STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 2020 is off to a piping hot start.
He kicked off the new decade by tweeting his ire at Domino’s for apparently selling pricey pizza pies to diaper-wearing Times Square revelers. De Blasio’s reaction came after a New York Post report claimed the Midtown-based chain was slinging pizzas to New Year’s Eve customers for $30. Heady play, Domino’s.
“Jacking up your prices on people trying to celebrate the holidays? Classy, @dominos,” de Blasio tweeted. “To the thousands who came to Times Square last night to ring in 2020, I’m sorry this corporate chain exploited you — stick it to them by patronizing one of our fantastic LOCAL pizzerias.”
The tweet, which had less than 2,000 likes, was met with thousands of responses.
The responses, many of which dug into the mayor, focused on an assortment of topics: Pricey New York City pizza pies costing approximately $30 as is, local Domino’s businesses being owned by actual New Yorkers, and “That’s not exploitation, it’s supply and demand you utter spoon.” One person’s beloved response referred to de Blasio as a melon head.
Domino’s addressed de Blasio’s comment Thursday.
“Every store in [New York City] is owned by a local resident,” a Domino’s spokesperson told FOX Business. “Every employee is a local New York resident. Those stores provide jobs to thousands of his fellow citizens. With his comments, the mayor is suggesting that New Yorkers who own or work at a franchise are ‘lesser than’ those who don’t.”
In 2014, while dining at Goodfellas in Dongan Hills, de Blasio doomed himself by using a fork and knife to munch on a slice in the popular pizzeria. The treasonous act of consuming pizza with utensils was immediately dubbed “Forkgate,” and the mayor’s reputation was reduced to tatters on Staten Island. It never recovered.
“In my ancestral homeland, it is more typical to eat with a fork and knife,” said de Blasio in defense. “I have been in Italy a lot, and I have picked up the habit -- for a certain type of pizza. When you have a pizza like this, it had a lot on it, you know, I often start with a knife and fork, but then I cross over to the American approach, and I pick it up when I go farther into the pizza.”
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