‘You wanna pizza me?’ Domino's slapped with $1200 fine after delivery failure
A pizza-deprived man has made a meal of Domino’s in court after they kept him waiting 18-months for his dinner.
The fast food giant was forced to pay Wollongong resident Tim Driscoll $1203.27 after his three-pizza order never arrived at his Corrimal home.
“They kept saying they were looking into it but after 12 months of fobbing me off with ‘we’ll get back to you’, I thought I had to bring it to a head,” he told Newscorp.
“I took the extreme step of going to court.”
The thirty-year old lawyer is also a Domino’s shareholder.
Mr Driscoll ordered the pizza online on Anzac Day 2015, which included one meatlovers’ pizza, one vegetarian and one Hawaiian pizza plus two garlic breads and two cokes for a party.
He paid $37.35 for the order.
An hour passed before he allegedly called the Fairy Meadow’s Domino’s store, who told him they had been “inundated” with orders and that his money would be refunded.
"The manager apologised and said that they'd been run off their feet, and advised me that they couldn't fulfil the order, and they'd give me a full refund," he told 7 News.
Mr Driscoll said he never received the refund and was repeatedly told by the pizza chain that they were "investigating" the issue.
"Unfortunately that was the response that came back over and over again over twelve months, to the point where it just became a bit, a bit crazy."
In order to make sure Domino’s pay him the $1203.27, which equates to around 240 value pizza’s, Mr Driscoll has taken further court action and asked the competition watchdog to prosecute Domino’s as well.
The fast food juggernaut has since accused Mr Driscoll of wasting the court’s time and said they intend to apply to have the judgment overturned.
However they did concede it was disappointed and embarrassed to have "let down a pizza loving customer."
"I suppose you could say justice is served," Mr Driscoll said.
