Pizza Hut, ever expanding both waistlines and accessibility to their greasy goodness, has launched a new mobile ordering service allowing users to text message 4 pizza. Apparently online pizza orders have really taken off, accounting for 20 percent of total sales (that stat is either from Pizza Hut or Papa John's, we couldn't discern from the copy) and texting could account for another huge percentage as well.
I realized I was getting old when not so long ago I ordered a pizza via the web for the first time and waited nervously for it to come. It reminded me of tales from Amazon's launch, when customers didn't trust entering their credit cards into their computers...so they instead told the numbers to strangers at Amazon call centers who would write the digits on loose leaf. [reuters/I4U]












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I hope apple teams up with companies like this for iphone ordering like they have hinted at with Starbucks.
Cool! I hate having to speak to real people. And getting up from my couch to go to my computer was just such a hassle. Now I don't have to do either!! If they could just get Asimo to deliver the pizza, I would have to interact with people ever again!
Can somebody please tell me how to get a job at Gizmodo without actually knowing how to read?
Papa Johns, 20%, says it right in the article.
^^"I wouldn't have to . . ."
huh... dominos has had that here in Israel for years. Also, you get a text message when the delivery guy leaves the restaurant.
do you accept bong water a form of payment? No? then I'd like to cancel my order.
Does it charge right to the phone bill? If so i think i would be in trouble. Financially and health wise.
Papa Johns has also had this for a while now...
Hasn't Dominoes been doing this for awhile now?
In the future, fat people won't need voice plans
YES YES YES!!! Now if only they would deliver to my area.
Think about it, nice feature for Deaf people who are stuck in traffic and don't have to wait until they get home to use their VP (Video Phones) to call the VRS (Video Relay Service) or use their TTYs.
Hey, if everyone just had iPhones, you could still order from the website on your phone with the text service.
FLAME ON!
ordering pizza online is great. usually when I order pizza i can't think straight enough to have a conversation over the phone about pizza. Read this best of craigslist story [www.craigslist.org]
I viewed the demo and as I understand it you make up pre determined menus of what you want and thats how you order it on your phone but how do you use coupons with text ordering?
Im all for making it easier to order junk food but if I want to save a few dollars while Im at it.
Oh boy secret txt message!
-Be sure to drink your Ovaltine?
OVALTINE?
sonofa BITCH!
this isnt new. look at campusfood.com they aggregate various food places in an area and have them all there for your ordering pleasure, and you can set up favorites for txt ordering.
I work at Domino's, hopefuly they will incorporate something like this in addition to their online ordering. The less I have to deal with unintelligible/drunk/prank callers the better.
Papa Johns started this last year! A little late Domino's!!!!
A little side note about Pizza Hut:
They recently shifted to Firefox company-wide.
@GIZisGOD: "Think about it, nice feature for Deaf people who are stuck in traffic and don't have to wait until they get home to use their VP (Video Phones) to call the VRS (Video Relay Service) or use their TTYs."
"What do you want on your Tombstone?"
Ugghh... but I still have to get UP to actually receive the pizza? Call me when Pizza Hut's "Put It In Your Mouth For You" service begins.
I only order online - it's the only way to give me any chance at a successful delivery. In a town where over half the people speak little or no English, computerized ordering takes the error out of verbal communication. "Choo hwan hestra sheese on choo pitsa?"
This is Awesome_
Now I can be sitting on the can in the public restroom at the mall and order a pizza delivery to the stall_
Awesome!
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