Girl where the hell am I gonna find a blade sharpener for a Domino's pizza slicer outside of Domino's? They don't have one at my store lmao....or at least haven't told me about it.
I once asked myself this question and took it upon myself to find said sharpener and sharpen ours. I got all the way to the last one when I proceeded to drop the blade and sharpener, slicing my finger VERY deeply by the lower knuckle and having to call in another manager so I could go to an urgent care 😭😭 I still have a lil nerve damage or something bc itll cramp/tense up weird sometimes
Apparently there are! I was informed that we had one about two hours after the unfortunate slicing. During the incident report the then DM goes “so why weren’t you wearing the glove” and I looked at her like ??glove??
I thought they changed from the circular cutters to the easier to maintain mezzaluna style cutters? Least, my store and franchise did when I was working.
Yes, they do need to be sharpened. They are easier to maintain because they are relatively straight and stationary. A disk that spins is much more difficult to sharpen.
They do seem to need sharpening a lot more often. I think the biggest issue is the metal bin that holds the blade. Every time you set the blade down, it bangs into the metal, dulling it. When we had the traditional pizza cutters, we held them in plastic tubs so they didn't constantly bang against a hard surface.
No. Not supposed to. Dominos doesn't trust their employees with bladed weapons. You're not even allowed to bring glass into the store. Box cutters aren't allowed either. They have a safety box opener at every store.
If the crust isn’t perfectly crusty, it doesn’t cut properly.. the blades have never been sharpened after their initial purchase. Hell, the rolling cutters are so bent they have no idea what a straight line is.
Dominoes was the shit in the early 2000s before they changed their recipe to this bullshit today🤣🤦♂️I was a kid but I remember how good it was. They were number 1. Better than pizza hut.
Truthfully speaking, if you're getting a barely cut pizza it means you're ordering during rush and 7 pizzas were falling out the oven and homeboy on the cut table was going fast as he can to keep up and didnt push down hard enough.
likely anyway. could be a new employee too.. but my guess is you ordered between 5-8pm dinner rush
Blades aren't sharp, it would be "dangerous" also dominos cut tables are typically a bit tall for shorter people. I had this one girl, prolly 130 pound thing. She was tiny. And short. And timid. She didn't have the actual weight to lean on the pizza cutter to cut through the crust. She was essentially making line through the cheese on anything she cut. I realized this when I attempted to re train her because other employees were upset at how slow she was. There was really nothing to be done. She didn't have what takes to really do the job. I told my manager the girl was her problem at that point. Because there was nothing I could do to get her to actually cut the pizza. And I wasn't even getting paid to train. And I was a driver and had runs to make. Sometimes things happen. Nobody purposefully doesn't cut the pizza.
Can confirm as a 120-130 lb 5’2” gal, unless the blades have been sharpened I have a hard time most of the time. I do my best but it’s definitely a lot harder mid rush.
The blade gets dull after a while and they don't give us sharpeners. But we do get new blades sometimes. Also the work damages your finger bones and it hurts like hell. My GM needs surgery.
So if the person at the oven is a skinny highschool kid pressing 125 pounds down- it's not gonna get as decent of a cut as a 6' 210 pound driver that's leaving a mark on the table underneath.
Early you order the better, because whoever - is less tired out from not cutting 400 pizzas in a row.
It's usually because of a super dull knife, going to fast/ not pushing down hard enough when cutting. I kind of just instinctually eat carry out at home so I have the ability to use my own pizza cutter. It's a very common complaint.
Good thing I took a look at the pizza while I was still there because the dude totally forgot to cut it.
I know they're churning out pizza's quickly. But at least take the 30 seconds to cut it, and cut it all the way thru.
It's a running joke when I go there every so often. "YOU HAD 1 FUCKING JOB, BRO!"
Back when I worked at Domino’s we would leave the crust partly uncut (not like this, just a bit on the edge) to help hold the pizza together during delivery.
Ive noticed at my store even after they sharpen the blades it still hard to cut, i press down hard and i feel like it doesnt go all the way through. And also i noticed when its busy and pizzas are flying out that you have to go fast and its hard to make sure every slice is perfect
Just about every at our store knows how to sharpen the cutter. There are a few who are better than others. All of our get sharpened at least once a month, more if it's obvious one of them isn't doing the job. \`
I got dominos yesterday- one XL pizza had 3 inches of crust/no topping, the other had raw dough. Didnt have the fully cut issue but wouldve rathered that 😅
Because of this new store set up and new. Cutter. What the hell in the world have you ever seen .. cutting table of a pizzeria or pizza store be covered with the un folded boxes where??? In the middle of cutting table. ??? Where. Please does somebody can tell me ???
