your child realistic options that don't require you hiding in the garage for a couple hours. Ham sandwiches don't smell, lots of foods don't smell. If they "refuse," they're still going to want to eat later when they're hungrier, and you make the same food choices available.

Also a large deep dish pizza from Jet's is like $18, and it's really hard to overstate how much more food and how much better their pizza is. Domino's is clearly preying on people who don't know any better or who don't have any other options.

ArmokGoB ,

Yeah, I wouldn't have gotten dinner as a kid if I was that picky.

Gingerlegs , (edited )

My delivery charge is $4.99

Edit: I’m also in indiana

Boozilla ,
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I felt bad reading this. Fast food is way too expensive here in 2024. And then you had to write an essay justifying yourself because of all the pedantic jerks who love to pounce on the smallest of things.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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And someone already didn't apparently read it since they told me I should have picked it up myself.

Boozilla ,
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LOL! Of course!

BananaTrifleViolin ,

The thing about inflation is the food is not expensive, its the value of money that's gone down. Its salaries that are way too low to afford the new prices. The food isn't too expensive - employees are being underpaid.

0110010001100010 ,
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It can be both at the same time which is why the problem is so exacerbated right now.

explodicle ,

IMHO all that matters is the difference between the two.

Cryophilia ,

Yeah but that's an academic, maybe even a pedantic, difference.

_number8_ ,

people love acting like they're perfect and always make perfect decisions in these posts. like, you can easily advise the OP and sympathize but people love to be smug instead

Boozilla ,
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Ain't that the truth.

BearOfaTime ,

Yea, pizza places have gotten out of hand in recent years.

Adding a delivery fee (which doesn't go to the driver) from locations that only do delivery.

How about fuck you and your delivery fee. Which is why I refuse to have pizza delivered any more. Plus they invariably get lost, though we're a few hundred yards from their store.

Little Seizures sells the same pizza for half the price, or less, than Papa John's, before those fees are tacked on.

chagall ,

Little Seizures is my second favorite pizza place after Delicious Aneurysm.

odium ,

Stroke hut is underrated

Neato ,

Pizza with extra sausage. Hand tossed.

DannyBoy ,

Hard to go wrong with a $5 $9 CAD Hot N Ready.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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The only LC here is inside a gas station, but I used to love their crazy bread years ago.

thefartographer ,

I'm sad you didn't use my household's name for the Papa: Poopy John's

iopq ,

The driver still gets an hourly wage, so they still need to pay them for delivering. I don't understand how you expect delivery to be the same price as pick up.

corsicanguppy ,

Now compare in-house and delivery. What's a delivery guy but a waiter who won't come back and refill my root beer? Worst waiter ever.

iopq ,

Domino's where I am just drop your order at the counter. Does yours have waiters?

iopq ,

Domino's where I am just drop your order at the counter. Does yours have waiters?

samus12345 ,
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Well, a waiter that brought your food a really long way. Kinda makes up the difference.

_number8_ ,

they get paid like $2/hr when actually out on a delivery, it's pathetic and is absolutely no reason to justify the fee

iopq ,

The people who order delivery must be subsidized by the pick up customers now?

Because if you pay those wages from the price of the pizza, then everyone is paying for deliveries even if they don't get pizza delivered.

Notice nobody said the charge is too much, they immediately didn't want to pay anything

Cryophilia ,

Notice you said something factually wrong, got called out on it, and pivoted to a different argument.

iopq ,

What? It costs money for the delivery. That's a fact

Cryophilia ,

They don't get paid minimum wage.

iopq ,

They do, except they have a $5.12 tip allowance

If they don't make $7.25 an hour the employer must pay the difference

Cryophilia ,

Most food delivery people are classified as "independent contractors" and are therefore not subject to minimum wage. This is almost certainly not consistent with federal law but multiple legal challenges have failed due to corrupt judges and captured regulators.

iopq ,

That applies to Uber Eats and similar, not to Domino's delivery drivers who are Domino's employees

Cryophilia ,

Most pizza franchises have offloaded delivery to apps.

iopq ,

Domino's has not. Yet people criticize a few dollars delivery fee, despite Uber eats actually costing more (maybe not at first glance, but the prices in store and online are different which is worse)

Cryophilia ,

I've literally picked up and delivered pizzas from Dominos while working for doordash. I suspect it's franchise dependent.

chunkystyles ,

I've always been too much of a cheapskate curmudgeon to pay for food delivery and I've been increasingly baffled by people who pay hundreds of dollars a month to have cold, soggy fast food delivered at an eye watering premium.

I get laziness, I really do. For me, personally, going to pick up food is the lazy option.

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