Comments on: Domino’s Pizza: Kudos on a Good Ad and Business Strategy

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:28:28 +0000

Jim!
Good to hear from you, as always. Obviously I love pizza – as a guy, it’s almost a genetic certainty. Despite Lonnie and I being all-knowing about food (yeah, right), I think I’ll need to defer to you on this topic – you have made more actual pizza-tastings than I have, and amazingly, you may like pizza better than I do. As a gourmand, my range of pizza acceptability is wider than most.

So I would question whether the new Domino’s pizza would ring your bell. To get the stuff you’re looking for, I’m wondering if a trip to New York is required. Find one of those places with the enormous oven that can easily get much hotter than a home oven, then you have the fairly simple but flawless ingredients, combined well, and then the whole thing cooks on that super oven in just a couple minutes.

You can get something like what’s in this post,
http://chusonchow.com/2009/01/phalanx-of-philly-food-fun/
…although that was in Philly – I didn’t get pizza on my last NY visit.

My NY relatives swear by Lombardi’s in Soho, but I’ve not been there yet:
http://www.firstpizza.com/

Oh, and nearer to here, I should add that we had some great pizza at Tony D’s in Rochester in the rapidly gentrifying Corn Hill area. This is somewhat upscale, big fancy pizza oven, fun and boisterous, I’d say it’s a nice place to take a date.

By: JimBJohnson

JimBJohnson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:59:13 +0000

By the way, I thought you would appreciate something I wrote up a while back when I tried a new pizza place. Three unacceptable pizzeria offenses:

1. Serving wings in tens instead of dozens.
2. Serving wings with ranch dressing instead of bleu cheese.
3. Cutting pizzas into squares or rectangles instead of triangle slices.

I will not stand for any of these abominations. A 4th could be added, “Not accepting credit cards”, but that’s just a commen sense thing.

By: JimBJohnson

JimBJohnson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:53:27 +0000

I don’t think I’ve actually ever had Domino’s pizza. It just so happened that I never grew up near one. At home when I was a kid, we had Pepi’s Pizza, which I disliked. In college, there was Dorian’s, which might be my favorite of all time. I’ve recently moved to the N. Syracuse/Liverpool area and I don’t really know of a good pizza place. There’s Little Caesar’s, but I consider that about one step up from a Hot Pocket. Where do I go for good pizza? Help me, Obi Chu, you’re my only hope!