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My somewhat limited experience is that virtually every Pizza shop on the planet will deliver, sometimes for a fee, but most of the time not, and virtually every other take away fast food shop will not deliver.

Fish and Chips, Subway, McDonalds, KFC, Chinese, Thai...

...none of these offer delivery that I am aware of, even for larger orders. I am wondering why Pizza Shops are the exception.

Norm

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Norm,

Maybe Geelong is the exception....

Where I am in the northern suburbs of Sydney, the only takeaways that do not deliver is the Maccas, KFC, Subway and those of the same ilk.

I get Indian, Thai, Chinese, Lebanese, Japanese etc that all deliver

Almost makes you want to move....

Cheers

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My Chinese delivers and I would say most Chinese do, but, you are right with all the others.

I wouldn't know why these deliver and the others don't but I am sure somebody will know

EDIT:SNAP!

Well ALL the Chinese up in Croydon and Kilsyth, DO deliver.
Some with no charge,others free delivery over $25.00.order.
Also a couple of the local Indians do as well

But we must not forget that You live out in the back blocks of Geelong,,somewhere called Lara.
They would need a Oven in the back of the Van just to keep your Tucker warm Norm.you live so far away from the Grub.

Anyway you really have to get a BIT of exercise.apart from picking up the Phone.

But a good question Norm.I thought of it only the other night,when I could not be bothered cooking,

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Interesting question.

No real 'answer' though ... Here are a few thoughts from me

Pizza's cost virtually nothing to make. Most places around here charge around $25 for 1 large pizza, delivered. Sometimes they run promo's - free bottle of coke, free bag of soggy unedible garlic 'bread' etc.

McDonalds and other franchises (eg KFC) already have Drive thru's for lazy people. Home deliveries won't work. Say you live 15 mins away from your local Macca's ... and there's a 5 minute delay in traffic lights. 20 minutes in between when the food is cooked and delivered... Macca's food goes cold in under 2 minutes. The amount of complaints and angry customers would by far outweigh any additional profits earned from home delivery.

Pizza's are home delivered in those insulated bags to keep them hot, but the average pizza delivery driver is 18 and has a filthy car, Maccas/other franchises have EXTEREME hygiene policies (to the point you cant wear Macca's uniform in your car incase you car is dirty etc..) So I cant imagine McDonalds being keen on home deliveries.

A lot of Asian restaurant's make enough money without needing to do home deliveries. The cheapest (and worst) Chinese food I ever had was home delivered. Chicken, vegetables and cashews was more like a dish of fat, hardly any chicken, no cashews.

Guess what, they went bankrupt.

Asian food costs virtually nothing to make, EXTREME high mark ups and very popular.

A family friend owns an Asian restaurant, some of her profit figures would blow your mind.

My local Asian grocery is selling packs of biscuits from Korea this week, 85c a pack. How on earth can you import packets of biscuits from Korea, retail them at 85c a pack and make profit? ... This shows how cheap some Asian foods are to import.

I've been working in Hospitality for years, and am starting my Bachelor of Business Administration next week. I understand WHAT makes businesses work, what NEEDS to be done to make businesses work and I can't see home deliveries being of much advantage to any franchise or Asian takeaway.

I've waited a lot of tables in my time, I've seen a lot of businesses come and go, not everyone can make a business work, you just have to know how.

Fish and chips also go cold pretty fast, so unless you lived a 2 minute drive away from the shop, your food would need reheating upon delivery.

One thing you can't do is keep hot chips covered. The moisture coming out of the hot chips will make them go soggy very quickly and as everyone knows, a soggy chip is a DEAD chip

And just FORGET about re-heating chips, they are never the same.

They need to be eaten pretty well straight after you buy them and if you have to eat them at home, home should be 5 minutes drive away. To keep them crisp and still retain the heat, make sure there's a small hole in the top of the chip bag

So endeth the hot chip lesson

With Norm's question on cooked food delivery, in Southern Sydney we can get every kind of hot food delivered right to the door except hot seafood (basically because of the soggy chip problem ) and food from the major take-away chains such as KFC, McDonalds, Subway, etc.

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Agree with Lakatoi

Chips sealed up in paper/boxes sweat, sweaty chips are like a glunky congealed mass of crap.... Well that's what they end up like inside your stomach anyway I guess...

Any chip lovers here?

The big boys running hospitality institutions here in Tassie were recently unhappy when a very good restaurant closed - and was replaced with a take away.

"To those who cut off the hand that feeds them, I sincerely hope that you don't starve. To those who are just excited about getting some extra car spaces and the possibility of frozen fried fish, chips and ice-cream, I hope you don't get lonely. You do nothing for tourism in this state and only contribute to the disappointment felt by overseas and interstate visitors when they experience Tasmania's poor hospitality offerings. Hope you small few enjoy your frozen imported fried fish & chips because it is for certain that the rest of the world won't be interested."

I get my groceries home delivered .The bread and milk come twice a week, meat once a week and fruit and veg fortnightly.
Then I make my own fast food

Now if someone would just deliver prescriptions and petfood I wouldn't have to leave the house at all

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Ron, just to clarify, in beautiful downtown Lara, we have 4 Pizza Shops, 3 Fish and Chip Shops, 2 Chinese, One Thai, One Subway, and a Hot Chicken shop. There is also an APCO which also sells, apart from Petrol and overpriced Groceries, what they laughingly describe as "food". Plus a few cafes and eat in places. No decent restaraunts unless you count the Bistros at the Pub and the Sporting Club.

We also have one "fusion" place (not described above - it sells both Chinese and Pizza

Since both the Chinese and the Pizza is inedible, I never go there. BTW, one of the Pizza shops will also pick up and deliver smokes and/or wine if asked. That's service!

