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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from LOCO in I meed a headset to fit a head of a hippo!   
    note not cheap
    been good with JBL Quantum 810 Wireless headset is compatible via 2.4GHz wireless connection, only neg the tone is deep even after using equilizer
    so far no issue  even after sitting them
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from major-mark63 in Poor Toronto hockey fans again.....   
    sorry to say Your correct that GOLFing  is more important than Stanly Cup Ring with Toronto maple buds, when season tickets aren't selling anymore they might win a cup.
    so there you see the i whanna go to the golf course mood for they let David Pastrnak walk in and score ......
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from VHS2 in Facts   
    There are many vegetables like potatoes,beetroot which grow underground but peanut is the only one in the fruit category. To the best of my knowledge, peanut is the only fruit that grows underground. There are water chestnut (singhara) but they don't grow underground but in water.


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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from VHS2 in Facts   
    along with emus & ostriches is faster runner forward @ 45 MPH, they also can't walk backwards
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from VHS2 in Facts   
    takes 1 to know 1 
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from TBB in Facts   
    except  this person tongue

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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from dLUX in Member Spotlight- Roody>XI<   
    ah  quit horsing around    in the wasser was the award. J/K means a strong swimmer. congrats on the award. thanks 4 sharing   Seepferdchen.  cool mask, are you a gearhead as in sooping up auto's with your emgineering degree. 
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from Icequeen in Facts   
    except  this person tongue

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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from ALanHim in Facts   
    except  this person tongue

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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from ALanHim in Chemtrails anyone????   
    Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
     
    BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
     
    are we sheep to be slaughtered by self righteous greedy devils
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from ALanHim in Chemtrails anyone????   
    your correct ......4 u get population  control  aka covid
    then why they do it ........
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from Icequeen in Facts   
    guess they are fansonly payroll or selling for big pharma 
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from ALanHim in Chemtrails anyone????   
    4 days ago — Harvey Weinstein is an American film producer, studio executive, and convicted rapist who has a net worth of $25 million.
    More like screw the greedy people who take monies  like the judge who got him off.
    Way of the world as you know it - wake up my sheeps ...money root of all evil, you fools are into bondage to it
    Funny Cave ERA had no issues like pay rent only had to worry if a bear eats you.
    really who say's you need money to live, where is the share and care ? when you're monopolized @ birth  by  sin#
    but all want money like the merchants hung a man to a cross for were told not to sell wares in the house of prayer.   
    common you faceless  GREED do the right thing, share your vax with the ones that made you by tax's
    FACT or FICTION  B4 UR EYES  
    the great reset is still alive, grow your own food so you know is real for the greed wants to control population like covid
    or the chemtrails will get you
    use a green house to keep that shit off of your food. note dark hours turn off the ventilation fans 
    Funny how those planes fly in the night  not the day 
    hey Doc sorry no kick back for you, I'm eating healthy no vist 2 ur office of commerce
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from Roody in Member Spotlight- Roody>XI<   
    ah  quit horsing around    in the wasser was the award. J/K means a strong swimmer. congrats on the award. thanks 4 sharing   Seepferdchen.  cool mask, are you a gearhead as in sooping up auto's with your emgineering degree. 
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    KaptCrunch reacted to BlackRose in Member Spotlight- Roody>XI<   
    Let start with your clan name? Roody
       Do you have any nicknames? Personal or in game? In former times "Ans" later sometimes "FreakFunk"
        When and where were you born? My son claims that I should have met the dinosaurs. Grrrrrr
    But it was 1972 Oct. In a small city named Gelnhausen (Germany)
        When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Drummer in a rockband, better metalband.
        Where have you lived? My whole life in a small village near Frankfurt. In the middle of the dark woods.
        What got you into gaming? My neighbour and his two COMPETITION PRO joysticks plugged in the C64
        Your first game you played? Xerons
        And what do you play now? Xerons and COD4
        Why did you join XI? The name "xtreme idiots" catched me. My humor! And I was addicted by the freezetag server from xi. Very funny mod.
        What do you get from being in this clan? I can no longer be kicked from a full server. Meet incredible crazy people from all around the world
        What is your favorite hobby? See my son laughing, freezing some old guys, repairing notebooks and personal computers, my dog, mountainbiking
        What is your favorite travel destination? acores, la gomera
        Are you married? Yep. Nearly 20 years now. Hard time for my wife.
        Do you have children? A wonderful son ("Cpt. Rex" on COD4 ft Server)
        What kind of pets do you have, if any? What are their names? A black cat called "Shadow" und a black dog named "Sky"
        Are you a sports fan? If so, what is your favorite team? Hallenhalma and Tabletennis. Timo Boll is my fav sportsman
        What causes are you passionate about? Helping helpless people. For example refugees from ukraine, disabled persons and much more. Respect for all people
        Do you volunteer? If so, where? I'm member in school parents council. And in DLRG (german lifesaving society). There I train swimming for kids
        What is an interesting fact about you? My shoe size is 10
        Did you belong to any professional organizations? yes
        What is your current job title? system engineer
        Did you win any awards or recognitions during your education? It's a great swimming award in germany called "Seepferdchen"
        Where do you work? In Frankfurt at a big broadcaster
        What other job titles have you had in your career? Carer for disabled persons, communications electronics engineer spezialiced in telecommunications, sound engineer.
        Where else have you worked? Hanau, Gelnhausen
        Why did you choose to work in your industry? Make my hobby to my job
        Why do you like your job? Money. Canteen. Get to know lots of people. Get to know lots of new technical features
        How would you describe your career? chaotic
        What are some accomplishments you've achieved during your career? I'm proud of a Unplugged-CD-recording with Amy Macdonald as sound engineer
        If you could give a younger person career advice, what would it be? Don't do anything you don't like to do!
        What is your favorite sport? Hallenhalma, etreme couching, Tabletennis, Mountainbiking
       
