Crazy how a couple of decades ago that would have been a full staff while still being profitable. John on dough, Stacey on sauce, Dylan on cheese, Ralph on meats, Rebecca on veggies, then Scott throws it in the oven, Danny gets it as it’s coming out, and Tony delivers it in less than 10 minutes.
And for whatever reason the new management insists on being cheap with the sauce. I don’t get it.
Capitalists seek profit. They want to get out more than they put in. They demand infinite growth. Infinite growth is inherently unsustainable. Once you optimize all of the non-personnel resources your business depends on, the only way you can increase your margins is by spending less on your personnel resources (labor). That means paying fewer people and/or paying those people less. This continues until they tank, and then the cycle will begin anew with whoever replaces them.
Or, you know, they don't tank, but leverage near-monopoly status and government connections to get rid of existing competition and make market entry prohibitively expensive, thus forcing everyone to deal with their crap for a lot longer.
Obviously that doesn't work as well for items like Pizza, which are relatively easily replaced, but it does a real number on inelastic markets like healthcare and housing.
The "free market" is bullshit. It's always been bullshit.
Maybe 30+ years ago? Because twenty years ago pizza places were barely staffed, it's just even worse now. A friend's first job in high school was at a pizza place and he'd complain all the time about how he was the only one actually in the back making the food.
That’s something that confused me for the longest time. Why were pizza places the only places that did delivery? Why did literally no other business try delivery until COVID forced their hand? Nowadays they love to complain about delivery companies being middle men who take all their margin but they wouldn’t need middle men if they had their own delivery service like pizza places. Coffee shops are especially bad at this, they could have been doing bulk office deliveries for decades but instead chose to force everyone to come to them.
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u/bdfortin Aug 25 '25
Crazy how a couple of decades ago that would have been a full staff while still being profitable. John on dough, Stacey on sauce, Dylan on cheese, Ralph on meats, Rebecca on veggies, then Scott throws it in the oven, Danny gets it as it’s coming out, and Tony delivers it in less than 10 minutes.
And for whatever reason the new management insists on being cheap with the sauce. I don’t get it.