What's Domino's big announcement that will change everything?
For some reason today, every ad on OzBargain has been a countdown to a big announcement by Dominos next week. Pretty big claim.
Dominos vending machines? Tweet a pizza delivery? Pizza stuffed in a crust of a pizza?
The cynic in me thinks it's nothing but an advertisement but who knows.
EDIT: LOL at their Facebook page
Horse meat stuffed crust
Davo (edit)
Likely answer has been discovered, Dominos has filed a trademark for "CHEF'S BEST IT'S A GAME CHANGER" (aka premium pizzas)
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+7 votesPizza that is what you actually ordered? Maybe they're starting a system of corporal punishment for any staff member who screws up an order.
Maybe their dismal strike rate will improve. I'm getting tired of the risk of getting some stinky gherkins & fish pizza instead of the normal pizza I ordered.
+2 votespfpozbargain on 04/03/2013 - 13:43 ¶I like their cheese pizza, I think the less they do to the pizza, the chance of something going wrong is lower.
+8 voteskangaberries on 04/03/2013 - 15:16 ¶It's probably this?
http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post.aspx?post=da2437ae-f1de...
Seems viable. Or maybe something like this that they also do in the US now?
http://consumerist.com/2013/03/05/dominos-online-pizza-order...
vicerum on 08/03/2013 - 09:25 Comment score below threshold (-6).
+4 votes
+2 votesnitramartin on 05/03/2013 - 17:58 ¶The Surfers Paradise store has been operating with this logo for the last 12 months. Most people never even realise it's a Domino's because the whole place feels more classy decked out in timber and dark tiles instead of the usual white, red and blue. They even serve beer on tap there too!! Maybe Dominos are going to start delivering alcohol with their pizza… :-D
+1 votedeal seeking missile on 08/03/2013 - 19:17 ¶I went to that one a few days ago and you're right that place looked cool, had beer and had a nice outdoor deck, but the pizza sucked. I ordered extra prawns and chicken on my pizza and i got exactly 4 prawns on it >:( All the other toppings were just barely there. My local Domino's adds approximately 2~3 times more toppings and delivers within 20 min.
For god's sake, how hard is it to get right, they should just replace the buffoons at stores with low customer satisfaction with machines that can add consistent amount of toppings every time!
You answered your own question.
The licensed Dominos has pizza as a sideline to go with the beer.It's like they're trying to muscle in on Little Creatures in Freo and Fitzroy — overpriced, small-portioned, average food to compliment the beer.
Yeah, good luck with that!
- +4 votesstrangeloops66 on 05/03/2013 - 10:47 ¶
Biggest announcement in 20 years: "Your pizza is ready."
+1 voteseanbsydney on 05/03/2013 - 11:39 ¶I think it's that they are going to give a free pizza to everyone that comments on this post. That's why they've splattered their ads over ozbargain.
I wish that was the case. The ads have also been splattered on TV as well. It better be something big.
They should use their leverage as a courier company and start delivering non-pizza related items. Many moons ago in the dot com era, there were companies (kozmo.com) in the US doing that. Want a DVD or a stapler delivered within an hour? They could do it. Then they went bust.
- seanbsydney on 05/03/2013 - 11:59 ¶
You have so little faith in ozbargain! Maybe we've hit it big now!!
- seanbsydney on 05/03/2013 - 11:40 ¶
Notice how I made every post slightly different so they're all unique? Think I'm pretty smart.
- +2 votesstrangeloops66 on 05/03/2013 - 16:22 ¶
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+1 voteilovepizza on 08/03/2013 - 17:29 ¶3D Printers… it will still taste as good as the pizzas they have now
+2 votesMaybe they moved into frozen pizzas.
Or offering free taxi service (in the pizza delivery car) straight to your door if you order over $20.
Or you can track your pizza arrival on phone/computer see the pizza leave the store and head your way on the roads.
Or they use flying drones to airdrop your pizza.
or they releasing a new kangaroo meat pizza.
or you save 50 cents on your pizza if you use a re-useable pizza-box (That cost $5 one-off purchase)
or you could customize your pizzas down to fine details such s the amount of each ingredient. How how well done each pizza is.
or they found life on their pizzas beating NASA to the game.
- +7 votes
Guys,
Check this recent patent out - http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/atmoss/falcon_details.sho...
It is a service called Domino's Barman Express, Apparently a service to deliver alcoholic beverages.
- PresidentClinton on 07/03/2013 - 20:42 ¶
Dominos is delicious! People who don't like it are such snobs. Underhandedly accusing us domino-eaters of having no taste.
- +2 votes
Well spotted. Looks like they registered the domain.
Whois response for barmanexpress.com.au:
Domain Name barmanexpress.com.au
Last Modified 18-Dec-2012 01:11:34 UTC
Registrar ID Melbourne IT
Registrar Name Melbourne IT
Status ok
Registrant Domino's IP Holder LLC
Word: DOMINO'S BARMAN EXPRESS
Image:
Lodgement Date: 05-JUN-2012
Acceptance Due: 24-SEP-2013
First Report: 24-JUN-2012If the service isn't due for acceptance until the end of September, I wonder why they are announcing it this Wednesday?
