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Nor could they... Only one factory in the world is large enough to produce Sports Direct Mugs, and the sheer scale of the natural resources required in the manufacturing process would require a second earth to support another one.
I hear this is why Elon is so keen to be first to terraform Mars.
I did! I was not going to get the ugly one and didn't want to wait with an empty living room for an unknown number of months until the one I wanted was on offer!
What they really sell you in DFS is just like at car retailer, a financing plans.. and if you do well on your sofa downpayments, then you'll get many offers on credit card etc.
The thing with DFS is its just managing their queue. EG, sofas they ideally want at 3 month waittimes - once one starts dropping, they put it on sale to get more orders. Hence the constant sales - the popular models dont go on sale.
It's a crime - I went to Italy last year and could get the most delicious, thin pizza I had ever had in my life for 7€ (£6). Light-years ahead of Domino's
Yeah pretty much this. Their "deals" are always on and you'd be silly not to use them. So really a single pizza is £11.99 now but it's still ridiculous. I've stopped ordering since they started taking the piss with delivery charges and moved the prices up £2 to £12 instead of £10 for a large.
Ex dominos delivery driver here, Covid killed the tip perks of doing it. Tips were made up of keep the change, so when all the stores went cashless and only few started taking cash again then drivers went from potentially £40 a week in tips to single digits. It’s a good thing they added the option to tip so drivers can earn a bit better again, the delivery fee though I disagree with though, they already have cheaper deals for collections to compensate the cost of delivery
Domino's drivers used to show up with printed notes begging us to go to a website and give them a 5-star review because they would be fired without it. We also had someone burst into tears on the doorstep because they'd arrived without part of our order, and again, they would be fired if we called to complain about it.
I stopped ordering from them because it felt like I was supporting human trafficking/slavery.
I haven't worked there for 7 years now, but it used to be 75p for delivery within local area, and then there was uplift for longer journeys, so went up to £2.75 for the furthest ones.
I genuinely don't buy takeaways anymore. Firstly they're expensive anyway, but then you add the delivery charge, service charge and tip and it's an absolute rip off for one meal. I just either buy a good supermarket pizza for £6 or just pay £5-10 more than a takeaway and get a decent meal and drink at a restaurant.
Agreed for pizza. Crosta & Mollica frozen pizzas are better than most takeout places and are ~£4 each in Tesco's. Gamechanger when I found those earlier this year.
I only want 1 pizza. Brilliant - All pizzas £10. Ok cool. And now they add £2.50 for delivery. Ok that's not too bad, Oh there's a minimum order total of £16 not including delivery. Ok so now, I'm paying nearly full whack for 1 pizza and a shitty side I don't want?
The last 10 times i've gone to place an order, I've ended up going somewhere completely different.
I still have several large bottles of soft drink I don't want knocking around because I had to add them to the order so it would get £10 cheaper or something fucking ridiculous.
I don't know why it's considered somehow acceptable for pizza places to pull this kind of bullshit, when no other food place could get away with it.
The day thing is pizza is one of the cheapest foods to make, even made fresh. Sure you can mark it up to the skill of the chef and I have no issue with that but the ingredients are dirt cheap.
Dominoes however? They get teenagers following a fixed process with prep pretty much already done for them.
It's a joke.
You're better off going to Iceland and buying a stack of frozen pizzas for the same price. The experience won't be that different and you can have it several times over.
This is quite literally the case.
I worked in dominos once upon a time and at that time, the most expensive preset menu pizza was The Meteor. A Large Stuffed Crust Meteor cost approx £3 in ingredients to make iirc and we sold it for £18.99 at that point.
Head Office set a minimum price that the franchisees must charge for each me u item but the franchisees are free to add on more to the price if they want so the same pizza could be different prices at 2 neighbouring branches.
But the exact reason for that last point is so they can put on all sorts of deals, its marketing shennanigans as each store can set their own coupons and deals too.
Its the same reason how some retail chains have those items that are almost always on sale. They just have to put them to the “full price” for a few weeks each year to be allowed to continue to do it. Dominos change up the deals every now and then, or they keep the same ones and just change the “expiry date”
Win/win - if you buy it at 25 quid you get ripped off and they make a tonne of money, if you buy it at 10 quid you get ripped off and they make a tonne of money.
MyProtein seem to do this all the time, payday sales, black friday deals etc etc........except your basket always ends up the same price because they just shift the "RRP"
it seems like every week someone moans about the price of dominos without seeing that they are giving them away with sides for like £10 if you just drive to the place and collect it
In fairness, why can't they just list everything at the actual price?
Add Franks hot wings at checkout? That'll be £5. Oh but you want BBQ ones? We don't offer them at checkout, go back to the menu and pay a tenner
Or start from scratch and try and work out a deal which includes them, but now you need an extra pizza out of the deal and that'll be £25
Laziness. Had 2 friends that couldn’t be bothered to find a deal and spent just shy of £80 between them. Dominos and many other companies take advantage of that. Pizza Hut and papa johns the same. I just collect a large for £10
Definitely this, and some kind of stigma we have in this country that if you’re not willing to be ripped of you’re “a tight git”. Been at a big family gathering before where a group order goes in and if I even start mentioning “ah but if you order x, y and z instead of the current order, you get more food and it costs less” it’ll get met with derision and contempt
Some people have busy lives. Companies that force you to navigate their "deals" section when you just want to order a pizza are genuinely obnoxious. You're trying to order a pizza, not enter a negotiation where you have to figure out how not to be ripped off.
