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Article: Pizza de Resistance; Going Underground With a Domino's Spy
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 11, 1988
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The advertisement read like the beginning of an Agatha Christie
novel: Mystery Customer Wanted.
I read further. Domino's, the purveyor of cheese on bread with a
few extras delivered within 30 minutes, was recruiting spies.
I applied by calling the 800 number, and from there it was as
easy as mozzarella sliding down a dieter's gullet.
They pay you. You eat pizza. You spy.
They made it clear they weren't actually paying people to eat
pizza. For $7 a month, they were paying people to spy. Indeed.
Seven dollars hardly covers the cost of our favorite pizza.
True to espionage form, they didn't want to know too much.
"Do you eat pizza?" the voice on the 800 number's line asked.
I got the ...