Is this to track where your order is? Or, is it like the Logan air traffic control feed, and shows you where every pizza is in the greater metropolitan area?
I've never liked Domino's, but Wiley loves them, and was very sad when our local franchise closed a few years ago. They've opened a new one, so I agreed we could order from them tonight.
Lesse. Lima Beans. Trout. (Usually) Stuffed peppers, although WIFE was kind and made them for my birthday this year. There's a few more I can't remember....
Dominoes is headquartered in Michigan, near where I grew up in Ann Arbor. The company my father worked for had their annual company picnic on the Dominoes grounds, which they rented out to corporate events.
At one point it came out that the founder and owner was a massive donor to the anti-abortion group "Operation Rescue." It was estimated that as much as 5% to 10% of every pizza's purchase price was going to Operation Rescue, through the founder. An outrageous debate sprang up, complete with fear mongering that the chain was donating directly, which it wasn't. Dominoes sagely capitalized on this insanity by offering a new "fund raising" program to churches and youth groups. The kids would sell pizza coupons. These coupons cost 50% of the purchase price of a Pizza, but could be redeemed for a full price pizza. The church / youth group / scout troop got to keep a percentage of the coupon price.
It SEEMED like a great deal for the groups, until the coupons arrived. They often expired in a couple of weeks, one batch expired in a mere five days. The first year, most people ended up not trying to cash their coupons until after they'd expired, never realizing they'd been sold something with such a short life span.
The next year (Yes, Grace Bible, the Christian School I was attending and the Church that ran it stuck with this program) the Dominoes reps reiterated that by going with this program, you were working with a pro-life company!
Surprisingly, this strategy worked. To get around the Mayfly life span of the coupons, parents followed the advice of the Dominoes rep and just ordered a few dozen pizzas before the coupons expired. These pizzas then went into the freezer. This meant people spent weeks to months eating Pizzas that had started off as frozen ingredients, been reheated into a pie and then refrozen, often in the cardboard pizza box.
My Mother, who had paid attention the previous year, had a very different attitude.
"Being Christian doesn't mean I'll let you rip me off."
My family didn't sell any coupons that year. We bought a single booklet of the coupons (Did I mention they weren't sold individually but in books?) because that's about how many we figured we'd use up before they expired.
That year some of the coupons expired three days after they arrived. The Church managed to get replacements for those coupons. The fist batch of replacements had the same expiration date as the original set, meaning they were already expired upon arrival. The second set of replacements expired a whopping week after they arrived. Dominoes blamed all this on "printing issues."
It was around this time my name came up on the waiting list at the school my parents WANTED me to be in, so I transferred. We learned that Grace Bible went with the program for a third year, despite the previous fiascoes. The third year was a total disaster, as they didn't mange to get replacement coupons for the ones that arrived expired.
Dominoes discontinued the program and Grace Bible shut down the school. Ironically, in order to participate in this catastrophe, Grace Bible had abandoned a very lucrative fund raising program involving boxes of Naval Oranges.
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Date: 2008-06-19 03:55 am (UTC)I like them even less than I used to.
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Date: 2008-06-19 04:24 am (UTC)Fine. Yet another food I'll eat when you're not around. :P
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Date: 2008-06-19 01:46 pm (UTC)At one point it came out that the founder and owner was a massive donor to the anti-abortion group "Operation Rescue." It was estimated that as much as 5% to 10% of every pizza's purchase price was going to Operation Rescue, through the founder. An outrageous debate sprang up, complete with fear mongering that the chain was donating directly, which it wasn't. Dominoes sagely capitalized on this insanity by offering a new "fund raising" program to churches and youth groups. The kids would sell pizza coupons. These coupons cost 50% of the purchase price of a Pizza, but could be redeemed for a full price pizza. The church / youth group / scout troop got to keep a percentage of the coupon price.
It SEEMED like a great deal for the groups, until the coupons arrived. They often expired in a couple of weeks, one batch expired in a mere five days. The first year, most people ended up not trying to cash their coupons until after they'd expired, never realizing they'd been sold something with such a short life span.
The next year (Yes, Grace Bible, the Christian School I was attending and the Church that ran it stuck with this program) the Dominoes reps reiterated that by going with this program, you were working with a pro-life company!
Surprisingly, this strategy worked. To get around the Mayfly life span of the coupons, parents followed the advice of the Dominoes rep and just ordered a few dozen pizzas before the coupons expired. These pizzas then went into the freezer. This meant people spent weeks to months eating Pizzas that had started off as frozen ingredients, been reheated into a pie and then refrozen, often in the cardboard pizza box.
My Mother, who had paid attention the previous year, had a very different attitude.
"Being Christian doesn't mean I'll let you rip me off."
My family didn't sell any coupons that year. We bought a single booklet of the coupons (Did I mention they weren't sold individually but in books?) because that's about how many we figured we'd use up before they expired.
That year some of the coupons expired three days after they arrived. The Church managed to get replacements for those coupons. The fist batch of replacements had the same expiration date as the original set, meaning they were already expired upon arrival. The second set of replacements expired a whopping week after they arrived. Dominoes blamed all this on "printing issues."
It was around this time my name came up on the waiting list at the school my parents WANTED me to be in, so I transferred. We learned that Grace Bible went with the program for a third year, despite the previous fiascoes. The third year was a total disaster, as they didn't mange to get replacement coupons for the ones that arrived expired.
Dominoes discontinued the program and Grace Bible shut down the school. Ironically, in order to participate in this catastrophe, Grace Bible had abandoned a very lucrative fund raising program involving boxes of Naval Oranges.