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NEWS ABOUT: Domino's Pizza

Domino's Pizza stories: 9 news summaries

 Tough Times 
 Push Chains to 
 Try New Fare 

McDonald's classy coffee, grilled KFC widen menus

May 27, 09 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Desperate times are driving chain restaurants to desperate measures—straying from their bread-and-butter dishes and diversifying the menu. KFC now sells grilled chicken, Domino’s offers subs, and McDonald’s dips into the world of espresso coffee, USA Today reports. “This is a defining moment for the industry,"... More »

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Pizza Hut • Domino's Pizza • fast food industry • KFC • chain stores • menu • food industry • Arby's • Boston Market • restaurant industry • National Restaurant Association

(Newser) - The first pizza shop in Domino’s founder Thomas Monaghan’s Catholic university town of Ave Maria, Fla., will not be a Domino’s, the Fort Myers News-Press reports. Domino’s says the town is covered by another franchise’s delivery radius, and Ave Maria will get a Milano’s... More »

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Florida • Catholic Church • Domino's Pizza • Ave Maria • Catholicism • pizza • Thomas Monaghan • Milano's Pizza

(Newser) - From fries drenched in salad dressing to cheeseburgers mashed between glazed donuts, Americans are not known for always possessing the most refined palettes. Minyanville takes a look at some of the worst offenders.
  • The KFC Famous Bowl, described as tasting like “your nephew’s half-eaten dinner plate”, mixes
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Domino's Pizza • Krispy Kreme • KFC • In-N-Out • Baskin-Robbins • Applebee's • Jamba Juice • Jones Soda • Denny's • Lonh John Silver's

(Newser) - One minimum-wage worker farts on a salami sandwich, and suddenly the president of Domino's is issuing a public apology? “This is the world turned upside down,” writes Garrison Keillor in the Chicago Tribune. In the actual world, the salami fart is nothing. “The night manager just says,... More »

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YouTube • brands • fast food • humor • Domino's Pizza • pizza • Garrison Keillor

Domino's Workers Fired for Gross-Out Video

Employees filmed doing worse than anything than the Noid ever dreamt up

Apr 15, 09 2:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Domino's Pizza is struggling to contain the damage after a video of disgusting antics in one of its kitchens surfaced on YouTube, Advertising Age reports. A male employee is filmed wiping his bare butt with a sponge he then uses to wipe a pizza pan, farting on pepperoni, and stuffing... More »

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YouTube • brands • fast food • food safety • Domino's Pizza • pizza

 TiVo Adds Domino's to Its Menu 

Users can order Domino's pizza from their TVs

Nov 18, 08 9:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Hungry? Don't get up from the couch. TiVo customers can now order Domino's pizza right on their TVs, the Wall Street Journal reports, in a promotion that pops up when a customer forwards through a Domino's commercial. The promotion has two goals: Beefing up the pizza chain's bottom line—shares... More »

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television • DVR • Domino's Pizza • pizza • TiVo • delivery service

Negative Ads Spread to Drive-Thru, Food Aisle

Tough economy forces brands to take pot shots at competitors

Oct 2, 08 4:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Perhaps inspired by politicians, marketers are stepping up the attacks in campaigns for consumers’ food dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports; complaints of misleading comparison ads are up 50% since last year. Hard times means marketers have to try harder to give consumers “a reason to buy you,”... More »

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advertising • marketing • Domino's Pizza • Subway • Campbell's Soup • attack ad • Progresso

Domino's Founder Grows His Catholic-Friendly Town

After a year, Florida's Ave Maria boasts close to 1K residents

Apr 14, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Almost a year after opening, Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan’s made-to-order Catholic town is growing. Although the 1,000 residents of Ave Maria, Fla., are not exclusively Catholic, the town wears it identity on its sleeve: The only coffee shop plays Mass on TV 24/7, and the bookstores prominently... More »

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Florida • Catholic Church • faith • Tom Monaghan • Domino's Pizza • Ave Maria • Catholic education • Catholicism • Roman Catholicism

Pizza Mogul Orders Town, University

Domino's founder courts controversy with new Florida development

Jul 19, 07 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ten years in the making, Ave Maria University and the eponymous town built around it by Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan will open Saturday. Monaghan is a devout Catholic, and the university—and to some extent the town—will reflect that. Intended as what Monaghan calls a "fresh, faithful... More »

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Catholic Church • Tom Monaghan • Domino's Pizza • Ave Maria • Catholic education

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