Domino’s has built a reputation as the premier pizza delivery company for home, work and school. The company has also branched out to other food offerings, including appetizers, pastas and cakes. Domino’s is known for its innovation, as well as its emphasis on employee training and development. The company has also embraced new technology to improve its service.
When you build a domino structure, the first piece only needs to be tipped ever-so-slightly for the rest of the dominoes to fall in a mesmerizing, rhythmic cascade. The reason for this is that the energy that each domino initially possesses as potential energy converts to kinetic energy as it hits the next domino. This kinetic energy then provides the push needed to knock over the next domino in turn, and so on.
Similarly, some learning challenges impact students in the same way that dominos do. One small movement can cause a domino effect in which the student becomes cognitively overloaded. This can lead to them compensating for the learning challenge by using skills that they already have, rather than continuing to develop these skills. The end result can be that the compensation skills become a stumbling block to progressing to other, more advanced skills.
A domino is a type of rectangular or square-shaped game piece that has an arrangement of dots, similar to those on dice, on one side and is blank or identically patterned on the other. The identifying marks are called pips. Domino pieces are typically made of ivory, silver lip ocean pearl oyster shell (mother-of-pearl), bone or a dark hardwood such as ebony, with contrasting black or white pips. Other materials, such as marble, granite or soapstone, can also be used for domino pieces.
The word Domino comes from the Latin dominus, meaning “lord” or “master.” It is also associated with the Roman goddess Domino, who was considered to have the power of foretelling the future.
Domino’s has been around for nearly 60 years and has over 8,000 stores worldwide. Its current CEO, Steve Easterbrook, took over in 2004. Under previous leadership, Domino’s had struggled with poor sales and customer complaints.
Easterbrook was determined to revitalize the company. He reworked the menu and improved the company’s delivery service, bringing in more drivers to improve efficiency and speed. He also started a partnership with Uber to offer delivery through the rideshare app, which helped boost sales and increase brand recognition.
During her time with X-Force, Domino’s fighting prowess was diminished by a neural inhibitor planted by the Prime Sentinels. This device caused a disruption in her brain that affected her reflexes and reaction times. She later left X-Force after a breakup with Cable and returned to her mercenary ways. During the event known as the Age of Apocalypse, Domino was trapped on Earth-295 when it was overlapped with Reality-295 and reunited with Cable. She then helped X-Corporation’s Hong Kong branch with the help of the X-Men, and hindered John Sublime’s Third Species mutant organ harvesting movement.