Entries tagged with 'Domino's'
Posted by Emily Koh, July 27, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Forget the predictable hot dogs and hamburgers at your next big event—now you can cater slices of Domino's, thanks to the Mobile Pizza Kitchen. Judging from the photos, it really does have a full kitchen inside with roomy counter space, three sinks, a conveyor gas oven, and air conditioning. Kind of like the family RV, but with more pizza.
The Domino's trailer will offer a select menu intended to feed the hungry masses at social functions like festivals, tailgate parties, and fund-raisers. The catch: For now, it's just available in Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina, home of the Cowabunga Inc., the Domino's franchiser who came up with it. [via Fast Food Critic]
Posted by Robyn Lee, July 22, 2008 at 12:15 PM
After spending 30 years testing the limits of what human beings will eat, the Domino's Pizza Institute has come to a startling discovery: "Decreasing the nutritional value and increasing the visual repulsiveness of their pizzas only makes them more popular." In other words, the Domino's Oreo Dessert Pizza is a hit!
Based on these findings, the Crispy Nacho Platter Pizza, Big New York Hot Dog Pizza, and Strawberries & Cream Milkshake Dessert Pizza may be coming to a Domino's near you. And after that, maybe even pizza topped with garbage! My brain says, "No," but my stomach says, "BRING IT ON!" Watch the video after the jump.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, July 17, 2008 at 6:00 AM
Clicking in to the Slice inbox this morning, we've got a message and some photos from our homeslice P.G. (aka Prairie).
Dear Adam and fellow Slice obsessives,
Long time no talk. How have you been? I've been well, though I wish I could be speaking to you on better terms. You see, at this very moment, I am digesting one of Domino's Gotham City Pizzas.
The things I do for this site.
Some of you may remember that I tipped Slice on this last month, and the tie-ins have really ramped up since then. Domino's has created a signature pizza, the Gotham Style Pizza. This pizza, as it turns out, is really just their standard large pie with 50 percent more pepperoni, delivered in a nifty black box, for $9.99—and, oh yeah, you might get a check for $10,000 just for ordering it.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, June 17, 2008 at 10:30 PM
I've gotta hand it to Domino's. They've come up with a pretty clever viral-marketing stunt in the creation of the fictional Gotham City Pizzeria website. It's got just enough detail to be fun, with an About Us page that gives the owners' story ("more than 200 locations throughout the City ... Now nobody has an excuse to eat bad pizza in Gotham") and Our Pledge to Gotham, in which GCP promises to support Batman. Two-Face Trailer: There's a "secret" link to a Two-Face trailer if you hover over the "HA" in Gotham on the GCP page. [Tip o' the hat to Philip G.]
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The GCP delivery box [Pizza Rules!]
Posted by Adam Kuban, April 5, 2008 at 10:00 AM
OK, yeah, so this one is not super pizza- or food-related, but I thought this was an interesting bit on blast-door art. From Design Observer:
Like the garish and cheeky illustrations etched across the noses of World War II aircraft, these images in launch control centers across the United States testify to the bravado of the men (and, from the mid-1980s onward, women) of what has been called “America’s Underground Air Force.” But they also reflect the sometimes surreal pressures faced by two-person missile crews on 24-hour duty alerts, waiting for a call to turn their missile launch keys and perhaps end civilization as we know it. “You’re sitting there waiting for the message you hope never comes,” says Tony Gatlin, who painted the Domino’s homage as a young deputy flight commander at Delta One in 1989. “That’s a pretty screwed up way of looking at the world.”
There's also a slideshow on the Design Observer site, if you want more grimness.
Posted by Adam Kuban, March 25, 2008 at 2:00 PM
As an oblivious English-speaking gringo, I'd never really thought about what you'd do as a Spanish-speaking pizza fiend. Well, Domino's thought about it and is now delivering en español. By dialing 888-DOMINOS, those who hablar the language can now reach an automated voice system that's probably as annoying in Spanish as these things are in English. I wouldn't know, as my high school–level español is pretty weak. That familiar doo-da-loo-doo-da-loo-doo-da-loo-doop sound that the system makes while "thinking," however, sounds the same in either language.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, February 1, 2008 at 6:00 AM
While some folks worry about Super Bowl food, planning menus and such, you and I already have a game plan. We're ordering pizza. But with all the options available from the nationwide chains, things can get a little confusing.