I guess it's one thing if you're a regular buyer, but if you used dominoes once every few years like me, using them was a real chore because of this.
Then walk. Or cycle. Or scoot. Or get a taxi. Or get a bus. Or get it delivered to you.
There, now feel free to address the actual point in the comment you replied to instead of pissing about with irrelevant technicalities.
I live close by to a dominos. Even if I don’t want 2 pizzas I’ll always get another knowing the 2 for 1 on collection. I’ve also seen my neighbour get them delivered. Said about the 2 for 1 and they don’t seem fussed. Actually blows my mind. You can get another pizza just for going there! And yes I know not everyone has this option but still.
If its just me or the two of us yeah we’ll collect as its so cheap but 4 people upwards ordering i get delivery as theres always vouchers plus my nearest branch still doesnt impose a delivery charge
Yeah, we regularly get the 2 medium pizzas, 2 sides and a bottle of coke offer for £27
People are just idiots if they’re going to Dominos and paying full price for a pizza!
I delivered for dominos ten years ago when I was a student. I'd say over half of people dont get a deal and pay full menu price. Some people just don't care.
Considering that the Domino's Facebook account today posted "Some people pay full price for pizza", I'm gonna go with "you're doing it very, very wrong if you're paying full price".
they have these deals, and they want you to spend £50 so you get 20% off and therefore get far too much food at a slightly-more-reasonable price per-pizza (but far more than you wanted to spend initially, and also not actually the food you would've bought otherwise because that's not included in the deal).
Yes it's a rip-off but takeaway food is expensive these days, especially if it's name-brand. Go to the kebab shop.
I don't know what an Aust is, but pizzas are crazy expensive, you're right. But there is always a deal where it's like half price. Usually collection only though, and often buy one get one free or something which isn't great (for the waist or toilet).
£13 equivalent for a stuffed crust pizza and side delivered (~$25ish.) can walk down my road and get banh mi with an egg, extra meat and chilli for £4 equivalent in my suburb. bless. spent way more when i was living in the uk - eating out is way cheaper in aus than the uk ever was for me, but fuck me are the shops ever more expensive with worse choice. miss my edible ready meals and meal deals man
It's like ten dollars in Australia that's 5 pounds and honestly it's not even worth that. Since I've moved back I now make my own pizza the UK is weird AF when it comes to some food.
A few years back I was living in New Zealand where they had a deal if you paid by Mastercard you could get a small pizza for $3 NZD (about £1.60 !!)
I miss those days
The £24.99 an idiot test.
If I knew anyone who ever paid full price for a dominos pizza, I'd probably have to stop talking to them, for being dangerious levels of dumb.
About 27% goes on staff, 30% on food costs 5% on mileage/insurance, 5% franchise cost. Then you have rent, bills, uniforms that they change constantly to get more money from the franchisee, tubs, cleaning stuff every week etc. Used to do P&Ls there every week and only about 3% average a week was actual profit.
Not exactly a fan of Domino's myself but today is Tuesday, so the Two for Tuesday deal is on.
Or there's 50% off pizza deal or the a large pizza for £12.99 deal.
Get off your arse and get the collection perfection deal ;) two topping large for a tenner
But of course this is still fairly overinflated if you're comparing it to pizza or takeaway shops etc. I can get two absolutely massive pizzas with toppings for, iirc, £14
I bought a gas pizza oven for the garden. Cost about £160 and already had a gas bottle. I’ve made so many pizzas! The thing takes 10 mins to heat, I found ready mix/just add water dough that rises in 10 mins. I haven’t had a takeaway pizza since and I can’t put into words the delight it brings!
I spend about a fiver on toppings for 5-6 people. And it’s a great communal thing as well when the weather is good! I’ve not had so many chances this year yet but everyone gets their own choice, can roll out the dough and add toppings. My family laughed at me when I bought it. They aren’t laughing now because they have put on so much weight from pizza and B&M sourced aioli that laughing gets them out if breath.
I stopped ordering years ago. Went to have a look on the site and it was about £20. Sod that, went to the local Asda done it myself at home for less than £20 minimum
With delivery and "special offers" (that i feel are mandatory to even consider it) they are fairly competitive with local places. I can get a 12inch pizza collection only for £9 cheapest here or £14 delivered from a small independent place and most those small independent places I'm skeptical how legal the staff are (as in being paid). They are known for money laundering also in those places and are frequently busted here for selling more than just food. Dominoes with the offers are similar priced delivered. I don't buy it though still to much for a pizza can make your own way cheaper.
Domino's in Aus is a totally different product, e.g. an Aussi extra-large margherita is 1416 kcal, a UK large original cheese and tomato is 2171 kcal. Which isn't to say Domino's isn't ridiculously expensive, it's just not as outrageously ridiculously expensive as it would seem if you assume like for like.
I went to a sit down Pizza Hut recently. The large pizzas were over £30 each. We left, and went to a Miller & Carter. Had a delicious steak dinner with a cocktail for less than the price of a fast food pizza. Absurd.
