Free delivery!

In our lazy past lives in California, we got a lot of food delivered to our house.  Pizza, Chinese, omg those good sandwiches... and why not?  Tip the guy a couple of bucks and he'll bring you restaurant food.  To your house.  There is nothing better after a long day than someone bringing you a hot meal.  It's like summoning a genie with a phone call.

There are lots of takeaway places in Auckland that advertise their delivery service.  Usually, there is a delivery area specified (within the CBD, etc)-- OK, that makes sense.  And a minimum order of like 20 or 30 bucks--  yep, I'm still with you.  There's always a delivery fee, though:  in the range of seven or eight dollars.  Yipes!

(Theme of workers being paid decently...not depending on tips... yes...maybe I'll write more on that later...)

The only place in town we've seen so far with always-free delivery is a pizza joint on Commerce Ave.  Sal's NY Pizza, run by Sal himself, a New York City native who seems to have retained the American free delivery ethos.  But in a very California turn of events, they deliver their pizzas riding Segways.  Like tourists. 

For what it's worth, we haven't yet had any food delivered to us.  Just like the car thing, it's another way that we're changing our lifestyle.  So far, so good.