evandyk
Senior Member
Our son's school has Domino's for weekly pizza lunch. Nobody likes it, but I guess somebody knows somebody, and Dominos has it locked down. Most people get Pizza Nova for birthday parties. Everybody is too snobby for PP.
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PL1
Senior Member
Sunnybrook has "Pizza Pizza", which is somehow worse than the in store product. The dough is sour (not in a good way), and the sauce is too plentiful and very acidic. I haven't bought it in quite a while now.
MisterF
Senior Member
Pizza Pizza may have the easiest to remember phone number, but nobody can touch Pizza Nova for the epicness of their jingle.
Jonny5
Senior Member
I recall somewhere around 2010, Dominos made a major change to their recipes and it really did improve. That lasted until around until 2020 and the pandemic, and then they obviously went for slashing costs, and everything has slowly deteriorated over time since.
I live across the street from a store, so I still do get it on occasion because, no delivery charge, and it's literally right there 60 seconds away.
But it's like the decline of Tim Horton's, a slow and painful death filled with launches of shitty new products (that egg scramble thing they are pushing looks revolting) that's really about offering you less while charging you more money.
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evandyk
Senior Member
I had nostalgia for Dominos because it was available on my meal card in first year of undergrad in the '90s. Many fun late-night scenarios were accompanied by Dominos. Over the years I would get it every once in a while, hoping to relive those days, but it's just too crappy, so I've stopped.
Jonny5
Senior Member
Oh! You were one of those people! Though a different chain so you didn't bother me with your antics.
I worked the night shift at the Pizza Pizza call centre in Hamilton in around 2002.We took orders for all of Ontario except for 416 Toronto, which had its own call centre on Jarvis Street, and for anything east from Kingston or north of Orillia, as that was routed to another call centre in Ottawa that was fully bilingual.
It was actually a pretty cool place. They already were using flat screen (not HD) monitors for their order takers and had internet telephony phones, so the computer would just beep at your desk there was an incoming call.
At the busiest times, Friday and Saturday nights, and of course on Halloween and New Year's, there would be up to 100 order takers working the phones, and the goal, which was usually easy to achieve, was to complete an order in two minutes, and if you do the math that's about 3,000 orders per hour. They actually had online ordering already back then, but only about 1% of orders came through that way in 2002.
But the one thing I remember were the meal plan calls, often at 12:55 a.m., 5 minutes before the stores are supposed to close, and starting with "Hey, are you still open, bro?", (because we would totally answer the phone if we were closed?), follwed by, "Yeah we want two pizzas," and me responding with "OK, what do want on them," to which I got "Oh, uh wait a sec [background sound] Hey Jim, what do you want on the pizza? I don't know what do you want, I don't know...." and when that three minutes of back and forth is finally resolved I get to the delivery address and it's "Hey Jim, where are we?" and then I learn they are in a dorm, and that's when I ask if they are using a meal plan card and they say yes, and, oh, so there's this whole other application to use when you are placing a meal card order, so I have to start all over again entering it [insert rage face at having my average order time increased greatly].
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evandyk
Senior Member
That was definitely me!
PurplePinky
Active Member
What does everyone think of Pizza Nova charging $25.41 to deliver a large pepperoni pizza?
Reasonable? Cheap? Expensive?
Reasonable? Cheap? Expensive?
PurplePinky
Active Member
I’ve read back a bit.
Does anyone else like Pizza Nova or is it just a step up from PP?
Does anyone else like Pizza Nova or is it just a step up from PP?
evandyk
Senior Member
Pizza Nova is great plain pizza. Major step up from PP. We ordered it on Sunday.
PurplePinky
Active Member
So did we. Our usual, large pepperoni pizza! 
Northern Light
Superstar
Pizza Nova is a decent step up. But it has a glaring weak point, they don't have fresh garlic that you can add to the sauce for free, like Pizzaiolo at one end or 241 at the other.
Fresh garlic always improves on pizza, especially when the base sauce could be just a bit more attention getting.
Pizzaiolo can be quite good, but they're a tad pricey for a mostly unlicensed to-go chain.
A good medium pizza there sets me back 25'ish.
So did we. Our usual, large pepperoni pizza!
Just pepperoni? You seem so much more interesting than that.
Good pepperoni (which Pizza Nova has) is nice, but then you at least need double pepperoni. Plus some chili flakes or the spicy olive oil.
evandyk
Senior Member
We are really close to a 241 but for some reason, my wife thinks it's even worse than PP, so we never get it. But I think I've talked her into it (and, in fact, my pitch was that some people on UrbanToronto say their fresh made pies are good).
Northern Light
Superstar
The slices are garbage, but the fresh stuff, if you get garlic in the sauce is decent. Not a lot of 'fancy' toppings, leans a bit in to old-school greasy. But its quite serviceable. Also, definitely better than Pizza Pizza which is almost unique in its irredeemability .
evandyk
Senior Member
We are pretty big on cooking fresh food at home, so when we get pizza it's because we want something fast and easy. I'm sure 241 would fit the bill.
If we want good pizza, we're going out to a real pizza place.
If we want good pizza, we're going out to a real pizza place.