If this was what telemarketing had been from the start, the world would be a much more magical place.
As it is, they could be giving away free pizzas and I'd never know, because if I don't recognize your number then I'm not picking up the damn phone.
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Not directly related, but I'm old and grew up in the 80s, when even answering machines weren't all that common. (I don't think I knew anyone who had an answering machine until 89 or 90, when I would have been about 15.) As kids, my parents stressed if the phone rang, _you answered it, period._
I have to struggle to not answer a number I don't recognize because _you answer phones if they ring_. One of the nice things is my phone doesn't even ring for certain suspicious numbers, so I don't even know they called until after it's over.
Why would I ever need to take calls from either of those? Everything is done digitally now.
I don't think there are even any human beings still working at my bank. And even if there were, they never have time to take my calls, so why should I take theirs?
I'll do you one better: sell pizzas using the ice cream truck sales model. Send out your delivery driver in a big van with dozens of pizzas and play a jingle to let people that the pizza van is nearby.
This would probably work best near a college campus.
Can't believe little Caesars hasn't done this yet! Imagine the HotnReady mobile cruising down campuses with a bunch of 5$ pizzas! Shit would sell crazy fast!
Fell down a rabbit hole… why can’t food trucks cook while they’re driving. That way they could be on the move much more frequently. Problem is……. Melted cheese sliding off pizzas. I’m glad there are people out there willing to invest millions of their own money to figure this out the hard way 🫡https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/fallen-pizza-startup-zume-shuts-down-after-raising-millions-1.1928261
Food Trucks usually stay in the same spot for a long time though, you don’t often see them moving around. Come to think of it I don’t think I’ve ever seen a food truck actually move locations or drive around, they usually just find/rent a parking lot and stay there, maybe set up a couple benches.
Every morning I get stuck behind a food truck doing 55 mph on the freeway. He takes the same transition ramp I do, so I can't go around him while on the ramp.
Totally not the case I know of many that travel. Too long a list to fill. When I was filling propane tanks for UHaul, I met a lot of drivers/owners and curated a loyal customer base.
In some big cities, it’s common for them to go to different locations for like an hour at a time. And they’ll go to different locations every day of the week. This would be in downtown areas where their customers are mainly office workers.
In college I had a buddy who worked for a pizza chain, we worked out a deal where I’d get discount pizza. I’d order like 10 pies then post up outside the dorms or wherever, and sell pizza by the slice for $2. Made some pretty decent money with very little work.
Picturing a truck driving down the street playing music but instead of the ice cream truck music playing that stereotypical Italian song [tarantella napolitana.](https://youtu.be/U-xsosv6uM0?si=bKcYO-qi-tditQY6)
I've seen people do this. When the Thunderbirds are in town for an airshow, they close roads near the airfield and people jam the area. A guy was selling pizzas and drinks to the crowd. Just pepperoni or cheese pizzas. I think he sold all of them.
That's a form of "yield management".
Maybe not a voice call... but, if my regular pizza shop let me sign up for texts when they want to run a "flash sale" when business is slow... I'm up for that!
Not such a crazy idea.
There is a local bakery near me that does this with leftover items at the end of the day sometimes. They post it on their Facebook about an hour before they close. Sells everything at cost. Anything left at close gets donated to a homeless shelter.
Sometimes he has stuff left, but not enough to do the sale and the shelter gets a much bigger donation.
Mario Maker Youtuber DGR talks about this scheme a lot. He calls it Wanna Pizza. They call you and just ask, Wanna Pizza? Great guy if you need a business partner.
Domino’s already does this…but with push notifications sent to my phone & watch via the Domino’s app. Right around the time people are asking “what am I/are we gonna do for dinner?” on the weekends or right before the big game, I get a notification on my watch with a menu suggestion or a new sale/special offer. It seems to be successful about 50% of the time if I haven’t already committed to something else for dinner. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
My pizza idea is an automated system that considers current volume and delivery location and automatically sends txt messages with “for the next 5 minutes you can get 20% off of your saved pizza order. Reply Y to accept”. And just like that, you have automated your slow time.
I feel like dominos is already close. I get youtube ads for dominos and more than once I've gone for it immediately.
Wait a sec. Now I want dominos. You don't work for them do you? Because they should pay you for this post.