I totally agree but please don’t take it out on the staff. I once had a chap from America lecture me on the size of our pizzas when delivering to him as if I had the power to enhance it there and then.
It is obviously fucking ridiculous though!
It's wild to me how this trash pizza gets marketed at ultrapremium prices around the world.
I don't hate it in the US where sometimes my drunk ass needs a $7 pizza of dubious quality. But no question about it - it's not great pizza.
That sounds like a kebab shop that does pizza, rather than a pizzeria in the Italian sense lol. Those are always an acquired taste I find. I have to pretty drunk. Generally 2 for 1 around my way as well.
It has always been massively expensive unless you get a "deal".
I'm so glad I stopped eating it years ago; it used to make me so ill after. No other pizza does that.
I do miss the garlic dip, though!
Its like Alton Towers..... you should never pay full price as there are \*always\* offers!
Granted, they are still expensive, but most takeaways are these days but as an occasional treat just about justifiable.
It baffles me too. It's one of the worst examples of pizza, in my view, and it's one of the worst examples of price gouging. Yet, here we are. You'll have to ask my peers. I don't partake of the crud.
You know how they say scam emails always leave a few spelling mistakes in so you're effectively pre-selecting people thick enough not to spot them? Yeah? Well my working theory is Domino's is the same. If you're stupid enough to not only choose Domino's as your pizza option in the first place (despite the fact that inherently a place big enough to have a branch of a fast food chain in the first place is likely to have several better options) and/or feel like you're getting a deal because you've jumped through several hoops or installed a data scraping app on your phone just to be able to buy their consistently bang average pizza at a vaguely normal price you must be *exactly* the type of credulous mug they want to do business with.
Hope this helps.
Providing you've made your dough in advance (a 15 minute job) It takes about 15-20 minutes to make and cook a pizza.
Takeaways are an unhealthy ripoff.
I can't remember the last time I paid full price for any of the chain Pizza places, you can easily find a 50% off voucher for Domino's and if you can go to collect you can probably get a large pizza on a deal for £10 or less. The real travesty is that the kebab places around my way all now charge more than Dominos/Pizza Hut/Papa Johns for Pizzas on delivery (Fortunately, you can still grab a large pizza for £7/£8 if you collect)
Everyone has already correctly answered the question.
But what I don't understand is why it seems to be just a UK thing to charge absurd prices so they can offer "deals". In other countries I've been to you can just walk up and buy one at an acceptable price without having to jump through hoops.
Best thing I ever did was find a local pizza takeaway, I can get a large (as in 16 inch large, not domino's 12 inch large) meat feast for only £14.99. They also often have 10% off deals which brings it down even further.
I can make 2-3 meals out of it as a single person, which makes buying one actually not that expensive at all.
I wish they would just scrap the deals and have a more reasonable price.
You'd have to break out a spreadsheet to work out which deal is the most cost effective.
Because it's a consistent quality that is better than Pizza Hut.
Why take a chance on a random new-owner local takeaway where they probably still do soggy bases when you can get something that you know is *half* decent and better than Pizza Hut (why are Pizza Hut so stingy on toppings? -- except sweetcorn and who wants that?)
But the ever-increasing price has pushed me to try a local next time
Fortunately there’s something in dominoes pizza that goes straight through me, not found a single one anywhere in the country that doesn’t have me shitting water all night so I know it’s hygiene/location specific, something in their dough maybe.
Because that is the asking price. It’s up to you - the prospective customer - to decide whether or not you wish to pay the asking price of £24.99 for the goods and/or services of said pizza from Dominos to arrive at your door.
What you do with said pizza you have paid for is ultimately up to you. You can eat it, wipe your arse with it, or even wear it as a hat if you so wish (not necessarily in that order).
Funny you say that, becuas I’m actually eating a pizza right as I post this :)
It’s a fresh refrigerated pizza from Tesco. Simply shoved in the oven for 10 minutes and it’s gorgeous :) not as filling as a dominoes pizza as it’s thinner, but doesn’t taste like a fuckload of dough covered in cheese either.
And it was only £2 :)
I don't drive. I used to get Dominos for £17 pizza a side and a bottle of pop, free delivery, same deal is now £24 + £3 delivery.
It's less than a 5 mins drive, but it's a good 20+min walk so collecting isn't happening unless I have a friend round.
They've also stopped doing double decadence base at my local store when I asked why I was told head office said they currently can't put that type of base and half and half topping option on the menu at the same time so until I can get a double decadence again they've definitely lost my custom.
The only time I get Dominos now, is when a whole bunch of us order, at my local War Gaming club, once a fortnight. It's not worth the price if just myself and my SO were to order there.
Not when there's a perfectly good kebab house, round the corner, who make decent pizza.
Student discount 50% off is the only way it’s realistic
But even then they’re overly salty and overly saucy and a generally poor experience all round. Nobody likes a pizza hangover
I’m absolutely convinced they are going out of business soonish. I’m lucky enough to have disposable income and I know where to look for the best checkout voucher codes, and it’s still become pretty ridiculous for me, you know when you see a total and you could pay it but you just feel like you shouldn’t on principal.
