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Re:Pizza Hut to lay off California workers after minimum wag... by Guvante on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @06:03PM (#38787950)
Pizza Hut has a $4.99 delivery fee in CA so either they are claiming they can't manage to sell four pizzas and hour or this isn't about the bill but about reduced demand.
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Re:Pizza Hut to lay off California workers after minimum wag... by bell-cot on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @06:53PM (#38788339)
Ah...Pizza Hut's bottom-line cost of employing a "$20/hour" delivery driver is a lot more than $20/hour. (Assuming they're employing him legally, vs. "cash under the table".)

And maybe talk to somebody who's done delivery driving about being able to sustain a 4-delivery-per-hour average, through their whole shift, day after day.

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Re:Pizza Hut to lay off California workers after minimum wag... by Guvante on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @08:57PM (#38789096)
You don't delivery pizza for the delivery fee... You deliver pizza to sell more pizza.

My point is the delivery is alone is almost covering your cost a lot of the time.

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Re:Pizza Hut to lay off California workers after minimum wag... by ratg13 on Friday December 29, 2023 @05:40AM (#38803631)
At 4 pizzas an hour you haven’t covered taxes, benefits, or any business costs.
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Re:Pizza Hut to lay off California workers after minimum wag... by Guvante on Sunday December 31, 2023 @01:46AM (#38822304)
Why do you exclude the value of the pizza delivered?

It isn't like they only got $20 total...

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