Domino's Pizza

Location

2038 Lyndell Terrace, Suite 103

Summer Hours

Su-Th 11:00am-1:00am

Fr-Sa 11:00am-2:00am

Phone

(530)756-5161

Website

http://www.dominos.com

Established

February 23, 2008

Domino's Pizza is the second largest pizza chain in the United States. The local store is on the same street as Sutter Hospital, and occupies part of the space that was once the West Davis Quiznos.

This particular Dominoes is now family owned and operated, and they are one of ONLY 72 locations out of 8000 that qualified to be a "Five Star location" due to rigorous corporate scrutiny on a number of levels. Among Franchisees it's a very coveted award.

The current location opened up in February, 2008, and is the second Domino's in town. There was a previous store on L Street where Pizza Guys is located.

Domino's Pizza closed at this location in mid-September 2008, and reopened December 28th under new management.

Domino's offers one of the cheapest ways to order pizza in massive amounts. Offers like the now-defunct "555" deal and the "777" deal have been replaced with the $5.55 deal where you can order pizza, oven baked sandwich, or pasta bowls for $5.55 each. It is very likely that Domino's will represent one of the best pizza-per-dollar ratios in Davis. There is also a Our New Look.pdf nice coupon.

They sell chicken wings in several varieties for $5.99 for 10 pieces. They don't have a lot of sauce and are quite greasy. Consider sticking to the pizza.

A medium Hawaiian made from the new recipe, 1-31-2010 A medium chicken and roasted red peppers with BBQ sauce, 1-31-2010 An order of hot Buffalo wings, 4 already removed from the foil packet, 1-31-2010

Older Comments prior to change in management.

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2009-05-25 14:49:40   The new owners seem to really care about the customers and want everyone to have a good experience! I gave them a wiki primer and hopefully they will make an appearance... —StevenDaubert

2010-01-17 23:12:35   The new pizza recipe that they're using is delicious! —TheShah

2010-01-31 17:27:27   I like the new pizza recipe, although I think the garlic salt they use on the crust is put a little on the heavy side. I told them that and the first thing they did was offer me two free pizzas (I ordered 2) w/o the garlic salt. They seem eager to please and that is something I appreciate very much from a business, especially from a large chain restaurant. Well done Davis Dominoes. —metalhead15

2010-01-31 19:50:06   My wife and I decided to try out the new recipe tonight. In short, it's decent, not great. For the tl;dr version, skip to the bottom of the review. We ordered 2 medium 2-topping pizzas, and an order of buffalo hot wings. The online ordering system on which you build your own pizza is extremely easy to use. It's a very simple step-by-step process with everything very clearly laid out. We got one Hawaiian and one chicken and roasted red pepper pizza, with a BBQ sauce on the latter.

The pizza was decently good. The new crust is extremely buttery—I'd even say too much so. Some bites tasted almost like move popcorn, with the butter flavor vying for the spotlight with the sauce, cheese, and toppings. For the most part, it wasn't all that bad. I'm not sure why it varied from bite to bite. Like metalhead, we also found it to be quite garlicky, but we both liked it. What I'm not sure I like is the texture. I believe it's garlic and butter mixed in with the corn meal they use to keep the cooked dough from sticking to the pan. Unfortunately, all that butter makes it all stick to the dough. I think it would be far better baked into the crust. The bread of the crust was pretty good.

The sauce didn't particularly stand out, which I'd say is a good thing. It was sweet, decently flavorful, and went well with the Hawaiian. No complaints there. The BBQ sauce on the chicken & roasted peppers pizza was decent. The flavor was nice, although it was a little thin.

The toppings were just OK. The pineapple was the normal canned chunk pineapple that every pizza joint uses. The ham was in tiny little wedges which were a little dried out, but certainly not inedible. There was decent coverage of both. On the other pizza, the chicken was pretty tasty, and there was plenty of it. The roasted peppers, on the other hand, were a little vinegary and only covered half of the pizza (I'll post pics later on). As a big fan of bell peppers cooked in just about any way, I was unimpressed. They'd do a lot better without the vinegar and charring them a little bit before slicing for some more flavor.

The new cheese was also just fine. I would guess that it's a lower fat mozzarella, since when melted it wasn't quite as stringy, and seemed to set up and tear (as opposed to stretching) at a higher temp than most pizza cheese. I wouldn't call this a bad thing, though. Even (especially?) when eating pizza, it doesn't hurt to cut a bit of fat. It didn't detract from the flavor at all, and wasn't a big deal aesthetically.

The wings... well, the wings were pretty blah. For starters, they weren't very well sauced. They obviously laid out the wings in two rows on a piece of aluminum foil, dumped an ounce of sauce over them, and folded the foil in half in hopes of coating them a bit. Their hopes were dashed; less than half of each wing had any sauce on it, and there wasn't enough sauce in the foil to improve the situation. The wings themselves were pretty greasy, and there wasn't much in the way of a breading or flour coating. The wings come with a small container of dipping sauce - either ranch or bleu cheese - which isn't enough if you like very much on your wings. Fortunately, we both prefer hot wings plain, so we didn't even open it.

All told the order came to a little under $21 with tax: $5.99 each for the pizzas, $5.99 for a 10-piece hot wings, and tax. Delivery would have been another $1.99, but I live quite close to the store so I just picked it up. I would rate the pizzas as follows:

• Crust: 5/10 (too buttery; garlic/cornmeal gives it an unpleasant texture)
  

• Sauce: 7/10 (complemented the Hawaiian pretty well; not rating the BBQ here, but it was perfectly decent)
  

• Cheese: 7/10 (pretty good)
  

• Toppings
  

• Hawaiian: 6/10 (ham could be larger pieces, less dried out)
  

• Chicken & Roasted Pepper: 4/10 (chicken was good, peppers sucked and were sparse)
  

• Wings: 4/10 (greasy, not enough sauce)
  

• Price: 8/10 (drop the crappy wings and replace the crappy peppers with something else and it would've been pretty solid pizza for about $13/2x med)

Photos coming later. —TomGarberson