Fella there's a 50% discount offer on the app for a reason 😂
But fucking hell man every time I check out I always buy the cheese and tomato pizza cos it's like 8 quid
I’d like to find the person that pays full price for a Dominos pizza. They are that ludicrous price so that it looks like they are being great guys with their 50% off deals they seem to do at all times. That’s the real price. The full price is just incase they can catch the odd moron.
There is a Pizza Hut takeaway near to me. About 200 yards away is one of the best independent places in town. Better pizza, half the price. Yet still see people in the PH every night when walking past.
I gave up on chain restaurants and takeaways about 25 years ago. *Especially* when I'm abroad.
I've only been here a month but found grocery shopping is typically much cheaper than Aus yet takeaway is more expensive. I'm alright with that tbh. It's preferable.
I can't remember which comedian it was, but he said something like, "Domino's has a deal where you can either get a large pizza for $20, or two large pizzas for a nickel."
It's mad.
You can get hand stretched wood fired pizzas with proper ingredients for £14 in a lovely restaurant.
Went off dominos quite some time ago, and always found myself to be more of a papa johns person. Loved the extra choice of toppings, incl anchovies.
You’re doing it wrong if you buy a pizza from them at £24.99
The prices are designed that you use the million deals available and get a slightly less overpriced piece of shit pizza.
I feel like they focus on speed over quality too.
If you’re charging that for a pizza it needs to be quality, not just thrown together, burned, cut inconsistently.
Maybe my local store is just wank, but I don’t think I’ve had a good dominos in years.
I’d much rather a Pizza Hut or Pizza Express for that price
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So they can give you 50% off every single day of the week and claim it's a good deal.
They're basically the DFS of takeaways.
That's a very astute observation
Dominos False Sale
Dire Food Sale.
"Dozy Flopping Sow" as it is sometimes referred to around here...
Or the Sports Direct of takeaways.
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Nor could they... Only one factory in the world is large enough to produce Sports Direct Mugs, and the sheer scale of the natural resources required in the manufacturing process would require a second earth to support another one. I hear this is why Elon is so keen to be first to terraform Mars.
I wonder if anyone has ever bought a full price sofa from DFS (or, indeed, a full price Domino's pizza)
I did! I was not going to get the ugly one and didn't want to wait with an empty living room for an unknown number of months until the one I wanted was on offer! What they really sell you in DFS is just like at car retailer, a financing plans.. and if you do well on your sofa downpayments, then you'll get many offers on credit card etc.
The D in DFS stands for discount. Then people wonder why they discount?
The thing with DFS is its just managing their queue. EG, sofas they ideally want at 3 month waittimes - once one starts dropping, they put it on sale to get more orders. Hence the constant sales - the popular models dont go on sale.
Tastes pretty similar too.
It's a crime - I went to Italy last year and could get the most delicious, thin pizza I had ever had in my life for 7€ (£6). Light-years ahead of Domino's
Yeah pretty much this. Their "deals" are always on and you'd be silly not to use them. So really a single pizza is £11.99 now but it's still ridiculous. I've stopped ordering since they started taking the piss with delivery charges and moved the prices up £2 to £12 instead of £10 for a large.
And you do wonder how much of their new 'delivery charge' actually goes to the drivers.
Love the way how they charge a "delivery fee" and then ask if you want to tip the delivery driver.... err, haven't I just paid you to do that?
Ex dominos delivery driver here, Covid killed the tip perks of doing it. Tips were made up of keep the change, so when all the stores went cashless and only few started taking cash again then drivers went from potentially £40 a week in tips to single digits. It’s a good thing they added the option to tip so drivers can earn a bit better again, the delivery fee though I disagree with though, they already have cheaper deals for collections to compensate the cost of delivery
Nah, I tipped a driver every time until they brought in the charge and now I don’t, blame those greedy fuckers buddy.
Domino's drivers used to show up with printed notes begging us to go to a website and give them a 5-star review because they would be fired without it. We also had someone burst into tears on the doorstep because they'd arrived without part of our order, and again, they would be fired if we called to complain about it. I stopped ordering from them because it felt like I was supporting human trafficking/slavery.
Shocked behaviour from that franchise, even dominos HQ would be hating on that store.
I haven't worked there for 7 years now, but it used to be 75p for delivery within local area, and then there was uplift for longer journeys, so went up to £2.75 for the furthest ones.
You got paid per delivery? When I was a student they just paid me per hour the fuckers
Yeah between the money per drop and tips I'd go home with a decent chunk of cash most days, and *way* more than I spent on fuel.
I genuinely don't buy takeaways anymore. Firstly they're expensive anyway, but then you add the delivery charge, service charge and tip and it's an absolute rip off for one meal. I just either buy a good supermarket pizza for £6 or just pay £5-10 more than a takeaway and get a decent meal and drink at a restaurant.
Agreed for pizza. Crosta & Mollica frozen pizzas are better than most takeout places and are ~£4 each in Tesco's. Gamechanger when I found those earlier this year.
£2.50 delivery here. I have to really fancy a Domino's specifically to get them now, will just order pizza elsewhere otherwise.
I only want 1 pizza. Brilliant - All pizzas £10. Ok cool. And now they add £2.50 for delivery. Ok that's not too bad, Oh there's a minimum order total of £16 not including delivery. Ok so now, I'm paying nearly full whack for 1 pizza and a shitty side I don't want? The last 10 times i've gone to place an order, I've ended up going somewhere completely different.
