Dominos Pizza is taking the bull by the horns. Remember this video of Dominos employees doing disgusting things to the food that took over the web yesterday? There’s another one above. In fact, later on in the day, I found about four more of these gross things. I didn’t watch them all and I’m not posting them all, but they’re on the web if you want ’em.
Not only did Dominos immediately fire the employees involved, but now there’s an arrest warrant out for them, filed by the franchise owner. The employees apologized in an email, saying it was a prank and that the food was never served. The female employee, Kristy, wrote to the company spokesperson: “It was all a prank and me nor Michael expected to have this much attention from the videos that were uploaded! No food was ever sent out to any customer. We would never put something like that on you tube if it were real!! It was fake and I wish that everyone knew that!!!!” (Do you believe her???) The spokesperson said the company “was not in a forgive-and-forget mood.”
Dominos is also considering filing a civil complaint against the employees.
They say on their website:
Since the videos first surfaced yesterday, the two workers have been identified, fired and the affected franchisee has filed a criminal complaint against them, and there are warrants for their arrest.
The opportunities and freedom of the internet is wonderful. But it also comes with the risk of anyone with a camera and an internet link to cause a lot of damage, as in this case, where a couple of individuals suddenly overshadow the hard work performed by the 125,000 men and women working for Domino’s across the nation and in 60 countries around the world.
We apologize for the actions of these individuals, and thank you for your continued support of Domino’s Pizza.
Way to go, Dominos. Take serious action against these two, and remind us all that we’re leaving a lot of folks floundering in this economy if we stop eating Dominos. This is fantastic PR work on their part. I still don’t think I can order a Dominos pizza anytime soon, though.
thank goodness there is no domino pizza near me…plus i wouldn’t believe those two idiots even if their tongues were notorized…they did it for a stunt
the woman, kristy, in the videos is a sex offender, lmao. its on perez’s twitter or his site, i forget, but yeah shes a convicted sex offender of sexual battery from norh carolina. ill check for the link
I did think the girl in the video was sounding very prank-ish, but unfortunately there is no way to know if the food was served or not.
So… Guilty! (?)
i had a feeling somebody was going to get sued. this type of thing can do major damage to a company, and right in the middle of an economic crisis to boot.
Pressing criminal charges isnt sueing.
I felt really excited about the prospect of retribution, until I considered how many times our food has probably been contaminated WITHOUT video evidence.
Nasty.
Yep, pretty much.
GO DOMINOS, hook those 2 oxygen thieves up IMO. Send them to jail, if not for doing the nastiness they did, but also for being stupid enough to put it on the net.
I have always found Domino’s pizza to be utterly repellant and disgusting, so it really makes no difference to me. I think we should be more concerned with the fact that the owner is a right-wing nutjob.
from http://www.lime.com/food/story/2022/dominos_founder_founds_domineering_town
Thomas S. Monaghan, the Domino’s Pizza magnate, is using a huge slice of his pizza dough to build himself a town in Florida with a fundamentalist foundation; the town will be governed strictly according to Roman Catholic principles.
The town of Ave Maria, as Monaghan envisions it, would be a saintly enclave free of such modern day ills as pornography, birth control, and abortion.
Why cant we just focus on the actual story instead of someone always needed to bring up political stuff?
Because it’s important!
Good for Domino’s! I don’t eat their pizza, but how many people saw that and are sickened by it? How much business will they lose as a result of it? How many workers will be let go because of a decrease in business? These people were MORONS. Don’t like working at Domino’s? Quit your job and do something else, and good luck trying to find anyone who will hire you, jackass.
Also, she’s like 30. What 30 year old works at fucking Dominos?
Beet, how would you be able to order a vegan pizza in the first place? Unless I missed something and you aren’t vegan anymore that is…
What a bullshit excuse, of course the food went out to paying customers. Totally unacceptable, good for Dominos to take this action!