One way to cut down on the fat on your next pizza pie while keeping the flavor is to order it with double tomato sauce and light cheese. Just reducing the mozz by one-third saves you 20 g of fat per pie, equal to the amount in a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder. [More]
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Domino's Worker Uses Customer's Debit Card For Phone Sex While Still Making Pizzas
By 9.3.10
You might not think that when you call up your local Domino’s to order a pizza with your credit/debit card, that the employee you just gave your sensitive information to is going to brazenly turn around and rack up $296 in phone sex charges only minutes later. Or that they’d be so stupid to use the restaurant’s phone to make the call. Alas, that’s exactly what a woman in Kentucky claims happened to her. [More]
Pizza Hut 'Slashes' Price Of Supreme By Adding $2
By 9.2.10
Chuck enjoyed Pizza Hut’s supreme pizza, especially via its $10-a-pie promotion. But a new advertising campaign, in which the mega-chain claims to be slashing prices on all its pizzas, has made his supreme cost $12 instead of $10 because it surpasses the new three-topping threshold. [More]
Burger King Crowns The Pizza Burger
By 8.19.10
If you’re hungry, live in New York and can’t decide whether you want a pizza or hamburger, the Burger King Pizza Burger may be for you. [More]
Florida Pizza Joint Adds A 15% Tip Automatically
By 7.27.10
A pizza place in Jacksonville, Florida has decided to pay its servers a higher wage and in order to pay for it, automatically add a 15% tip to each order. Signs are posted and you can ask the server to take the tip off the bill if you want. [More]
Domino's Thinks Your Actual Pizza Could Star In An Ad
By 6.30.10
Do you like photography? Do you like money? Do you like pizza? Well, are you willing to tolerate Domino’s instead? The chain is running a photo contest, and has solicited photos of actual, real-life pizzas from customers. Our tipster J.P. wonders, “I wonder if they’ll be so bold as to post EVERY entry no matter how it looks?” Guess we’ll find out. [More]
Man Biking From Florida To NYC To Promote Pizza As Health Food
By 6.24.10
I’ve always wondered why pizza gets such a bad rap as a junk food, even though one could eat a sandwich with tomato, cheese, pepperoni and basil and not raise an eyebrow. Perhaps it’s the fact that people tend to consume massive amounts of it, usually accompanied by massive amounts of high-calorie beverages. But now a man is out to change pizza’s junky public image with a one-man bike tour from Florida to New York. [More]
Papa John's Now The Official Crappy Pizza Of The NFL
By 6.8.10
We sure hope you football fans love Papa John’s commercials, because you’re going to see a lot more of them in the upcoming season. The pizza chain has just signed a three-year deal with the NFL to become the official pizza sponsor of both the league and the Super Bowl. [More]
Domino's Franchise Urges You To Campaign For Return Of Parmesan Peppercorn Sauce
By 5.20.10
I haven’t ordered from Domino’s since approximately 1988, so I wouldn’t know, but they apparently have a wonderful breadstick dipping sauce. Or, they used to. It’s been discontinued. Scott tells Consumerist that he was dismayed to learn this after placing his most recent order, but heartened to learn that his local franchise is urging customers to contact corporate and bring the precious sauce back. [More]
The Pizza Delivery Guy Cussed Me Out
By 5.3.10
James says a Papa John’s delivery dude called him a “f*gg*t m*th*rf*ck*r” as part of a blowup in a dispute about whether or not the driver rang the doorbell during an unsuccessful delivery attempt. [More]
Pizza Hut Raises Minimum Delivery Order To $10.50 To Match $10 Pizza Promotion
By 4.15.10
Matt writes that local Pizza Hut used to have a $10 minimum for online delivery orders. That’s fair enough, and a common practice. But when the chain raised the minimum to $10.50 at the same time that they debuted a $10 pizza promotion. Is Pizza Hut deliberately trying to encourage customers to order extra items they don’t need to make the minimum? [More]
Would This Bed Bug Billboard Keep You From Shopping Here?
By 4.12.10
Over on Rick Moser’s blog, he posted this photo of a billboard in NYC featuring a mammoth bed bug looming over a strip club, a souvenir shop and a pizza joint. Aside from it just being creepy-to-the-max, might this billboard not also be doing damage to the businesses below? [More]
Police Say NY Pizzeria Owner Spit In Pizza
By 4.6.10
Authorities accuse a New York pizza shop owner of adding a free extra salivary topping to a pizza ordered by someone she apparently thought could use some extra flavor, Syracuse.com reports. [More]
Is It Ever Okay To Not Tip The Pizza Guy?
By 3.27.10
Consumerist reader Chris (no, it wasn’t me) wrote to us hoping to get a resolution to a pizza delivery dilemma he recently faced. Because he’s outside their delivery area, he went to pick up his order from his favorite pizzeria. But when he got home, he found out they’d given him the wrong pizza. [More]
Researchers Urge Government To Levy Tax On Pizza
By 3.16.10
While the current Soda Tax trend looks doomed to fail in New York state and Philadelphia, researchers are already making a suggestion for the target of the next sin tax — pizza. [More]
Domino's Makes Huge Profit Selling Less Crappy Pizza For Lower Price
By 3.3.10
While armed robbers might not like the taste of Domino’s pizza, the rest of the non-thieving world appears to be taking a liking to Domino’s recently revamped recipe and drastically dropped pricing. Want proof? The company’s fourth-quarter profits were double what they were a year ago. [More]
This Pizza Joint Sent My Credit Card Info Around Via Email
By 2.26.10
Andrew blogs about how he ordered pizza online and it came with an unwanted topping — fraud risk. [More]
Pizza Hut Throws Away Your Online Order And Sends You Home
By 2.25.10
Reader Jason says he ordered a pizza through Pizza Hut’s website. Everything went through fine, except when he showed up to get the pizza they told him they’d thrown it away because they stopped doing carry-out orders at 10. He says he ordered the pizza at 9:50 and the website confirmed his pick-up time of 10:19. [More]