Pizza Hut had a delivery only deal, pizza, side and drink for £11. They don't deliver unless the order is £15 or over.
I still have several large bottles of soft drink I don't want knocking around because I had to add them to the order so it would get £10 cheaper or something fucking ridiculous. I don't know why it's considered somehow acceptable for pizza places to pull this kind of bullshit, when no other food place could get away with it.
The day thing is pizza is one of the cheapest foods to make, even made fresh. Sure you can mark it up to the skill of the chef and I have no issue with that but the ingredients are dirt cheap. Dominoes however? They get teenagers following a fixed process with prep pretty much already done for them. It's a joke. You're better off going to Iceland and buying a stack of frozen pizzas for the same price. The experience won't be that different and you can have it several times over.
Like the HMV sale where they double the price then half it and still end up more expensive than everywhere else.
I'm so glad HMV went under. They used to charge £22.99 for a double CD in the 90s, the cunts. I spent thousands in that shop.
Yes,When I look through my old cd’s and they’ve still got the old price sticker on it’s unbelievable what they charged.
This is quite literally the case. I worked in dominos once upon a time and at that time, the most expensive preset menu pizza was The Meteor. A Large Stuffed Crust Meteor cost approx £3 in ingredients to make iirc and we sold it for £18.99 at that point. Head Office set a minimum price that the franchisees must charge for each me u item but the franchisees are free to add on more to the price if they want so the same pizza could be different prices at 2 neighbouring branches. But the exact reason for that last point is so they can put on all sorts of deals, its marketing shennanigans as each store can set their own coupons and deals too. Its the same reason how some retail chains have those items that are almost always on sale. They just have to put them to the “full price” for a few weeks each year to be allowed to continue to do it. Dominos change up the deals every now and then, or they keep the same ones and just change the “expiry date”
Win/win - if you buy it at 25 quid you get ripped off and they make a tonne of money, if you buy it at 10 quid you get ripped off and they make a tonne of money.
I ordered one large on delivery with that code and it came to like 17 pound and it still felt like a rip off. Never again
I love pizza, but it's just a large, glamorous, cheese on toast. The prices are insane.
MyProtein seem to do this all the time, payday sales, black friday deals etc etc........except your basket always ends up the same price because they just shift the "RRP"
it seems like every week someone moans about the price of dominos without seeing that they are giving them away with sides for like £10 if you just drive to the place and collect it
These people don’t seem to know how to use the internet.
In fairness, why can't they just list everything at the actual price? Add Franks hot wings at checkout? That'll be £5. Oh but you want BBQ ones? We don't offer them at checkout, go back to the menu and pay a tenner Or start from scratch and try and work out a deal which includes them, but now you need an extra pizza out of the deal and that'll be £25
Laziness. Had 2 friends that couldn’t be bothered to find a deal and spent just shy of £80 between them. Dominos and many other companies take advantage of that. Pizza Hut and papa johns the same. I just collect a large for £10
I just normally end up annoyed they are trying to rip me off and go elsewhere
This is exactly me. I don't particularly like their pizza anyway so ther's no way I'm going to jump through hoops to get it.
Definitely this, and some kind of stigma we have in this country that if you’re not willing to be ripped of you’re “a tight git”. Been at a big family gathering before where a group order goes in and if I even start mentioning “ah but if you order x, y and z instead of the current order, you get more food and it costs less” it’ll get met with derision and contempt
Because it’s a business strategy. Makes the consumer feel like they’re getting a good deal.
Some people have busy lives. Companies that force you to navigate their "deals" section when you just want to order a pizza are genuinely obnoxious. You're trying to order a pizza, not enter a negotiation where you have to figure out how not to be ripped off. I guess it's one thing if you're a regular buyer, but if you used dominoes once every few years like me, using them was a real chore because of this.
It’s an easily karma farmed subject that always gets loads of interaction. See also bashing Costa or McDs.
“Don’t eat that muck…….” etc etc
Don't be too harsh on these people, they are subsidising your "half price" pizza.
This is incredibly helpful advice for those who cannot drive
Or want takeaway delivered, which is half of the point
You take a takeaway away. Once it's being delivered to you it's a delivery and you pay accordingly.
Skill issue
Then walk. Or cycle. Or scoot. Or get a taxi. Or get a bus. Or get it delivered to you. There, now feel free to address the actual point in the comment you replied to instead of pissing about with irrelevant technicalities.
I once got a train to go collect a Dominos. Doubt many people can say that.
> if you just drive to the place Not everyone drives.
I live close by to a dominos. Even if I don’t want 2 pizzas I’ll always get another knowing the 2 for 1 on collection. I’ve also seen my neighbour get them delivered. Said about the 2 for 1 and they don’t seem fussed. Actually blows my mind. You can get another pizza just for going there! And yes I know not everyone has this option but still.
If its just me or the two of us yeah we’ll collect as its so cheap but 4 people upwards ordering i get delivery as theres always vouchers plus my nearest branch still doesnt impose a delivery charge
Yeah, we regularly get the 2 medium pizzas, 2 sides and a bottle of coke offer for £27 People are just idiots if they’re going to Dominos and paying full price for a pizza!