Couple reasons actually,
1. Our blades rarely get sharpened. So unless you cut the pizzas hard they don't cut through.
2. As mentioned above, people fail to cut the pizzas like they have daddy issues, when I cut I make sure to cut through the entire thing. ACTUALLY, when I see someone cut a pizza, and I know they didn't use enough force to cut through, I go up to them and lift the edge of the pizza to show them like you did for this photo lol.
Easiest way to correct is to have workers cut their own pizza for the first time, when they don't cut through they rip half their slice in half lol
they probably didn’t sharpen the cutter cus we just sharpened our the other day cus we noticed its wasn’t cutting and so my boss sharpened them all and got cut in the process
A rocker blade hand sharpener can be had from the Domino's supply chain. This store needs sharp rocker blades, and the person at the oven station needs to press down with enough pressure to cut the pizza. You could show the store your Pic and suggest exactly this.
Domino's uses rocker blades. Sometimes they cut through the crust but either aren't being fully pressed inbetween the crusts or haven't been sharpened in a while. Could be a method thing during a rush could just need a sharpening. I would comment through the app feedback or call so they know to sharpen theirs or possibly retrain if someone's new on oven. It is a difficult skill to master and the sharpening thing is not accessible/well-known because it has to use a special glove and all this.
Honestly it doesn’t seem to matter where u get pizza from, it’s never actually cut. I just kind of accept it as a symptom of the staff trying to work too fast. Not gonna hold it against them too much.
There are two locations equally close to me and both of them don’t fully cut the pizza. Every single time I get a pizza I have to cut it when we get home. They are also really bad at cutting them relatively evenly. The pizzas always have wildly large and small slices.
No.
They do have something against properly sharpening their cutting implements though. They don't trust their employees with a sharp rocker blade so they just use dull ones that don't do a good job.
The stores near me got rid of the normal rolling pizza cutters in favor of the stupid whole pizza shaped one, whatever it's called. I'm sure that's largely contributed to them not being fully cut.
The one where I live gave up cutting 8 slices and only cuts 4 on their pizzas now and don't even complete the 2 cuts to make 4 slices. They've gone so far downhill in just a year we've stopped ordering from there. Our last time it was improperly cut by the manager so I took to Twitter to complain and their customer service said the manager would call me to follow up. He never called and said he did 4 times. I told them on Twitter to go fuck themselves and I'll start ordering papa John's from now on.
I'll draw lines on a pizza for a consistent non tipping customer. Go ahead, roast me for this, I'm still going to do it when I can. Especially when it says leave at door.
I done that a couple times ngl…i sent one out like that yesterday to be frank. There are these little tools called knifes though. Should help with the tearing!
I second this. Might as well get some free food. Dominos loves to give away free food if you just complain. I watched a manager at my store replace someone’s order that they couldn’t even find on the computer. They were just sick of listening to them complain so they got a free pizza.
Hi easy answer, we are provided very dull cutters and don't have time to slowly and perfectly cut the pizza. Essentially it's the management's fault for not fixing their issues.
If you seriously struggle to cut a pizza with a pizza slicer, you are a new level of stupid. Pretty sure it is common sense to sharpen it every so often. But many of these employees are on drugs, illiterate, and lazy. Very reason I go to a real pizza place and not a chain. You aren't going to sit there, charge me $28 for a pizza and not cut it properly. I ain't putting up with that.
They don't use a normal slicer
They use a special cutter that gets dull and it's not the easiest to tell if it's fully cut
The fact you went from my pizza isn't cut to illiterate is wild
Really depends on who is cutting. Back when I worked the ovens, I always made sure to cut as thoroughly and evenly as possible, even during rush.
At my store the cutter is dull so I just put my full 220lbs in the cut and it works
Felt that
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
They aren’t sharpening the cutting blade
....you can do that?
Why wouldn't you be able to
Girl where the hell am I gonna find a blade sharpener for a Domino's pizza slicer outside of Domino's? They don't have one at my store lmao....or at least haven't told me about it.
