Pizza Delivery?

Is it possible to use a bike to get a job with say Domino's delivering
Pizzas?

It it as hard as courier work on the bike?

Does anybody know what the hourly rate works out to?

 

A few years back, a frequent sight out the front of Balmain Pizza Hut on
Victoria Rd (on the drop down the hill to Anzac Bridge) used to be a Bandit
1200 and a blue 98-mod ZX9, both with a big red box on the back.

But why would you thrash your own bike when all the pizza stores which
deliver around the inner city (Sydney, at least) provide you with a scooter,
or at least a postie bike?

Nothing's as hard as courier work on the bike.

****-all, and half of ****-all when you factor in the fact that to make what
little money you're making, you're chancing a bus tyre mark across the back
of your helmet. That's the reason why most pizza joints have "Delivery
drivers wanted" permanently signwritten on their shopfront windows.

Back in the day, before people woke up to the fact that they could do better
than eat food prepared by stoned 15-year-olds, you could make some serious
money doing pizza delivery; I used to be able to clear over $100 in a
6pm-9pm shift most nights from Thursday to Sunday (this was in the car).
These days, there's nowhere near that sort of money in it.

 

Depressingly recent, actually. The arse fell out of it over summer and
autumn, 2001, and when I started doing it in 1997, there were battle-scarred
veterans around lamenting the glory days of 1991-92.

 

How long ago were those days Kneeslider?

 

I've seen you drive. No wonder you could clear $100 in 3 hours.
Most of the other drivers are unfairly bounded by speed limits

d

 

Marko's rule of the road #1: All pavement is equal.

 

But some pavement is more equal than others, right?

;-)

big

 

"You've just leaned the golden rule of the road. A bad accident doesn't just
happen, you've got to work on it chief."

Apologies to the D-Gen.

Aaron
ZX6R

 

Who do you owe drug money to?

I'd recommend collecting Aluminium cans, at least it is rewarding.

Hammo

 

On 26/11/03 3:12 PM, in article

Says the hay carting city boy! Says the concrete slab pouring in the middle
of summer city boy. Says the native regenerating in the Heartlands city
boy. Says the sheep slaughtering city boy. Says the working in suicide
prevention city boy.

Hammo
(saving the rest until the comeback claims to need to be on a bike)

 

Sorry, seen him drive?

Hammo

 

He's probably just run out of clean socks.

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

I could say something about roundabouts here, but I'd better not.


BTH

 

All pavement is equal in that all pavement can bite you... what's the big
revelation?

 

When I was your age we used to have to eat rocks for breakfast... Rocks
don't grow on trees, you know... and so forth...

I don't see any other job, suicide prevention included, having me come home,
contemplate going for a ride and dismissing the notion with a "yuck"...

 

Eh? None of those things sound all that hard on the bike.

(although the XLV almost slaughtered a calf once, that would
have been hard on all three of us ...)

Resting on the bike? That's hard ... and I'm certainly not saving
anything.

------sharks

 

I thought the pizza tasty fishy.

Hammo

 

Go on, pretend it just slipped out accidentally...

Hammo

 

On 27/11/03 10:23 AM, in article

Pheww, I knew mustering on bikes would be worth holding in reserve!

Hammo

 

Pizza Hut: $2.70 to $3 / delivery if you use their scooter ... you can
squeeze in 5/h if it's busy but it depends on the suburbs .. most of the
time it's 3/h

Those little Vespas handle alright !! I remember getting the centrestand
down for foot-long scrapes on favourite corners (burns bay rd, outside the
post office) I think my record was 270 deliveries in one week !