I really dislike Pizza Hut. Their last margherita made me feel really bloated.
Might as well cut back anyway, what with the whole fatty fatty boom boom thing
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I agree.
Pizza Hut have got really greasy recently. They used to be much nicer.
I discovered if you leave their pizza overnight and then reheat it in the oven the next day, the majority of the grease has soaked out into the cardboard so it's much nicer.
oh and you're a fatty boom boom too.
Pizza Hut have got really greasy recently. They used to be much nicer.
I discovered if you leave their pizza overnight and then reheat it in the oven the next day, the majority of the grease has soaked out into the cardboard so it's much nicer.
oh and you're a fatty boom boom too.
"He has to be larger than bacon"
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Ahem! Surely this belongs in Hymas winter kitchen!Hymagumba wrote:
I discovered if you leave their pizza overnight and then reheat it in the oven the next day, the majority of the grease has soaked out into the cardboard so it's much nicer..
Mind you i do love their nachos and Ben and Jerrys Phish food.
Dominos build your own pizza is just the bestest ever!
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As someone who recently reluctantly resigned my employment of almost 3 years with the Domino's Dream, I do feel the need to point out the fundamental difference between themselves and The Hut; Pizza Hut (along with most pizza shops actually) delivers ingredients to their stores frozen at which they are then defrosted. Most of the pizza bases at the hut are pre-made in a factory before being shipped out to the individual stores.
They then cook their pizzas in a pan which has previously been coated in an oil containing MSG - it essentially fries in it's own grease.
Domino's on the other hand work entirely with fresh stock which has never been frozen, and dough is delivered to the store in the form of dough balls (which have been made days, not months, previously) in a tray which are then hand slapped at the time of order ('slapping' is a pizza trade term for the fancy looking process by which a ball of dough is turned into a pizza base). They are then cooked not in a pan, but on a screen so that oils and grease can drain off during cooking.
The reason Domino's stores always show off the pizza making process itself whilst other chains do not is because Domino's is the only pizza chain with a production process that is worth it's customers seeing!
They then cook their pizzas in a pan which has previously been coated in an oil containing MSG - it essentially fries in it's own grease.
Domino's on the other hand work entirely with fresh stock which has never been frozen, and dough is delivered to the store in the form of dough balls (which have been made days, not months, previously) in a tray which are then hand slapped at the time of order ('slapping' is a pizza trade term for the fancy looking process by which a ball of dough is turned into a pizza base). They are then cooked not in a pan, but on a screen so that oils and grease can drain off during cooking.
The reason Domino's stores always show off the pizza making process itself whilst other chains do not is because Domino's is the only pizza chain with a production process that is worth it's customers seeing!
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Dominos is unquestionably the best pizza around.
Invariably, when I order one, I end up having another a couple of days later because its fresh in my mind how good they are.
Its still a relative rarity for me for one simple reason: £12.99 is an unreasonably high price to pay for a large pizza. I mean, it crazy. There is no need for it. Even taking into account city centre rates, overheads and delivery costs, the margin on their costs is massive. A similar hand-slapped pizza in the chip shop on my street corner (also city centre) is just over half the price.
It's like Chinese take aways. Ludicrously overpriced everywhere you go. A more suspicious man might think there was a cartel in operation run by Triads. I get the menus for dozens of chinese restaurants, and they are priced within a pound either way on every dish.
Back to Dominos - why can't I order some of the "special" pizzas (like the new chilli hot one) on the website? Annoyingly, the banner ad for it appears, but it's not on the menu unless you phone.
Invariably, when I order one, I end up having another a couple of days later because its fresh in my mind how good they are.
Its still a relative rarity for me for one simple reason: £12.99 is an unreasonably high price to pay for a large pizza. I mean, it crazy. There is no need for it. Even taking into account city centre rates, overheads and delivery costs, the margin on their costs is massive. A similar hand-slapped pizza in the chip shop on my street corner (also city centre) is just over half the price.
It's like Chinese take aways. Ludicrously overpriced everywhere you go. A more suspicious man might think there was a cartel in operation run by Triads. I get the menus for dozens of chinese restaurants, and they are priced within a pound either way on every dish.
Back to Dominos - why can't I order some of the "special" pizzas (like the new chilli hot one) on the website? Annoyingly, the banner ad for it appears, but it's not on the menu unless you phone.
Gavin Scott wrote:Back to Dominos - why can't I order some of the "special" pizzas (like the new chilli hot one) on the website? Annoyingly, the banner ad for it appears, but it's not on the menu unless you phone.
"He has to be larger than bacon"
Problem isn't with Domino's - it's with the franchisee who owns your local store deciding to charge that much. The Plymouth store which I worked at has some great deals, including £11 delivery, buy one get one free on collection, and large for the price of a small on collection.Its still a relative rarity for me for one simple reason: £12.99 is an unreasonably high price to pay for a large pizza. I mean, it crazy. There is no need for it. Even taking into account city centre rates, overheads and delivery costs, the margin on their costs is massive. A similar hand-slapped pizza in the chip shop on my street corner (also city centre) is just over half the price.
