GPS tracked express pizza delivery
This is a guest post by RLSLOG reader Hemant Sahi.
Picture this: you order a pizza and you’re really hungry but you have no idea how long you’ll have to wait. Couple of minutes later, your stomach starts to growl twice as loud and you start cursing the guy who’s working his ass off to get your high fat-low nutrition junk food to your doorstep. So, how do you settle your unsettling stomach and your throbbing desire to shoot down the pizza guy? Well the answer, like always, is GPS tracking. As if it isn’t hard enough to try and eat low-calorie foods, pizza chains are starting to attract customers by offering GPS technology so we can track the progress of how our pizza order is going. An 11-store chain of Papa John’s restaurants in northern Alabama have been using an online-tracking system created by a startup business called TrackMyPizza. In this case, customers can watch online as their deliveries move street by street to their front doors.
Domino’s, on the other hand is planning to allow its customers to go to its web site and see when their pizza has been prepared, cooked and sent out the door. But, alas, there’s no tracking of the pizza delivery driver. According to Information Week, the TrackMyPizza company and technology was developed by two telemetry scientists who spent 10 years tracking U.S. military missiles, but they’ve gone from war and peace to a piece of the pizza pie. These two guys, Randy Younger and Ken Blankshain, are looking into other tracking possibilities. They own the URL, TrackMySchoolBus.com, which I suppose will attract a lot of worried parents whose lives are made hell from running down the street, dragging their kids behind, screaming, “For the love of everything holy, I beg you, wait up!”
Comments(47)
I want this now as I am HUNGRY!
Give me my pizza.
TrackMySchoolBus.com ??? LOL!
swt, the pizza pic made me crave for moar pizzas!!!
so cool..make a food section!!
People should just get a grip and just wait for the damn thing..
wish i had come up with that. these guys are gonna be rich.
This may seem amusing and funny on first thought, however every day we lose our anonymity and privacy more and more with crap like this. Not that there’s necessarily an issue with this specific use of tracking someone, but some of the newer technology like this is being used in questionable ways.
I was gonna order from Papa John’s this afternoon but was too hungry to wait. Now I am regretting it
Sweet now I can track other peoples pizza and steal them…. ok now… seriously, this is really stupid. A pizza does NOT need a GPS signal.
now all we have to do is sit and wait for Bin Laden to order…. sucker…
lol @11
good one
any source for that? an advertisment of this ’service’ perhaps?
also TrackMySchoolBus.com is not a valid site…
I pretty much agree with #8
now..that will stop me from buying a gun for the pizza guy..only knife…
I’m going to go with Jay Leno, “Just how fat are we getting?”.
What about Track My Sexual Predator . com ?
wow how pointless…
P.S. I meant the article too.
Cool Idea, its gonna make money. But in my opinion so unnecessary! I mean comon now, do you really have that much time on your hands to sit there and watch your pizza drive itself down the street? I guess if your bored, its great… otherwise useless! Although Im sure Im going to try it once, if ever available in my area. The domino’s pizza tracker is kinda neat.
I’ve delivered for Papa John’s and augh, just let me say, this is pretty dumb. Sometimes we have to deliver 3,4 pizzas at once so we’ll be going all over the map. All that gps tracking is going to do is lead to even more customer b!tching like boo hoo hoo why didn’t u deliver to my house first and such. Terrible idea.
I’ve delivered for Papa John’s and augh, just let me say, this is pretty dumb. Sometimes we have to deliver 3,4 pizzas at once so we’ll be going all over the map. All that gps tracking is going to do is lead to even more customer b!tch!ng like boo hoo hoo why didn’t u deliver to my house first and such. Terrible idea.
dominos already has a similar “tracking” system. when you order from their website it tells you what stage your pizza is in.. from prep, bake, box then deliver. no gps tracking but there’s something comforting about knowing your pizza is in the oven..
guess papa johns had to go one better…
@13 the domain surely exists
http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIsVerify.aspx?domain=trackmyschoolbus.com&prog_id=godaddy
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: TRACKMYSCHOOLBUS.COM
Created on: 12-Feb-08
Expires on: 13-Feb-10
Last Updated on: 12-Feb-08
Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration TRACKMYSCHOOLBUS.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
“…they’ve gone from war and peace to a piece of the pizza pie.”
you are most deserving of ridicule.
