Papa John's just got bought out by EA Games
4 years ago by celebmeme · 278 Likes · 2 comments · Trending
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· 4 years ago
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Actually this makes sense even though it seems not to. A business that has its own deliver drivers structures those drivers. Food is generally “hot shot-“ that is that an order comes in and goes out. But when multiple orders are in the queue- there is something called route planning. You figure out the best sequence to deliver in based on travel time and not order sequence. So the first order made might get delivered last. There are now however lots of companies that offer “contract” on demand deliver assistance now. Most use a form of crowd sourcing such as grub hub.
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· 4 years ago
So a business that offers local deliveries through their own in house drivers can either use these outside contractors during “surge” tikes so that they can keep less full tike drivers on staff and pay for contractors as needed, or they can offer “hot shot” runs where their regular drivers still conduct their normal routes as though nothing had changed, but your order is placed on a contractor vehicle and sent to you instead of going into a route plan with all the other normal deliveries to reach you based on the geography of where you are and where the other orders are relative to that. A large business chain like this would likely have a contract agreement with a provider so that the rates were cheaper for them. So that is how they can offer faster delivery to a person willing to pay more, without otherwise effecting deliveries.