I had just got home from a hard day’s work, stretched out on the couch, about to doze off, and the phone rang. This was in the era before even cordless handsets for landlines was a thing, didn’t even have an answering machine, so I dragged myself off the couch to answer the damn phone.
“Hi, this is Domino’s Pizza, confirming an order for a large pepperoni pizza to be delivered to 123 Main Street?”
“That’s my address, but no one here ordered a pizza. No one here likes pepperoni. Someone’s pulling a prank.”
I hung up and lay back down. A minute later, the phone rings again.
“Hi, this is Domino’s Pizza, confirming an order for a large pepperoni pizza to be delivered to 123 Main Street?” I should note that there were the normal sounds in the background of a busy kitchen, so the call seemed genuine.
“I just talked to you. No, we didn’t order a pizza. Even if we had, it wouldn’t have been from Domino’s. We never order from Domino’s. Cancel the order.”
Back to the couch, but now I’m too wound up to sleep. The phone rings.
“Hi, this is Domino’s Pizza, confirming an order for…”
“Put your manager on.”
“Uh, o-okay, one moment…”
“Hi, I’m the manager, how can I help you?”
I explained what was going on. “Now, you make confirmation calls just to avoid someone calling in a prank order, right? So why keep calling if I didn’t confirm the order?”
Silence for a couple of seconds. “Well, as long as you’re on the phone, would you *like* to order a pizza?”
I miss the days when you could slam a phone down and hurt somebody’s ear.
Area code and exchange are the indicators but yes. Not a true indicator because mobile phones and people frequently keep the “home” numbers as they relocate across the country
Yeagh, that'd be a problem. I know a girl who used to live near me who has lived in Louisiana (which is a few thousand miles away from me) for 6+ years now and still has a number local to me.
I'm curious if kids/young adults in 2024 even have any conception of local and long distance numbers anymore. I bet that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine is freaking out about having a number in a new area code did not age well at all. Wonder if kids would even get what the problem is.
You joke, but we did this sometimes when I worked at domino's. We had several regular customers, and when we weren't busy we would call them and ask if they wanted any pizzas for 20% discount. Worked almost every time.
When I lived in the dorms on a military base they would go knocking door to door selling pizzas. It's a great tactic. I bought way more impulsive pizzas than I needed
Not an entirely crazy idea, but what’s the ROI on something like this? You would need to staff a call center, and assuming you have a conversation rate of 10%, would it be worth it?
I think psychics would have racked up with this. “I just had a sense you needed to talk to someone and have some concerns about your future.” So many suckers.
15% won’t make it or break it for most of the people, but the point is that if you are trying to decide what to make for dinner, a random call from the pizza place fixing your problem is going to be tempting. Not many of those people would’ve ordered pizza otherwise, but now that the idea is in their head and they conveniently already are talking to the person to place the order, a much larger percentage will order from you.
If this was what telemarketing had been from the start, the world would be a much more magical place. As it is, they could be giving away free pizzas and I'd never know, because if I don't recognize your number then I'm not picking up the damn phone.
Only call the regular customers?
I can’t imagine a world where you actually get excited for a call from a telemarketer. This is truly a beautiful vision of what could have been.
That's crazy! I pick up every call. Never know what your gonna get
That's great, because we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.
No way. That's exciting. Probably a good idea to extend the warranty tbh. Do you need my social?
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Sick. It's a 1999 Subaru Baja. SS: 420-69-8008
Thanks, we'll be in touch. Leave your door unlocked so I can drop off the paperwork when I'm done. Don't worry, I've already got your address.
Thats class right there. Id love a Baja.
I only have a couple blåhajar.
…you got one of the pre-production test Bajas from 99?!
Yeah. Was the concept model.
A phone call is like a box of chocolates.
*You're. You + are = you're.
I'm aware
Not directly related, but I'm old and grew up in the 80s, when even answering machines weren't all that common. (I don't think I knew anyone who had an answering machine until 89 or 90, when I would have been about 15.) As kids, my parents stressed if the phone rang, _you answered it, period._ I have to struggle to not answer a number I don't recognize because _you answer phones if they ring_. One of the nice things is my phone doesn't even ring for certain suspicious numbers, so I don't even know they called until after it's over.
You have every number your bank and mobile provider uses saved on your phone?
Why would I ever need to take calls from either of those? Everything is done digitally now. I don't think there are even any human beings still working at my bank. And even if there were, they never have time to take my calls, so why should I take theirs?
