Immune system topples like dominos after bad pizza

Have to say that on the northside at Dominos Florey the pizza has been in a steady decline for some time (like since they moved there from Page). I remember the good old days when it was Jacko’s and Silvio’s. The toppings have become less and less and the general quality of the pizza has gone to crap. I enjoy the gourmet pizza from Charcoal Chicken at Charnwood or making my own. Nothing worse than getting a crap pizza when you are hungry and then having to take it back. I’m sure there are plenty of people who just eat it and vow to never go back there again……….until they next feel like pizza and they do go back…lolz. It’s always price versus quality. The pizza chains are cheap and the quality is crap, take-away gourmet pizza is a bit pricier but better quality.

Joebot said :

I stopped going to the Mawson Dominos after I was advised my plain cheese pizza had somehow msteriously been “made as a meatlovers, is that OK?”

Being a vegetarian, no, it wasn’t. Weston Creek Dominos – too many attrocities to list.

Jonno’s or Plaka’s are infinitely superior choices for a Mawson pizza.

So you stopped going because they asked if that was okay? They didn’t insist? They asked if you cared?

They simply asked, and because you were a vegetarian you got highly offended and never went again? Because they dared to ask if you minded before they made a new pizza?

Have I understood this correctly?

Dude, you ordered an 8 meat pizza. What do you expect?

I think he expected 8 meats….

Although, when you consider the camel anus, lama lips, and road kill ‘roo in the salami, it must be pretty close to eight!

I stopped going to the Mawson Dominos after I was advised my plain cheese pizza had somehow msteriously been “made as a meatlovers, is that OK?”

Being a vegetarian, no, it wasn’t. Weston Creek Dominos – too many attrocities to list.

Jonno’s or Plaka’s are infinitely superior choices for a Mawson pizza.

folkie said :

If your after good pizza, try APK either in the city or in Woden. They do amazing woodfired pizzas, and the service is generally pretty good. Only problem: they don’t deliver.

lol. the seervice at apk woden is terrible. The place at curtin makes pretty good and decently priced pizzas. Dellissio i think its called.
Best pizzas i have ever had was from the old video arcade and anime movie rental place that used to be near revolution in civic. um, kc’s i think. i wish that place never closed down.

Dude, you ordered an 8 meat pizza. What do you expect?

Home-made is best.

For about seven bucks you can make two of these, which are about the best-tasting pizza there is: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Flammekueche

Can’t say i’ve had massive problems with pizzas from dominos/pizza hut. The dominos ones are smaller and less toppings than pizza hut, though can vary depending on which 15 year old made them. I always check the orders though, they mixed my order up once.. was easily solved when insisting they make the right orders from scratch.

If you make them in your backyard wood-fired pizza oven….

Very high on my list of things to build when I buy a house (hopefully soon)…

tastyjam said :

touche, InstantMash.

i can’t believe no-one complimented by heading… i thought it was genius…

That’s actually how I knew this was your thread. It was too good not to be. (No offence, fellow rioters…)

Kudos to you, tastyjam.

YUM!!! Evatt pizza rocks! Plenty of tasty cheese! I have had lots of friends from suburbs on other side of Belco make it their preferred.

Domino’s Florey isn’t too bad, could be biased cause my daughter works there, but was there regular plenty before that. MMMMMM I’m quite addicted of late to a cheese lovers on puff pastry base with BBQ sauce.
I used to have to have chilli flakes on their pizza’s because you could rely on your pizza being bland half the time (damn smoking). I also love their chicken kickers & choc brownies. This summer I’m afraid you can’t beat their cold coke, think I need new seals on my fridge!

Funny someone related the catholic church to Domino’s, no surprise then that my daughter’s Catholic high in the same suburb is a feeder of ready servants…

I only just fell over this site today, I’m having fun going through the archives 🙂 I think it’s great, thanks whoever started it.

OP, just be glad you didnt try the vegetarian or any other pizza that has garlic on it.

Both the Mawson and Conder stores seem to think that the garlic paste (which you would normally put about 1 teaspoon of into a whole dish) is actually to be spread across the pizza like the tomato sauce, nice and thick. Any time a friend orders one, I can literally smell the garlic as soon as I pick up the box.

astrojax said :

i rekkun we all move to jackson with ant and she can shout us a slap-up mexican feast, with real mexican, not just plastic tacos…

Seconded!

touche, InstantMash.

i can’t believe no-one complimented by heading… i thought it was genius…

Thus, you should have just CALLED Pizza Hut. Your flatmate could have just gone to the ATM and gotten cash out. Now you’re sitting at home with food poisoning, and I’m sitting at home laughing at your sorry arse.

