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Hi everyone.  I'm in the process of building an exchange.  I have big plans for it, but I still have a lot of work to do.  It will be a real market where people will be able to buy and request pizzas for each other.  In the last few weeks I established a website with a basic framework.  Please bear with me as it is not usable as of yet and also I may look forward to any assistance from the community to help make the site useful by populating it with some franchise, restaurant and pizza informations.  You're welcome to come to #pizza4btc on Freenode IRC network if you would like to learn more.

Note: intentionally plagiarized (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20.msg100#msg100) and inspired (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1141#msg1141)

Awesome! :D

mmmm...pizza.

I actually work at a pizza restaurant doing deliveries and whatnot. Im Mizery's pizza expert for the project.  :D

 :P

Can't wait to see it!

World-wide delivery? And if it's cold, it's free ;)

I'm ok to act as a third party for pizza deliveries in Paris, France.

The purpose of the site is to match 3rd party buyers with those that want to order pizza and pay with bitcoins.


My goal is to prepare an interactive site that allows placing pizza orders from any pizza restaurant in teh world.

Even if it's cold and twice the usual rate it still beats the Swiss Pizza delivery systems: they're incredibly expensive and always late!

What do you mean, mizerydearia ?  Am I missing something ?

Well the award for the first Pizza paid by Bitcoin's already taken, somebody needs a beer delivery for Bitcoins in Switzerland?

Is there an actual beer delivery service O_o.

We could do the same for pretty much any shop that offers home delivery.

I could exchange Suchis for bitcoins, for instance.

Ok then here's my offer: I'll be delivering 6 (really good) Koestritzer to the first person bidding 110 BTC in the greater Zurich area :D

It will function similarly to an escrow

Ok but could I be registered in your website as an escrow for my local area ?

Good idea.  I will implement a kind of "escrow" user role.

Will there be daily update on the site's development?

I am not a domino's pizza fan but if you set up a way for me to pay via bitcoins, I'm in.

Order dominos pizza via command line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pPajOvQGo&feature=player_embedded#!

I like this idea because its an excellent way for those of us with few bitcoins to get some, and for those with to use their bitcoins for practical purchases. Both functions are highly needed!

http://pizza4btc.com/rfc - If you would like to help contribute to Pizza4BTC

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/4722/bitpizzalogo.png (http://img819.imageshack.us/i/bitpizzalogo.png/)

I moved some pepperonis around.

hehe, that's cute

Registered. And I have access to Pepe's. :)

Hope this is not getting too much out of topic, but...

cdecker, are you going to be in Zürich for a delivery tomorrow, Sat. 18th Dec. afternoon/evening? I'm going to do some required christmas shopping and might be visiting two friends in the city center. It would be awesome to suddenly have an unknown guy turn up with a beer delivery, being paid by bitcoins :D.

If so, I guess we should settle the rest via PM and inform the others later in the forum, if a successful trade could be accomplished :).

Is anyone available and interested in proofreading and possibly offering helpful revisions to this letter I have prepared for sending to hundreds of restaurants in the pizza industry in regards to the website I am developing?


Thanks to doublec from #bitcoin-dev for many suggested revisions to prepare the above revised draft

I think it is not too bad, only two points:

a) Letter is maybe too long. If you don't attract them in first paragraph, they don't read until end. Firstly talk about their benefits, not about technical solution. Don't start with bitcoin on the first place; people will be confused instantly. Firstly explain your business without any information about payments, because it is _not_ the most important for restaurants. Tell them you are working on first around-world pizza market with geolocation services, ingredients selector, and don't forget to explain putting their business here is theirs _free dvertisment_ and they can attract more people. By the way, Internet geoloc services are hype now, I think progressive restaurants will be interested in. On the end you can tell him that your money for payments are bitcoins and explain advantages (free transactions, secure, ...) and explain them that tey can or cannot accept bitcoins directly (if not, there will be btc2usd middleman). Simply don't tell them the main concern is bitcoin itself, they will not catch it.

b) There is not clear what they should do RIGHT NOW. THere should be clearly written "DO THIS AND THIS" to get it working. Nobody will be interested in ping-pong mailing or filling pages and pages of forms. This is also about web site. Is it really needed to have "Mother superios" in options for Title in registration form?? Make whole process as simple as possible! If you will need some extra information later, you will ask them once you will see they were interested in filling short, simple registration. Registration is not available now on the site (or I cannot find it now), but as I remember, there was also captcha. Why? AFAIK no bots there yet. And it is another point where business owner can refuse it's participation, when he is not too excited. It is fact. By the way I often have to rewrite captcha more than twice. Really annoying and no reason here.

But I keep fingers crossed! I'm planning to talk my local pizza company in heart of Prague for "open account" to my name next week.

More revisage in progress:


bbl sleep, awaked, soon to sleep again

<Italian accent>
Good day, I'm Mario of Marios Pizzas.

I got your letter for joining your pizza site. I have one question:

What are bitcoins?

Best regards,

Mario
</Italian accent>

;)

lol +1. I tell again - get rid of bitcoin in this stage. As you already wrote, it may be transparent for restaurant that some geeks are paying in bitcoins. Simplify your service to "pizza market" for them. Restaurant become interested in bitcoin once they will see there are pizza orders.

I think I will need a spokesperson to communicate on my behalf for the website.  Anyone interested?

Hi, we  invite you to participate in a pizza experience like no other.

This is a web site that will be the first worldwide pizza market with geo-location services that will allow your restaurants to offer your pizza and other food items to internet users in your area who are part of a large community of people who enjoy pizza. 

You do not need a website just your normal contact details and optionally you can manage your own franchise on-site and create your own unique pizza experience, even upload your menu to the site or become a featured franchise. You will benefit by providing your customers with a fun and unique experience that they will remember.

Let me tell you about the flow of the site. Your customers will request a pizza with the internet currency bitcoins and anyone anywhere in the world can purchase it using your local currency.You can be involved in this in as little or as much as you want. Our site takes care of all the details so you can sit back and enjoy the custom.

I look foward to hearing from you if your business is interested in participating with the web site.

Sincerely,
Pizza4BTC Team

+1

Btw it's great that my daily BTC income covers one pizza in my favourite restaurant. I'm looking forward to pay with bitcoins here!