And the Fish and Chip shop nearest to me (5 minutes walk) serves the best Fish and Chips this side of Bacchus Marsh. And their Chicken Schnitzel Rolls are pure heaven.

Norm

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Is home delivery of alcohol & cigarettes legal? Would under age people take advantage of this? Do you need a licence to home deliver such things?

I can get a home delivered large Seafood Pizza (no delivery fee) for $16.00. Although some of the "seafood" is that glow in the dark crab meat, it does fill a hole if you are hungry and cannot be bothered cooking.

Norm

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I assume that they ask for ID when it is delivered. I have never tried it.

Norm

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The Fish and Chip shop I lovingly mentioned above does serve it's food in boxes which can breathe, rather than strangled in paper, and reduces the problem somewhat.

However, they do go cold reasonably quickly, and need to be eaten ASAP.

Norm

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The cost, packaging and protection of the food, the legal workcover nightmare, the public liability nightmare and for now even the gazetted national food awards for such businesses as McDonald's and KFC do not even have a category for "delivery driver" whereas the Pizza Huts and Domino's awards do.

PS - Don't ever imagine though that they aren't considering a move to home delivery during certain times of the day.

The McDonald's dinner box (and KFC family meals) could easily go to a home delivery for a fee.
But the ideas for them is, you're never that far away from a Maccas, so just use the drive through as that's what the Pizza places don't have!

Some countries do have home delivery for these companies, they will follow the lead of the local market research.

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In the mid 90's, the Bandiana Army base was about $15 by taxi from Wodonga (a town on the Victorian / NSW border).
A delivered pizza was $12.
Enterprising soldiers would walk into the pizza shop, order a delivery, hitch a ride, and be $3 and a pizza ahead.

Further south, "Pucka Pizza" (and pre GPS) would deliver to military map grid references on the Puckapunyal range (so long as the "pick up point" was on a boundary road).

Classic about Bandiana and Pucka. You wouldn't put it in a movie...

I get Woolworthsonline to home deliver to me as I make far more money selling stamps than farting about for an hour going to the supermarket and back and listening to screaming kids.

For 5 bucks it is a bargain.

And they of course deliver whatever kind of booze (cigs too I assume) you want .. but someone over 18 needs to sign for it.

They messed up my $250 order last month and it kept never showing.

The national manager of Woolworths Online direct drove it over to me in his BMW. Grovelled and apologised and said he was crediting my via card for the full $250 due to that mistake.

Needless to say I did not protest. FREE booze and food - and a lot of it!

Round here, pizza, Chinese and Indian do deliveries. Also, privately-owned kebab and buger shops do but the burger chains don't (I can't even bring myself to type the M-word!!).

Generally fish and chips don't - for the reasons mentioned, and because there's one on virtually every corner so much more "local" catchment area.

As to booze and fags, if you're that lame-brained or desparate you can always phone the local taxi firm and ask them to run the errand for you. Don't laugh, people do...

...and before you ask, no, I'm not "people". I gave up the evil weed a decade and more back, and we NEVER run below a couple of dozen bottles of the hard stuff



Classic understatement as we've all come to know and love you for, Glen

And then there's the old joke:

I phoned the local Chinese takeaway and said "Do you deliver?"

They said "No, Sir, we do chicken, prawns or beef"

Around here, the only things that we can get delivered are pizza, and Chinese food.

In the immortal words of Chandler Bing: "Of course, in China, they just call it food"

I made the fatal mistake of asking for beef kabobs at the New Dehli Market.

Love it!

Where I live we have a drive through Eagle Boys, and a friend told me that in the big city's now they are home delivering Maccas and KFC, but I'm not sure how true that is....

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No.

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I do recall that a few years ago when I stayed in Anaheim, in a Hotel opposite Disneyland (the Carousel Inn if anybody cares), one of the hotels not far from where we stayed would deliver Breakfast to anyone staying in that particular Hotel.

The McDonalds in question was (is?) directly in front of the foyer of the Hotel in question. So all they did not have far to go.

Norm

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We live too far out of town to get junk food delivered= thank God.

Now that I live out in the boondocks, nobody will deliver. The nearest pizza place is about 20 km away, and they will send it out by cab if I pay the driver. (They're all heart! )

Sometimes, I long for the days when I lived in Toronto, and had nearly a full Rolodex of places that delivered, including a lot of better non-chain restaurants.

Actually, 'yes'; I saw McDonalds home delivery mopeds in Tokyo when I was there recently. 'Big cities' in Australia, I would say do not get home delivery, but 'big cities' elsewhere in the world it does happen.

I've already replied previously about overseas McDonalds doing home delivery. And I explained about Australia's current position. The post came from someone in Australia re "big cities". So the answer is still No for Australia. I should know, I work for them.

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A friend of mine has owned several pizza joints over the years, and here, the majority of pizza places rely on deliveries for the bulk of their business.

Only a few make money from eat in customers- those in food courts are the exceptions.

It seems to be mostly habit- you always take pizza home and eat the rest for breakfast

An Indian takeaway just opened 5 minutes walk from my place. And they do deliver.

Norm

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What you guys need is an Aussie RINGOS, everything, they do bloody everything!

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We also have several Indian and Chinese near me who delivery. And all advertise with menus through the door regularly.

Well it is hard to keep a hamburger hot also the price of gas here in the Panama city, Florida area would hurt peoples wallet and not to mention the wear on the car. Plus the restraunts would lose money. I have worked in the pizza delivery business for over 20 years and other fast food for 10.

The cost would out weigh the benifit to the companies, at least in Florida.

sukhothai - Ringo's sounds really convenient!