P.S. We should totally recommend that store to a certain Mr. Richmond when he arrives.

Absent Diane said :

domino’s = evil. Owned by the founder of legatus (Tom Monahan) the catholic churchs dirty money wing.

The money made from every Domino’s pizza is donated to good Christian soul(dier)s so they can purchase the materials needed to level one of Satan’s abortion clinics nearest you.

Domino’s Pizza. Funding Pro-life militants since 1960.

If your after good pizza, try APK either in the city or in Woden. They do amazing woodfired pizzas, and the service is generally pretty good. Only problem: they don’t deliver.

Kieran: from my non-legally binding research, I’ve found a direct correlation between the delivery means and the quality of delivered product. *pulls up pants* “back in my day…”

Pizza delivered in a car with mahoosive understeer (Datto 120Y) results in an intact yet cold pizza because everyone knows Dattos + gravel = win.

Pizza delivered in a Suzuki Swift with a big red phone on top driven by a 16 year old stoned maniac wearing a giant beagle suit being paid per delivery will result in hilarity, mais pizza tres mal.

FeNc3y said :

I’ve refused to use any Domino’s since I took photo’s of one of their drivers in uniform, letting his mates “car surf” on the roof of a Dominos vehicle at Pine Island.
I reported it to Domino’s and had no reply – they didn’t even want to see the pics.

I’d love them. images@the-riotact.com

Make your own. For about $20 you can have three to four of the best pizzas on earth. If you make them in your backyard wood-fired pizza oven then they might even be the best pizzas in the universe!

PreciousLilywhite said :

PreciousLilywhite @ #17:
If you combine more than three meats from three different animals in one meal, the animals form together, Voltron style, and kick the sh*t out of you from the inside out.
True story from the book ‘Food Poisoning for Dummies’.

Funniest thing I’ve read all day! Thanks 😉

PS: far too many errant apostrophes in this thread. What’s a “pizza is” or a “photo is”?

If you’re in Weston Creek then go to Fisher takeaway for pizza. Yummmm!

my body aches like I just woke up after passing out in the bathroom at Cube

Body? Or botty??

I’ve refused to use any Domino’s since I took photo’s of one of their drivers in uniform, letting his mates “car surf” on the roof of a Dominos vehicle at Pine Island.
I reported it to Domino’s and had no reply – they didn’t even want to see the pics.

i rekkun we all move to jackson with ant and she can shout us a slap-up mexican feast, with real mexican, not just plastic tacos…

much easier to make your own pizzas – at least you know what you’re getting; and its cheaper!

my body aches like I just woke up after passing out in the bathroom at Cube.

My guffaw for the day, many thanks for that.

The only way to guarantee a great pizza is to make it yourself, including the dough for the base.

Mass produced ones suck.

I’m mystified by finding real Mexicans in the Tetons! why would they live somewhere so cold? It’s Vermont-cold here. I may not get to try them until Wednesday night as there’s “do’s” on the next 2 nights. But the hand-scrawled Specials card on the door looked the goods.

Take-away pizza from Belluci’s Woden is one of the best. Although, you can’t have it delivered. So get delivery and eat cr@p, or go get the good stuff yourself.

And if you think the store has given you food poisoning, you should make a complaint to ACT Health.

Sounds like you’re having a great time, ant.

: )

I am probably more jealous of your proper Mexican restaurant full of real Mexicans than your pizza though, although that does sound yummy.

Interesting the differences between the franchises here and there. I found Maccas quite different in LA – too much creamy mayo sort of sauce which was quite different from here.

I second Evatt take away. Had a pizza from there which had a ridiculous abmount of (good) topping.

Normally I can get through a large pizza myself, if I push it. I had just 3 slices of that Evatt pizza before my belt broke.

Tonight I had a really good pizza from Dominos. The catch is, it was in Jackson, Wyoming. The Dominoes in Canberra are appalling, the pizza is just not food. It’s not edible, much like KFC.

But it was cold and I’d acquired a jar of jalapenos to improve it with. You have to tell them everything you want here, what htey start with is a Cheese pizza. So I got a thin crust (and it was, and rather nice) and pepperoni, olives, tomato, and extra cheese. And with a jalapeno slice per bite, it was (I hate to say it), rather nice. Not greasy, not tasteless, not stodgey.

Oddly though, they’d cut it into a grid pattern, not the usual slices.

Hopefully I still have a thyroid upon waking tomorrow.

Sadly, there is a proper Mexican restaurant next door full of real Mexicans that does take out so dinner will be from there next time I’m buying dinner.

