Pizza Delivery in Alaska
I suppose we take being able to have a pizza delivered basically any time between 10am and 3am for granted. The poor people in Alaska aren’t so lucky. Nome, Alaska just recently got their first pizza delivery place… and some of the pizzas even have to be delivered by plane. Congrats, Nome, on getting “Airport Pizza.”
HARD to believe, but Nome has just gotten its first pizza delivery business, a joint that brings gourmet pies to people’s doors and even flies special orders to Bush villages hundreds of miles away.
For free.
It may not arrive hot, but it’s all the rage in this Northwest Alaska region where Nome, with its 3,500 residents, had no food delivery options until Airport Pizza launched.
“Before we were opened, Nome had to be the last town in America that didn’t have pizza delivery,” said Matt Tomter, Airport Pizza manager. “So we didn’t come up with anything new. We just applied the same concept to Nome.”
Their motto: “You buy, we fly!” Delivery is free to villages by Frontier Flying Service. And Nome and its surrounding villages are grateful.
Pretty cool deal if you ask me.
andrew was wondering why you stole his newspaper clipping.
Comment by Neill — 1/21/2006 @ 12:50 pm
Ok so the dude jumps in his little plane and battles through wicked cross currents of the treacherous artic upper atmosphere, lands on a 8 foot wide polar bear infested icy patch.
All to deliver one cold medium sized cheese pizza?
Two thoughts here:
#1 they might as well take page out of papa murphy’s book and not even cook the thing
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#2 it doesn’t really matter because this is obviously a front for a drug smuggling operation.
Comment by Urban — 1/23/2006 @ 5:03 pm
I see a job opportunity calling, Tulsa!!!
Comment by Tim — 1/23/2006 @ 6:36 pm
Sounds like a dream job!!! Hire me!!! no… me!!! me!!! me!!!!
Comment by Tulsa — 1/24/2006 @ 9:54 pm
How far in advance do you have to order your pizza if it’s being flown in? How much exactly does a seat on a plane cost for a pizza? And what do Alaskans need pizza for anyhow? I heard that they all just sit around in igloo’s eating seal-kabobs.
Comment by jeremy — 1/27/2006 @ 2:23 pm