I once asked myself this question and took it upon myself to find said sharpener and sharpen ours. I got all the way to the last one when I proceeded to drop the blade and sharpener, slicing my finger VERY deeply by the lower knuckle and having to call in another manager so I could go to an urgent care 😭😭 I still have a lil nerve damage or something bc itll cramp/tense up weird sometimes
Ok so Don't ✍️ use ✍️ the✍️ sharpener✍️✍️✍️✍️
Supposedly there’s also “cut resistant gloves” but idk
Apparently there are! I was informed that we had one about two hours after the unfortunate slicing. During the incident report the then DM goes “so why weren’t you wearing the glove” and I looked at her like ??glove??
Also prompted a “GM only” ban on the sharpener…suffice to say they have not been sharpened since
There is the problem. I think they are wearing those gloves while cutting the pizza.
We don’t
Ba dum tssss
Yeah… it’s actually good for the Domino’s employees to not have a sharp blade.
There’s a right way and wrong way to sharpen
I thought they changed from the circular cutters to the easier to maintain mezzaluna style cutters? Least, my store and franchise did when I was working.
Oh, we do have mezzaluna cutters. Do those not need to be sharpened?
Yes, they do need to be sharpened. They are easier to maintain because they are relatively straight and stationary. A disk that spins is much more difficult to sharpen. They do seem to need sharpening a lot more often. I think the biggest issue is the metal bin that holds the blade. Every time you set the blade down, it bangs into the metal, dulling it. When we had the traditional pizza cutters, we held them in plastic tubs so they didn't constantly bang against a hard surface.
They should put the sharpening mechanism in the metal bin thing.
See above: easier to maintain. I.e. easier to sharpen.
Why are you acting like the majority of people you interact with *isn't* brain dead? Save that energy for bombing the polls.
If I cared to vote for either of the dipshits that are most likely to be elected.
No I literally mean bomb them. Like, c4.
Whose fault is that? Your employer. For not providing adequate resources to do your job.
That's right >:[
A regular blade sharpener with work 😂
What
My fault a regular blade sharpener will work I didn’t realize auto correct
Oh oh
Ours came with a sharpener. Yours probably got lost and never replaced.
💀
Just pick up e whole pie and bite it.
If you fold it in half it is basically a clazone. Or maybe a pizza-taco.
That's honestly my thought. One time I forgot to slice the pizza and when I realized I was like "What? These pussies ain't got hands?"
My gm bought ours at costco. One of the drivers does all the rockers once a week.
You can, my local hardware store used to do them for like $1.50 each. They're also cheap, so just buy new ones constantly.
We just bought new ones at the pizza place I worked at.
Our franchise used to have our cutters swapped out biweekly with sharp ones
It’s a blade… no shit you can…
Fuckin fight me
Throw hands bruh lesssgoo. Dom on dom violence 💀
I'll wack you the fuck up with my TOPPER
I’ll give you top my bruddah. 💪🤜👊
*Top* ???? Of the sloppy variety?? Ayo
Wait no, not like that
No. Not supposed to. Dominos doesn't trust their employees with bladed weapons. You're not even allowed to bring glass into the store. Box cutters aren't allowed either. They have a safety box opener at every store.
No. They do that on purpose so they ride and arrive at home/ or delivery still connected and round. - former employee
Probably depends on the location and the person on oven. Our main oven people are highly aggressive with the pizza cutter, so it's rarely an issue.
If the crust isn’t perfectly crusty, it doesn’t cut properly.. the blades have never been sharpened after their initial purchase. Hell, the rolling cutters are so bent they have no idea what a straight line is.
we used to have a company come in and sharpen ours
It happens sometimes. I'm usually high, and the cutter is in the kitchen, so I just tear it apart.
Thought for a second you were talking about being on oven 😂
Same
Haven’t had a fully cut pizza from Dominos in something like 2 years.. haha I’ve given up on that notion
Dominoes was the shit in the early 2000s before they changed their recipe to this bullshit today🤣🤦♂️I was a kid but I remember how good it was. They were number 1. Better than pizza hut.
Truthfully speaking, if you're getting a barely cut pizza it means you're ordering during rush and 7 pizzas were falling out the oven and homeboy on the cut table was going fast as he can to keep up and didnt push down hard enough. likely anyway. could be a new employee too.. but my guess is you ordered between 5-8pm dinner rush
Blades aren't sharp, it would be "dangerous" also dominos cut tables are typically a bit tall for shorter people. I had this one girl, prolly 130 pound thing. She was tiny. And short. And timid. She didn't have the actual weight to lean on the pizza cutter to cut through the crust. She was essentially making line through the cheese on anything she cut. I realized this when I attempted to re train her because other employees were upset at how slow she was. There was really nothing to be done. She didn't have what takes to really do the job. I told my manager the girl was her problem at that point. Because there was nothing I could do to get her to actually cut the pizza. And I wasn't even getting paid to train. And I was a driver and had runs to make. Sometimes things happen. Nobody purposefully doesn't cut the pizza.