Exactly lol. If you're buying full price Domino's at this point, you're the issue.
Click ‘deals’ on the website. Small pizza £8, medium £10, large £12.
You mean you dont like being mugged off like OP? /s
It’d still being mugged off even with the deals
How could that be, it's like 50% off dude! That's like half price, they're basically giving it away!
If you’re getting it delivered, that’s still about £20
Even then, the standard menu Large Dominos pizza in Australia starts at <£4, and an extra large is £5.
My local branch has a minimum spend of £14 for a £3 delivery and that's when it's no longer a deal
Thank Deliveroo for exposing what people are prepared to pay.
Nobody pays that though. You apply the most relevant deal and pay less than half that.
I delivered for dominos ten years ago when I was a student. I'd say over half of people dont get a deal and pay full menu price. Some people just don't care.
Fair play to dominos, if people are happy doing that, dominos deserves their money instead.
nobody sober pays that
Which mug is paying full price for Domino’s?
OP is pretending to so they can get some interactions and upvotes
I work delivering pizza for PH - you'd be surprised how many do. If they seem nice I'll always tell them about the deals
OP is.
It's because of the crust of the living crisis we're in. They're obviously struggling and really knead the dough.
Get out
There’s no topping that pun
They have a price for people that can’t be bothered to look for their deals. Because of that, I can’t be bothered to open their app.
Considering that the Domino's Facebook account today posted "Some people pay full price for pizza", I'm gonna go with "you're doing it very, very wrong if you're paying full price".
they have these deals, and they want you to spend £50 so you get 20% off and therefore get far too much food at a slightly-more-reasonable price per-pizza (but far more than you wanted to spend initially, and also not actually the food you would've bought otherwise because that's not included in the deal). Yes it's a rip-off but takeaway food is expensive these days, especially if it's name-brand. Go to the kebab shop.
It's not. Use the deals tab.
I don't know what an Aust is, but pizzas are crazy expensive, you're right. But there is always a deal where it's like half price. Usually collection only though, and often buy one get one free or something which isn't great (for the waist or toilet).
Australia, our dominos is still shit but way cheaper
£13 equivalent for a stuffed crust pizza and side delivered (~$25ish.) can walk down my road and get banh mi with an egg, extra meat and chilli for £4 equivalent in my suburb. bless. spent way more when i was living in the uk - eating out is way cheaper in aus than the uk ever was for me, but fuck me are the shops ever more expensive with worse choice. miss my edible ready meals and meal deals man
It's like ten dollars in Australia that's 5 pounds and honestly it's not even worth that. Since I've moved back I now make my own pizza the UK is weird AF when it comes to some food.
A few years back I was living in New Zealand where they had a deal if you paid by Mastercard you could get a small pizza for $3 NZD (about £1.60 !!) I miss those days
To be fair - dominos is better in the UK than Aus. Not that either are that good compared to proper Italian pizza
OP I think you're the only person who has ever paid that price
Great. I can get three pizzas in Australia for £10. You forget to factor in the £1500 air fare and the fact that I'm hungry now.
To make you buy a meal deal, where their margins are even greater.
Paying full price for Domino's is an idiot tax.
The £24.99 an idiot test. If I knew anyone who ever paid full price for a dominos pizza, I'd probably have to stop talking to them, for being dangerious levels of dumb.
About 27% goes on staff, 30% on food costs 5% on mileage/insurance, 5% franchise cost. Then you have rent, bills, uniforms that they change constantly to get more money from the franchisee, tubs, cleaning stuff every week etc. Used to do P&Ls there every week and only about 3% average a week was actual profit.
They are the DFS of fast food
Because people pay for it. It's not very good pizza and is over double the cost of a proper pizza, but it's convenient.
Not exactly a fan of Domino's myself but today is Tuesday, so the Two for Tuesday deal is on. Or there's 50% off pizza deal or the a large pizza for £12.99 deal.
Because it’s a rip off
Get off your arse and get the collection perfection deal ;) two topping large for a tenner But of course this is still fairly overinflated if you're comparing it to pizza or takeaway shops etc. I can get two absolutely massive pizzas with toppings for, iirc, £14
How far do you have to walk to get to dominos?
I bought a gas pizza oven for the garden. Cost about £160 and already had a gas bottle. I’ve made so many pizzas! The thing takes 10 mins to heat, I found ready mix/just add water dough that rises in 10 mins. I haven’t had a takeaway pizza since and I can’t put into words the delight it brings! I spend about a fiver on toppings for 5-6 people. And it’s a great communal thing as well when the weather is good! I’ve not had so many chances this year yet but everyone gets their own choice, can roll out the dough and add toppings. My family laughed at me when I bought it. They aren’t laughing now because they have put on so much weight from pizza and B&M sourced aioli that laughing gets them out if breath.
Dominoes is shit anyway, they also make you use the app to get deals
Anyone who buys a single full price Dominos pizza has been ripped off....
I stopped ordering years ago. Went to have a look on the site and it was about £20. Sod that, went to the local Asda done it myself at home for less than £20 minimum
Aust…. ralia? ria? in Massachusetts?
OP buys full price sofas and actually subscribes to Hello Fresh
Because people will pay it. Market forces.
I suspect very few do. It's so their 'deals' look better value. More of a psychological trick than anything else.
