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Domino’s Making Pizza 50% Off When Ordering From Facebook Page On December 8

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:22:57 +0000

Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NYSE:DPZ) has announced that on December 8, customers across 19 countries will be able to receive 50% off any menu-priced pizza ordered online through a tab on their Facebook Page. Domino’s is celebrating their 51st birthday this week and they have stores in 70 international markets. If you are interested in being a part of Global Domino’s Day, visit the Domino’s Pizza Facebook Page.

When visiting the Domino’s Facebook page, users will be able to see how many fans have joined the Global Domino’s Day. The event will launch for customers in Japan at 7AM PST on December 7 and the party will keep going until 11:59PM PST in the U.S. on December 8.

“Domino’s is proud of our global presence, and we greatly appreciate our customers around the world,” stated Domino’s VP of multimedia marketing Dennis Maloney. “We’re excited to be able to unite our five million Domino’s Pizza Facebook fans, representing 19 different countries, with the same special offer.”

Domino’s Pizza Launches An iPad App For Building and Ordering Your Food [VIDEO]

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:58:31 +0000

Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NYSE:DPZ) has designed an iPad app that allows people to design and order pizzas. You can design the pizza on the screen and then order it in real life. The name of the app is Domino’s Pizza Hero. You can use the app to knead the dough, spread the sauce, sprinkle cheese, place toppings, and cut slices.

The objective of the game is to design the pizza as fast as possible. Levels one through five of the app is called “Pizza School.” When you hit level six, then your scores are based on reviews from in-game customers as part of a system called Domino’s Tracker. Domino’s Pizza uses an internal system of their own called Domino’s Tracker which is a real-time feed of consumer comments.

Players can compete again each other on the leaderboard of the game. Scores can be shared on Facebook and Twitter. If a player likes what they designed, they can hit the “Make an Order” tab within the app to order their exact creation in real life.

Crispin Porter + Bogusky is the ad agency behind the app. There are some parameters based on the type of pizza you can make. For example, you cannot knead the dough into an odd shape or have a pizza that has sauce on only half the pizza. If the app crashes, then you can order the creation from Dominos.com.

[Mashable]

Domino’s Pizza Revamping Online Ordering System, Hiring Employees In Ann Arbor

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:17:57 +0000

Ann Arbor based pizza corporation Domino’s Pizza is getting ready to revamp their website’s ordering system. The company will be hiring about 30 technology employees around Ann Arbor as a result. The ordering system on the Domino’s Pizza website accounts for about 20% of all sales.

Domino’s previously outsourced IT development to several firms in Illinois and California, but now the company is in-sourcing talent. “We’re bringing this in house,” stated Domino’s CIO Christopher McGlothlin in an interview with AnnArbor.com. “We’re offering Silicon Valley jobs in Ann Arbor.”

Domino’s has also revamped its pizza recipe in order to attract new customers. Domino’s has been using different sauce ingredients and bread ingredients.

So far Domino’s has about 150 IT employees and the company will be hiring the additional 20-30 from the schools from around the area. Ann Arbor is the home of the University of Michigan and is a few miles from Eastern Michigan University and Michigan State University. Domino’s e-commerce director Jim Vitek has already been networking at local tech events such as the Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup.

Domino’s Pizza has an annual revenue of $1.37 billion and runs about 8,700 stores across the globe. The company caters to different toppings based on the location of the restaurants.

Domino’s Pizza President Patrick Doyle Responds On YouTube To Disgusting Video

Amit Chowdhry — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:56:43 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about the video in which two former Domino’s Pizza employees made a disgusting video of them making food. One of the employees put some of the ingredients up his nose and placed it back in the food. The Internet was furious about the video and it spread like wildfire.

Domino’s made the right PR move by personally responding to the video. Patrick Doyle, President of Domino’s gave a message about the video above and mentioned that there are felony warrants out for the arrest of the two employees and that individual store in Conover, North Carolina was shut down and sanitized. The company will also be re-examining their hiring practices.

For more information, follow Domino’s Twitter account.

“Disgusting Dominos People” Shows How Crowdsourcing Teaches Pranksters A Lesson

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:03:15 +0000

Tom Monaghan founded Domino’s Pizza in Ann Arbor, Michigan around 1960. Today Domino’s is a $400 million public company with over 8,000 stores employing over 10,000 people across the globe. With that many employees working for Domino’s, it is hard to track some of the “bad apples” that have the potential to tarnish the company’s image. It could happen at any of the stores.

In this particular Domino’s store in North Carolina, a couple of dirty employees filmed a video and uploaded it on YouTube. In the video, the Domino’s employees taint the food by sticking some of the ingredients up their nose. The Consumerist wrote about this video earlier this week. The two teenagers took down the video, but it was re-uploaded by someone that downloaded the video. Dominos’ VP of Communications Tim McIntyre reported that the franchise owners fired those two teenagers immediately.

Although I feel bad for Domino’s having to deal with this mess, I like the fact that social media was able to bring down punishment upon those who deserve it. Personally I think that just being fired is not enough of a punishment. They could just move on to another restaurant and do the same thing there. I think their names should be released and they should be banned from working at any place that serves food. Give the guy a desk job, he can put all the boogers he wants under the desk there.