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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: 1) by rigrig on Monday May 04 2015, @05:44PM

    by rigrig (5129) Subscriber Badge <soylentnews@tubul.net> on Monday May 04 2015, @05:44PM (#178650) Homepage

    And most importantly: if they take over 30 minutes, will Don Meij come and apologize in person?

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  • (Score: 2) by sigma on Monday May 04 2015, @10:27PM

    by sigma (1225) on Monday May 04 2015, @10:27PM (#178823)

    Not only that, he'll give you a lap dance on the house!