{"id":440,"date":"2005-08-29T12:37:05","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T12:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2016-08-28T19:56:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T19:56:40","slug":"the-domino-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"The Domino Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eating at Domino&#8217;s seems to be literally a Domino effect. You hit a domino, and another domino falls. So on and so forth until every domino falls, making pretty colored patterns and raking in money for the (not so) fast pizza chain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=434\">Sometime ago<\/a>, I was bumming around Subang Parade, and I saw Nando&#8217;s and was reminded of the last time I had dinner there with <a href=\"http:\/\/leech.insatiably.net\" target=\"_BLANK\">Leech<\/a>. Feeling lucky (I bumped into quite a few people on the same day they contacted me) I called her and whatdyaknow? She was there too.<\/p>\n<p>We went to Domino&#8217;s because she had these discount coupons, and we tried the double decker crust pizza. We were also conned by the fine print (details on her blog). I explained the problem to the manager-like person. When the bill came, they gave me those <b>same three discount coupons<\/b>! We left, and the waitress smiled and thanked me. Leech grumbled, &#8220;<i>no need to smile at me ah&#8230;<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t the first time people in the service industry smile or say goodbye to me, totally ignoring and (thus) incensing whoever I&#8217;m leaving the joint with.<\/p>\n<p>I kept the coupons till one fateful day I was in Subang Parade again, and I had a personal pizza this time, using the coupon.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I wonder if people only eat at Domino&#8217;s because they have coupons. I wonder if people go:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>Hey! So where do you wanna eat?<\/i>&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<i>I don&#8217;t know&#8230; where do you wanna go?<\/i>&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<i>Hmmm. Domino&#8217;s looks good. Not as thick crusted as Pizza Hut.<\/i>&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<i>Hmmm yeah. But do you have a discount coupon?<\/i>&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<i>Argh. Nope. Ah well, let&#8217;s just go when we do have one.<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Domino&#8217;s has <b>never<\/b> successfully delivered pizza to my office on time. They screw up office extensions! Everytime we collect the pizza, we get a coupon\/card so that we get the Domino effect. Sucky service yes, but a brilliant marketing strategy. They know what us cheapskate Malaysians want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating at Domino&#8217;s seems to be literally a Domino effect. You hit a domino, and another domino falls. So on and so forth until every domino falls, making pretty colored patterns and raking in money for the (not so) fast pizza chain. Sometime ago, I was bumming around Subang Parade, and I saw Nando&#8217;s and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11604,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/11604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}