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Business Wars Daily

Your Local Domino’s is Hiring...a Road Crew?

Business Wars Daily

Audible

Business, Business News, News, Daily News

4.6717 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today is Friday, September 14, and we’re looking at Domino’s vs. Pizza Hut.

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One, three. From Wondry, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on Friday, September 14th.

1:09.7

For many of us, Friday is pizza night. Struggling to choose a

1:13.4

pizza place? The big chains battle for your loyalty every day and not just by showing us ooey-gooey

1:20.0

images of dripping cheese atop golden crusts. When you're in a battle for the top, you have to use

1:26.3

your imagination, which is just what Domino's has done with a seriously out-of-the-pita-box ad campaign.

1:33.5

In June, Domino's decided to go after potholes.

1:37.5

In a campaign it called pizza for paving, the company offered to fix potholes in 20 towns, because, as it argued, bad roads shouldn't happen to good pizza.

1:48.0

The initial effort was tiny with a budget of only $100,000.

1:52.2

But the cheesy campaign blew up on social media, flooding the company with paving requests nationwide.

2:00.5

In response, Dominoes stretched the campaign to cover all 50 states.

2:05.8

So far, they've had 140,000 requests, with nominations still open.

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