        If you were granted 1 wish, what would you wish for? Let it rain brains for humanity!

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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from lTplkey336 in Facts   
    guess i should had used seniors font size 32
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from BUDMAN in setting up a 3060 nvidia card   
    Budman
    have heard of RadTools,  is Bink engine  that the CoD engine is made from. i use it and seems to me a sharper and crisp picture    
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    KaptCrunch reacted to X-RayXI in setting up a 3060 nvidia card   
    If that all fails, just grab a 100GB empty drive and just a fresh setup installation of Windows at this point. Just don't activate* Windows. Just the setup/install and only grab the videodrivers. Just that and install the game and see what happens. 
    (*=unplug the LAN cord right away and only plug it in when you test the game)
    If looking good, run 3DMark first and make screenshots of the NVidia settings. 
    It is so easy when you have an old(er) SATA drive. I am always having a fresh Windows install ready and a clone of my drive(s) as 'backup'/spare.
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from Labob in setting up a 3060 nvidia card   
    Beers
    sound your  your game res is set @ 480x640 when you monitor supports 1080
    the first video option is where you find res setting is top center of the page. (i not have CoD working right now  to show you)
    when you see 480x640 click the left mouse over it, till you see 1920x1080
    also turn off dual cards in the options
    ops CoD5  co4 below

     
     
     
     
