| Dominos Pizza is one of the largest pizza restaurant | | | | attempt to get the pizza delivered on time. Just try |
| chains in the world with around 8,500 franchised and | | | | imagining a car with a Dominos sign placed on its roof |
| corporate stores in all 50 states of the United States | | | | gunning it through red lights, probably not the kind of |
| and 55 countries. The company was originally launched | | | | advertisement the company had been looking for. But |
| as a small pizzeria in Michigan by two brothers with a | | | | can you blame the drivers? Dominos eventually |
| big dream. The company is always trying out new | | | | changed its rules and stopped holding its drivers |
| tactics to get customers to order pizza from them and | | | | accountable for any sort of late deliveries. In 1992, |
| their 30 minute guarantee was perhaps one of their | | | | tragedy struck and Dominos was sued by the family |
| best. In the year 1973 Dominos Pizza rolled out a | | | | of a young woman who had been killed by one of |
| creative new ad campaign which guaranteed that their | | | | their quick pizza delivery drivers, they won a total of |
| customers would get their pizza within thirty minutes of | | | | $2.8 million and in 1993 the company had decided to |
| placing their orders, a very innovative idea at the time. | | | | drop their 30 minute guarantee. In 2008, the company |
| They promised their customers that if their pizza was | | | | began advertising its thirty minute delivery or free pizza |
| delivered more than thirty minutes after placing their | | | | offer again, but if you took care to read the small print |
| order, then it would be free. | | | | it states that it is only an estimate. Their original offer |
| In the mid 1980's the free pizza offer had to be | | | | that had started in 1973 is currently being promoted in |
| replaced with a discount of $3 because of an | | | | seven other countries which includes Brazil, Chile, India, |
| increasing risk of drivers breaking traffic laws in an | | | | Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico and Turkey. |