Domino's Disgusting Video Gets Workers Fired, Causes Media Storm

New York Times:

When two Domino's Pizza employees filmed a prank in the restaurant's kitchen, they decided to post it online. In a few days, thanks to the power of social media, they ended up with felony charges, more than a million disgusted viewers, and a major company facing a public relations crisis.

In videos posted on YouTube and elsewhere this week, a Domino's employee in Conover, N.C., prepared sandwiches for delivery while putting cheese up his nose, nasal mucus on the sandwiches, and violating other health-code standards while a fellow employee provided narration.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[ktdowner]

07:11 PM on 04/19/2009

Kristy Lynn Hammonds sex offender info.

In 2006 she was arrested for the statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl. She pleaded guilty last June to a reduced charge of misdemeanor sexual battery.

As part of her plea deal, Hammonds was required to register as a sex offender and ordered “not to be alone with anyone 16 or under, with the exception of her own children.” She was also placed on probation for two years, hit with a 60-day suspended jail sentence, and fined $1941.

(Source)The smoking gun

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0416091dominos1.html

[Bulbul]

07:21 AM on 04/17/2009

We don`t eat pizza , only reason, my Husband doesn`t like them. Now I am glad we haven`t. been.....

[Ryan Lobo]

06:07 AM on 04/17/2009

And to crown it all Ms. Hammond has filed a copyright claim on YouTube!!!

[MalloMel]

07:36 AM on 04/17/2009

Maybe she want's to sell the rights to the video and make some money off of it. She might need it for her defense.

[chronic]

05:28 AM on 04/17/2009

Thats why I get eat at mom and pop restaurants. When these food chains get so big the people they hire could care less about what they serve. They get paid pennies and dont even know the people they serve.

[FSM]

02:37 AM on 04/17/2009

Probably the best Pizza documentary ever made.

Just be happy you didn't see the pepperoni sausage making documentary !

[HummusGringo]

03:54 AM on 04/17/2009

*snicker*

[plan9]

12:23 AM on 04/17/2009

This video is so disturbing that I'm going into room to look at photos of women being stoned to death in Saudi Arabia, just so I can calm down. What's this.. cool ..a clip of the Israelis bombing Gaza, now that's entertainment, flying baby limbs.

[SouthPrairie]

12:22 AM on 04/17/2009

Hope they have a good time seeking recommendations and finding new jobs.

[MalloMel]

07:45 AM on 04/17/2009

That was totally disgusting. Those folks need to serve the maximum sentence for this. She needs to be kept away from society, as she is not to be trusted.

With Ms. Hammond's criminal record, I'm surprised that a place like Dominoes would hire her, as she has already proven that she has no morals. I wonder if they didn't check, or was it that her record didn't matter. In any case I'll not be eating their pizza ever again. I might not eat anybodies pizza.

[AnalyzeIT]

10:49 PM on 04/16/2009

While living in a city that had better public transportation than where i live now.....yadayada...I use to ride the transit with a guy that worked in a 'cheese cake' factory. He told me never to eat cheese cake again especially from restaurants in San Diego. [He worked for a factory that supplied cheesecake for major restaurants around the city] When i asked why....he said: "you don't want to know"

That was 9 years ago.....I have not had a piece of cheese cake since then. But then again, I'm sure I've had the misfortune of eating something else that I didn't know what the waitress/waiter put into it.

The mere thought of it.............

Yuke!!!

[Rendon76]

09:27 PM on 04/16/2009

Putting boogers in people's pizza is punishable by death in my opinion.

[RnR]

02:19 AM on 04/17/2009

Not if we sent it to the Fed :)

[HummusGringo]

03:55 AM on 04/17/2009

I'm glad your opinion probably doesn't count for much.

[applehead]

07:55 PM on 04/16/2009

there's only one way to fix this mess, dominoes. and it would in fact put you out in front of the curve, ahead of your competitors, and start a revolutionary trend: have cameras in all your kitchens and boradcast every moment of every kitchen life on line at all time. someone will always be watching. there'll be the big brother comments but like nanny cams, it's a good idea. and it would probably be practically free,

[givepeace05401]

09:30 PM on 04/16/2009

What a great idea! As a marketing director in the food industry, I am impressed.

[Asmodeus]

09:17 AM on 04/17/2009

Oooorrr...Dominoes could apologize for the wage and work environment policies that this is likely a direct result of. As someone who's known many, many people in the food service industry, and indeed the service industry in general, I can say that this happens everywhere, all the time. Guess what the reasons always are? "They pay me s**t, treat me like s**t, and then for some reason think I'll do a good job for them? And of course then there's the rude, mean-spirited customers.

I think these guys may not be happy about being charged, but I'd lay odds they're glad they're taking Dominoes down with them.

[applehead]

05:14 PM on 04/17/2009

thank you mr give peace a chance. you can have that idea. the sooner someone implements it, the sooner it beomes the norm.

[PaceSetter]

07:40 PM on 04/16/2009

This happens in EVERY food establishment and probably has since the dawn of time - people just haven't had the technology (or lack of brains) to film and post it.

But, hey, anything that puts a hit on conservative Christian Dominionist Dominos' owner Tom Monaghan's wallet I'm down with.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/7235393/the_crusaders/

"While the dominionists rely on grass-roots activists to fight their battles, they are backed by some of America's richest entrepreneurs. Amway founder Rich DeVos, a Kennedy ally who's the leading Republican contender for governor of Michigan, has tossed more than $5 million into the collection plate. Jean Case, wife of former AOL chief Steve Case -- whose fortune was made largely on sex-chat rooms -- has donated $8 million. And Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza, is a major source of cash for Focus on the Family, a megaministry working with Kennedy to eliminate all public schools."

[EqualMeansEqual]

07:31 PM on 04/16/2009

How dumb can you be?

[johninoregon]

07:17 PM on 04/16/2009

Finding a way to make junk food seem even more disgusting. What an achievement.

[groot]

07:09 PM on 04/16/2009

commit a felony, film it, and put it online for the whole world to see...stooooooopid!

[whiteboyblues]

06:52 PM on 04/16/2009

Not to mention, she is a registered sex offender...

http://ncfindoffender.com/details.aspx?SRN=016454S11