The Age today has a profile on the famous American Doughnut Kitchen which has been operating at Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market for 75 years.
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A Queensland customer was “shocked” to discover a battery lodged in her burrito bowl from Guzman y Gomez.
The international chain confirmed the battery came from a thermometer used in their store.
“It was quite corroded [the battery], so we were worried it had been leaking,” she said.
Her partner returned the meal to the store, where the assistant manager explained the battery had come from a thermometer and offered a refund and two burrito vouchers as compensation.
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I would purchase a pizza from the local pizza shop over Domino’s any day. I live where there is a large number of Italians. When I do get a craving for Domino’s I mostly always use a coupon as the prices are inflated without one. Maybe reducing the everyday price would be a good plan
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Colosseum Pizza in Bowral, NSW does have the best pizza in my area. Spinners Pizza in Moss Vale is good, although I have not gotten pizzas from there for 10 years back when I was in High School so I am not sure if they have changed or not.
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my local independent does a great pizza. its more expensive than dominos / pizza hut on a per pizza basis but the pizzas are so stacked with toppings that i actually save because I’m not buying as many pizzas.
there’s a domnios down the road from work and i’ll occasionally nip down and get one for lunch (especially as they do the smaller personal 4 slice pizzas) but the last few have been pretty megre on the toppings and tasted almost like cardboard
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Why can’t McDonalds Monopoly do both digital and the peel-off stickers? Not everything needs to be digitalised.
Kids, and some disability participants that go to Maccas on a weekly basis, loved peeling the Monopoly stickers, to see if they won a small coke or fires (lets be frank, noone ever wins more than that. lol). And they don’t usually have access to a mobile.
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I suspect this is a way to combat the fraud that has occurred with the peel off version over the years. They can control things better this way.
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Cost would likely be another consideration. Much cheaper to just print the packaging as normal but Monopoly-themed rather than having to add on the stickers. Plus, it cuts down on the environmental impact of the stickers.
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Never heard of it
One that i like is from a place at Beresfield called Pizza HQ. Apparenty they also own one called Aussie Pizza at Raymond Terrace. We occasionally get pizzas from there at work
Also not sure if this is the right thread to post this. But is there a stadium anywhere in the country where you can get more than one size coffee? Seems all coffee stands at stadiums are one size only.
I’ve never seen one with anything other than a small size - which makes the horrific wait times at most venues even worse, as half the time I’ve finished it before I’m back to my seat.
I wish stadiums would just go service station tier coffee, have a bank of machines that churn out okay coffee fast, rather than having a 30 minute queue while the one staff member on the stand is overworked trying to keep up. It’s rare you get a genuinely good coffee anyway, so the trade off for speed would be worth it.
I’m surprised stadiums haven’t moved to pre-order app models - put the order in on your phone and just go pick up - with options to schedule for the half/quarter time breaks. Would help with their problem of often running out of food or having way too much left over. Might be harder with coffee - but at least they could spend the 5-10 minutes before the main rush preparing orders.
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100%.. i don’t think anyone is expecting good coffee at a stadium. if i could go in, get a medicore coffee fast i’d dirnk more. i don’t because of 30 min lines.
if i’m going to watch my phins play i’ll grab one on the way (drive though starbucks for the win) but obviously you can’t take it in the stadium
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If there’s one thing Aussies do incredibly well it’s a launch. And Australia’s own GYG have certainly made a trademark of their big launches with five buck burritos.
Despite health concerns and the burrito bowl battery, the little Aussie battler has bounced back with a share price back over 25 bucks as of COT yesterday.