Pizza Delivery

Timeless12

When I was a kid around 1991 ish I remember watching turtles the movie and thinking it was amazing that pizzas were delivered to your home. When did pizza delivery begin in Ireland?

kowloon

Still hasn't begun where I am.

dan1895

I was more interested in the ninja turtles, talking rat, remote controlled robot piloted by a pink brain and of course April O'Neil.

Banjo String

cloud493

There's pizza vending machines now, one right outside my work :eek:

Kidchameleon

dmc17

I was more amazed by how they could make video calls on mobiles devices

Wacker The Attacker

kowloon wrote: »

Still hasn't begun where I am.

You should wait for fire and the wheel to arrive first.

Then, who knows? Electricity, fresh drinking water, books and all sorts of goodies

anncoates

I can never understand people buying pizza as a takeaway or restaurant food.

It's essentially embellished cheese on toast.

EyeSight

anncoates wrote: »

I can never understand people buying pizza as a takeaway or restaurant food.

It's essentially embellished cheese on toast.

What type of pizza have you been eating?
Nothing better than a takeaway pizza with loads of toppings

humbert

anncoates wrote: »

I can never understand people buying pizza as a takeaway or restaurant food.

It's essentially embellished cheese on toast.

I can make cheese on toast but I can't make a proper pizza.

Holsten

I would say early-mid 90's, I remember getting pizzas delivered from local pizzerias around then.

Then whenever the likes of Dominos/Pizza Hut showed up it would have really taken off.

Hello_MrFox

anncoates wrote: »

I can never understand people buying pizza as a takeaway or restaurant food.

It's essentially embellished cheese on toast.

I think ill save myself a few euro tonight and just make 6 slices of cheese on toast, thanks mate.

anncoates

EyeSight wrote: »

What type of pizza have you been eating?
Nothing better than a takeaway pizza with loads of toppings

humbert wrote: »

I can make cheese on toast but I can't make a proper pizza.

Hello_MrFox wrote: »

I think ill save myself a few euro tonight and just make 6 slices of cheese on toast, thanks mate.

Buy one in the supermarket. Not a huge difference.

dorkacle

cloud493 wrote: »

There's pizza vending machines now, one right outside my work :eek:

I've seen them too!

the stuff that comes out looks like the embellished cheese on toast this guy was talkin about tbh :pac:

anncoates wrote: »

I can never understand people buying pizza as a takeaway or restaurant food.

It's essentially embellished cheese on toast.

By the looks of it I can't imagine it tastes much better either, avoid!


Can't beat a good Domino's though, would love one now!

humbert

anncoates wrote: »

Buy one in the supermarket. Not a huge difference.

I'm beginning suspect your opinions are based solely on photographs and wikipedia.

kowloon

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

You should wait for fire and the wheel to arrive first.

Then, who knows? Electricity, fresh drinking water, books and all sorts of goodies

I'd like a wheel made of dough with tomato paste, cheese and several thypes of meat applied to one side. Then I want the lot combined with fire in such a way as to make the combination delicious. Is that too much to ask!? :mad:

coinflip13

I have a subscription to the Irish times archives for a few days and I did a search for "pizza delivery". The earliest definite reference to pizza delivery in Ireland I found was for December 7th 1988 in a place in Dublin called "Perfect Pizza Company". The question in the opening post interest me because I myself remember thinking of takeaway pizza as being totally out of reach for us mere Irish people when I was a kid - The TMNT were also what I would have associated pizza with, along with the bit at the start of "Home Alone" where they paid $122 (in 1990!) for a huge delivery of pizza! I'd imagine pizza delivery was fairly uncommon in Ireland until maybe early 2000s? I remember being on a school trip in 2005/6 and when we were allowed go for lunch a few guys bought pizza and I was shocked because I always thought it was far too expensive to just buy for lunch!

anncoates

humbert wrote: »

I'm beginning suspect your opinions are based solely on photographs and wikipedia.

Are you honestly trying to tell me - in terms of cost to quality ratio - that a pizza from your local Apache type joint - and waiting until it gets to you half an hour later - is 2 or 3 times better than buying one and lashing it in the oxen?

Femme_Fatale

4 Star Pizza - great name. It's like they're saying "We're good, but not great."

kowloon

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

4 Star Pizza - great name. It's like they're saying "We're good, but not great."

They're just being realistic, like this crowd.

coinflip13

Just looking at the Irish times archive again and I found some references to a place delivering pizza in Dublin in January 1985, which seems very far back! I'd guess it was one of the very first in Ireland.

By July 1990, home delivery of pizza was seen (by one advertiser at least) to be a burgeoning market in Dublin (at least).

There's an interesting article from 1991 which implies there was a Four Star pizza in 1986. A quick google tells me the guy who the article is about seems to have went on to found Apache Pizza in 1996 - fair play to the guy!

By January 1992 Pizza Hut seems to have had up to 20 franchises in the republic which delivered, and by April 1992 pizza delivery from Pizza Hut had some degree of popularity in Belfast.

So it seems pizza was being delivered much earlier than I thought.

coinflip13

So yeah, that was a nice hour or so looking up the history of pizza delivery in Ireland!

jadun

You couldn't look up the internet and hire a hooker in 5 minutes either a few years ago

KungPao

dorkacle wrote: »

I've seen them too!

the stuff that comes out looks like the embellished cheese on toast this guy was talkin about tbh :pac:




By the looks of it I can't imagine it tastes much better either, avoid!


Can't beat a good Domino's though, would love one now!

You really can!

humbert

anncoates wrote: »

Are you honestly trying to tell me - in terms of cost to quality ratio - that a pizza from your local Apache type joint - and waiting until it gets to you half an hour later - is 2 or 3 times better than buying one and lashing it in the oxen?

Not an Apache fan but from Dominos or 4 Star I'd say they where not comparable (I'm not saying Apache are similar to frozen, just that I don't like them). Honestly far more than two or three times and the waiting is offset by the lack of shopping.

The Dom

I was getting Pizza delivered to the parent's gaff in 1990 by a place called All Star Pizza.

EyeSight

anncoates wrote: »

Are you honestly trying to tell me - in terms of cost to quality ratio - that a pizza from your local Apache type joint - and waiting until it gets to you half an hour later - is 2 or 3 times better than buying one and lashing it in the oxen?

Yes. Besides it's actually faster for me to order pizza in rather than shop for a pizza and cook it.
Sure it costs more but it's nicer, you can get great value with some of the deals the likes of dominos have, it's convenient and custom made for you.

The only frozen pizza i like is chicago town, the rest suck

dmc17

It's 3:30

cloud493

Is there any pizza delivery joint open yet? I'm dying for one.

DebDynamite

My first ever pizza was one of those chilled ones from Supervalu. It had a ring of pineapple in the centre and I just just remembert thinking "what the hell is this?!".

Now I grew up in the country, so wouldn't have known about pizza restaurants or delivery places.

DebDynamite

coinflip13 wrote: »

By July 1990, home delivery of pizza was seen (by one advertiser at least) to be a burgeoning market in Dublin (at least).

There's an interesting article from 1991 which implies there was a Four Star pizza in 1986. A quick google tells me the guy who the article is about seems to have went on to found Apache Pizza in 1996 - fair play to the guy!

Yeah, good on him. Only 21 when he started his first franchise.

The ads for the Bad Ass Cafe are interesting. They give their address as "Crown Alley (behind the Centra Bank, on the way to the Ha'penny Bridge)"!. Of course everyone would know where it is now.