KieranAP is Kieran from Adventure Paintball. Paintball groups often smash some pizza at the end of their booking – looks like Domino’s are the source of those pizzas.

I agree with Duke though – they tend to look after their big customers. I used to manage a sports centre that pulled 350 pizzas out of our chosen supplier at the time every three months. Most of the time they bent over backwards to do whatever we wanted.

I could kill for some pizza right now.

Stupid nutritional discipline.

I think you’ll find the quality varies location-by-location. For example, I find Dominoes in Erindale to be better then the Pizza Hut there whereas my friend swears that the Pizza Hut in Cooleman court is far better then the Dominoes there.

As for the driver, he probably figured that on a pre-paid by credit card delivery there is 0% chance of a tip so customer-service wasn’t really on the top of his mind. Also, to put your mind at rest consumers are protected against Credit Card fraud by the Bank so really checking your Credit Card is for their benefit not yours.

Second Lastly, There’s no excuse to be paying loads (Although the OP got a heaps sweet deal, assuming $3.95 for the coke the pizza’s only cost him $6.95 each with no delivery surcharge!) for a pizza in Canberra they all price-match and honour competitors coupons. Dominoes is also a heavy advertiser on the back of super-market dockets. Use http://www.hotdockets.com and find the best deal!

Finally, the best pizza you can get from one of those stores is a create-your-own Pepporoni, Pineapple, Anchovies & Garlic pizza. True story.

Someone actually gets their pizza’s from a chain?

When I moved from Brisbane 5 years ago I was amzaed that all the takeaways in the suburbs made pizzas. What was even better was the fact that they are all immensly better than the chain. Try the Evatt Takeaway or Charcoal Chicken and you will definately do better.

kieranAP – “Problems are sorted out quickly and professionally”……….of cause they are……when you’re buying 40 pizzas a week!!!!

kieran AP said :

I get about 40 Domino’s pizzas a weeked from the Erindale store.

I always find them to be good quality and easily definable by the toppings.

Problems are sorted out quickly and professionally. A quick (polite) phone call or visit to the Manager (not in the middle of peak times) tends to resolve issues well.

Also haven’t seen any relationship between means of delivery (eg Datto 120Y) on the quality of the product delivered. When I was a kid my first car was a piece of sh$t, but it was all I can afford. Not sure the kids should be bagged out for trying to make a quid and not having a rich parent to buy them a boy racer.

One last thing, these guys make 100’s of pizzas a day, if they were responsible for a food poisoning outbreak I think that would have made the news by now as 1000’s would be affected etc.

Kieran AP

You wouldn’t happen to be the Manager of Domino’s Erindale by any chance?

If you combine more than three meats from three different animals in one meal, the animals form together, Voltron style, and kick the sh*t out of you from the inside out.
True story from the book ‘Food Poisoning for Dummies’.

Eyeball In A Quart Jar Of Snot said :

The fact that you think La Porchetta is ‘awesome’ in my opinion pretty much completely invalidates any credibility you may have had.

They make pizzas exactly like a pizza store I used to frequent as a kid in Geelong. I equate that time in my life with immense joy and thus perhaps I may be biased. However you are the first person I’ve communicated with who has given them a negative review. It’s not for me to judge though, God will punish you for your blasphemy.

I get about 40 Domino’s pizzas a weeked from the Erindale store.

I always find them to be good quality and easily definable by the toppings.

Problems are sorted out quickly and professionally. A quick (polite) phone call or visit to the Manager (not in the middle of peak times) tends to resolve issues well.

Also haven’t seen any relationship between means of delivery (eg Datto 120Y) on the quality of the product delivered. When I was a kid my first car was a piece of sh$t, but it was all I can afford. Not sure the kids should be bagged out for trying to make a quid and not having a rich parent to buy them a boy racer.

One last thing, these guys make 100’s of pizzas a day, if they were responsible for a food poisoning outbreak I think that would have made the news by now as 1000’s would be affected etc.

Kieran AP

Every couple of years I try a domino’s pizza. And every time I do it seems worse then last time.

I am sure that back in the mid-nineties there were tonnes of pizza places around, eagle boys, pizza hut, jackos, etc. Often all servicing the same or overlapping areas. Now it seems that it is luck is there is one close to you, and as we have established, they are crap. It’s not that people have stopped eating pizza is it?

My mate told me this story the other day over lunch…

Seems he saw the ad for their Tony Pepperoni (http://www.dominos.com.au/menu/pizzas/) and since he likes a lot of pepperoni he ordered one and went in to pick it up. Got home, opened the box and thought he had the wrong order. Insted of the masses of pepperoni in the Dominos adverising, there was a single titchy slice of pepperoni for each pizza slice.