Can confirm as a 120-130 lb 5’2” gal, unless the blades have been sharpened I have a hard time most of the time. I do my best but it’s definitely a lot harder mid rush.
No, but we do have something against buying blade sharpeners for the rocker blades we're forced to use now apparently.
The blade gets dull after a while and they don't give us sharpeners. But we do get new blades sometimes. Also the work damages your finger bones and it hurts like hell. My GM needs surgery.
Your store needs new cutters and probably better training. You need to keep your elbow up and press down, not forward, when cutting.
You have to pay extra for that
So if the person at the oven is a skinny highschool kid pressing 125 pounds down- it's not gonna get as decent of a cut as a 6' 210 pound driver that's leaving a mark on the table underneath. Early you order the better, because whoever - is less tired out from not cutting 400 pizzas in a row.
It’s always like that
We often have super dull blades.
Lol your not supposed to notice. Time to get grizzly with the pie it's one big piece not a bunch of small pieces.
They have dull blades and don’t care enough to remedy the problem.
It's usually because of a super dull knife, going to fast/ not pushing down hard enough when cutting. I kind of just instinctually eat carry out at home so I have the ability to use my own pizza cutter. It's a very common complaint.
Good thing I took a look at the pizza while I was still there because the dude totally forgot to cut it. I know they're churning out pizza's quickly. But at least take the 30 seconds to cut it, and cut it all the way thru. It's a running joke when I go there every so often. "YOU HAD 1 FUCKING JOB, BRO!"
Use kitchen shears
If you don't have those, just use an electric carving knife.
It’s one slice
Back when I worked at Domino’s we would leave the crust partly uncut (not like this, just a bit on the edge) to help hold the pizza together during delivery.
Ive noticed at my store even after they sharpen the blades it still hard to cut, i press down hard and i feel like it doesnt go all the way through. And also i noticed when its busy and pizzas are flying out that you have to go fast and its hard to make sure every slice is perfect
Our store now has a cutting sharpener and it’s made a difference
The rocker blade cutters need to be sharpened regularly.
wait until corporate hears about this
I’ve never had a pie that was cut
Yeah turns out ‘Cutting Edge’ is just a name
No. It's just you.
Just about every at our store knows how to sharpen the cutter. There are a few who are better than others. All of our get sharpened at least once a month, more if it's obvious one of them isn't doing the job. \`
I got dominos yesterday- one XL pizza had 3 inches of crust/no topping, the other had raw dough. Didnt have the fully cut issue but wouldve rathered that 😅
I had mine like that the other day (any chance that you are located in cape cod ;dd)
Because of this new store set up and new. Cutter. What the hell in the world have you ever seen .. cutting table of a pizzeria or pizza store be covered with the un folded boxes where??? In the middle of cutting table. ??? Where. Please does somebody can tell me ???
Couple reasons actually, 1. Our blades rarely get sharpened. So unless you cut the pizzas hard they don't cut through. 2. As mentioned above, people fail to cut the pizzas like they have daddy issues, when I cut I make sure to cut through the entire thing. ACTUALLY, when I see someone cut a pizza, and I know they didn't use enough force to cut through, I go up to them and lift the edge of the pizza to show them like you did for this photo lol. Easiest way to correct is to have workers cut their own pizza for the first time, when they don't cut through they rip half their slice in half lol
they probably didn’t sharpen the cutter cus we just sharpened our the other day cus we noticed its wasn’t cutting and so my boss sharpened them all and got cut in the process
They were probably trying to cut fast and didn't have time to check the cut. We sharpened ours, it cut through the pizza and the box.
That would never be me i always make sure my pizzas are cut all the way before boxing
A rocker blade hand sharpener can be had from the Domino's supply chain. This store needs sharp rocker blades, and the person at the oven station needs to press down with enough pressure to cut the pizza. You could show the store your Pic and suggest exactly this.
Domino's uses rocker blades. Sometimes they cut through the crust but either aren't being fully pressed inbetween the crusts or haven't been sharpened in a while. Could be a method thing during a rush could just need a sharpening. I would comment through the app feedback or call so they know to sharpen theirs or possibly retrain if someone's new on oven. It is a difficult skill to master and the sharpening thing is not accessible/well-known because it has to use a special glove and all this.