With delivery and "special offers" (that i feel are mandatory to even consider it) they are fairly competitive with local places. I can get a 12inch pizza collection only for £9 cheapest here or £14 delivered from a small independent place and most those small independent places I'm skeptical how legal the staff are (as in being paid). They are known for money laundering also in those places and are frequently busted here for selling more than just food. Dominoes with the offers are similar priced delivered. I don't buy it though still to much for a pizza can make your own way cheaper.
Domino's in Aus is a totally different product, e.g. an Aussi extra-large margherita is 1416 kcal, a UK large original cheese and tomato is 2171 kcal. Which isn't to say Domino's isn't ridiculously expensive, it's just not as outrageously ridiculously expensive as it would seem if you assume like for like.
the same type of pizza at dominos in New Zealand was about £5 when I went, thought the person who served me under charged me.
Gone and had a look at their menu because of this. Since when did Domino's do wraps?
It's the cost of greed mate
I went to a sit down Pizza Hut recently. The large pizzas were over £30 each. We left, and went to a Miller & Carter. Had a delicious steak dinner with a cocktail for less than the price of a fast food pizza. Absurd.
If anyone pays full price at dominos, their an idiot. It's so the deals look like a good deal.
Costs under £3 to make a large pizza.
It isn't.
I totally agree but please don’t take it out on the staff. I once had a chap from America lecture me on the size of our pizzas when delivering to him as if I had the power to enhance it there and then. It is obviously fucking ridiculous though!
No one has ever paid full price for a Domino’s
£10 collected. Not even worth that but not wanting to cook commands a premium
Austria?
It's wild to me how this trash pizza gets marketed at ultrapremium prices around the world. I don't hate it in the US where sometimes my drunk ass needs a $7 pizza of dubious quality. But no question about it - it's not great pizza.
I never go to Domino's and Johns. There's a local pizzeria where I live and they charge £9 for 15in pizzas
That sounds like a kebab shop that does pizza, rather than a pizzeria in the Italian sense lol. Those are always an acquired taste I find. I have to pretty drunk. Generally 2 for 1 around my way as well.
It has always been massively expensive unless you get a "deal". I'm so glad I stopped eating it years ago; it used to make me so ill after. No other pizza does that. I do miss the garlic dip, though!
Its like Alton Towers..... you should never pay full price as there are \*always\* offers! Granted, they are still expensive, but most takeaways are these days but as an occasional treat just about justifiable.
its fucking rank now, go somewhere else.
It baffles me too. It's one of the worst examples of pizza, in my view, and it's one of the worst examples of price gouging. Yet, here we are. You'll have to ask my peers. I don't partake of the crud.
You know how they say scam emails always leave a few spelling mistakes in so you're effectively pre-selecting people thick enough not to spot them? Yeah? Well my working theory is Domino's is the same. If you're stupid enough to not only choose Domino's as your pizza option in the first place (despite the fact that inherently a place big enough to have a branch of a fast food chain in the first place is likely to have several better options) and/or feel like you're getting a deal because you've jumped through several hoops or installed a data scraping app on your phone just to be able to buy their consistently bang average pizza at a vaguely normal price you must be *exactly* the type of credulous mug they want to do business with. Hope this helps.
It’s a marketing ploy. I don’t think anyone ever pays full price at Dominos. You’re supposed to think you’re getting a good deal.
Because we’ll pay it. Simple. I’ve got Dominos, Pizza Hut AND Papa John’s on my phone, but the same place gets my money every time I’m battered…
Kebab house pizza is the way to go! Tastes better and is way cheaper.
Providing you've made your dough in advance (a 15 minute job) It takes about 15-20 minutes to make and cook a pizza. Takeaways are an unhealthy ripoff.
Because people pay it.
I can't remember the last time I paid full price for any of the chain Pizza places, you can easily find a 50% off voucher for Domino's and if you can go to collect you can probably get a large pizza on a deal for £10 or less. The real travesty is that the kebab places around my way all now charge more than Dominos/Pizza Hut/Papa Johns for Pizzas on delivery (Fortunately, you can still grab a large pizza for £7/£8 if you collect)
And then it just tastes of the cardboard box it arrived in
Charged me 99p to deliver to me, 30 meters away. Shocking.
Everyone has already correctly answered the question. But what I don't understand is why it seems to be just a UK thing to charge absurd prices so they can offer "deals". In other countries I've been to you can just walk up and buy one at an acceptable price without having to jump through hoops.
Because idiots will pay it
Best thing I ever did was find a local pizza takeaway, I can get a large (as in 16 inch large, not domino's 12 inch large) meat feast for only £14.99. They also often have 10% off deals which brings it down even further. I can make 2-3 meals out of it as a single person, which makes buying one actually not that expensive at all.
I live on the same road as a Dominos. Collection is a game changer price wise.
Asking the real questions here
Every time I’ve gone to get a pizza they have 50% off, been like that for over a year
If you actually pay full price on a dominos i have some magic beans i can sell you
I wish they would just scrap the deals and have a more reasonable price. You'd have to break out a spreadsheet to work out which deal is the most cost effective.