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from ALanHim in Facts   
    Fact That SPEED Kills
    The failure of the Domino’s 30-minute delivery guarantee
    A spate of deaths and lawsuits ended the famous pizza marketing ploy. Is delivery any safer now?
    Dominos delivery car accident
    In October 1985, a teenage Domino’s driver was handed a pizza for delivery just outside Pittsburgh. It had been 23 minutes since the customer placed the order. He needed to hurry.  
    He accelerated out of the restaurant parking lot and, without yielding, plowed into the car of Frank and Mary Jean Kranack, who suffered injuries. In the moments following the accident, a Domino’s manager allegedly grabbed the pizza from the driver’s car and passed it off to another delivery worker, with a message: There’s still time.  
    “You had to wonder what kind of pressure was being placed on that manager and on the drivers that they felt compelled to put pizzas over someone’s life,” says the Kranacks’ lawyer, Kenneth Behrend, recalling the incident decades later.
    The pressure stemmed from a now-infamous Domino’s marketing campaign: guaranteed pizza delivery in 30 minutes or less.
    It was a policy that had helped establish Domino’s as one of America’s leading pizza chains — and, ultimately, nearly destroyed the company’s reputation.
    Making speed a guarantee
    In 1960, at the first location of what would become Domino’s, founder Thomas Monaghan, a former Marine and seminary school dropout, hired two unemployed factory workers to deliver pizzas. They drove the store’s Volkswagen Beetle and made 10 cents an hour plus commission.
    Soon, the typical Domino’s store had more delivery drivers than pizza makers, outfitted gas ovens to work in delivery cars, and made specialized boxes that folded faster than anyone else’s. Its restaurants sold just two sizes of pizza and soft drinks (no pasta or exotic Pizza Hut concoctions) and featured no tables to maintain a minimalist, delivery-centric aesthetic.
    That focus started to pay off in the 1980s as Americans got hooked on the concept of delivery:
        Women’s participation in the workforce was booming, creating a greater need for quick family meals.
        The rise of microwaves and frozen dinners made Americans more accustomed to convenience and averse to going out in public. (One food industry exec described these consumer habits as “cocooning.”)  
    In 1985, Domino’s claimed a delivery customer could expect the staff to cook a pizza in seven minutes and have it arrive at their doorstep, on average, 28 minutes after they placed their phone call.
    That time wasn’t a ballpark estimate. Monaghan was serious about speed, recommending franchises offer free or discounted pizzas if they didn’t arrive in 30 minutes or less. By at least the mid-1980s, the 30-minute recommendation became a guarantee: Any pizza that took longer than 30 minutes was free. (It was later changed to a $3 discount.
    The restaurants didn’t live up to the guarantee every time (especially when cheap college students tormented drivers with imprecise directions). But the chain claimed it had a national success rate of 89% in 1984 and 95% in the late ’80s. A franchisee that operated 17 stores in Dayton, Ohio, set the company record by delivering 99% of its pizzas within 30 minutes.
    Corporate headquarters audited the stores’ performances by enlisting three mystery customers in every market. They’d order pizzas monthly, judge the timing and quality of the pie, and report back to corporate. Monaghan said Domino’s used these tests to evaluate employee compensation, bonuses, and promotions.
    As he described in his autobiography Pizza Tiger, he considered the 30-minute guarantee to be part of a “defensive mindset.” Instead of spending heavily on marketing, he believed that Domino’s would grow its base by consistently meeting customers’ expectations.
    He was right: In the 1980s, the Domino’s share of the US pizza industry increased from a small sliver to ~15%, growing from ~300 restaurants to more than 2k.
    Pizza Hut, pressured by its growing rival, introduced delivery in 1986, igniting the “Pizza Wars.” But Pizza Hut didn’t offer any timing guarantee, and analysts gave Domino’s the advantage.
    As Monaghan had put it a few years earlier, the chain focused on delivery “as if it was life or death.”
    Reckless driving, lawsuits, and pressure
    At a Domino’s restaurant outside Indianapolis, employees kept a tally of drivers who took longer than 30 minutes to deliver a pizza. Every week, the driver with the most late deliveries had to wear a badge that said “King of Lates.” Jesse Colson, a punctual teenage driver, never had to wear it.
    On a rainy Saturday night in early June 1989, Colson fatally crashed into a utility pole while speeding to deliver a pizza. He wasn’t wearing a seatbelt —  his girlfriend, a fellow employee, told the Indianapolis Star he may have done that to save a few precious seconds when he got out of the car at the customer’s house.
    A Domino’s delivery vehicle follows a rival from Pizza Hut in 1989.
    It wasn’t an uncommon scene in Midwestern and Sunbelt communities, strongholds for chain pizza restaurants. The night before, a Domino’s delivery driver was involved in a nonfatal crash in another Indianapolis suburb.
    “If anything good could come from my son’s death,” Colson’s mother told the Star, “I hope that Domino’s does away with that 30-minute or less delivery policy.”