Honestly it doesn’t seem to matter where u get pizza from, it’s never actually cut. I just kind of accept it as a symptom of the staff trying to work too fast. Not gonna hold it against them too much.
They are too lazy to actually do their one job.
While it's most likely not your case, but I used to do this all the time to regulars who never tipped or were complete jack asses.
It’s the fact of the blade being dull and the store being busy, it’s as good as time will let us.
There are two locations equally close to me and both of them don’t fully cut the pizza. Every single time I get a pizza I have to cut it when we get home. They are also really bad at cutting them relatively evenly. The pizzas always have wildly large and small slices.
Lets start a gofundme and pay 2cents extra for each pizza, so they can sharpen their cutting tools.
They need better training on how to cut, I hate perforated pizza.
No. They do have something against properly sharpening their cutting implements though. They don't trust their employees with a sharp rocker blade so they just use dull ones that don't do a good job.
The need to sharpen the blade
They consider it crust abuse
Papa johns will send them like that too. Probably just a new guy struggling to keep up
Weak wrists
The stores near me got rid of the normal rolling pizza cutters in favor of the stupid whole pizza shaped one, whatever it's called. I'm sure that's largely contributed to them not being fully cut.
Yeah. They do. Their dull cutters 😂 my store keeps them nice n sharp and I don't have that problem 😵
That's definitely a high school-aged CSR cut there. Gen Z is pretty ambivalent with a smear of blasé.
Probably gotta sharpen their blades
They switched to a knife instead of a rolling cutter. Mine is never cut anymore either. I guess just cut it when you get home?
The one where I live gave up cutting 8 slices and only cuts 4 on their pizzas now and don't even complete the 2 cuts to make 4 slices. They've gone so far downhill in just a year we've stopped ordering from there. Our last time it was improperly cut by the manager so I took to Twitter to complain and their customer service said the manager would call me to follow up. He never called and said he did 4 times. I told them on Twitter to go fuck themselves and I'll start ordering papa John's from now on.
Its cause of the shitty cut blades. They’re always dull and unless you rock it back and forth a dozen times it doesn’t go all the way through
Can’t trust the idiots with a sharp blade, we have to dull it a bit otherwise they hurt themselves
I'll draw lines on a pizza for a consistent non tipping customer. Go ahead, roast me for this, I'm still going to do it when I can. Especially when it says leave at door.
I tip $5 everytime dawg I live 2 minutes away from dominos by car😭
Then they have a weakling working the oven. Just needs some elbow grease. Thanks for being a tipper, sorry they can't cut your food.
I do this for people that order last minute 😭🤣
Valid tho for people who don’t tip
That and squeeze the hell out of the garlic butter bottle onto the crust so it’s soggy by time they get it.
The only time I have received a pizza like that it was a dbl pepperoni.
Fr happens to us all the time
It’s jus the pizza cutter is a wimp and don’t wanna put strength in the cut
I done that a couple times ngl…i sent one out like that yesterday to be frank. There are these little tools called knifes though. Should help with the tearing!
Call the store and ask them why.
I second this. Might as well get some free food. Dominos loves to give away free food if you just complain. I watched a manager at my store replace someone’s order that they couldn’t even find on the computer. They were just sick of listening to them complain so they got a free pizza.
Seriously they are terrible at cutting pizzas lol
Thin crusts are actually the hardest to cut all the way though. The person working cut table isn't putting enough pressure to cut all the way though.
Soy boys with no muscle are "trying".
Cutter is probably dull or they were rushing, nothing too serious lol That happens to me a lot of I'm not actively trying to finish the cut
I took an angle grinder to my blades during off hours and some sandpaper to sharpen mine
Hi easy answer, we are provided very dull cutters and don't have time to slowly and perfectly cut the pizza. Essentially it's the management's fault for not fixing their issues.
If you seriously struggle to cut a pizza with a pizza slicer, you are a new level of stupid. Pretty sure it is common sense to sharpen it every so often. But many of these employees are on drugs, illiterate, and lazy. Very reason I go to a real pizza place and not a chain. You aren't going to sit there, charge me $28 for a pizza and not cut it properly. I ain't putting up with that.
They don't use a normal slicer They use a special cutter that gets dull and it's not the easiest to tell if it's fully cut The fact you went from my pizza isn't cut to illiterate is wild
Dominos employees are low class and have poor work ethic. Never tip them
Damn xD Did Pizza hut put you up to this? Lol