Re:Tell HN: Your great ideas that you won't pursue
by HeyLaughingBoy on Saturday December 26, 2015 @10:18PM
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Isn't 10-15 min close to the average already? I live 12+ miles from the only pizza place that will deliver out here and it rarely takes more than 30 minutes to get here. I don't remember how long it took in the 'burbs, but it wasn't any longer than that.
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Re:Tell HN: Your great ideas that you won't pursue
by tedmiston on Sunday December 27, 2015 @12:05AM
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In that case, you're lucky. It varies a lot.
While there's no extensive data source with that info for every city, we called each pizza place around downtown Cincinnati in the evenings while we worked. We were quoted 30-90 minutes with an average wait of 43-49 minutes and a median wait of 45 minutes. Some of these were even ≤ 10-minute walk from our coworking space. One interesting observation is that chains often beat indie place quoted times by 5 minutes.
We also collected more anecdotal non-pizza data from my personal experience in the bay in 2014: I was so excited to try Caviar for the first time... and every restaurant I attempted gave a wait of 60-120 minutes or more until eventually I gave up and just walked to food.