When you think of food delivery, pizza is usually one of the first kinds of food that comes to mind, and restaurants like Round Table Pizza, Domino’s and Pizza Hut. It’s almost a given that a pizza restaurant provides pizza delivery service. Pizza is a food of convenience’slap a bunch of toppings on top of a round bread crust, cut into slices and serve. No need for forks and knives, unless it’s deep dish. And pizza delivery is the epitome of convenience itself. Why go out to order when you can just call and have a piping hot fresh pizza right outside your door?
Of course, there are critics of this practice. Sometimes you’re in a hurry and you don’t have time to make dinner, and in that case pizza delivery is a viable option. However, some worry that eating in too often promotes inactivity that contributes to an overweight epidemic. It doesn’t help that pizza delivery food tends to be high in calories. There are extra large pizza options, and the food doesn’t just entail pizza’often customers order soda and appetizers on the side that can sometimes be meals in themselves. This contribution to declining health is a potential danger, but real visible danger manifested through the ill-fated Domino’s 30 minutes or less delivery policy. Customers were guaranteed their pizzas delivered in less than half an hour or their pizzas were free. In order to lose as little money as possible, pizza delivery drivers drove as fast as they could. Unfortunately, this resulted in the death of a pedestrian who was struck by a
