pizza place charges to cook your pizza... no way!!

seeclear

Nah, I'm not looking to argue, I get enough of that at home. :biggrin:

I quoted you because you said the cost was built in, when, I don't even know if PM's, specifically, can cook your pie for you if you wanted them too. Unless they have a Snap-On (Strap-On?) heat gun handy. I was also somewhat marveling at why someone would expect a take-n-bake place to cook it for them in the first place. I'm rambling, but no, I don't want to argue. I give! :biggrin:

shack

I tried Papa Murphy's...once. Not very good IMO. I'll take a $5 Little Caesars over Papa Murphy's anyday.

danger boy

inspiredsports wrote: »

Nothing any of you are compalining about makes any sense.

It's total price paid that counts, no matter how you get there.

When you buy an item online, would you rather pay $25 delivered or $20 for the item and $5 for shipping ??? How 'bout that flight? 100 bucks plus 50 bucks for 2 bags, or $150 including 2 bags ????

Is it worth your time and energy to save $1.50 cook a pizza? Whatever. Make up your mind and buy and eat it . . . or don't. Who's supposed to give an eff what you do with your pizza?

you're just bitter.....

no matter how you slice it.. ha ha get it? you pay for cooking or non cooking + price to cook.. one way or another. whether it's included in the price of the pizza or pop.. you paid for it and more.

One local chain gives you a free liter of pop with ever pizza.. and they have great prices and excellent pie

danger boy

Demiurge wrote: »

Really what? I'm not sure if you missed my point or are just looking to argue, but I'll bite.

I've never been into a Papa Murphy's. If they offer to bake your pizza for you, and don't charge you an upfront fee for it, I guarantee that it's already built into the price. That was the point, whether it's a Papa Murphy's pizza or a Tom, Dick & Harry's pizza, it doesn't matter. That's how business works.

The costs are passed on to the consumer. The business can cover their overhead (ongoing costs of doing business -- in this case, utilities to power ovens, repair etc.) costs and attempt to make a profit.

Getting bent out of shape over a $1.50 fee to bake a pizza indicates a lack of understanding of how business works. I think businesses that don't bury their overhead costs in their prices are asking for the wrath of the ignorant, so I guess they deserve it.

That said, this business is actually trying to not screw the consumer. They could just as easily charge more whether they bake your pizza or not, but instead they're charging less if they don't have to. Yet, we have a thread where someone is mad at the business that passed a savings onto them, the consumer. :rolleyes:

I get it.. for the record the pizza was oily.. so I won't be going back there again.

I like both baked and unbaked pizza's.. i guess I should stick with the tried and true.. my fave pizza places and not complain.. because they have one price.. I dunno.

I guess it was just assumed by me.. that a take and bake pizza place would not even have an oven to cook them in.. like 99% of the take and bake places do not have ovens.

cokewithvanilla

Ahh... customers. Price means so much to everyone.... I worked at a restaurant that had menus printed with the wrong price... so on the grand opening, when everything was FREE, we had menus with prices 10 cents too low (from a location in a poor area in another state). When this was corrected, and the customers saw the new menus with 10 cent price hike (oh no!) we got so many snide comments about "already raising the prices". Sad thing is, this was in Williamson County - the richest county in all of tennessee. It's amazing how price sensitive some people are. People don't realize how low margin most restaurants are... restaurants generally don't gouge and stay in business.

edit: not to mention that food prices fluctuate weekly. One week, a case of chicken could cost 40 something dollars, the next it can be over 60. Many owners are forced to eat the cost of these fluctuations.

oh, and I doubt that business actually makes up the cost of running that oven all day (not to mention paying for it) on the 1.50 extra they charge per pizza to cook it. This is just a guess, but they would probably make more by not having the oven. It sounds like they are offering a courtesy to the odd ball customers that go into a bake your own pizza place to have it baked

danger boy

I like getting baked :eek:

tonyb

danger boy wrote: »

feel free to pay those prices.. when you break it down.. nothing on most pizza's is very expensive... dough, 1/2 cup veggies, 1 1/2 cups cheese.. etc.

Of course the price comes from having to pay employees... that's a given.. but I don't see how some pizza places can compete with the chains and their $6.99 ready made pies.. no baking required

I would imagine the quality of the ingredients is key. Just like bakeing a cake,some suck,and some are to die for, yet the basics are the same too.

If I could find a pie for $10 that taste like one for $30, I'd jump on it. For me though,lifes too short to eat crappy pizza. Seems like it was not long ago $15 got you a decent pie, not anymore.