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Re:The Papa Johns closest to The Pentagon is far busier than... by zer00eyz on Monday April 15, 2024 @02:48PM (#40044222)
There is a story that the first gulf war was picked up on by media due to after 5pm pizza deliveries.

For context if you want to go down the rabbit hole: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40030106

Re:The Papa Johns closest to The Pentagon is far busier than... by wiredfool on Monday April 15, 2024 @03:03PM (#40044434)
I remember that from the time -- The Dominos near the White House IIRC.

I was a pizza delivery guy around then, and I remember delivering pizzas to the local base. Mostly barracks, sometimes the Officers' quarters. One time, we had an order that went to a more secured location -- Got buzzed through the fence, around the side, up to the door, and into the man-trap inside the building.

That was past a bunch of signs saying I wasn't supposed to be there. The drivers always joked about 'Top Secret, Pizza Delivery clearance'. We had maps of the base, all the building numbers and everything.

That was all pre 9-11, It's a closed base now.

Re:The Papa Johns closest to The Pentagon is far busier than... by alephnerd on Monday April 15, 2024 @03:08PM (#40044499)
If you ever want to get a pulse of how busy certain caucuses are on the Hill, I'd recommend monitoring the rush at Bullfeathers (for GOP) and Tune Inn (for DNC)
Re:The Papa Johns closest to The Pentagon is far busier than... by nkozyra on Monday April 15, 2024 @02:59PM (#40044357)
One day someone in Arlington is going to have a big pizza party and put some countries on high alert.
Re:The Papa Johns closest to The Pentagon is far busier than... by tomthe on Monday April 15, 2024 @03:04PM (#40044453)
And the pentagon orders randomized amounts of pizzas every few random days.
Re:The Papa Johns closest to The Pentagon is far busier than... by dookahku on Monday April 15, 2024 @03:14PM (#40044563)
this is a CLASSIFIED pizza party, speak of it to no one.
Re:The Papa Johns closest to The Pentagon is far busier than... by JohnBooty on Monday April 15, 2024 @05:29PM (#40045826)
The random amounts of pizza would have to be pretty large for "legitimate" pizza surges to hide in the noise!
Re:The Papa Johns closest to The Pentagon is far busier than... by JohnBooty on Monday April 15, 2024 @05:28PM (#40045823)
According to some quick Googling, the average Dominoes franchise daily gross take is around $3,500.

So for approximately the cost of a fully loaded laptop you, too, can set off the "pizza meter" and get people talking.