    The chain wasn’t interested. Domino’s emphasized it didn’t ask deliverers to speed or drive recklessly and said the foundation of its delivery guarantee was its efficient cooking process. The company claimed it rejected two-thirds of driver applicants and its franchise manual contained an all-caps line that said: “FAST DELIVERY DOES NOT COME FROM SPEEDING AND RECKLESS DRIVING.”  
    Domino’s confirmed it knew of 20 people who died in crashes involving its drivers in 1988 (the National Safe Workplace Institute would later claim Domino’s delivery drivers had about the same death rate as miners, who had a fatality rate of ~35 per 100k). In the company’s annual report that year, Monaghan described the failure to honor the 30-minute guarantee as “one of the big disappointments of 1987” and called it the restaurant’s biggest priority for the year ahead.   
    But Colson’s death happened around the same time that Kenneth Behrend’s lawsuit for the crash involving Frank and Mary Jean Kranack made national news.
    Before Domino’s, Behrend’s most high-profile cases involved lawsuits against a prominent lender and a regional branch of the Bell System. But, with a degree from Cornell in hotel and restaurant administration, Behrend had a grasp on how the restaurant industry worked.  
    He started the Delivery Services Negligence Litigation Group and took calls from attorneys across the country to explain how to structure their lawsuits using a negligent corporate policy claim, a tort technique he pioneered that would allow them to tie a car wreck from a franchisee back to the 30-minute corporate policy of Domino’s.   
    “That was the heart and soul of their corporation,” Behrend says. “And their entire mantra, their entire business model, their entire focus of all operations was on 30-minute service.”  
    Attorney Kenneth Behrend helped organize many lawsuits while representing the Kranacks in Pittsburgh.
    When he complained to the press that Domino’s wasn’t providing any data on its crashes, he’d receive packages filled with company documents in the mail from anonymous employees. He learned the most common crash happened when a driver overshot somebody’s house, put their car in reverse, and slammed into a car behind them.
    A 1984 company survey revealed that:
        17% of Domino’s drivers felt stressed trying to reach their destination in under 30 minutes.
        10% admitted to driving recklessly.    
    By 1990, Behrend estimated at least 200 lawsuits had been filed against Domino’s, and pressure mounted from legislators and labor unions.
    In late 1993, a case for a woman who’d been struck by a Domino’s driver while taking her kid to a bowling alley went to trial. The jury found Domino’s liable for $750k in actual damages and $78m in punitive damages — the same amount the company lost in late fees to customers the prior year. (A settlement was eventually reached.)
    An announcement from Monaghan came shortly after the trial ended. Domino’s, which did not respond to interview questions from The Hustle, was ending the guarantee. In a prepared statement, he said that the restaurant chain had heard the message “loud and clear.”
    “No matter what we do in the areas of safety and training for our drivers, some of the public still have a negative perception about us because of the guarantee, so we are eliminating the element that creates that negative perception.”
    The new dangers of delivery driving
    Behrend says his Pittsburgh case, which had crawled through the court system, settled after the St. Louis decision. So did other lawsuits. But the Domino’s litigation, according to Behrend, also had an unintended consequence. He says baseline personal insurance policies stopped covering drivers who were using their cars for business purposes.
    That’s an important distinction today, with the US food delivery market having doubled during the pandemic and gig workers facing uncertainty over coverage.    
    Depending on the app and the specific point in the delivery process, they may not be covered by insurance from the likes of DoorDash or Uber Eats and risk steep costs if they get in an accident — a too-frequent occurrence.
    Georgetown researcher Katie Wells, who wrote Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City, authored a report based on interviews with 41 gig delivery drivers in Washington DC, finding that roughly a quarter had been involved in a collision on the job.
    According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fatality rate of driver/sales workers (a group that includes delivery drivers) was 14.6 per 100k in 2022 — higher than the rate for protective services workers like police officers and firefighters (10.2 per 100k) and miners (11.7 per 100k).
    Gig drivers don’t face an edict for speed like past Domino’s drivers, but Wells says the requirement to be fast is built into the job, with drivers hurrying to make financial incentives, avoid bad ratings, and ensure the food is warm upon delivery.   
    “Your livelihood depends on you getting somewhere and getting there fast,” she says.
    That kind of motivation can be dangerous.
    When Behrend was preparing his Domino’s case, he remembers speaking to behavioral scientists who explained that delivery drivers stressed by time constraints get a form of tunnel vision. They focus on their destination and less on the world around them, leaving themselves and everyone else vulnerable, because they must arrive a little bit faster.
    The 30-minute guarantee may have ended decades ago. But its legacy lives on.

