🍕📊🍴 Domino's Pizza Review: Three Pizzas, Vibes, & Getting Deputized 🍴📊🍕

Season 4 continues as James Werner (@jamesyjoehenry) returns for Part 2 of our Domino's Pizza episode, this time putting the pizza where the mouth is. We actually ate inside a Domino's, sat at a real table, and watched the pies come together from what can only be described as the Young Pizza Inspector overlook. With all-star service, we break Domino's down category by category to see if it can clear the Chili's bar.

🍕 Reviewing the Full Spread (and Absolutely No Salad)
🔥 BBQ Chicken Pizza, Ultimate Pepperoni, and Pan Pizza with Pepperoni, Bacon, & Garlic
🍝 Penne Pasta, Garlic Bread Bites, Cinnamon Bread Bites, and Chocolate Lava Cake
🏆 James Is the Champion of Shouting People Out
🎨 Decor That Made Us Wish We Could Vandalize the Walls
👀 Deputized to Inspect Pizzas
🍕 Yes, I Do Crave Pizza Despite Not Liking Cheese
✈️ James' Worst Restaurant Experience Ever Involved an Airport Sandwich
🍌 His Best Experience Was Weighted by Flashiness of Bananas Foster
📊 The Final Score: Is Domino's Better or Worse Than Chili's?

💬 COMMENT BELOW: What's your go-to Domino's order?

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🎤 Guest: James Werner | IG: @jamesyjoehenry

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👉 NEXT WEEK: I head to BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse with comedian PJ McCormick and dive into their history (including pretty dumb etymology).

🍕📦🚗 Domino's Pizza: Hostages, Food Tampering, and Turning It All Around 🚗📦🍕

Season 4 (omg, what??) kicks off with a deep dive into the wild, complicated, and occasionally Noidy history of Domino's Pizza. Joined by improviser and musician James Werner (@jamesyjoehenry), I trace how a tiny Michigan pizzeria turned into the world's largest pizza chain by making bold promises, bad mistakes, smarter apologies, and some genuinely fascinating tech gambles. This is a story about shame, sincerity, and why sometimes admitting "our pizza sucks" is the smartest move a company can make.

🍕 Two Brothers, $500, and a Volkswagen Beetle That Changed Pizza History
⏱️ The 30-Minute Delivery Promise That Built the Brand (and Nearly Broke It)
😈 The Noid, a Nintendo Game, and One of the Strangest Ad Campaign Aftermaths Ever
📉 "Our Pizza Sucks": The 2010 Recipe Overhaul That Saved Domino's
📱 Domino's Becomes an E-Commerce Company That Happens to Sell Pizza
🕳️ Paving Over Potholes Because "Bad Roads Shouldn't Happen to Good Pizza"
🧠 The Pizza Tracker Is Mostly Fake and That's Kind of the Point
🎅 James Pitches His Dream Restaurant: Santa's Kitchen, Serving What Santa Eats
⭐ Yelp From Strangers Includes a Reviewer Furious About a Tip Request on Mother's Day

💬 COMMENT BELOW: Did the Domino's recipe change actually win you back?

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🎤 Guest: James Werner | IG: @jamesyjoehenry

Patreon Producers: Sue Ornelas & Joyce Van

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👉 NEXT WEEK: We put Domino's to the Chili's Test with a full review (and we actually found a Domino's that had tables for dine-in)!!

🗣️⭐🍽️ Yelp From Strangers: Rainforest Cafe, Bob's Big Boy, Waffle House, Pappadeaux & Chuy's 🍽️⭐🗣️

VyVy Nguyen (@cest_la_vyvy) is back as we wrap up our two-part Yelp From Strangers special during the final stretch of Bridge Season. This week's batch is truly unhinged. Once again, the food is secondary and the feelings are loud. Also, wtf does "we are bar people" even mean??

🥩 A Rainforest Cafe Review That Treats the Jungle Steak Like Fine Art
🧠 My Personal Connection to David Lynch Lore at Bob's Big Boy
🪑 A Waffle House Review That References the Flying Chair Incident!
📱 A Chuy's Text Message That Woke a Man from His "Sleep Cycle"
👨‍👩‍👧 A Reviewer Who Seems Actively Mad That Her Own Children Exist
🍤 Pappadeaux Through the Eyes of Someone with Very Specific Expectations
🔥 Turtle from Entourage Writes a Review (from a Terrarium??)

💬 COMMENT BELOW: Which chain do you think has the most chaotic Yelp reviews of all time?

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🎤 Guest: VyVy Nguyen | IG: @cest_la_vyvy

Patreon Producers: Sue Ornelas & Joyce Van

Patreon Subscribers: David Ornelas, Kellie Baldwin, Jeremy Horwitz, Herbert Amaya, Simone Davalos, Scott Bennett, Amy Reinhart, Josef Castaneda-Liles, & Travis Langley

Free Patreon Followers: Joe Warszalek, Lauren Cummings, Grace Krainak, Keri Estes, Robert Duran, Patrick Elliott, Michelle Elmer, Dave Plummer, Nicholas Volney, Michael Gerard, Tracy Molino, Phuong Duong, Tyler Robinson, Brandon Gully, Mason Cruz, Michael Milito, Mez, Aaron Hubbard, Steff, & Robert McLaughlin

👉 NEXT WEEK: Enjoy your holidays! The Bridge Season is officially over, but Season 4 will hit your table January 7th with an episode detailing the history of Dominos Pizza!