GRoss Domino's Employee's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muspR8X_g4A#lq-lq2-hq-vhq)
The video has been taken down numerous times so I don't know how long this link will last. If you search some form of gross out Domino's employees, you'll be able to find it.
That being said, this was posted on youtube something like two days ago. Both employees have since been fired and have warrants out for their arrest.
How disgusting is this? I'm glad I don't like Domino's!
I've long ceased to be shocked by stupidity. [roll]
Check out www.noob.us (//http://) - they had all three of them posted as of last night. I want to punch these people so bad...
I used to work at a fast food restaurant and some of the guys that worked as cooks used to try to get away with shit like that when people they didn't like came through the drive-thru.
I threw the food in the garbage more than once when they handed it off to me and went back and remade it myself.
I don't care what your excuse is, that's just wrong.
fast food pranks between employees = a way to stay sane in a mind-numbing job
fast food "pranks" on customers = inexcusable.
Even though the dude did it, I blame it on the chick. She was totally instigating the dude, Eve reincarnated.
This one is much nastier
Poopie Dishes - Nasty Domino's Pizza Employees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU_CupB3QiA&feature=related#lq-lq2-hq-vhq)
I knew some delinquents that worked at Dominos... It's too bad we didn't video that night
I'm going to the grocery store for lunch today. Thanks
KFC déjà vu. [roll]
You gotta be pretty stupid to upload this stuff online, or record it in the first placeâ€"so maybe they were pissed at their employer and trying to give the whole company a bad name (at the risk of their futures).
wonder if these kind of people realize that if i found out one of them had done this to my food, i'd be proud to end up in prison for teaching them a lesson. i'd leave the guns at home too.
I hadn't seen that second video, wow.
IF I SAW ONE OF MY WORKERS DO THAT THEY WOULD GET AN OLD FASHONED BEAT DOWN!!!!! [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/business/media/16dominos.html?ref=business (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/business/media/16dominos.html?ref=business)
QuoteWhen two Domino's Pizza employees videotaped a prank in the restaurant's kitchen, they decided to post it online. In a few days, thanks to the power of social media, they ended up with felony charges, more than a million disgusted viewers, and a major company facing a public-relations crisis.
In videos posted on YouTube and elsewhere this week, a Domino's employee in Conover, N.C., prepared sandwiches for delivery while putting cheese up his nose, nasal mucus on the sandwiches, and violating other health-code standards while a fellow employee provided narration.
By Wednesday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than one million times on YouTube, references to it made up 5 of the 12 results on the first page of Google search results for “Dominos,†and discussions about Domino's had spread throughout Twitter.As Domino's is seeing, social media has the reach and speed to turn tiny incidents into marketing crises. In November, Motrin posted an ad suggesting that carrying babies in slings was fashionable. Unhappy moms posted Twitter complaints about it, and bloggers followed; within days, Motrin had pulled the ad and apologized. On Monday, Amazon.com apologized for a “ham-fisted†error after Twitter members complained that the sales rankings for gay and lesbian books seemed to have disappeared â€" and, since Amazon took more than a day to respond, the social-media world criticized it for being uncommunicative.
The Domino's employees told company executives that they never actually delivered the tainted food. Still, Domino's fired the two employees on Tuesday, and they were in the custody of the Conover police department on Wednesday evening, facing felony charges for distributing prohibited foods.
But the crisis wasn't over for Domino's.