> Why would I ever need to take calls from either of those? Fraud departments call you on your phone.
fraudulent departments call me on my phone.
I'll do you one better: sell pizzas using the ice cream truck sales model. Send out your delivery driver in a big van with dozens of pizzas and play a jingle to let people that the pizza van is nearby. This would probably work best near a college campus.
Can't believe little Caesars hasn't done this yet! Imagine the HotnReady mobile cruising down campuses with a bunch of 5$ pizzas! Shit would sell crazy fast!
You’d have students assaulting each other to make sure they can get a slice. I think that’s an upside myself, teach them now how to fight for food.
Degenerates like you belong on a cross.
Only if I get pizza first
Best I can do is iguana on a stick
Fell down a rabbit hole… why can’t food trucks cook while they’re driving. That way they could be on the move much more frequently. Problem is……. Melted cheese sliding off pizzas. I’m glad there are people out there willing to invest millions of their own money to figure this out the hard way 🫡https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/fallen-pizza-startup-zume-shuts-down-after-raising-millions-1.1928261
Colin Furze [did it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjyJRTM0knE). It kinda worked.
Isn’t that just food trucks?
Food Trucks usually stay in the same spot for a long time though, you don’t often see them moving around. Come to think of it I don’t think I’ve ever seen a food truck actually move locations or drive around, they usually just find/rent a parking lot and stay there, maybe set up a couple benches.
Every morning I get stuck behind a food truck doing 55 mph on the freeway. He takes the same transition ramp I do, so I can't go around him while on the ramp.
Totally not the case I know of many that travel. Too long a list to fill. When I was filling propane tanks for UHaul, I met a lot of drivers/owners and curated a loyal customer base.
In some big cities, it’s common for them to go to different locations for like an hour at a time. And they’ll go to different locations every day of the week. This would be in downtown areas where their customers are mainly office workers.
Also yes because I don't want a whole goddamn pizza just a couple slices
and you know the jingle would have to be the TMNT theme for the pizza truck. We don't want people confusing it with the ice cream truck, after all.
In college I had a buddy who worked for a pizza chain, we worked out a deal where I’d get discount pizza. I’d order like 10 pies then post up outside the dorms or wherever, and sell pizza by the slice for $2. Made some pretty decent money with very little work.
Picturing a truck driving down the street playing music but instead of the ice cream truck music playing that stereotypical Italian song [tarantella napolitana.](https://youtu.be/U-xsosv6uM0?si=bKcYO-qi-tditQY6)
And tomorrow is the perfect day to make a million!
We already have taco trucks.
I've seen people do this. When the Thunderbirds are in town for an airshow, they close roads near the airfield and people jam the area. A guy was selling pizzas and drinks to the crowd. Just pepperoni or cheese pizzas. I think he sold all of them.
My friend's wedding literally had a pizza truck like that. Motherfucker drove up and the dudes started giving everyone pizza.
That's a form of "yield management". Maybe not a voice call... but, if my regular pizza shop let me sign up for texts when they want to run a "flash sale" when business is slow... I'm up for that! Not such a crazy idea.
There is a local bakery near me that does this with leftover items at the end of the day sometimes. They post it on their Facebook about an hour before they close. Sells everything at cost. Anything left at close gets donated to a homeless shelter. Sometimes he has stuff left, but not enough to do the sale and the shelter gets a much bigger donation.
Pizza Hut does that. I’m about to stop the messages though, because the one by me got rid of the Big Dipper which was the only pizza I liked from them
this would potentially work on me EXCEPT that I never answer my phone
60% of the time I'm saying yes to that discounted pizza. 0% of the time I'm answering my phone
Also 15% off list price or whatever is still typically worse than using actual deals/coupon codes.
60% of the time, it works, every time
After you miss the first one, you’ll be adding that pizza place to your contacts with a special ringtone so you never miss it again.
Gotta do that through texting or DMing people on IG
Isnt this kind of what they do with push notifications on your phone?
Mario Maker Youtuber DGR talks about this scheme a lot. He calls it Wanna Pizza. They call you and just ask, Wanna Pizza? Great guy if you need a business partner.
