Posted on 08/10/2022 1:31:48 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Just seven years after making its debut in Milan, Domino’s Pizza is saying arrivederci to Italy.
The fast food giant closed the last of its 29 stores on the Italian Peninsula after struggling to gain a foothold in the country, Bloomberg reports, with locals proving to be difficult to win over for the American chain.
The company’s exit from Italy was met with cheers on Twitter, where users mocked Domino’s for even attempting to establish a foothold in the homeland of pizza in the first place.
Domino’s arrived in Italy in 2015, when it already had more than 12,000 stores worldwide. It planned to win customers over with “purely Italian” ingredients including “100 percent tomato sauce and mozzarella, and products like Prosciutto di Parma, Gorgonzola, Grana Padano and Mozzarella di bufala Campana,” CNBC reported at the time.
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Why would your typical Italian opt for Domino's?! I haven't had a Domino's pizza in oh, twenty years....
Next you’ll be telling me that Taco Bell is pulling out of Mexico...
Twenty years ago I learned from your mistake and never had a Domino’s pizza.
McDonald’s was popular in Italy. And sushi and Thai restaurants were popping up all over the last few years I was there. Hey, even Italians get tired of pizza and pasta alone.
I hate Domino’s and I’m not even Italian
Not good for our culinary reputation. Now all of Italy thinks our pizza is like Domino’s.
I’m 2nd generation Italian.
Make my own apiece from scratch.
So I’m at my nephews, his father in law brings 2 dominos in a box...
I told him the recipe for the box and flat domino whatever are the same.
Ass refused my cheese grater with a chunk of Locatelli.. he would rather use the cheese in the little packet that resembles a hand wipe.
fkn mayo
So Detroit “pizza” doesn’t work in Italy?
Go figure...
which Domino exec determined they could beat local Italian pizza ?
Domino’s can only survive in a country with Papa John’s and Little Caesars for comparison.
Italian pizza is also very sparsely topped. It’s considered an appetizer, actually.
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Dominos said a few years back they had improved their pizza. I’ve eaten a few of their pizzas over the past couple of years (after moving to a small town with limited options). They have improved their pizza. It’s now close to Little Ceasars IMO.
I've never been to Italy but I've heard Americans being disappointed with Italian pizza for the reasons you've just mentioned.
Is this from The Bee?
Heaven is a place where you can get a hot, fresh slice of thin crust with lots of fresh toppings (i.e., there’s more toppings than dough), the crust doesn’t sag/droop and there is a wonderful cruch when you bit into the slice. Dominos, like most chains, would not fit in that category. Personally, I won’t eat the doughy, saggy crap that comes out of most pizza places.
“Your typical pizza in Italy is baked in a wood-fired brick oven. Individual serving size.”
Almost right and close. Don’t mind me. I’m 3rd gen Sicilian. Even here in L.A. these “Italian” places are mostly fake. even the dude who runs Palermo (and he’s from palermo, I know) his pasta dishes suck.
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