    courtesy of Mark DentPublished: April 19, 2024 @ The Hustle  for the pictures
     
     
  21. Haha
    KaptCrunch got a reaction from ALanHim in Facts   
    sorry to inform you the penis is flesh sack and the blood pressure make it hard like a boner when i see you  LoL
    Fact for fluid is non-compressable and a ballon is compressable  
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from ALanHim in Facts   
    guess i should had used seniors font size 32
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from Icequeen in Facts   
    guess i should had used seniors font size 32
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    KaptCrunch reacted to Totty in setting up a 3060 nvidia card   
    Using reading glasses to play on a server isn't classed as a hack  
    I impress myself occasionally when I can find the damn things
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    KaptCrunch got a reaction from Icequeen in Facts   
    Fact That SPEED Kills
    The failure of the Domino’s 30-minute delivery guarantee
    A spate of deaths and lawsuits ended the famous pizza marketing ploy. Is delivery any safer now?
    Dominos delivery car accident
    In October 1985, a teenage Domino’s driver was handed a pizza for delivery just outside Pittsburgh. It had been 23 minutes since the customer placed the order. He needed to hurry.  
    He accelerated out of the restaurant parking lot and, without yielding, plowed into the car of Frank and Mary Jean Kranack, who suffered injuries. In the moments following the accident, a Domino’s manager allegedly grabbed the pizza from the driver’s car and passed it off to another delivery worker, with a message: There’s still time.  
    “You had to wonder what kind of pressure was being placed on that manager and on the drivers that they felt compelled to put pizzas over someone’s life,” says the Kranacks’ lawyer, Kenneth Behrend, recalling the incident decades later.
    The pressure stemmed from a now-infamous Domino’s marketing campaign: guaranteed pizza delivery in 30 minutes or less.
    It was a policy that had helped establish Domino’s as one of America’s leading pizza chains — and, ultimately, nearly destroyed the company’s reputation.
    Making speed a guarantee
    In 1960, at the first location of what would become Domino’s, founder Thomas Monaghan, a former Marine and seminary school dropout, hired two unemployed factory workers to deliver pizzas. They drove the store’s Volkswagen Beetle and made 10 cents an hour plus commission.
    Soon, the typical Domino’s store had more delivery drivers than pizza makers, outfitted gas ovens to work in delivery cars, and made specialized boxes that folded faster than anyone else’s. Its restaurants sold just two sizes of pizza and soft drinks (no pasta or exotic Pizza Hut concoctions) and featured no tables to maintain a minimalist, delivery-centric aesthetic.
    That focus started to pay off in the 1980s as Americans got hooked on the concept of delivery:
        Women’s participation in the workforce was booming, creating a greater need for quick family meals.
        The rise of microwaves and frozen dinners made Americans more accustomed to convenience and averse to going out in public. (One food industry exec described these consumer habits as “cocooning.”)  
    In 1985, Domino’s claimed a delivery customer could expect the staff to cook a pizza in seven minutes and have it arrive at their doorstep, on average, 28 minutes after they placed their phone call.
    That time wasn’t a ballpark estimate. Monaghan was serious about speed, recommending franchises offer free or discounted pizzas if they didn’t arrive in 30 minutes or less. By at least the mid-1980s, the 30-minute recommendation became a guarantee: Any pizza that took longer than 30 minutes was free. (It was later changed to a $3 discount.
