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Re:Little Caesars Has a Patent for a Pizza-Making Machine by derefr on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:52PM (#16580996)
> I started wondering "why on earth doesn't dominos just staff a call center in India and have the orders forwarded to the store's ticketing system?".

Or, y'know, Twilio. Voice recognition on limited grammars (such as pizza toppings + addresses) is already crazy good. And the system can always repeat back what the customer said to confirm it parsed it correctly.

Or, go one step further: have no phone number, only a website. There's an cellular MVNO in Canada (https://www.publicmobile.ca/) that operates using this cost-cutting model, and they seem to be doing pretty well.

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Re:Little Caesars Has a Patent for a Pizza-Making Machine by Scoundreller on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:57PM (#16581023)
I have the nagging feeling that Telus is trying to kill the PublicMobile 'experiment' by transitioning their customers to Koodo before the bury the coffin.
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Re:Little Caesars Has a Patent for a Pizza-Making Machine by yetanotheruser on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @08:09PM (#16581093)
Why are there ads all over the place for public mobile then?

It is weird that they were redirecting their customers to Koodo when they stopped offering a certain favorable plan.

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