Best advice for using Domino's - DO NOT ORDER USING THE WEBSITE, EVER! It only contains national offers (although glitches like not offering the meltdown seem a bit odd) and frequently costs more than just phoning the store to take advantage of whatever deal they have.Back to Dominos - why can't I order some of the "special" pizzas (like the new chilli hot one) on the website? Annoyingly, the banner ad for it appears, but it's not on the menu unless you phone.
Web orders also do one other thing - they piss off the staff - Domino's stores use a particularly antiquated DOS-based POS system which dates back to 1991 - functionality for receiving online orders has been delivered by an inefficient cludge of patches. This usually means that an online order is signified by a ringing fax machine which physically needs to be picked up and put down before it stops ringing, or else with no audible signal at all, so that if the store is quiet, you suddenly find yourself noticing that there is a pizza on the makeline screen which may have been there for several minutes.
Further down the line, they piss off the oven tender due to a glitch in the software which can cause the box stickers for web orders to stop printing (even though they appear on the makeline screen), leading to a pizza coming out of the oven without knowing what it's for.
Then at the very end, they piss off the drivers, because the website provides you with a fairly long 'special instructions' box which gets posted into a small 'order comments' box on the software (and then the sticker) of only 25 characters or so - anything over this is discarded, which back in my early days of being a delivery driver led to me getting instructions like "Please can you ask the driver to d".
Ah well, 'twas all fun really...
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Interesting.
I rung the store to be told "just a minute", and was left hanging on listening to the noisy background for upwards of 3 minutes. I hung up and ordered online instead. I assumed they must be run off their feet, and I found the web quick and easy, especially as you can choose to pay cash on delivery.
As an existing customer, I did receive two postcards with special offers through saying "sorry we got it so wrong", and I realised my lost order must have flagged up somewhere. That was nice - but only redeemable by phone (for the reasons you state), and I had got into the habit of purchasing online, so they went unused.
Didn't know about the difference in price. I'll give the phone a go next time.
You'd probably have liked me as a customer. My special instructions were a concise "buzzer 4", and I usually tip too much.
I rung the store to be told "just a minute", and was left hanging on listening to the noisy background for upwards of 3 minutes. I hung up and ordered online instead. I assumed they must be run off their feet, and I found the web quick and easy, especially as you can choose to pay cash on delivery.
As an existing customer, I did receive two postcards with special offers through saying "sorry we got it so wrong", and I realised my lost order must have flagged up somewhere. That was nice - but only redeemable by phone (for the reasons you state), and I had got into the habit of purchasing online, so they went unused.
Didn't know about the difference in price. I'll give the phone a go next time.
You'd probably have liked me as a customer. My special instructions were a concise "buzzer 4", and I usually tip too much.
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Me too! I always get a service with a smile. Never sure if that's because my Pizzas been spat in or he's guaranteed a tip or both.Gavin Scott wrote: and I usually tip too much.
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I agree you cannot beat a Dominos Pizza, granted expensive, but more than worth it. Luckily where I am in Warrington I'm literally on the doorstep of one, so I'm quite lucky, but I rarely visit due to cost, echoing Gavin's comments here.
Myself and a colleague were talking about Pizza Hut earlier, though I'll go on again in saying that they are also expensive in a way. I far prefer the Lunchtime buffet available, that's a good value for money mix there, but I'll only ever go on a Weekday daytime when the Kids are in School, otherwise I wouldn't touch it with a 10ft barge pole. My sister also used to like Pizza Hut, but she's gone off it due to the amount of grease on the thing. Though I've not been to PH in ages, hardly something I'm dying to eat unless it's a Special occassion, which usually 9 times out of 10 is a Frankie and Benny's.
If you want a good value for money Pizza, I'd highly recommend a freshly topped one from Morrisons, though they aren't in every store, I managed to convert my girlfriend to have part of a Meat Fest last weekend and she's agreeing with me now that they are good.
Myself and a colleague were talking about Pizza Hut earlier, though I'll go on again in saying that they are also expensive in a way. I far prefer the Lunchtime buffet available, that's a good value for money mix there, but I'll only ever go on a Weekday daytime when the Kids are in School, otherwise I wouldn't touch it with a 10ft barge pole. My sister also used to like Pizza Hut, but she's gone off it due to the amount of grease on the thing. Though I've not been to PH in ages, hardly something I'm dying to eat unless it's a Special occassion, which usually 9 times out of 10 is a Frankie and Benny's.
If you want a good value for money Pizza, I'd highly recommend a freshly topped one from Morrisons, though they aren't in every store, I managed to convert my girlfriend to have part of a Meat Fest last weekend and she's agreeing with me now that they are good.
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