    The restaurants didn’t live up to the guarantee every time (especially when cheap college students tormented drivers with imprecise directions). But the chain claimed it had a national success rate of 89% in 1984 and 95% in the late ’80s. A franchisee that operated 17 stores in Dayton, Ohio, set the company record by delivering 99% of its pizzas within 30 minutes.
    Corporate headquarters audited the stores’ performances by enlisting three mystery customers in every market. They’d order pizzas monthly, judge the timing and quality of the pie, and report back to corporate. Monaghan said Domino’s used these tests to evaluate employee compensation, bonuses, and promotions.
    As he described in his autobiography Pizza Tiger, he considered the 30-minute guarantee to be part of a “defensive mindset.” Instead of spending heavily on marketing, he believed that Domino’s would grow its base by consistently meeting customers’ expectations.
    He was right: In the 1980s, the Domino’s share of the US pizza industry increased from a small sliver to ~15%, growing from ~300 restaurants to more than 2k.
    Pizza Hut, pressured by its growing rival, introduced delivery in 1986, igniting the “Pizza Wars.” But Pizza Hut didn’t offer any timing guarantee, and analysts gave Domino’s the advantage.
    As Monaghan had put it a few years earlier, the chain focused on delivery “as if it was life or death.”
    Reckless driving, lawsuits, and pressure
    At a Domino’s restaurant outside Indianapolis, employees kept a tally of drivers who took longer than 30 minutes to deliver a pizza. Every week, the driver with the most late deliveries had to wear a badge that said “King of Lates.” Jesse Colson, a punctual teenage driver, never had to wear it.
    On a rainy Saturday night in early June 1989, Colson fatally crashed into a utility pole while speeding to deliver a pizza. He wasn’t wearing a seatbelt —  his girlfriend, a fellow employee, told the Indianapolis Star he may have done that to save a few precious seconds when he got out of the car at the customer’s house.
    A Domino’s delivery vehicle follows a rival from Pizza Hut in 1989.
    It wasn’t an uncommon scene in Midwestern and Sunbelt communities, strongholds for chain pizza restaurants. The night before, a Domino’s delivery driver was involved in a nonfatal crash in another Indianapolis suburb.
    “If anything good could come from my son’s death,” Colson’s mother told the Star, “I hope that Domino’s does away with that 30-minute or less delivery policy.”
    The chain wasn’t interested. Domino’s emphasized it didn’t ask deliverers to speed or drive recklessly and said the foundation of its delivery guarantee was its efficient cooking process. The company claimed it rejected two-thirds of driver applicants and its franchise manual contained an all-caps line that said: “FAST DELIVERY DOES NOT COME FROM SPEEDING AND RECKLESS DRIVING.”  
    Domino’s confirmed it knew of 20 people who died in crashes involving its drivers in 1988 (the National Safe Workplace Institute would later claim Domino’s delivery drivers had about the same death rate as miners, who had a fatality rate of ~35 per 100k). In the company’s annual report that year, Monaghan described the failure to honor the 30-minute guarantee as “one of the big disappointments of 1987” and called it the restaurant’s biggest priority for the year ahead.   
    But Colson’s death happened around the same time that Kenneth Behrend’s lawsuit for the crash involving Frank and Mary Jean Kranack made national news.
    Before Domino’s, Behrend’s most high-profile cases involved lawsuits against a prominent lender and a regional branch of the Bell System. But, with a degree from Cornell in hotel and restaurant administration, Behrend had a grasp on how the restaurant industry worked.  
    He started the Delivery Services Negligence Litigation Group and took calls from attorneys across the country to explain how to structure their lawsuits using a negligent corporate policy claim, a tort technique he pioneered that would allow them to tie a car wreck from a franchisee back to the 30-minute corporate policy of Domino’s.   
