{"id":130120,"date":"2016-03-04T20:08:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T20:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/04\/indy-pizza-places-are-losing-the-tech-war.html"},"modified":"2016-03-04T20:08:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T20:08:52","slug":"indy-pizza-places-are-losing-the-tech-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/04\/indy-pizza-places-are-losing-the-tech-war.html","title":{"rendered":"Indy pizza places are losing the tech war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are running a shoestring pizzeria, you probably can&#39;t afford a cool, fancy, easy online ordering system. Which kind of sucks, because (a) that&#39;s increasingly the only way to survive, and (b) the people who are doing it well are Dominoe&#39;s, et al., whose &quot;pizza&quot; is pretty sucky.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line is, most pizza is ordered for delivery. And people don&#39;t want to find a flyer, decide on a combination, and then phone the pizzeria. They want to go to the site (on a computer or phone), click-drag-click, and be done with it. Most small pizza places, no matter how good, aren&#39;t going to be able to survive if they don&#39;t support that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/how-tech-killing-off-independent-pizzerias-aaron-d-allen'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Qpbdt8mo3JO9l-9LjpdHcGbXIbSVq6PD3Qr5a9yZs-FwXXkxCQ8vJx62btXshiS_EDHsTuspe0eVqnuuJeIxHeFz9DLeqXO2TJGnF0rTESXCJBXgyG-tfKn9g4qQIjbWF8-ojOyTGQWfzyK064iw5wtVEQnY9bnwRGY=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/how-tech-killing-off-independent-pizzerias-aaron-d-allen'>Share on LinkedIn<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Wyb1h9zzd1a'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are running a shoestring pizzeria, you probably can&#39;t afford a cool, fancy, easy online ordering system. Which kind of sucks, because (a) that&#39;s increasingly the only way to survive, and (b) the people who are doing it well are Dominoe&#39;s, et al., whose &quot;pizza&quot; is pretty sucky. Bottom line is, most pizza is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/04\/indy-pizza-places-are-losing-the-tech-war.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Indy pizza places are losing the tech war&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31124,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/04\/restaurant-review-pizzeria-locale-boulder.html","url_meta":{"origin":130120,"position":0},"title":"Restaurant Review: Pizzeria Locale, Boulder","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 4-Nov-12 8:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Mary and Stan suggested this place while visiting with them along with Jim and Ginger. 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