- strangeloops66 on 05/03/2013 - 23:18 ¶
Link not working for me, but if it's the same as the one you posted earlier, then it is a trade mark application, not a patent application. Nothing too inventive about home delivery, I would have thought.
- +3 votesstrangeloops66 on 05/03/2013 - 22:29 ¶
I reckon Akkurat has it nailed.
"I'll have 5 pizzas, 2 slabs of beer, and hold the pizzas!"
+3 votestyler.durden on 06/03/2013 - 07:39 ¶From now on, they will wash their hands after using their toilet
+2 votesDetective fishlips on 06/03/2013 - 16:06 ¶It's not alcohol. Delivering alcohol would be a nightmare to manage.
Domino's Pizza head office is Brisbane based and has its own IT department (domain register lists Melbourne IT)
The logo with the green leaf was just to symbolise that the store is a green store (using recycled materials, electric scooters etc).
Delivering alcohol is no more a nightmare than anything else.
To register a domain requires you to be a registrar, and Melbourne IT is a major one in Oz.
The biggest thing against it is the issue of storage - but I can see ways around that.
Personally I think someone in Domino's central has hit on the idea of delivering a pizza AND …. as a new biz model to reinvigorate profits.
- +1 voteDetective fishlips on 06/03/2013 - 18:45 ¶
I can tell you its NOT alcohol.
There certainly are some wild ideas thrown around in here!
Or They will use vending machines inside stores.. With streaming cameras and all.. You'll see the ingredients you pick being added to the pizza and it being cooked. Just like making your own pizza with no clean up afterwards.
Or Dominoes will introduce a new line of Ultimate Delivery Vehicles to deliver pizzas. http://www.gizmag.com/dominos-pizza-vehicle/24738/. Of course they souped it up more looking more like the ice-cream truck that Homer drove around in an episode of the Simpsons.
Or Dominoes will introduce the Ultimate Heatwave bags where the pizza is cooked (partially) during delivery.. Hence You get your pizzas delivered 10 minutes faster.
Or Dominoes will release a real tracker + video streaming. On the existing system people have said they watched their pizza being announced as done in their live tracker when the store ran out of dough. Or if you just order drinks it apparently takes time to be prepared in the oven. Pizzas will be placed onto trays with heat-resistant bar-codes and a scanner at each station will track the exact progress of your pizza(s), video streaming will automatically switch to another camera when a scanner is triggered by a tracked bar-code. Once in the oven you'd be able to track the pizza temperature via readings from an infrared camera. There will be a social side to this able to make and share custom pizzas with friends and strangers online, a bar-code stuck to the box (similar to the heat-dot.) Will facilitated this allowing you to share your thoughts to people on any social network (for those who did not place the order.). Rate them and comment. Save and store whole orders and be able to reuse them in the future. Imagine a one-click pizza order (with ability to cancel your order in the first minute).
Or Dominoes will partner with another fast-food chain from overseas.. From 8am to afternoon they will be selling non-pizza based fast food.
+1 voteWhen I was in the UK 2 years ago. Dominos had just started selling toasted subs… Kind of like toasted subs from subway. It was pretty popular… But I think that was because they were giving them away free with a coupon from the paper. Not a bad deal. For less than a quid (£1) you got the paper, a page three girl and lunch.
PS. Managed to find an article: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/3161408/Free-Dominos-Ov...
- +3 votestyler.durden on 06/03/2013 - 22:20 ¶
They opening a new business called
"Domi-Whores"
Now you can order a prostitute with your pizza
- +2 votesstrangeloops66 on 08/03/2013 - 17:50 ¶
If the driver is late, you get to watch him get flogged.
+1 voteBartholemewH on 07/03/2013 - 00:18 ¶They might stop selling all the other crap they call 'sides' and 'desserts'. Who has ever bought a box of meatballs or mini pancakes or wings from Dominos and actually got something that could pass for food? First you need a magnifying glass to find the stuff in the box, then you eat one and immediately throw the rest out. Maybe keep pizza in the name and concentrate on making pizzas.
OR for every 10 pizzas you pre-order (for the next day) you'll get a free traditional pizza (if you spend more than $5 for a pickup.)
That way they know more or less how much of each topping to take out for the tomorrow. (making each pizza on the average fresher.) They send a courtesy SMS 1hour beforehand and you can cancel the order if necessary. Incidentally all the coupons they give out result in pizzas being 10% more expensive then before the free pizza offer.
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_Bruce_ on 04/03/2013 - 13:23
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strangeloops66 on 09/03/2013 - 18:56+13 I put it there.
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Steptoe on 06/03/2013 - 15:56
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joelab on 08/03/2013 - 10:14+10 They're?
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ejsteven on 05/03/2013 - 21:51
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