Has the publicity about Dominos Pizzeria workers putting disgusting stuff in the food turned you off to Dominos forever?
I’m interested in hearing from people that ate Dominos food prior to the incident.
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Yes! We just had this discussion last night. After seeing the employees of Dominos wipe their boogers into the pizza and messing with the food like that I will never eat at Dominos again. How can people do that to someone elses food? Its disgusting.
I can’t watch a Domino’s commercial without thinking about it. I ask myself “I wonder what ELSE is in those edible bowls”!
Never trust any food you didnt make yourself.
Then how would you make it? The items you bring home from the market are all manufactured by other people.
Wait, what?! Can I have a link please?
It ain’t just Domino’s. It can (and does) happen wherever douchebags work.
That’s one of the reasons I NEVER fight with people that handle my food. When I get delivery and they left something out, I do without. I figure the guy gets in trouble and hates coming back and might retaliate.
You’ll get some variation on this theme anytime you base a food business on employees who are badly paid, have no commitment whatsoever to their company because it offers them no future, never have any contact (and therefore no empathy) with the customers, and then make them do mindless work under pressure. I’ve just described most of the restaurants in America.
What turned me off even more about Domino’s was their pizza. It’s no good.
@Harp, and/or kids who are raised with no real responsibilities and who suffer no real consequences. The job is just a joke to them. They can always get another. And if not, it doesn’t matter, someone else will pay their way.
As a teen, I knew of two guys that worked at a local fish joint. They often urinated in the melted butter.
@Harp is exactly right.
Immaturity + Questionable Morals x Low Pay + Bad Working Conditions = A vomit inducing meal for you.
But shouldn’t management be watching the store? Isn’t it bad management? Look at the guy that took a bath in the Burger King sink. His manager was in the next room.
It’s bad management to create a situation where the only reason employees don’t piss in the food is because you’re constantly watching them. If that’s the case, there’s a systemic problem that goes way beyond lack of supervision.
The systemic problem is that people want to pay as little as possible for things. As a result, the related workforce must be paid little. You get what you pay for.
I don’t understand how it is that the amount of money these assholes made per hour is the cause of the problem.
Yes, I understand that if this was a $100K/yr job, they likely wouldn’t be so reckless. (Not always true, but for this discussion, I’ll concede the point).
But don’t you think that if they could actually qualify for a $100K/yr job and get hired that they would?
Some people are too young, too uneducated, too inexperienced to earn large sums of money right out of the gate. They can get there if they apply themselves. In the meantime, they must work their way up the ladder.
But there is also a very small percentage of people who are socially maladjusted (perhaps even psychologically so) that just get whatever job they can hold down for more than a week. They need work, too. And I’m glad they can get a job somewhere.
But at the end of the day, I see no reason whatsoever to blame the goodwill of the company that invested in hiring those people, paying them a fair wage, and entrusting them with the responsibility to act like professionals.
Dominos pizza has been vile since it’s inception. Their workers decision to add their own “secret special sauce” is a disgusting addition to an already foul product.
Ask yourself this: Where do you eat that this is happening but no one has found out about yet?
@robmandu , I’ll tell you why the salary is a factor. Because they pay “summer job” salaries, only young students will take those kind of jobs temporarily. Hiring an older person who needs to make the job his “career” isn’t always foolproof, but the odds are better that he/she won’t mess around. Clearly, food service should NOT be a “summer job” kind of a thing. Don’t get me wrong. Those irresponsible workers would have been irresponsible in ANY job, but the effect would not be on something people consume.
@The_Compassionate_Heretic, but it doesn’t have to only be where you eat. It can be at the bottling plants, the canning plants, the bakery in your local supermarket…
How do you know what someone added to your bottle of ketchup?
Having worked many food service jobs just for the summer, I’d say you’re crazy, @SirBailey. The problem is not the pay, it’s the person.
It IS the person. But the less the place pays, the more likely they’ll get applicants LIKE that.
@SirBailey, that is a false argument. Some jobs are intrinsically worth less to perform. They are paid relatively less than other more challenging professions.
Pizza preparation is a low skill task. I argue that if you raise the pay on that, you raise the price of the pizza. If pizza costs more, then people will need to earn more money in order to afford it (assuming they continue to buy just as much pizza as always). Those people will then seek higher pay in their own jobs (by changing jobs, getting more education, whatever). They’ll make more money then.
In this ridiculously oversimplified example, you’ll find that the pizza guy is still paid relatively the same over time.
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You operate under the assumption that pizza guy apparently has a metaphorical gun held to his head and that this is the only job he can work. But that’s not true.
He was offered a fair wage for work. He accepted the terms and entered into a contract. He can quit that job at any time if he finds those terms unacceptable. But there is no excuse, no where, no time that can even slightly mitigate the behavior witnessed at Domino’s.
Once again, I agree it comes down to the person.
If the video turned you off that much to Domino’s, then just avoid fast food and restaurants completely. This stuff goes on sometimes at many places, we just happened to catch it at Domino’s.
Yes, personal ethics are the final firewall against this kind of behavior.
But the dehumanizing environment creates the conditions that sorely test those ethics. Soulless jobs make people want to act out; it’s their way of saying “I’m not the mindless robot you take me for”.
They take the job because it’s the best they can do at the time, but I’m sure that most of them feel that they’re worth better than that even as they’re signing the contract. They go into the job already feeling undervalued. If the job then relentlessly tries to turn them into worker bees, they’ll lash out in ways they think they can get away with. I’m not trying to justify this; it’s just basic human psychology.
It’s not just about pay. It’s mostly about respect, but pay is one way of reflecting respect.
Wow. Have you ever worked at a pizza joint?
In general, those guys have it easy! It’s fun! It is certainly not “robotic”, “dehumanizing”, or “soulless”.
Obviously, there are exceptions… but not due to corporate culture. A repressive franchise workplace is likely the fault of the immediate mgmt team.
But again, the only blame here that I see is on the wankers who pulled this “prank”.
@SirBailey That’s where the FDA (US) comes in which establishes standards designed to protect the public from tainted food.
No system is perfect but there’s a mechanism in place.
I was turned off to Domino’s to begin with, based only on the quality of the “food.” Putting boogers on it might actually improve it.
Oh geez, now I’m grossed out. I love Domino’s pizza. I really don’t think this means that ALL Domino’s workers are bad. I go into the one that I always get food from, I nice, I tip well, they’re older foreigners and generally seem like nice people. I always order from the same one.
I’m with @robmandu I’ve worked many, many food service jobs and so has my husband. We both really haven’t encountered people who will mess with your food. Of course I’ve heard people joke about it, and I’ve even said “I wish I could spit on her food” But, I never, ever actually did it.
I had ton’s of guy friends that worked at Domino’s they even warned me not to eat there. They said “Things go on there that you just don’t even want to know about.” So of course I have taken there advice and have not ate there in more than 3 years.
That sort of stuff pretty much turns me off of restaurants in general.
I haven’t had a Dominos pizza in 20 years. Their pizza is the worst.
I have never had a Dominos pizza but i do want a pizza house to come to my area
No, I got turned off by them years ago.
i don’t know a thing about it, but i’m pretty positive that just as gross things happen everywhere else too. it’s the people, not the company.
Your in for quite a surprise if you think this is the worst that happens to food we eat on a daily basis…..
Listen to @uberbatman
I’ve worked in food service. I’ve never contributed to the nasty but there’s some f-ed up people in food service. They seek out food service positions for the opportunity to taint your food.
Yea my first 3 jobs were in food service industry. I dare not speak the horrors i saw. I would never fuck with another persons food though.
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