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.

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.

  • _number8_@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

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

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      6 months ago

      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

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        6 months ago

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

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              6 months ago

              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

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                6 months ago

                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.

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                  6 months ago

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