How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU

Re:How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU by lencastre on Thursday April 09, 2026 @01:44PM (#47706838)

the most profitable pizza, pizza base + one (literally one) piece of minced tomato, yes you read that right, one “nico” of tomato

that pizza will set you back 0 USD because rounding error, the dough is free (if I remember well) and a bit of minced tomato is less than a rounding error, so effectively zero

then you sell the pizza for the lowest price

customers will hate it, but the price is so good

you don’t even need ice cream anymore

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Re:How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU by hadlock on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:25PM (#47707531)

I'm pretty sure you just described Little Caesar's Pizza business model. I recall way back they were $5 but even today here in California their large pepperoni is only $10 where competitors are charging $27-35

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Re:How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU by jasomill on Thursday April 09, 2026 @11:35PM (#47713299)

This reminds me of the old joke from Annie Hall,

Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."

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