Who better than Slice to coach you through the pizza playbook? After the jump: careful analysis of the various crusts, toppings, and specialty pizzas from Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Papa John's.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, January 21, 2008 at 3:45 PM
I wish this AppleTV hack had screenshots or a video demo:
0.3.0 Brings in the much awaited Pizza on Demand (POD for short) This exciting feature will allow you to order pizza from Domino's and Papa John's directly from your AppleTV! Currently it is only possible to order one pizza with multiple toppings, this will change in the future as long as we can still develop plugins in AppleTV 2.0.
Installation: Pizza on Demand has a few essential requirements before it can function properly. 1. WebKit (Choose install software from the POD menu and then webkit installer) 2. Safari 3.0.3 or higher 3. UI Scripting enabled (this should be done during the installation of WebKit) 4. Must be in the US (sorry hope to expand this later) 5. Pre-existing accounts on Papa John's and/or Domino's online 6. Configure the accounts (Edit account Information from POD menu)
Ordering: After choosing Place Order, Safari will be launched and scripted (similar to the emulators being scripted) to fill out your order. If it stops before being finished and returns to the backrow list that means the UI scripting hit a snag. The timing is a little difficult for the loading of each web page so some times it fails and sometimes it succeeds, the release was rushed because of the upcoming take 2 release.
Or you could just, you know, use a phone. [via AppleTV Hacks, thanks to Dan Dickinson]
Posted by Adam Kuban, November 21, 2007 at 1:30 PM
Heh. Had you there for a minute, eh? Because, given the Oreo Dessert Pizza, the Crispy Melt, and all that, this Thanksgiving Feast Pizza mocked up by The Onion is not entirely implausible.
Posted by Adam Kuban, September 21, 2007 at 5:18 PM
Well, folks, unless they left me on the cutting room floor, yours truly will be appearing as a blabbing head tomorrow night on the new Food Network show Heavyweights. I'll be on an episode called "The Pizza Files."
The show pits two food industry rivals against one another and has commentators talk about them. The two biggies here: Pizza Hut and Domino's.
The short of it: Airs Saturday, September 22 at 9 p.m. ET. Check your local listings, set your TiVos, take some Tums.
The long of it after the jump, written just after I taped the show on July 6 and excerpted from my personal blog ...
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Posted by Adam Kuban, September 11, 2007 at 4:03 PM
We just had the Domino's Oreo Dessert Pizza delivered here at the office. It's about as good as you think it would be. (How's that for damning something with faint praise?)
The base layer is a thin crust that would be reminiscent of graham cracker if it weren't so bland, topped by a vanilla icing, with some Oreo crumbles applied atop in a swirled pattern.
This 10-inch dessert pizza is $3.99 with any purchase, but it would be an unthinkable order addition even at $0.00.
Related: Domino's Oreo Dessert Pizza commercial
Posted by Adam Kuban, August 8, 2007 at 8:00 PM
I don't know what's more unappetizing—the thought of Domino's new Oreo Dessert Pizza or the commercial they made to promote it:
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Posted by Adam Kuban, August 1, 2007 at 4:09 PM
Photograph courtesy of Jason Perlow
Posted by Ed Levine, July 27, 2007 at 3:03 PM
The clock was about to strike six when I called Domino's. I ordered a large Classic Hand-Tossed Italian sausage and a plain cheese pizza. The woman who took my order was exceedingly polite and said my pizza would be $12.45 and would take 30 minutes to arrive. I checked my watch a number of times, and then, like magic, at exactly 6:29 p.m., our doorbell rang. How did she know it would take exactly 30 minutes? What could Domino's possibly teach its employees in order for them to be able to tell me, to the minute, when my pizza would arrive? Or had the delivery guy been standing outside my door for the last eight minutes, waiting for the magic 30-minute signal to finally ring the bell?
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Posted by Adam Kuban, November 7, 2006 at 7:48 PM
Kim Severson of the New York Times does the best job yet of getting to the bottom of the puzzling Domino's Brooklyn Style Pizza kerfuffle. We're surprised she lived to write the story, after having brought the chain pie into Coney Island's Totonno's for comparison:
“Get that thing out of here,” was the first thing Totonno’s owner, Louise Ciminieri, said when she saw the Domino’s box.
Once we explained that we were on a mission to determine exactly what constituted a Brooklyn Style pie, she softened. Sort of. “When they say Brooklyn Style Pizza they’re referring to us,” she said. “We were the first ones.” [That's a snippet of a Totonno pie at right here. —Ed. ]
And here's a gem from Ms. Severson: "We purchased our Domino’s pie just a few blocks away from Totonno’s on Neptune Avenue. That it was handed to us over bulletproof glass turned out to be the most authentically Brooklyn part about it."
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