"Or you could just, y'know, CALL the local pizza hut from your cell phone."
And be put on hold for 5 minutes, give the person who answers the phone extra work, and add in the risk of them possibly getting your order wrong due to interference or funny accents. That's an awful lot of trouble to go through to meet your arbitrary "go outside / talk to humans" standards.
In practice, not so much. Here in the Bay Area and especially San Francisco, the folks working for minimum wage at places like Pizza Hut don't always have a firm grasp of spoken English as their first language. Less headache and fewer errors happen when the ordering takes place online.
i always order pizza hut via online rather than phone. i live in a part of los angeles where english is not the first language of many the order takers. it's just easier to not deal with them. i don't really text much so i prolly wouldn't use this, but it's nice to have options. right, ammi?
you are SO smart!! you can prevent the phone wait and the likelyhood that your order will be written down wrong or that you have to dictate your credit card over the phone to a guy that might be writing the number down to rob you blind.
Hi, I work at papa johns, can speak English, and hate web orders. They are better for the customer, but can cause further problems. One problem is that the main website always just assumes that your local >insert pizza place< has every single topping on the chart, which isn't true since a lot don't sell. Another problem is if they want to change their orders they MUST do it back through the website since we don't have power over that, which is kind of hard for people to grasp the concept of for some odd reason, (a good one was when a person forgot their password right after ordering the pizza.) Also another bad thing is that we have NO control over the pizza, which means that during really terrible rushes we cant delay the deliveries which means it adds to the already towering late list of pizzas to be made and it keeps adding minutes on even though its delivery which doesn't matter if its a few minutes late since pizzas are sent out in groups.
Just my notes, also papa johns is doing mobile too, but if any of you use it I swear I will murder you all!
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Or you could just, y'know, CALL the local pizza hut from your cell phone.
What if it's really loud where you are? I just signed up for this after reading it. Thank you Engadget
@ stephen wilson
Go outside or to a different area where it isn't loud.
Eh, I dunno, this just seems silly to me.
Also useful for situations where the place you're ordering from's phone is either:
A) Constantly busy
B) Simply a harvesting ground to place you on hold
"Or you could just, y'know, CALL the local pizza hut from your cell phone."
And be put on hold for 5 minutes, give the person who answers the phone extra work, and add in the risk of them possibly getting your order wrong due to interference or funny accents. That's an awful lot of trouble to go through to meet your arbitrary "go outside / talk to humans" standards.
In practice, not so much. Here in the Bay Area and especially San Francisco, the folks working for minimum wage at places like Pizza Hut don't always have a firm grasp of spoken English as their first language. Less headache and fewer errors happen when the ordering takes place online.
i always order pizza hut via online rather than phone. i live in a part of los angeles where english is not the first language of many the order takers. it's just easier to not deal with them. i don't really text much so i prolly wouldn't use this, but it's nice to have options. right, ammi?
you are SO smart!! you can prevent the phone wait and the likelyhood that your order will be written down wrong or that you have to dictate your credit card over the phone to a guy that might be writing the number down to rob you blind.
Hi, I work at papa johns, can speak English, and hate web orders. They are better for the customer, but can cause further problems. One problem is that the main website always just assumes that your local >insert pizza place< has every single topping on the chart, which isn't true since a lot don't sell. Another problem is if they want to change their orders they MUST do it back through the website since we don't have power over that, which is kind of hard for people to grasp the concept of for some odd reason, (a good one was when a person forgot their password right after ordering the pizza.) Also another bad thing is that we have NO control over the pizza, which means that during really terrible rushes we cant delay the deliveries which means it adds to the already towering late list of pizzas to be made and it keeps adding minutes on even though its delivery which doesn't matter if its a few minutes late since pizzas are sent out in groups.
Just my notes, also papa johns is doing mobile too, but if any of you use it I swear I will murder you all!
it would give good advantage for hearing-impaired to order it without use relay service. It save their time.