Do they have pizza delivery in China?
On the one hand something like 80% of China’s population is lactose intolerant, but on the other that certainly never stopped any lactose intolerant people I know
They probably deliver Chinese food.
Actually occupancy is likely somewhere between 10-20k
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-apartment-building-residents/
There’s a good chance that apartment building has easy to find organized unit numbers that pizza delivery guy can understand. Building may even have multiple front entrances each with distinct addresses.
The pizza guy very likely lives in the building too.
Pizza Hut makes a deal with the government to put all the pepperoni customers on the same floors, veggie people on other floors, etc. The lava cake freaks… there’s a special floor for them.
Once saw a (German) documentary about this building. They have drop-off places on the ground floor where delivery drivers leave their goods in locked boxes. Payment and and locking/unlocking of the box is done digitally through phone.
P.S.: This one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgVXPEORuA0
The luxury floors should have automated dumbwaiters, so there’s a little rectangle in the wall that’s basically a primitive replicator. Trash leaves through the same chute.
Mmm. I love me some trash soup on my pizza boxes. Brings out the familiar aroma
Yeah, I’ve delivered pizza in a city of over 100k people. The whole idea of an address is to figure out where the destination is down to the personal residence. Doesn’t matter if the people are spread out in a single building or many buildings.
I didn’t go knocking on every door any time someone ordered pizza to an apartment. Biggest concern about apartments were if they had a buzzer, if that buzzer worked, and if the code matched the unit number or would be easy to figure out based on the information provided. And if it wasn’t, their phone number was part of the information provided.
You are all absolutely smothering the joke, lol
This wouldn’t be necessary if everyone used the proper peer review process before publishing their jokes!!
The type of reply I was hoping for 😄 good stuff bud ❤️
THIS is the peer review process.
Do they generally bring it to your door?
Where I live they just call you that they’re waiting outside and wait for you to come pick it up. Same goes for delivery drivers. Sometimes they don’t even leave the car.That sucks. Ours come to the door. To me that’s part of the point, you don’t want to leave your home, so you order something, right?
What a bunch of lazy fucks.
What’s the point of ordering delivery if you have to pick it up? Leave that shit at my door or I’m complaining on the app.
I have in-laws living in China, and honestly - it’s a lot easier to navigate those sorts of high rises than you might think.
Most residential buildings I’ve visited have lots of dedicated lifts, so only 2 apartments per floor share one lift. So you would only need to provide something like: Tower 37, Floor 19, Apartment 2.
The Chinese love their delivery apps, too - their drivers (technically scooter riders) are very used to this.
Now the city of Chongqing is a whole seperate matter, that place is an M. C. Escher drawing in real life!
how can people stay sane if the numbers go up in a predictable fashion? My American brain cannot comprehend the horrors associated with repeating patterns in housing style and numbering.
North America, and Americans in particular, love to claim everything big. Big restaurants, big malls, big cars, big highways, big buildings, big country.
Except efficiency is somehow forgotten. So you get 12 lane highways that are constantly clogged with traffic. 100 floor office buildings that have lineups at the elevator between 8-9 and 17-1730. Strip malls that you have to get to by car even if you live next door. And transit that gets you nowhere.
We must live in different Americas.
There are 4 or 5 different Americas, maybe more.
The American brain should be perfectly adapted to this sort of scenario! Just think it like one of those suburban cookie-cutter HOA developments, but vertical!
As for counting with multiple numbers, y’all love to do that already! feet & inches, pounds & ounces etc.
Hey you’re thatKamGuy!
That’s way more than the population of the whole town I live in.
Now imagine a fire breaking out 😬
that’s why fire suppression systems exist
Guaranteed it’s the KFC delivery man who’s going to have a problem.
And people say China is not a dystopia
Am I the only one who worries first about trash collection day than pizza delivery (wildly unpopular in China btw)?
I’d assume the building has a trash collection chute. My old apartment building had one.
I was more thinking about the day they take the containers out, and the trucks rotation. If they do it once a week, imagine the smell and how many trucks they need…
And if they don’t, I’m sure that they’d have pickup schedules like any town would.
I think they have collection centres (within the building), chutes were more of an American thing (“don’t think about the trash” mentality).
Nah, they were where I live. Now they are closed due to sanitary concerns or something. In old, post soviet building I lived they removed chutes and turned bottom level (where the big trash containers were) into expanded lift, so disabled people could ride all the way to ground level.
Definitely not just an American thing.
I found some apartments in that building advertised on some random website for immigrants and those don’t look half bad.
For your consideration;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project
The lack of quality would be hilarious if if wasn’t so fucking dangerous for people.
I am the pizza delivery boy.
The Deliverator for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc
Unfortunately he is tied up at Peach Trees, trying to deliver justice to Ma-Ma.
One family size pizza margarita to Ms. Wu.
If I search the name, half the articles say 20k, other half 30k. Honestly, I have serious doubts about both figures…
25K then?
I counted 37 floors. If there are 37 apartments per floor since the building looks square-ish (those would be some small apartments) and there are 2 rows (one on each side of the building), that is less than 3k apartments. If each had a family of four, that is less then 12k.
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- P1: 37 floors
- P2: square building
- C1: 37 apartments per floor
duh
This is China, their apartments are casket size. They also do time sharing where one person sleeps while the other is at work and then they swap.
This isn’t true for anything built outside the absolute inner cities, which this clearly isn’t,
They aren’t massive, but they’re plenty reasonably sized and aren’t “casket-sized”
someone posted the listing here, the units are 80m^2, which is 861sq ft, that is nowhere close casket size
It doesn’t look to me like the kind of a building that would have this, but sure, maybe you could barely reach 20k is you squeeze people in like sardines.
Snopes has an article on it, and even they couldn’t come up with a solid number.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-apartment-building-residents/
I think the capacity is 30k, but 20k people currently live there
I wouldn’t be surprised if the numbers were off by an order of magnitude. 1500 units with on average 2 people works out to 3000. Looking at the pictures, that feels like a more realistic number.
That’s about 50 units per floor. Which does seem a bit low from looking at the pic. But 1000 per floor (to give you the 30k) seems way too high, unless the units are the size of broom closets.
30 thousand people used to live here.
Now it’s a ghost town.
Such buildings allow for great efficiency (it probably has its own stop on some kind of rail transit and still a reasonable cost of living) and that includes pizza delivery. Imagine delivering multiple orders a minute. The salary (and tips, even outside the US) would be great. They will probably even allow you to call the elevator with an app before you walk to it for extra speed.
I’m not an expert Chinologist, and it’s a huge country, so it might vary, but AFAIK tipping isn’t really a thing in China.