“We got blindsided by two idiots with a video camera and an awful idea,†said a Domino's spokesman, Tim McIntyre, who said the company was preparing a civil lawsuit. “Even people who've been with us as loyal customers for 10, 15, 20 years, people are second-guessing their relationship with Domino's, and that's not fair.â€
In just a few days, Domino's reputation was hurt. The perception of its quality among consumers went from positive to negative in the last five days, according to the research firm YouGov, which conducts online surveys of about 1,000 consumers every day regarding hundreds of brands. “It's graphic enough in the video, and it's created enough of a stir, that it gives people a little bit of pause,†said Ted Marzilli, global managing director for YouGov's BrandIndex.Paul Gallagher, managing director and co-head of the United States crisis practice at the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, said of the Domino's experience: “It is a nightmare. It's the toughest situation for a company to face in terms of a digital crisis.â€Mr. McIntyre was alerted to the videos on Monday evening by a blogger who had seen them. In the most popular video, a woman who identifies herself as Kristy films a co-worker, Michael, preparing the unsanitary sandwiches. “In about five minutes it'll be sent out on delivery where somebody will be eating these, yes, eating them, and little did they know that cheese was in his nose and that there was some lethal gas that ended up on their salami,†Kristy said. “Now that's how we roll at Domino's.â€
On Monday, commenters at the site Consumerist.com used clues in the video to find the franchise location in Conover, and told Mr. McIntyre about the videos. On Tuesday, the Domino's franchise owner fired the employees, whom Domino's identified as Kristy Hammonds, 31, and Michael Setzer, 32. The franchisee brought in the local health department, which advised him to discard all open containers of food, which cost hundreds of dollars, Mr. McIntyre said.
Ms. Hammonds apologized to the company in an e-mail message she sent Tuesday morning. “It was fake and I wish that everyone knew that!!!!†she wrote. “I AM SOO SORRY!â€
By Wednesday evening, the video had been removed from YouTube because of a copyright claim from Ms. Hammonds. Neither Ms. Hammonds nor Mr. Setzer was available for comment on Wednesday evening, said the Conover police chief, Gary W. Lafone.
As the company learned about the video on Tuesday, Mr. McIntyre said, executives decided not to respond aggressively, hoping the controversy would quiet down. “What we missed was the perpetual mushroom effect of viral sensations,†he said.
In social media, “if you think it's not going to spread, that's when it gets bigger,†said Scott Hoffman, the chief marketing officer of the social-media marketing firm Lotame. “We realized that when many of the comments and questions in Twitter were 'What is Domino's doing about it?' †Mr. McIntyre said. “Well, we were doing and saying things, but they weren't being covered in Twitter.†By Wednesday afternoon, Domino's had created a Twitter account, @dpzinfo, to address the comments, and it had videotaped its chief executive in a video posted on YouTube Wednesday evening. “It elevated to a point where just responding isn't good enough,†Mr. McIntyre said.
it's amazing the damage that 2 idiots can do.
Idiots. She wishes everyone knew it was fake? Give me a break. Have some common sense lady and an attention span longer than a housefly to understand the far reaching implications of doing something stupid like that.
You've got to feel for Dominos in this situation. I bet it has cost them millions in the last couple of days.
I really do - i try hard not to by pizza from the pizza hut / dominos / papa johns of the world as much as possible, but the wife slips up and we have to have it sometimes. really makes me feel bad for a manager at a store on the other side of the country who's business is heavily affected but he has done nothing wrong.
Quote from: ato memphis on April 15, 2009, 08:01:17 PM
I really do - i try hard not to by pizza from the pizza hut / dominos / papa johns of the world as much as possible, but the wife slips up and we have to have it sometimes. really makes me feel bad for a manager at a store on the other side of the country who's business is heavily affected but he has done nothing wrong.
True, but that is the risk you pay buying a prepackaged brand of a franchise vs. building your own ...
Adam
Having worked at Domino's recently as a driver, I can say that this honestly doesn't surprise me giving the type of people you are forced to hire in order to do that job.
This would never have happened at the store I worked at because there was always a shift manager on the floor and most of the people who worked there were decent/great people. The one's who weren't generally didn't last very long.
As for this happening at other places, I'm sure it does. I heard a firsthand account about some guys working at Taco Bell pissing in the beef. I just don't want to know what I'm eating.
Quote from: DrDesmosedici on April 15, 2009, 09:22:38 PM
True, but that is the risk you pay buying a prepackaged brand of a franchise vs. building your own ...
Adam
Manager vs Owner. HUGE difference.
Quote from: DrDesmosedici on April 15, 2009, 09:22:38 PM
True, but that is the risk you pay buying a prepackaged brand of a franchise vs. building your own ...