    “That was the heart and soul of their corporation,” Behrend says. “And their entire mantra, their entire business model, their entire focus of all operations was on 30-minute service.”  
    Attorney Kenneth Behrend helped organize many lawsuits while representing the Kranacks in Pittsburgh.
    When he complained to the press that Domino’s wasn’t providing any data on its crashes, he’d receive packages filled with company documents in the mail from anonymous employees. He learned the most common crash happened when a driver overshot somebody’s house, put their car in reverse, and slammed into a car behind them.
    A 1984 company survey revealed that:
        17% of Domino’s drivers felt stressed trying to reach their destination in under 30 minutes.
        10% admitted to driving recklessly.    
    By 1990, Behrend estimated at least 200 lawsuits had been filed against Domino’s, and pressure mounted from legislators and labor unions.
    In late 1993, a case for a woman who’d been struck by a Domino’s driver while taking her kid to a bowling alley went to trial. The jury found Domino’s liable for $750k in actual damages and $78m in punitive damages — the same amount the company lost in late fees to customers the prior year. (A settlement was eventually reached.)
    An announcement from Monaghan came shortly after the trial ended. Domino’s, which did not respond to interview questions from The Hustle, was ending the guarantee. In a prepared statement, he said that the restaurant chain had heard the message “loud and clear.”
    “No matter what we do in the areas of safety and training for our drivers, some of the public still have a negative perception about us because of the guarantee, so we are eliminating the element that creates that negative perception.”
    The new dangers of delivery driving
    Behrend says his Pittsburgh case, which had crawled through the court system, settled after the St. Louis decision. So did other lawsuits. But the Domino’s litigation, according to Behrend, also had an unintended consequence. He says baseline personal insurance policies stopped covering drivers who were using their cars for business purposes.
    That’s an important distinction today, with the US food delivery market having doubled during the pandemic and gig workers facing uncertainty over coverage.    
    Depending on the app and the specific point in the delivery process, they may not be covered by insurance from the likes of DoorDash or Uber Eats and risk steep costs if they get in an accident — a too-frequent occurrence.
    Georgetown researcher Katie Wells, who wrote Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City, authored a report based on interviews with 41 gig delivery drivers in Washington DC, finding that roughly a quarter had been involved in a collision on the job.
    According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fatality rate of driver/sales workers (a group that includes delivery drivers) was 14.6 per 100k in 2022 — higher than the rate for protective services workers like police officers and firefighters (10.2 per 100k) and miners (11.7 per 100k).
    Gig drivers don’t face an edict for speed like past Domino’s drivers, but Wells says the requirement to be fast is built into the job, with drivers hurrying to make financial incentives, avoid bad ratings, and ensure the food is warm upon delivery.   
    “Your livelihood depends on you getting somewhere and getting there fast,” she says.
    That kind of motivation can be dangerous.
    When Behrend was preparing his Domino’s case, he remembers speaking to behavioral scientists who explained that delivery drivers stressed by time constraints get a form of tunnel vision. They focus on their destination and less on the world around them, leaving themselves and everyone else vulnerable, because they must arrive a little bit faster.
    The 30-minute guarantee may have ended decades ago. But its legacy lives on.

    courtesy of Mark DentPublished: April 19, 2024 @ The Hustle  for the pictures
     
     
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