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[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago

"Buy one small soda, get one pizza franchise"

Mitch Hedberg

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago

Uhhhh yes here is my get 1 pizza get a million $ free coupon from totally real pizza chain

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Every few years I try Domino's again to make sure my avoidance of them is justified and every time I'm reminded how right I am. Before you think I'm just a pizza snob, I like and semi regularly get Pizza Hut.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Pizza hut is definitely better than Dominos, but at least in here (Spain), it's expensive as fuck, whereas Dominos is not that bad and it's much cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Domino's is dirt cheap here in Australia. Until last year, they were still doing large pizzas for $5 (which works out to something like 3 euros). They've gone up to $7 now, but that's still really cheap for a pizza that really isn't that bad

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's actually insulting that they're still allowed to call what they serve as a large pizza a large pizza. Then they had the balls to offer an "extra large" for more money which was the size they used to be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

By comparison though, they don't offer anything that big in the US for anything near as cheap as $7 AUD.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Pizza Hut in America is the absolute worst, Aussie Domino's level I'd guess. The thin crust is marginally better than their other stuff.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Am I the only one who thinks dominoes is pretty good

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Out of the two of us? Yep.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Are you in the US or Australia (or somewhere else)? US Domino's is much better than the Australian version.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

US, so that might explain it

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Did Aussie Dominoes not have the recipe change that the American one went through a decade or so ago?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Domino's is fine, but only when they are 50% off.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but good luck finding a coupon for cardboard from Staples. They know they have all the power...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

Domino's closest competitor, an office supply store.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

American Officeworks

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

May as well straight up say "Were confident we use the cheapest ingredients available, and we couldn't possibly pay our staff less!"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's funny how different Domino's America and Domino's Australia is. In Australia their pizza is so cheap it sounds like it must be made of cardboard. Over here they use pretty good ingredients. Little Caesars is our cheap enough to be cardboard pizza place.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

As an Aussie living in the USA... Little Caesars is better than Australian Domino's. Aussie Pizza Hut is terrible too.

On the other hand, Aussie KFC is significantly better than the US version. Not as good as Popeyes or Chick Fil A though.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cardboard covered with tomato sauce and cheese is tasty enough for the price

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Ehh, my sis worked there and I can't eat it anymore, even for free.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Funny, I always find dominoes tastes more like cardboard than Little Ceasar's ever does

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Apparently this very common sales discount is desperate?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Jokes aside, there's actually a possibility of getting decent deals with this. I seem to recall both pizza hut and Domino's doing similar things in the past, but I haven't seen any of these signs in ages, so I just assumed they'd stopped doing it

This is the Sebastopol Domino's if anyone happens to be out that way and has some coupons for other pizza shops

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

A decent deal would invariably involve decent pizza, so that's not happening in Domino's

Support your local businesses instead of making billionaires richer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

*Cries in Seattle having some of the worst pizza but still costs $30+

Seriously though I don't know why Seattle pizza is so underwhelming I used to live in Idaho they have better pizza and Idaho doesn't do anything well. Why is dominoes on par with the other places in Seattle but way cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Sounds like someone has never had Delfinos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Someone has now officially tried Delfino's! It is pretty good but I only give it a half win for Seattle because it is a very Chicago pizza. Regardless I'm happy I went and seems like somewhere I'll actually go back to so that puts it in the 'some of the best in Seattle' category for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Chicago Pizza is the top tier anyway so I'm glad you dug it

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Try it in Iceland your experience might be different

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Eh, any "deal" that includes you ending up with a Domino's pizza isn't really a deal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Sebastopol

Good try Russia, deals on Domino's pizza won't make me to go on vacation to occupied Crimea! ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sebastopol/sevastopol is the capital of Crimea. I'm dropping in from viewing all communities, it appears it's also the name of a suburb in Australia?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Canadian here. I hope you Aussies have managed to dodge the horrendous garbage that is Pizza Pizza.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Ah, the negotiator

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

large Domino's pizza has shrunk so much its comical

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they should try making actually edible pizza...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Honestly it's better than it was. They're still not even in my top 5, local pizza shop over chain any day of the week, but if you're in a tight place financially, you can get a good meal for very cheap

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

They don’t have much consistency across franchises. All the Domino’s range from edible to garbage to utter garbage.

What we have noticed (with all pizza shops, probably most franchises takeaway shops) is; A) they open with original Franchisees. Food quality is great and price is appropriate. B) they start replacing managers with casual staff paid nothing. C) Franchise gets sold. D) new franchise owners skimp on everything and quality goes down significantly.

The problem is that if you skimp on cheap ingredients for a Souvlaki GR or Burgled, the quality goes from fantastic, to mediocre, to meh. Dominos starts at Mediocre, crashes to Shit immediately after the honeymoon period.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I mean, pizza is pizza, right? COWABUNGA!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

brb gonna hand-write "free pizza" on a napkin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

+1 to all my Turkish pizza places banging out quality pizza art 18" f

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