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Hungry Australians can Track their Pizzas’ Journey to their Doors

posted by cmn32480 on Monday May 04 2015, @04:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the is-it-here-yet???? dept.

sigma writes:

The Herald Sun reports that Australian-based chain Dominos Pizza have developed a GPS Driver Tracker to let customers track the location of their pizzas in real time.

While the app is intended to mollify salivating customers concerns about the interminable wait for their cheesy comestible, it has had the additional benefit of reducing accident rates among delivery drivers. An eighteen month trial halved the number of potentially dangerous habits such as speeding and taking corners too quickly. Chief Executive Don Meij said in an interview “There’s a lot of behavior you can learn about and change as a result,”

Disclaimer: I like pizza.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Geotti on Monday May 04 2015, @05:34PM

    by Geotti (1146) on Monday May 04 2015, @05:34PM (#178643) Journal

    Pizza.de have offered live tracking [pizza.de] of deliveries for quite a while (couldn't find the exact launch date, but definitely > a year). I'm sure they're not the only ones.

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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday May 04 2015, @06:31PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 04 2015, @06:31PM (#178676) Journal

    Yeah, they're too rude to be based in an English speaking country.

    • (Score: 2) by Geotti on Monday May 04 2015, @07:01PM

      by Geotti (1146) on Monday May 04 2015, @07:01PM (#178698) Journal

      Huh? Who's too rude? These portals just forward the order to the delivery service, they don't actually employ drivers (and still they take a 20-30% commission on each online order).