Mariel Segarra
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207 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 5d ago
Mariel Segarra’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's Planet Money.
We're tracing the history of the Domino's pizza tracker and how it's changed consumer culture.
Where we left off, it's the mid-2000s.
And Domino's knew they had this problem where people hated waiting for pizza.
not like
David says once Domino's learned about the emotional pizza rollercoaster, lots of people at the company had a sense that they should build something like a pizza tracker.
But they also knew that corporate would never go for it because it would be really time consuming to build something that would track literally every pizza at every single Domino's.
Plus, was it really worth it spending so much effort on basically a gimmick to maybe make some customers a wee bit less anxious?
And did he look at you and say, David, you're on this?
Yeah, I
Ha ha!
David knew how we'd build it.
Every Domino's had computers where workers would register when an order came in, when a pizza went in the oven, and when it went out for delivery.
So
And here's your bonus, David.
Except then at some point, David and his colleagues stepped back
looked around and we're like, wait, you know what?
We already have a system tracking every single pizza and every single Domino's.
Pizza tracker.
The way the pizza tracker would work was people would call in their orders, then go online, maybe dial up
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