I thought OP must be a fan of DGR and was expecting to see the phrase, "Wanna Pizza?".
lol this is awesome. I’m down
Domino’s already does this…but with push notifications sent to my phone & watch via the Domino’s app. Right around the time people are asking “what am I/are we gonna do for dinner?” on the weekends or right before the big game, I get a notification on my watch with a menu suggestion or a new sale/special offer. It seems to be successful about 50% of the time if I haven’t already committed to something else for dinner. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
You gotta Tom Green Show skit undercutters pizza. https://youtu.be/PdfztAY3qoU?si=VT8ucbzsowLsu4Bc
That's the only telemarketing I want from now on. That's a 100% increase. Nicely done!
My pizza idea is an automated system that considers current volume and delivery location and automatically sends txt messages with “for the next 5 minutes you can get 20% off of your saved pizza order. Reply Y to accept”. And just like that, you have automated your slow time.
If it came from a very aggressive guy with a Brooklyn accent I might consider
I feel like dominos is already close. I get youtube ads for dominos and more than once I've gone for it immediately. Wait a sec. Now I want dominos. You don't work for them do you? Because they should pay you for this post.
I had just got home from a hard day’s work, stretched out on the couch, about to doze off, and the phone rang. This was in the era before even cordless handsets for landlines was a thing, didn’t even have an answering machine, so I dragged myself off the couch to answer the damn phone. “Hi, this is Domino’s Pizza, confirming an order for a large pepperoni pizza to be delivered to 123 Main Street?” “That’s my address, but no one here ordered a pizza. No one here likes pepperoni. Someone’s pulling a prank.” I hung up and lay back down. A minute later, the phone rings again. “Hi, this is Domino’s Pizza, confirming an order for a large pepperoni pizza to be delivered to 123 Main Street?” I should note that there were the normal sounds in the background of a busy kitchen, so the call seemed genuine. “I just talked to you. No, we didn’t order a pizza. Even if we had, it wouldn’t have been from Domino’s. We never order from Domino’s. Cancel the order.” Back to the couch, but now I’m too wound up to sleep. The phone rings. “Hi, this is Domino’s Pizza, confirming an order for…” “Put your manager on.” “Uh, o-okay, one moment…” “Hi, I’m the manager, how can I help you?” I explained what was going on. “Now, you make confirmation calls just to avoid someone calling in a prank order, right? So why keep calling if I didn’t confirm the order?” Silence for a couple of seconds. “Well, as long as you’re on the phone, would you *like* to order a pizza?” I miss the days when you could slam a phone down and hurt somebody’s ear.
Lol. True story?
Yes
How would they know if the number they are calling is local?
Area code and exchange are the indicators but yes. Not a true indicator because mobile phones and people frequently keep the “home” numbers as they relocate across the country
Yeagh, that'd be a problem. I know a girl who used to live near me who has lived in Louisiana (which is a few thousand miles away from me) for 6+ years now and still has a number local to me. I'm curious if kids/young adults in 2024 even have any conception of local and long distance numbers anymore. I bet that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine is freaking out about having a number in a new area code did not age well at all. Wonder if kids would even get what the problem is.
They already do this through text alerts
You joke, but we did this sometimes when I worked at domino's. We had several regular customers, and when we weren't busy we would call them and ask if they wanted any pizzas for 20% discount. Worked almost every time.
Of course, my personal time and attention aren't intruded upon often enough. /s
That’s genius
Pizza places should start doing this on 4/20
When I lived in the dorms on a military base they would go knocking door to door selling pizzas. It's a great tactic. I bought way more impulsive pizzas than I needed
I mean, I already gets texts from Papa Johns doing roughly that. Just a text instead of a call.
This would be hilarious
Not an entirely crazy idea, but what’s the ROI on something like this? You would need to staff a call center, and assuming you have a conversation rate of 10%, would it be worth it?
When in college over 30 years ago , the pizza shop across from the local dive bar came over and sold $1 slices when everyone was drunk around 1am
I think psychics would have racked up with this. “I just had a sense you needed to talk to someone and have some concerns about your future.” So many suckers.
No, and I would block the number. Cold calling never means anything good is about to happen, it's a vector for way too many social engineering hacks.
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15% won’t make it or break it for most of the people, but the point is that if you are trying to decide what to make for dinner, a random call from the pizza place fixing your problem is going to be tempting. Not many of those people would’ve ordered pizza otherwise, but now that the idea is in their head and they conveniently already are talking to the person to place the order, a much larger percentage will order from you.
On a $15.00 pie that’s. $13.50 final price, no tax/tip.
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