How much slower is this week gonna get?
There have been more OFF-topic articles than ON-topic ones!
Uh.. like…
isn’t that GPS device gonna break your teeth?
Dubya
jesus, thats sad. thaankfully i have learned to cook and can D.I.Y it
You must be one poor b@stard if you sit in front of your pc tracking a pizza.
@28
lol! I have to agree. Really, what is the point of tracking your pizza? If you want it that bad, call the order in and go pick it up yourself. That’s what we used to do in the 60s – before everyone got lazy and started asking for delivery. In fact, picking up the pizzas and watching the old Italian men who were making them toss the pie dough in the air and catch it was half the fun of getting the pizza in the first place!
This started as a means to track their drivers… some customer got wind of it and… here we are.
wher iz zi turrent?
So is there a link where I can download this software to track my pizza…I mean thats what this site is for right…scene releases.
Interesting article, thanks Martin!
Nothing new. Think about a thing like lowjack that has been around for years, the only difference being the use of another type of technology. Thing is, lowjack is actually usefull and this pizza-nonsense isn’t.
Also, it’s a badly written article. The intro is way to big compared to the actuall body and message of the text. Don’t give up your day job as tech support Hemant Sahi!
Here in england, the coachcompany I use have had a system like this up and running for about 18 months. Go to thier website and you can see on a map exactly where the coach you are waiting for is. They even a PDA friendly version which I access through my Blackberry.
The only slight fly in the ointment with this is they update it every 2-3 minutes so you think your coach is about half a mile away, slow down as you walk the last 100 yards up to the stop and it shoots past you, slows down sees no one there (doesn’t bother to look in his mirror to see the moron running down the street waving his arms) and drives on !
If you can’t be bothered to drive to a pizza stop, why the hell would someone be bothered to keep getting up to check the website.
You phone…wait….scratch your balls….they the door bell goes. Easy
Huge areas of the globe are starving, and the USA has pizza trackers!!!!
Only in America.
Land of the fat, selfish, uncaring cry-baby.
wahhh!!! I want a pizza!!
Come live in Bangkok, we get our pizza from
Pizza Hut within 30 Minutes guaranteed!
If they’re late you get the entire order
for free.
I’m still waiting for http://www.rosskempsnitch.com
yea in my experience of pizza delivery its always the drivers fault,ie forgets the drink or garlic bread.He gets lost if its delivered at night so i have to get him directions.Probably pays to go pick up anyway.We had a fishnchips night at work today and we all gave $5 but some people missed out on fish and too many chips were ordered,just as well the fanta drink was their.I couldnt hardly wait till till time so hungry.
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“Don’t give up your day job as tech support Hemant Sahi!”
LOL!!!
That was the funniest thing I heard all week!
@37
Your jealousy is showing. Stop complaining about what America has that your country doesn’t and build up your own country (without begging for handouts from other wealthier nations which is self-destructive) so that you can be fat and lazy too.
Really, if you can’t be bothered to create your own parade, do the world a favor and stop trying to rain on ours. If your poor and hungry die, it’s your own look out. They are, after all, your fellow citizens, not mine.
@37
Your jealousy is showing. Stop complaining about what America has that your country doesn’t and build up your own country (without begging for handouts from other wealthier nations which is self-destructive) so that you can be fat and lazy too. Really, if you can’t be bothered to create your own parade, do the world a favor and stop trying to rain on ours. If your poor and hungry die, it’s your own look out. They are, after all, your fellow citizens, not mine.
by far the stupidest thing i ever heard of.
http://www.yastorage.com/download.php?id=165281&key=7n16c718f67c16f8f8f75d8nn8d8n55f
Domino’s is an Israeli based company that had recently a huge scandal in Switzerland, empoying under minimal wage employees and pushing them to un human and constitutional working conditions !
All the friends I know there are bycotting them.
Hi there : )
You are shopping on-line or in-store? which do you realy like? really wondering lol.. i favor in-store just because i don’t really like expecting it to come!
Ty
Jessy