Is it just me or is £15.99 too much for takeaway pizza?

[Welsh wheels]

Buy a good quality supermarket pizza and it'll cost less and probably still taste as good.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Go to a specialist Italian grocer, better still fly to Italy and track down the ponciest shop you can. Then buy all t\he ingredients required, take them home, make the dough, let it rest for 24 hours, cut it into smaller pieces and work it between your hands (add in a few throws into the air for good measure and a bit of flair), add toppings and then cook it in a brick over that you'll need to construct in your garden.

Or, alternatively, go to a chain pizza shop and be shocked to find how much they cost, post about it on CC and get lots of unhelpful advice and comments about what you "should" have done or business overheads...

 

[Lee_M]

I'm going here this afternoon.

Pizza from £8 and real beer too.

http://cratebrewery.com

 

[jefmcg]

If you think £15.99 is a lot for 2 pizzas dont ever go out for a meal then, you'll be fainting when you see how much it costs.

If you think it's an ok amount to pay, then you've never had a domino's pizza.

I'm envious.

 

[jefmcg]

Spiderman

There's your mistake. You don't take Spiderman's advice on pizza. You need to find a chain using the Mario Brothers for marketing.

 

[Dayvo]

I'm planning on having a beer and pizza this evening with my work mates. Oslo, being one of the world's most expensive capital cities, will no doubt be offering extortionate prices.

I'll report back later (although it's absolutely hammering down at the mo. and my mates don't like the rain). Maybe it'll be a frozen one from the supermarket.

 

[AndyRM]

There's your mistake. You don't take Spiderman's advice on pizza. You need to find a chain using the Mario Brothers for marketing.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shirley?

 

[Markymark]

A pizza from a delivery chain is a different market with different costs and different supply/demands than a local pizza restaurant. Absolutely no point in comparing them as, apart from the bit you stick in your mouth, everything is different.

And if you think the service they're selling is the bit you put in your mouth, then you have little understanding of how business or marketing works.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shirley?

 

[jefmcg]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shirley?

Well, no. They (like Spiderman) will presumably like New York pizzas, which aren't great. Better than Chicagoan pizzas, but still, not great.

A pizza from a delivery chain is a different market with different costs and different supply/demands than a local pizza restaurant. Absolutely no point in comparing them as, apart from the bit you stick in your mouth, everything is different.

??? The bit I stick in my mouth - the pizza - better be bloody different. Do you not have a local pizza restaurant that offers food that is significantly better than Pizza Hut or Dominos?

 

[Markymark]

Well, no. They (like Spiderman) will presumably like New York pizzas, which aren't great. Better than Chicagoan pizzas, but still, not great.


??? The bit I stick in my mouth - the pizza - better be bloody different. Do you know have a local pizza restaurant that offers food that is significantly better than Pizza Hut or Dominos?

Yes but the product dominos et all is selling is not the actual pizza. It's the service of a delivered pizza, fairly quickly, hot, to an exceptonally uniform standard (poor, I know). Marketing sells the idea it's what you want if late home or drunk. The price point is the demand for that need.

Go find a bunch of people home at 10, hungry and a bit drunk and give them the option of having one delivered or going to a local restaurant and you'll find a strong market for both. Stand outside a local dominos and watch the stream of bikes going in and out between 9 and 12pm compared to your local pizza restaurant and you'll see the demand in action.

 

[jefmcg]

Yes but the product dominos et all is selling is not the actual pizza. It's the service of a delivered pizza, fairly quickly, hot, to an exceptonally uniform standard (poor, I know). Marketing sells the idea it's what you want if late home or drunk. The price point is the demand for that need.

Go find a bunch of people home at 10, hungry and a bit drunk and give them the option of having one delivered or going to a local restaurant and you'll find a strong market for both. Stand outside a local dominos and watch the stream of bikes going in and out between 9 and 12pm compared to your local pizza restaurant and you'll see the demand in action.

I wasn't disagreeing with you on the points between the two that are different. I was disagreeing on the points where you thought they were the same. The services are different including the food itself.

I was going to make a joke about them being the same when they leave your body, but with different fibre content, amount of vegetables, different quantities and qualities of fat etc I expect that it's still not the same then. I will not investigate this further.

 

[Markymark]

I wasn't disagreeing with you on the points between the two that are different. I was disagreeing on the points where you thought they were the same. The services are different including the food itself.

I was going to make a joke about them being the same when they leave your body, but with different fibre content, amount of vegetables, different quantities and qualities of fat etc I expect that it's still not the same then. I will not investigate this further.

Apologies. Yes, I know they're different. But it's not the pizza they're selling, at least not dominos. In fact what they probably work towards is a pizza that works for very hungry or slightly drunk people. What you crave at 10pm is probably different to what you fancy at 8.

 

[jefmcg]

I wouldnt get one personally because they are too fatty/greasy for me, but everyone is different with their food needs.

Yeah, as I said, they are not good pizzas.

I dont think in the grand scheme of things its that much really but what I am surprized about is that someone is very shocked at a very bog standard price.Its like me going into a pub and complaining that a drink of pop is £2-3 or a pint of lager is £3-6.00. Everyone knows how much these things cost unless they have just moved to the U.K or are very young and just started buying things independently.

You are not comparing like with like. This is not a pub or a restaurant where you are paying for the room you are eating in (and in most of the UK, that's probably the biggest cost), waiting staff, laundry etc. This is a takeaway were the only facility the need to provide is a straight back chair in a brightly lit room for the very few minutes while your food is cooking.

For comparison, in my expensive part of London, the local pizzeria with a proper wood fired oven charges considerably less than £10 for a pizza, and don't even sell alcohol (BYO) so they are covering their running costs of food alone. Hell, even the pizzeria in Harrods only charges £16-23 pounds for a pizza, and that includes the huge premium that Harrods place on everything they sell.

So yes, £16 for an industrial pizza that you have to take home and provide your own cutlery and crockery is expensive. £16 for 2 is ok, but not a bargain.

 

[vickster]

Pizza Express. The only really great pizzas out there. Don't mind paying for them. Goes down well with a Peroni beer.

They are the biggest blandest rip off out there, something like £12 for a pretty minuscule pizza with minimal toppings...and the restaurants are full of children at all hours!

I go as infrequently as possible, i.e. If there's no alternative, and only on a special or with the taste card.

That said pizza is probably my least favourite eat out and I have no idea when I last had pizza take out (other than perhaps from Waitrose as a last minute dinner option)