ABSTRACT

Pizza symbolizes a break from the work that is involved in cooking. "Just a phone call away," Domino's advertizes. Pizza is sufficient unto itself so popular has it become that a recent Gallup pole survey indicated that Americans between the ages of 12 and 20 identify pizza as their favorite food, surpassing Big Mac hamburgers, and Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken. The pizza made at the Domino's organization is a replication of the Italian peasant pie from antiquity. A home-delivered pizza frees the participants to enjoy each other's company. The pizza made at the Domino's organization is a replication of the Italian peasant pie from antiquity. Furthermore, the pizza made at each store is itself a replica of the ideal pizza, photographically diagrammed. In every store, these photographs are prominently displayed over the work area to model perfection and avoid error.