Domino is a popular pizza chain that is at the forefront of new ways to order a pie (think via apps, twitter, text, or even by simply sending an emoji) and monitor its status. It also uses technology to help its workers manage its many locations worldwide.
But it is a company with an unusual approach to business strategy. Unlike other fast-food chains that emphasize technological innovations to boost productivity, Domino’s focuses on keeping its employees happy. This is especially important because of a domino effect that can occur when an employee has a bad day at work. One poor performance can negatively affect the rest of a team, and eventually the entire company.
As part of its effort to improve worker morale, Domino’s is using technology to make the delivery process more efficient. The company has recently invested in software that allows customers to track their order from the time it is placed to its arrival. It has also rolled out a Domino’s app that allows customers to track their delivery driver and even pay for their pizza. It is a system that can save Domino’s money in the long run by reducing paperwork and phone calls.
Hevesh, 20, is a professional domino artist who creates incredible displays for movies, TV shows, and events. She has worked on projects involving more than 300,000 dominoes and helped set the Guinness World Record for the most dominoes toppled in a circular arrangement: 76,017. Hevesh starts each project by considering its theme or purpose. Then she brainstorms images or words she wants to use. After that, she plans out how she will arrange the dominoes. Her plans might include grids that form pictures, walls, or 3-D structures like towers and pyramids.
The way Hevesh arranges the tiles provides only a small part of their entertainment value, however. She must place each tile so that its matching ends are adjacent to each other or, if the end of the domino is double, perpendicular to the middle. Each tile must be played to a double in turn, laying it down so that the two matching sides touch fully or form some specified total.
As with the game of dominoes, Domino can have political and social implications. The global spread of Communism and Socialism in the 1970’s, for example, can be seen as a “domino effect.” A chain reaction that can have devastating consequences.
A domino is a rectangular block with a molded surface that contains from 1 to 6 pips (or dots) in each half. The word domino itself is derived from the Latin dominus, meaning lord or master. It was used in the 17th century to describe a loose hooded cloak worn with a mask for the upper part of the face at masquerades. The word is now more commonly used to refer to the games and patterns made with these pieces.