Track Your Pie From Dough to Door - Pizza Delivery Goes High Tech

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You know the drill; you're lounging around the house on a lazy weekend evening, and your stomach starts growling that it wants dinner. Rather than making yourself look presentable enough to dine out, you decide that ordering some chow to be delivered is the best way to go. As most of you know, many places that offer delivery services in the first place are now urging their customers to order what they want online. It's faster, it's easier and you they don't have to try and understand all seven of your toppings with the drone of the restaurant in the background.

Last night, I was seriously impressed by just how high-tech online ordering has gotten. After settling on Domino's, we headed here to place our order, but our online experience with Dominoes didn't end there. Obviously, the site directs your order to the Domino's closest to where you are in STL, but then it lets you track your pizza from dough to door. The Domino's pizza tracker told us when when our pizza was being made, when it was baking, when it was en route and even when it was being put in the box. Not to mention we knew who was helping our pizza along the way. "Matt put our pizza in the oven at 6:32 p.m.?" Awesome.

You might think I'm a huge dork for just now catching on to something that has been around for awhile, but my inner child was pretty entertained by watching the progression of my pizza. Although I wonder if it creeped out the delivery guy when we greeted him at the door by name...