It’s the perfect type of location for a stakeout. It’s very exciting! Fortunately, this Domino’s has its kitchen out front behind glass - similar to this picture - so every step of the process can be observed. Once I place it, I notice my order appear on the order screen behind the counter for the pizza makers. Like James Bond sitting next to a cheating classmate in a pop quiz, I stealthily shield my phone from any Domino’s employees, lest my covert mission be exposed.

The tracker pops up in my Domino’s app, confirming that my order was placed. I order a half plain, half Hawaiian pan pizza - that way my order is plenty distinct and it can’t be confused with anyone else’s (plus, pineapple on pizza is delicious, go fuck yourself). I’ll eat this in Domino’s while staking out the place to avoid any suspicious lingering.Īs soon as I receive my chicken, I place my order to be delivered to my house. So that I can watch my order being made, I arrive at my Domino’s and place an order for some boneless chicken. Me, steely-eyed and ready to determine just how accurate the Domino’s Pizza Tracker really is. For the record, I’m going into this hoping that the pizza tracker is not in fact a lie, but I’ll be honest, I do have my suspicions, so I plan to get to the bottom of this hunch. Then I’m going to follow the delivery guy in my car until he arrives at my house, where my wife will be ready to receive him. The plan is as follows: I’m going to place an order for delivery while hanging out in the restaurant, then compare each progress mark on the tracker with what’s actually happening with my pizza. If you’re unfamiliar with it, the Domino’s Pizza Tracker is the colorful, light-up progress bar in the Domino’s app that tracks each step of your pizza’s progress, from when it’s first being prepared until it arrives at your home.Ĭurious about its accuracy, I decided to stake out my local Domino’s. Since reading this, I got to thinking about the most important progress bar in my life - the Domino’s Pizza Tracker. It wasn’t that long ago that I stumbled across a piece in The Atlantic about how TurboTax uses bogus progress bars when completing a tax return.

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