I can’t be the only one around here who read The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary as a child and was disappointed that toy vehicles that move if you make vrooming sounds don’t exist in the real world. Domino’s in the Netherlands, on the other hand, has taken this concept and made it a reality. Except backwards. Which is why your pizza can now be delivered on a scooter that makes human-recorded vrooming sounds and advertises Domino’s as it rolls down the street. [More]
Branded Vrooming Noises Are Way Better Than An Internal Combustion Engine
By April 19, 2012
Congratulations, America: We've Got The Saltiest Fast Food
By April 19, 2012
You are so salty, America. Salty enough to snag the title of the world’s saltiest fast food nation! Congratulations, U.S. pizza, burgers, fried chicken, fries, tacos and more — you’re loaded up more than anywhere else on this little green and blue ball we call home. [More]
Domino's New Ads Tell Customers You Can't Have Artisan Pizza Your Way
By April 3, 2012
You don’t want chicken on that Chicken & Bacon Carbonara pizza from Domino’s? Too dang bad — the pizza chain is preemptively shushing all customer requests for removing or adding toppings on its artisan line of pies with a new ad campaign. So no, you will not be getting it your way. [More]
Rite-Aid Delivery Guy Saves Elderly Customer's Life
By March 5, 2012
Automated prescription refills and deliveries have probably saved patients’ lives by insuring that they got their medication on time. But this time, it wasn’t the pills in the bottle that saved a Pennsylvania woman; it was the man who delivered them. [More]
Papa John's Receipt Identifies Asian Customer Using Racial Slur
By January 9, 2012
In a busy food-service establishment, it’s understandable to refer to customers by nicknames or a shorthand. However, problems arise when these nicknames actually appear on the customer’s receipt. Just ask a New York Papa John’s that’s been plagued with prank calls since a receipt identifying a customer of Asian descent as “Lady Chinky Eyes” hit Twitter. [More]
Domino's Online Tracker Says My Pizza Arrived Half An Hour Ago So Why Am I Pieless?
By January 5, 2012
Jay is a man who likes his pizza. He’s all about ordering from Domino’s to sate his appetite for tasty cheese and tomato goodness, although a recent experience using their online order tracker has him a bit hot under the collar. [More]
McDonald's Wants To Be Sure You Know They Use Actual Potatoes In French Fries
By December 16, 2011
In a bid to woo more customers into chomping their bits of french fry goodness instead of a competitor’s fried offerings, McDonald’s is launching a new ad campaign to show how their fast food isn’t just about grease and speed, but that it comes from actual plants grown in the ground. [More]
Everyone Is Ordering Their Pizza Online These Days
By December 7, 2011
Call in for pizza? How quaint! It’s all about the Internet these days, as Domino’s Pizza reported they took a record 1.08 million online orders for pizza the week after Thanksgiving. [More]
Domino's Pizza Managers Charged With Arson In Papa John's Fire
By October 31, 2011
Loyalty to your employer is one thing, but setting a competing business on fire? That’s just taking it a bit too far. Two Domino’s Pizza managers in Florida have been charged with arson after a Papa John’s went up in flames. [More]
Survey: We're Eating More Fast Food But Going To Restaurants Less Frequently
By October 17, 2011
Personal budgets remain tight, so fewer Americans are dining out at full-service restaurants. But on the speedier side of the food service industry, fast food sales are up, according to new reports. [More]
Domino's CEO: Why Put Calories On The Menu If 90% Of Our Customers Never Enter The Store?
By August 16, 2011
As regulations requiring all restaurants with 20 or more outlets to label their in-restaurant menus with calorie info go nationwide, the CEO of Domino’s Pizza says the idea — as constructed by the federal government — just doesn’t fit a business like his, given the variable nature of pizza and its many toppings and the fact that store owners are paying for sign updates that most customers will never see. [More]
Domino's Brings Back Noid In Shoot-Em-Up Facebook Game
By August 10, 2011
Domino’s has brought back it’s iconic 80′s character “The Noid” for a one-week appearance in an 8-bit promotional shoot-em-up Facebook game. Sadly, you lose points when you shoot the Noid. [More]
Science Confirms In-N-Out Burger Is The Best And McDonald's The Worst
By June 30, 2011
Almost a year ago, our survey-loving siblings at Consumer Reports asked several thousand readers to rate burgers from 18 burger chains and to no one’s surprise, McDonald’s came in dead last. Not satisfied with merely finding the best and worst beef-on-a-bun, CR decided to go for the super-sized option, rating 53 restaurants in five categories to find which ones provide the best food, service and value to customers. [More]
Delta & McDonald's Are Big Losers In Customer Satisfaction Survey
By June 21, 2011
Earlier today, the lovely folks at the American Customer Satisfaction Index released their latest data for airlines and fast food restaurants. And judging by the companies that came in last in each category, being the biggest doesn’t make you any better. [More]
McDonald's Spending $1 Billion On Redesign, Nothing To Make Burgers Taste Less Like Chewed Cardboard
By May 9, 2011
Last year, McDonald’s made headlines when its burgers came in dead last out of the 20 chains surveyed by our kin over at Consumer Reports. So to improve its image, is the grease goliath falling on its own sword like Domino’s and coming out with a better product? Nope. It’s dumping over a billion dollars into remodeling its restaurants. [More]
Would You Like A Picture Of Yoda Riding A Tauntaun On Your Pizza Box? Just Ask
By April 1, 2011
Domino’s is making an effort to win the hearts of American consumers by improving their food and their service. So what happens if you order online, adding a note that you would like a picture of Yoda riding a tauntaun on your pizza box? What you ask for is what you’ll get. [More]
Domino's Pizza Ads Smack Of Desperation
By March 11, 2011
Does Domino’s seem a little desperate lately? A little too eager to prove that they’re listening to your negative tweets about the pizza quality, and not putting boogers in the pies? Like that commercial where they talk all those customers who think they’re complaining about the ingredients inside a focus group room, but then they’re actually in the farmer’s field where the tomatoes come from! Because absolutely nothing happens in the process between getting that tomato to the local pizzeria. Nope, they just send it via pneumatic tube. The comedians at UCB have noticed the earnest tone and made a lil parody video to skewer Domino’s for daring to try to change. Free salad topoff via helicopter, anyone? [More]
Domino's Burglar Leaves Trail Of Chips & Sauce Straight To His Door
By February 28, 2011
The police in Ojai, CA, didn’t need David Caruso’s CSI skills, sunglasses, or witticisms to find the man who broke into the local Domino’s Pizza. [More]
