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How Big Pizza And Big Tech Made Hot Delivery Possible

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In the '60s, delivering pizzas meant wrapping hot pies in a blanket or driving them to customers over open flames. With those humble (and, uh, life-threatening) beginnings, how did we get to the quick and easy delivery everyone knows and loves today? From heatproof bags to rotating ovens, Patrick Fort and Ruth Tam investigate how 'big pizza' changed the delivery game forever.

Read a transcript of this episode at dishcity.org.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @dishcity.

Leave us a tip at wamu.org/supportdishcity.

Email us your favorite delivery order at dishcity@wamu.org.

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In the '60s, delivering pizzas meant wrapping hot pies in a blanket or driving them to customers over open flames. With those humble (and, uh, life-threatening) beginnings, how did we get to the quick and easy delivery everyone knows and loves today? From heatproof bags to rotating ovens, Patrick Fort and Ruth Tam investigate how 'big pizza' changed the delivery game forever.

Read a transcript of this episode at dishcity.org.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @dishcity.

Leave us a tip at wamu.org/supportdishcity.

Email us your favorite delivery order at dishcity@wamu.org.

  continue reading

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