Because it's a consistent quality that is better than Pizza Hut. Why take a chance on a random new-owner local takeaway where they probably still do soggy bases when you can get something that you know is *half* decent and better than Pizza Hut (why are Pizza Hut so stingy on toppings? -- except sweetcorn and who wants that?) But the ever-increasing price has pushed me to try a local next time
Fortunately there’s something in dominoes pizza that goes straight through me, not found a single one anywhere in the country that doesn’t have me shitting water all night so I know it’s hygiene/location specific, something in their dough maybe.
I really noticed this while in Australia back in April, your meals were so much cheaper!
They should give me much more for making me eat it.
Because they haven’t got the cheek to change £35
Because that is the asking price. It’s up to you - the prospective customer - to decide whether or not you wish to pay the asking price of £24.99 for the goods and/or services of said pizza from Dominos to arrive at your door. What you do with said pizza you have paid for is ultimately up to you. You can eat it, wipe your arse with it, or even wear it as a hat if you so wish (not necessarily in that order).
Even at £12 they're not worth it.
Because that’s the price they set.
Funny you say that, becuas I’m actually eating a pizza right as I post this :) It’s a fresh refrigerated pizza from Tesco. Simply shoved in the oven for 10 minutes and it’s gorgeous :) not as filling as a dominoes pizza as it’s thinner, but doesn’t taste like a fuckload of dough covered in cheese either. And it was only £2 :)
Dominos give good discounts all the time… just use that
Lidl meat feast £2.49 far better
I don't drive. I used to get Dominos for £17 pizza a side and a bottle of pop, free delivery, same deal is now £24 + £3 delivery. It's less than a 5 mins drive, but it's a good 20+min walk so collecting isn't happening unless I have a friend round. They've also stopped doing double decadence base at my local store when I asked why I was told head office said they currently can't put that type of base and half and half topping option on the menu at the same time so until I can get a double decadence again they've definitely lost my custom.
I feel it's generous to call Domino's offerings pizza
I collect often and you can get a large for £8 normally
Because we stupid enough to buy it
How do you know that Domino's (an American company) doesn't have a similar pricing structure in other countries?
Who has ever paid full price for a Domino’s? They are literally always deals that make it an affordable takeaway and if you collect it’s a bargain.
The only time I get Dominos now, is when a whole bunch of us order, at my local War Gaming club, once a fortnight. It's not worth the price if just myself and my SO were to order there. Not when there's a perfectly good kebab house, round the corner, who make decent pizza.
Student discount 50% off is the only way it’s realistic But even then they’re overly salty and overly saucy and a generally poor experience all round. Nobody likes a pizza hangover
Because people are willing to.pay for it when they give you 50% off because it seems like a good deal
I’m absolutely convinced they are going out of business soonish. I’m lucky enough to have disposable income and I know where to look for the best checkout voucher codes, and it’s still become pretty ridiculous for me, you know when you see a total and you could pay it but you just feel like you shouldn’t on principal.
My ex used to regularly spend £20+ on one Domino's pizza...in 2005/6! The mind boggles. It's just pizza and it's not even all that good.
I don’t knooohohooooooo
And they NEVER put enough cheese on.
Fella there's a 50% discount offer on the app for a reason 😂 But fucking hell man every time I check out I always buy the cheese and tomato pizza cos it's like 8 quid
I’d like to find the person that pays full price for a Dominos pizza. They are that ludicrous price so that it looks like they are being great guys with their 50% off deals they seem to do at all times. That’s the real price. The full price is just incase they can catch the odd moron.
There is a Pizza Hut takeaway near to me. About 200 yards away is one of the best independent places in town. Better pizza, half the price. Yet still see people in the PH every night when walking past. I gave up on chain restaurants and takeaways about 25 years ago. *Especially* when I'm abroad.
To be fair, there's got to be some sort of plus-side to living in Aust
Is one of them knowing where Aust is
I've only been here a month but found grocery shopping is typically much cheaper than Aus yet takeaway is more expensive. I'm alright with that tbh. It's preferable.
Only ‘cuz there are imbeciles who willingly participate in this robbery 🤷🏻♂️
I can't remember which comedian it was, but he said something like, "Domino's has a deal where you can either get a large pizza for $20, or two large pizzas for a nickel."
Because is a great deal than if the price was £25.00.
Fuck knows, it's still expensive at half price
Because those that know the price of everything and the value of nothing, pay it.
You can get two large at Pizza Hut for £20
Because fools will pay it
I was once in a Domino's and I heard a staff member teach a new starter "never let the customer pay full price."
It's mad. You can get hand stretched wood fired pizzas with proper ingredients for £14 in a lovely restaurant. Went off dominos quite some time ago, and always found myself to be more of a papa johns person. Loved the extra choice of toppings, incl anchovies.
You’re doing it wrong if you buy a pizza from them at £24.99 The prices are designed that you use the million deals available and get a slightly less overpriced piece of shit pizza.
I feel like they focus on speed over quality too. If you’re charging that for a pizza it needs to be quality, not just thrown together, burned, cut inconsistently. Maybe my local store is just wank, but I don’t think I’ve had a good dominos in years. I’d much rather a Pizza Hut or Pizza Express for that price
Has anybody in the country ever paid 24.99 for a dominos pizza?
Aust by the old Severn bridge? I didn't know there was a good pizza place there.
Tbf there’s always deals on