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[–] Donjuanme 44 points 1 year ago

"Buy one small soda, get one pizza franchise"

Mitch Hedberg

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Uhhhh yes here is my get 1 pizza get a million $ free coupon from totally real pizza chain

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every few years I try Domino's again to make sure my avoidance of them is justified and every time I'm reminded how right I am. Before you think I'm just a pizza snob, I like and semi regularly get Pizza Hut.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pizza hut is definitely better than Dominos, but at least in here (Spain), it's expensive as fuck, whereas Dominos is not that bad and it's much cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Domino's is dirt cheap here in Australia. Until last year, they were still doing large pizzas for $5 (which works out to something like 3 euros). They've gone up to $7 now, but that's still really cheap for a pizza that really isn't that bad

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's actually insulting that they're still allowed to call what they serve as a large pizza a large pizza. Then they had the balls to offer an "extra large" for more money which was the size they used to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By comparison though, they don't offer anything that big in the US for anything near as cheap as $7 AUD.

[–] KuroiKaze 4 points 1 year ago

Pizza Hut in America is the absolute worst, Aussie Domino's level I'd guess. The thin crust is marginally better than their other stuff.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Am I the only one who thinks dominoes is pretty good

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Out of the two of us? Yep.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Are you in the US or Australia (or somewhere else)? US Domino's is much better than the Australian version.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

US, so that might explain it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was so confused this whole time. I thought I was the only one who liked dominoes for a minute

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This post is on an Aussie server in a community for an Aussie city (Melbourne) so I'm not sure how so many Americans found the post!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found it on all without noticing the community name

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been on this platform for a while and didn't even realise there's an "all" section hahaha. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Did Aussie Dominoes not have the recipe change that the American one went through a decade or so ago?

[–] madcaesar 3 points 1 year ago

Domino's is fine, but only when they are 50% off.

[–] LemmyIsFantastic 16 points 1 year ago

Apparently this very common sales discount is desperate?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

May as well straight up say "Were confident we use the cheapest ingredients available, and we couldn't possibly pay our staff less!"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's funny how different Domino's America and Domino's Australia is. In Australia their pizza is so cheap it sounds like it must be made of cardboard. Over here they use pretty good ingredients. Little Caesars is our cheap enough to be cardboard pizza place.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As an Aussie living in the USA... Little Caesars is better than Australian Domino's. Aussie Pizza Hut is terrible too.

On the other hand, Aussie KFC is significantly better than the US version. Not as good as Popeyes or Chick Fil A though.

[–] FilthyShrooms 4 points 1 year ago

Funny, I always find dominoes tastes more like cardboard than Little Ceasar's ever does

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but good luck finding a coupon for cardboard from Staples. They know they have all the power...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Domino's closest competitor, an office supply store.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

American Officeworks

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Jokes aside, there's actually a possibility of getting decent deals with this. I seem to recall both pizza hut and Domino's doing similar things in the past, but I haven't seen any of these signs in ages, so I just assumed they'd stopped doing it

This is the Sebastopol Domino's if anyone happens to be out that way and has some coupons for other pizza shops

[–] Mr_Blott 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

A decent deal would invariably involve decent pizza, so that's not happening in Domino's

Support your local businesses instead of making billionaires richer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*Cries in Seattle having some of the worst pizza but still costs $30+

Seriously though I don't know why Seattle pizza is so underwhelming I used to live in Idaho they have better pizza and Idaho doesn't do anything well. Why is dominoes on par with the other places in Seattle but way cheaper.

[–] KuroiKaze 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like someone has never had Delfinos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Someone has now officially tried Delfino's! It is pretty good but I only give it a half win for Seattle because it is a very Chicago pizza. Regardless I'm happy I went and seems like somewhere I'll actually go back to so that puts it in the 'some of the best in Seattle' category for me.

[–] KuroiKaze 2 points 11 months ago

Chicago Pizza is the top tier anyway so I'm glad you dug it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is now on my list to try. Please I want good pizza here if you got more suggestions

[–] KuroiKaze 2 points 1 year ago

Ian's on the hill has fun stuff, I recommend the steak and tots. I don't eat a lot of pizza since I got in shape but those two have long been solid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Try it in Iceland your experience might be different

[–] LemmyIsFantastic -2 points 1 year ago

Domino's is pretty good pizza. A lot lot better than most local places. Most local places, especially outside cities are garbage pizza.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Eh, any "deal" that includes you ending up with a Domino's pizza isn't really a deal.

[–] chellomere 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sebastopol

Good try Russia, deals on Domino's pizza won't make me to go on vacation to occupied Crimea! ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] chellomere 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sebastopol/sevastopol is the capital of Crimea. I'm dropping in from viewing all communities, it appears it's also the name of a suburb in Australia?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's a Sebastopol in California too, near Santa Rosa. Seems like it's not an uncommon name?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Canadian here. I hope you Aussies have managed to dodge the horrendous garbage that is Pizza Pizza.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, the negotiator

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

large Domino's pizza has shrunk so much its comical

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

+1 to all my Turkish pizza places banging out quality pizza art 18" f