Dominos - it is the one with the snot on the box
Let me preface this and say i am a fan of pizza and that most times it is dominos and will continue to be.
Thanks to bouncing around the interweb as i am prone to do i discovered a video today from Patrick Doyle the President of Dominos USA entitled Disgusting Dominos People - Dominos Responds:
Kudos to Patrick - he has taken in hand what is a less than glorious day for the company. The only thing it didn’t say was what really happened so with a little bit of research I found Net manhunt tracks dirty Domino’s duo and from there finding the videos was easy with a link to Let the Domino’s appall. You probably don’t want to read it if your having dominos tonight or just have a weak stomach when it comes to bodily functions and fluids (there is a couple of keywords you don’t want associated with your blog!). Reminds me of the scene from Road Trip with the French Toast, only in this “trip” there were two characters, a guy and a girl and they are both gay and have low standards of personal conduct.
It got me thinking, there have been a few less than savory places i have been in that I wouldn’t put it past them doing things like that but i wouldn’t put it past them. There is a place where over the course of a year i got food from three times and three times i was crook from afterwards.
But to their credit, dominos isn’t one of them. They just frustrate the hell out of me more times than not when I order from my local Dominos store but i have had no serious complaints with the actual food. The service is somewhat lacking though with many notible problems including combinations of:
- There is the great chocolate lava pudding incident where they forgot to put my pudding in with my order and tried to tell me they were soldout. Their excuse came undone though since at the time the person working the pizza oven had just taken out two puddings for a different order after mine
- The time where i had to keep interupting the person serving me who was more interested in planning her night out with one of the drivers than actually doing the highly complex task of getting my order out of the oven. It wasn’t the conversation you have while your doing something, it was the lean against the wall chat - after finding out the name for my order etc.
- It is not unusual for my order to be either stuffed up or contamination on my pizza - i have pepperoni so why is there a piece or pieces of pineapple on my pizza or capsicum or chicken or … well you get the idea.
- I order and pay online - they remember half the time to get me to sign and of those times they never actually check that the signature or even the credit card is mine!
But the thing that annoys me most about picking up from Dominos is this. They have an electronic order board that gives the status of how long until each order is ready and what stage it is at such as Greg making 10 minutes which is fine and easy to understand. Someone comes in to the store in front of me, their order is 10 minutes from being ready and mine is listed as ready. The server inisists on looking for the person in fronts order rather than just looking on the board. Couple of minutes later they have searched the orders and then checked to establish the order will be ready in around 8 minutes. Meanwhile my order was already waiting.
I am hoping from this that there will be a global lifting of standards amongst the dominos team. Or at least they check my signature and the order status board. Am i hoping for too much?
Clean Behind your ears
For some reason Before lunch i was thinking about my grandmother and how she would insist before meals that us kids washed our hands and face which i understand, kids and dirt have an affinity with each other. But what i didn’t understand was that she also insisted that we wash behind the ears before eating.
Whats the washing behind the ears all about? Is there some bizare disease that is carried exclusively behind the ears and can only be ingested. It just didn’t make sense then or now.
As i said, not sure why was thinking of it now
Belching uneaten bits of Star
I have at times been called a bit of a shovel when it comes to eating alone. Nothing to distract from eating means it is just a matter of getting it over. But nothing compared to this:
Don’t see me belching bits of uneaten star into the universe!
Another Wonderful Autumn Day
Snug Falls
It was another wonderful autumn day here today and I thought i would make the most of it with a short bushwalk. Today’s destination was Snug Falls which is South of Hobart and the track in is about 2.1 km. The nice thing is that it is downhill almost the whole way, the bad thing is that is that it is uphill almost all the way back. But for 20 minutes it really isn’t that far.
Down Stream from Snug Falls
Now the freaky thing is that Hobart is a small place, there weren’t that many visitors there but I still managed to run into someone that I used to work with until i left in 1996. Small world.
Anyway, it was definitely a good use for what was a beautiful day.
A wander in the gardens
A mist in the Fernery at the Botanical gardens, Hobart
Today was a strange kind of day. When i got up the weather looked a bit so so and because of that i spent the next couple of hours stuffing stound inside without giving the weather another thought. It was only when i decided that i wanted to have some lunch did i discover that an ordinary day had changed into something far better.
After grabbing some lunch (sausages in bread from the charity outside Anaconda) i decided i really needed to make use of the day but how? I had a bushwalk in mind but i decided that it was too late to be heading bush and driving over the Tasman Bridge i saw how still the water was and was sold. It was the perfect day to wander around the botanical gardens.
So i had a wander around the botanical gardens for a while with my camera (future series for Hobart Daily)and while we might be getting to the middle of autumn, i still got a little burned from the sun. I wasn’t the only one either with some people having a picnic or just enjoying the sun walking or sitting.
So in the end i made use of a great day in a good way. Mission accomplished.