Customers who order a "Supreme" at Domino's

[snusbear1]

well my guess is that supreme has become a generic term for a pizza not just pizza hut. go to the frozen pizza section almost every brand has a supreme, but none of them have one called an Extravaganzza Feast. just my theory. cheers

That's it exactly. People are just using terms that they are better acquainted with. Most smaller pizza joints have a "supreme" and "meat lover's" choice on the menu also.

Well, if they're offering a "Meat Lover's" pizza on their menu, then they should at least realize that they're infringing on Pizza Hut's copyright and are subject to severe legal consequences. You can't, for example, just market any facial tissue and call it a "Kleenex," and you can't market just any hamburger with veggies and cheese and call it a "Whopper," because those are brand names. The fact that "Kleenex" has become, in common parlance, a generic term for "facial tissue," or the fact that "Meat Lover's" has become, in common parlance, a generic term for a pizza with a diverse offering of meat toppings, does not give a company the legal right to appropriate to itself the copyrighted brand names of another corporation.

[jamesstew]

AVOID THE NOID!!!

[Jason]

AVOID THE NOID!!!

Bad Andy. Good pizza.

Horrible marketing. :x



I really, really hated that annoying mutant muppet even more than the Noid. The only thing worse was the talking oven mitt from the Arby's commercials; someone was REALLY lazy when they picked that idea...

[snusbear1]

I have also been robbed while delivering- luckily the only violence was being threatened with a (probably fake) gun and getting smacked. They got a whopping $15 dollars from me(my food had been delivered)

what a waste, for everyone involved. I remember being asked if I would want them to go to jail, I said I'd just want to sit down with them and ask them what the hells the matter with them

Then you're a better man than I am. After nearly losing consciousness from being pistol-whipped while I was being robbed, and having my face turned all shades of black and blue from one of these guys' fists, I wasn't in a particularly "chatty" mood. While I'm sure that the sociologists are right when they say that crime is ultimately caused by poverty, poor upbringing, etc., etc., I have to admit that at the time my assailants' welfare wasn't at the top of my list of concerns. And in the interest of full disclosure, I consider myself a liberal!

[Xobeloot]

I like cheese on my pizza... but it makes me poop a lot.

[holnrew]

*puts slice of pizza down*

[deebocools]

I'm sure if I had been assaulted like you were I would feel differently, and I don't blame you at all for your reaction.

To me, the possibility of stick-up kids going to prison and coming out worse then they were is too great. Criminals ought to be punished(how about they pay your medical bills and an estimate of the tip money you would have recieved for a few years!), but the current avenues of punishment seem to exacerbate things.

but now we're on a VERY different topic.

[Starcadia]

It is interesting. I've lived and commuted in cities and near-suburbs for most of my life, and I find there's really not much you can say to someone, especially someone who beats the shit out of a pizza guy for $20, that is going to sink in. But I also think that our entire justice system is fundamentally wrong, the entire philosophy of it. I don't think people want to do things so much as they've been programmed to do things. There too we're treating people's symptoms, not their causes.

When I was younger I had a good friend who delivered for Domino's. He said one night some dudes in a bad neighborhood attacked him, but he beat them off with the six-pack of Coke he was carrying. I still don't know quite how that would work.

[Condor]

Interesting. If you recall from a while back I posted about breaking my wrist. This was due to a foot chase and a fight with a guy who was selling dope/about to rob a pizza delivery driver. A while back when I was a patrol officer, there were some cats sitting in a car hanging out by a house, and it looked suspicious, so i got out with them and started talking with them. they were sweating bullets, so I asked to search their car. One guy took off running, and i was stuck with the other two guys, so I got them at gunpoint. while i was taking them into custody, a pizza guy pulls up. nobody lived at the house he was going to...it was empty and not rented out. when I searched their car incident to arrest, I found an empty gun and some other blunt weapons. The one cat that had warrants on him told me they were going to rob the pizza guy, and just placed a fake order. (He was ratting his friends out in hopes I could get him out of trouble). You guys do get robbed a lot. you and taxi divers.

Three Asides-

I have a degree in sociology, and I will be the first to say...most of it is bullshit. I was working as a police officer when I was finishing my degree, and i felt like telling my professors half of the shit they were saying was just nonsense. Bunch of psychobabble drivel that is WAAAY overthought. After being on a street level and dealing with folks (worked from patrol officer to detective to narc) people become criminals the same way anyone chooses a profession... they like it/its fun to them/they feel rewarded/it comes easily/theyre good at it. You can get money without beating the shit out of someone. Thats not a crime of necessity. I hope a lot of folks dont try to point out 'flaws' in my thinking because i dont feel like writing 20 pages of justification.

I dated a girl for years that went to FSU, and she lived off of Tennessee St., ... twice when I went to visit her I saw someone get stabbed, and then i saw a dude get jumped by 5 or 6 other guys. Those ****ers are crazy down there.


Yes, the justice system is a joke. Its just another industry. The goal is not retribution/rehabilitation. the goal is $$$$$.

[jackolantern]

Years ago, I worked at Papa Johns, and the same thing happened there. People were constantly calling and asking for a Supreme Pizza, or a Veggie Lovers, etc. The answer, as one of the first posters said, is better branding. Walk down the frozen pizza isle at your grocery store, and look at what all the different pizza companies call their pizza with everything on it. Supreme.

Instead of suing for trademark infringement, Pizza Hut just went with it and it became the accepted word. Of course, for branding and trademark issues, Papa Johns and Dominos generally cannot accept that as the name of their loaded pizzas. Papa Johns actually had a whole section about people asking for Supreme pizzas in their training manual (the one they never made anyone read). It just said to understand what they said, but correct them that it was called "The Works".

It's kind of like how some people from the Baby Boomer generation will call every MP3 player an IPod, but unless the owner is very proud of their brand, they usually won't correct them.

[deebocools]

when I was young, all video gaming was called "playing nintendo", even at the arcade! that's died down recently, but I remember as late as PS1 gaming was reffered to as "nintendo"

Then there's the issue of people saying they want "a coke" when they want any bubbly non alcoholic beverage.

some people aren't so specifically minded, like snus users trying to most effectively absorb nicotine while they straighten the label on their tin