Domino’s is famous for its pizza, but this chain also has a wide range of other food offerings, including sandwiches, appetizers, pastas, and cakes. Its restaurants offer delivery, pickup, and carryout service.
Domino has a long history of creating mind-blowing domino setups. These are displays that involve hundreds or even thousands of dominoes set up in careful sequence and then nudged to fall. Domino sets can take minutes, and some setups require several nail-biting minutes, before the dominoes finally come to a rest.
The name Domino comes from the Latin dominus, meaning lord or master. In fiction, a domino is often used to illustrate a theme or point in a story. A narrative can be described as a series of dominoes: each scene is a domino, and the events in one scene naturally influence the scenes that follow.
In the comics, the superhero Domino has the ability to create domino chains that affect other characters and even entire groups of people. She is the result of a top-secret government breeding program designed to develop a super weapon, and although her “luck” power was useful during testing, the program was deemed a failure and she was broken out of the project. She later became a mercenary and was assigned to guard NSA genius Dr. Milo Thurman. During her tenure with the X-Force team, Domino had some major clashes with the leader of the Prime Sentinels, Ekaterina Gryaznova.
Some of the most creative Domino creations are set up for a domino show, a competition where builders compete to see who can construct the most elaborate domino reaction or effect. These shows are popular with children, and even adults can get caught up in the excitement of watching a seemingly endless line of dominoes tumble down in one spectacular display after another.
While dominoes are most commonly made of polymer, some traditional sets were produced from other natural materials. For example, European-style dominoes were sometimes carved from bone, silver lip ocean pearl oyster shell (mother of pearl), ivory, or a dark hardwood such as ebony; the identity-bearing faces were usually inlaid with black or white dots. Some modern sets use metal or ceramic clay instead of the traditional pips.
In addition to its online version, Domino has a physical magazine with an annual subscription rate of $159. The magazine is known for its interior design, cooking, and travel sections as well as its interviews with celebrities. In 2016, it published its second book, Domino: Your Guide to a Stylish Home, and launched new verticals in Entertaining, Travel, Wellness, and Weddings. The magazine also has a podcast, Design Time, featuring candid conversations with the likes of Bobby Berk and Ayesha Curry.