Apartment Etiquette (concerning Pizza)

[Sidoh]

And technically, the fastest way is if he comes up, unless it takes twice as long for him to do the walk as it takes you.  See, you have to do a full round trip, which takes the full RTT, whereas he only has to make a half-trip, which takes RTT/2. 

That's assuming several things that aren't necessarily true.  For example, the employee might have not been in your building and may have trouble finding your room.

Also, the dorms here have access locks that don't let you in (I have to go through 2-3 of them, depending on which way I enter the building) unless you swipe a magnetic beacon across them.

Ultimately, it could very well be the case that the pizza man takes longer getting to you than it takes you to get to him and back.

[Blaze]

I've never seen an apartment that doesn't have a buzzer.  :P

Oh, and around here, at my friends apartment the pizza will buzz and he will go down to get it.

[Sidoh]

The pizza people here just ask for a phone number and call when they're ready for you to come pick it up.

[Rule]

It's pretty standard everywhere...  Remember Seinfeld?  His apartment (set) wasn't very high-scale at all, and they had him buzzing people up.

And in response to the original question, let the pizza guy into the building, unless the "apartment" is more like a 5 star hotel that lets you leise.

[Furious]

None of the apartments I've seen around here have buzzers.  And I live in a fairly well populated area.  ( Virginia Beach, Virginia if you care )

[Joe]

As far as buzzers, I've seen both.

I personally would just go down and get it -- otherwise you have to deal with him getting lost or locked out somewhere. I'd probably get down and back faster, and not only can I start eating on my way back (I'm fat, okay?) but I'm almost garunteed a warm pizza when I get back.

[trust]

This is how most of the apartment buildings around here are arranged.

[trust]

Men of the square table:

The deciding factor should be whether or not the delivery guy is close to the guaranteed delivery time. If it is believed that you will get free pizza by making him walk the extra way to your room, then he should be made to take the journey. The only exception is if you're too drunk to walk down to get the pizza.

Man Law!

[Joe]

There's a few two-room apartments around here, none of which I've visited, and a set of like four "hotel-style" apartments. It would be easy to describe how to get to your room:

Turn onto Zajak drive opposite UW Baraboo.
I live in the third building on your left.
Go in the door and take the stairs to the second floor.
I'm in the fifth room on your left.

If anyone's interested, go knock on their door, but I don't know who lives there, or if that particular room even exists. :P

EDIT -
And yeah, Trust's man-law works for me.

[CrAz3D]

650,000 or so here.

I've never seen one with a gate.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=las+cruces+nm&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=32.325998,-106.733127&spn=0.002307,0.006781&t=h&om=1

We have like 85,000 in our city.  Something like 180,000 in the county

[Blaze]

And you get the picture.

[iago]

We have apartments like Trust posted, but we call them town-houses or something similar.  We don't really call them apartment buildings.

What Blaze posted is what we generally have around here.

That's assuming several things that aren't necessarily true.  For example, the employee might have not been in your building and may have trouble finding your room.

Also, the dorms here have access locks that don't let you in (I have to go through 2-3 of them, depending on which way I enter the building) unless you swipe a magnetic beacon across them.

Ultimately, it could very well be the case that the pizza man takes longer getting to you than it takes you to get to him and back.

The employee might have trouble finding your room, but it probably doesn't take him twice as long as it would take you.  I find the longest part is usually the elevator ride (or stairs).  But you're right, depending on apartment lay-out it's possible. 

I've only ever seen external locks, at the front foyer (or whatever), which can be remotely unlocked.  So that's not an issue here.

You're right, that's the bottom line :P

Men of the square table:

The deciding factor should be whether or not the delivery guy is close to the guaranteed delivery time. If it is believed that you will get free pizza by making him walk the extra way to your room, then he should be made to take the journey. The only exception is if you're too drunk to walk down to get the pizza.

Man Law!

Pizza places don't have guaranteed delivery times here.  You typically get it in 30-45 mins, no matter where you live, unless they're extremely busy.

[trust]

Dominoes! 30 minutes or less. (unless they got rid of that.)

[iago]

Dominos here don't make that deal.  But American and Canadian Dominos could be different.

[rabbit]

Most American pizza places have 30-minutes or less or your "meal" is free.