Next time he went in he took the picture from the flyer, and when the pizza was handed over he checked it against the picture and summoned the Dominos employee, then the manager to check the pizza against the advertised product. The store couldn’t see the problem and told him if he wanted the same amount of papperoni as in the ad he would have to oder extra topping, taking the pizza price from $12.50 to $15.10 I think he said. Not wanting to miss the footy on TV he went with that rip-off but was even more determined to get even.

So next week when it was pizza time, he ordered the Toni Pepperoni with double extra topping of pepperoni, which was supposedly worth nearly $18.00. Then, in a masterful stroke of consumer power, he counted out $12.50 and put that in his pocket. At the counter he received the pizza, opened the carton, inspected the pizza and carefully pulled out $12.50 and put that on the counter. When the staff tried to get the rest of the money the pizza was supposedly worth, he pulled out the ad and in front of all the customers in the store had it out with the manager as to whether the pizza that supposedly had double pepperoni did in fact contain any more that the advertised normal version.

Suffice to say that the manager had to admit, in front of all the other customers in the store, that the pizza that had been ordered with double extra pepperoni, only contained about the amount of topping that was in the advertised product.

He’s happy to leave well enough alone now, and will probably continue to patronise the business. Lucky for Dominos it was him not me, or they would have been pursued through Trade Practices until they wished they had never opened their rip-off business..

So stop eating it.

It will be the same next time and the time after that.

I know people who complain and complain every time they get it but will get it the next week thinking it might be different.

Go into their shop in Mawson. The manager is about 15 and hangs out the front next to his busted old attempt at a done up car. Acting like working at dominos is the utter shit and how you couldnt get much cooler than standing out the front in your untucked dominos uniform.

domino’s = evil. Owned by the founder of legatus (Tom Monahan) the catholic churchs dirty money wing.

Last time I went into Weston Domino’s, after a second time of the order not getting to us in time, I found out why. There was one person working the entire shop (customer service, making pizzas, etc), and as best I could tell, noone to do the deliveries….

yeah I’ve been there a few times recently, quality’s not bad (as good as i could expect from Dominos). But I agree about the wait times… They seem to take forever! even if its not remotely busy.

If you shop at Dominos, Pizza Hut, Maccas, KFC et al you really have no grounds to complain (food poisoning aside, I think…). The food is cheap, made by stoned 15 year olds and delivered in a Datto 120Y. You get what you pay for (ie pus.)

“My thyroid glands are swollen”?????? You have more than one? And it’s/they affected by possible food poisoning? Better get yourself to a good immunology research department, you’re a legend!

My sympathies tho – too much cheese does me no good either!

Funny how a lot of people expect that just because a shop has the word ‘pizza’ in its name that they actually provides pizzas…

Could it be because $8 slice of dough and melted cheese doesn’t have quite the same ring to it?

We thought we were on to a good thing with Dominos in Weston using the web site, but once they just forgot us for an hour and a half. When they finally got to us the pizzas were cold.

Thinking it a one off, we used them again about 6 weeks later. This time they forgot one pizza. Rang up, complained, they sent a new one. When that finally arrived, 45 minutes after the first batch it wasn’t even one we’d orderd. So we rang again, complained, argued, and got them to deliver the pizza we ordered and a refund.

Refunds have to be a little touchy with web services – the central office gets the credit card receipt, but the store gave the refund in cash. That’s probably something they need to work on to stop the store getting shafted, but hey… they’re the ones that screwed up…

Won’t be going back…

We had a dominos pizza from gungahlin and the next day we all had hangovers. It seemed a bit strange considering we weren’t drinking that night. I certainly wouldn’t recommend them for the elderly or pregnant women.

The fact that you think La Porchetta is ‘awesome’ in my opinion pretty much completely invalidates any credibility you may have had.

Dominoes are the best of a bad bunch IMO. They probably would have fixed the problem if you complained.

I tried one of their short-lived flavour concoctions only recently and after getting it home found it to be inedible. I returned the pizza and the manager was very apologetic, gave me a replacement upsized pizza and a free bottle of coke.

If you live in Pearce why not try a Plaka pizza from Mawson?!

That you think that Pizza Hut in Phillip is a good option in my opinion pretty much completely invalidates any credibility you may have had.

That place is putz central.

I guess that if you live in Pearce you would have been served by either the Mawson store or the Weston store. I’ve been to both numerous times and have had no complaints.

*shrugs* If you want guaranteed awesome, go to La Porchetta in Tuggeranong.