I delivered Chinese food in a small city/large town (depending on how you split it) before cell phone GPS. Most of the time it was completely fine, but some errors haunt me to this day, like when a whole factory waited over and hour for their lunch because the boss told me it was behind the Popeyes but didn’t tell me it was the other Popeyes way up north.
And they didn’t charge you an extra fee either.
Yes we did. There was a delivery fee when I started delivering pizzas and Chinese food in the 1990s. I don’t know what it was for, since we, the drivers, didn’t get the entire fee. IIRC when I started the fee was either $1 or $1.50. Us drivers got $0.75 of that fee.
Hmm, I don’t ever remember having to pay delivery fees back in the late 90s. I recall most places making a big point about “free delivery” in the advertising.
I often use my phone’s map just like I would a paper map. It just takes up less space.
Paper maps weren’t hard to use. Many people in large cities just had a detailed map books that gave you street level detail.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1998-thomas-guide-map-los-angeles-3702771636
Also, the 30 minutes gimmick was shortlived in reality, and only for Dominoes. It relied heavily on a very small delivery range from each store.
Ended after too many delivery drivers got into accidents.
https://www.tastingtable.com/1949627/dominos-thirty-minute-delivery-explained/
This is why they would ask you for the nearest major intersection or cross street. This one weird trick.
Where I grew up, there was a delivery service where you got to order delivery from restaurants that didn’t offer it themselves. It was DoorDash, except instead of tech you had paper menus for restaurants and a number to call.
Felt pretty cool to get a full meal delivered!
I did this for a bit. I knew basically every street in half of a mid-size city, just like… in my head.
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