Adam
There should be no risk, Adam. Maybe someone tainted your cheese, dough, sauce etc.....
Quote from: kopfjager on April 16, 2009, 12:08:22 AM
There should be no risk, Adam. Maybe someone tainted your cheese, dough, sauce etc.....
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I was referring to licensing someone else's brand and marketing it with a franchise - you have zero control over the marketing message, or of colossal CF's like this. When you've bought into a brand name like Domino's / McD / Dunkin Donuts / whatever, you get loads of benefits - but also the risk that if something happens to the brand on a national level, you're screwed as a franchise owner.
Cheers,
Adam
Quote from: Vindingo on April 15, 2009, 07:57:51 PM
You've got to feel for Dominos in this situation. I bet it has cost them millions in the last couple of days.
I'd rather not.
A friend's 8 year old son was run over and killed by a Domino's delivery guy in their policy of delivering in 30 minutes or less.
Fvck Domino's.
Seems more like a horrible driver in that situation than the corporate policy causing problems.
honestly, this stuff is FUNNY, but not for the reasons you may think.
these two kids are MAJOR IDIOTS for 2 reason.
1. they taped it, how stupid could you be? if nothing else the stupidity of taping something so stupid deserves a beat down.
2. they taped it, if you want to do something stupid and risk the consequences then do so at your own risk of a beat down from someone, but don't tape it, that just begs for a beat down when the person finds out about it.
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
remember its not EVERY employee that does this, its only 2 kids that were morons that do stupid stuff like that. I'm sure if we taped the 2 morons in whatever job type you worked at that we could all then say "oh well obviously everyone in that profession is that way and its obvvious that the managers and the job caused that to happen, etc.".
they weren't kids...they were 31 and 32 years old.
they are just morons.
Quote from: gojira on April 16, 2009, 05:40:12 AM
A friend's 8 year old son was run over and killed by a Domino's delivery guy in their policy of delivering in 30 minutes or less.
When was it that this happened?
Quote from: Vindingo on April 15, 2009, 10:20:00 AM
I knew some delinquents that worked at Dominos... It's too bad we didn't video that night
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
This is by no means confined to big chain fast food restaurants. Unless you never go out to eat, it is highly unlikely that you have NOT eaten something disgusting at a restaurant or from take-out.
Quote from: ato memphis on April 16, 2009, 07:20:30 AM
Seems more like a horrible driver in that situation than the corporate policy causing problems.
At the time it was a corporate-owned Domino's location and not a franchise.
Quote from: potomacduc on April 16, 2009, 08:43:00 AM
This is by no means confined to big chain fast food restaurants. Unless you never go out to eat, it is highly unlikely that you have NOT eaten something disgusting at a restaurant or from take-out.
I pictured the movie "Waiting ..." with Ryan Reynolds and Anna Farris reading this! ;D
Quote from: gojira on April 16, 2009, 10:27:14 AM
I pictured the movie "Waiting ..." with Ryan Reynolds and Anna Farris reading this! ;D
Great movie [thumbsup]
I'd just like to pretend that's not what really goes on;)
They're sorry
http://www.thebigmoney.com/features/youtube-brandwatch/2009/04/17/domino-s-delivers-apology (http://www.thebigmoney.com/features/youtube-brandwatch/2009/04/17/domino-s-delivers-apology)
I worked at Dominoes in the early 90's as a driver and nothing like that ever went on. I kind of liked the place actually. I also worked at Taco Bell and the worst thing that ever went on, was some sour cream gun fights at closing. But we never messed with the food.
Quote from: gojira on April 16, 2009, 10:19:10 AM
2003
Sorry dude, but that was 10 years after the 30 minute policy ended.
ato was right... your buddy's son was killed by a shitty driver, not a corporate machine.
(sucks nevertheless though)
Quote from: ato memphis on April 17, 2009, 06:31:07 PM
(sucks nevertheless though)
Oh absolutely.
I never meant to imply that it wasn't tragic.
you totally didn't imply that, what is far less tragic, but still disappointing is that i am hungry, and am in the mood for pizza... not really feelin' like ordering any tonight though, can't put my finger on why...