Dominos CEO: Pizza, pineapple, and courage
In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen
Norges Bank Investment Management
4.7 • 236 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Dominos was founded in 1960 by two brothers. Now they are the largest pizza company in the world, serving over 1 million people daily across 20,000 locations globally. Their CEO Russell Weiner talk about what makes a good pizza, their unique marketing campaigns, new delivery trends, and can you have pineapple on a pizza?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody. Today I'm speaking to Russell Weiner, CEO of Domino's, the largest pizza company in the world. |
| 0:07.7 | Domino's was founded in 1960 by two brothers. Now, they are serving more than one million people daily across 20,000 franchisees. |
| 0:17.0 | We own 3% of Domino's, translating into 4 billion Norwegian crown or 400 million US dollars. |
| 0:22.6 | Now, this is going to be a fun conversation. |
| 0:24.4 | We aim to settle the biggest pizza debate ever. |
| 0:26.8 | Is it okay to have pineapple on pizza? |
| 0:29.0 | Should you use fork and knife? |
| 0:30.3 | And lastly, will he join me to the World Championship in Pizza in Italy? |
| 0:35.1 | Tune in. |
| 0:36.3 | Tune in. |
| 0:45.5 | Well, hi, everybody. |
| 0:47.1 | I'm super happy. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm here with Russell Wainer, |
| 0:50.7 | the CEO of Domino's Pizza. |
| 0:52.6 | Very welcome. |
| 0:54.4 | Oh, thanks so much for having me. |
| 0:57.3 | Now, given that we have the honor of having you on, |
| 1:02.3 | we have to kind of start with the most fundamental question in pizza science. |
| 1:04.7 | Yeah. One that I'm wondering a lot about. |
| 1:07.7 | Is it okay to have pineapple on a pizza? |
| 1:12.6 | You are now, you have been given the okay to have pineapple on your pizza. |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah, I'll tell you, the thing that is amazing about pizza, it's got these three core ingredients that has dough, sauce, and cheese. And you can pretty much put anything in the world on it, |
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