Health Inspector here. Someone complained about finding these in a pizza from a chain restaurant. I've never seen any equipment that used blades like these in a pizza place. Anyone recognize them so I can look in the right place when I go in?
Thanks!
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Look a bit like glazier points. But too small to do the job, I’m thinking.
They kind of look like spade terminals from electrical equipment.
They look like they’re prongs/tabs/something electrical or electronic.
…or bits of blade from a shredder/dicer/mandoline? I can’t imagine a domino’s having a mandoline tho.
Lmfaoooo we had a vent hood screw end up in a brownie once.
Robot teeth. They are having robot pizzaioli at dominoes
Could it be broken pieces of the edge of the wire rounds they cook them on? Or something from the oven. Seems too perfectly uniform to be pieces of a razor blade
Could be parts from the pizza oven. The hooks that hold on to the wire rotating baking sheet for a pizza oven
Are they little connectors on those ovens that feed the pizza through? Like a wire conveyor belt in a oversized toaster oven. Lol I have no clue, just imagining. That’s messed up
I’m naturally very skeptical, I apologize but they look oddly clean for having been tossed around in some dough, sent through a multi-hundred degree oven. Then through somebody’s mouth.
I don’t know enough about the situation to make a judgment call, if I had to talk a massive shot in the dark maybe part of the baking tray.
More likely I call Bull, I’ve had people bring in old hair in to try and get something for free.
Only thing I can think of is that these are pins that hold the housing against the top of the conveyor ovens. Probably cleaned em the night before and put em back in too loose.
Definitely no razors, mandolins or really any prep equipment at domino’s.
Looks like pieces from a broken dicer blade.
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/choice-3-8-blade-set/407P375BLD.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gbraid=0AAAAAD_Dx-uy—5SKayWcp6rMSAD3_WOP&gclid=CjwKCAiA0rW6BhAcEiwAQH28Ikx8vBMDtSdnyYOogNlYgxoNk5a1OiUu-l6_m1rSPE4kxz-8wN_9VBoCnkMQAvD_BwE
I’d guess it was from a broker hand dicer blade like this, I’ve had them break off before but my cooks are very through in checking the blades before and after usage
[Dicer blade](https://www.webstaurantstore.com/vollrath-55470-replacement-1-4-dicing-blade-assembly-for-55457-instacut-5-1-fruit-and-vegetable-dicer/92255470.html)
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I worked there before. Nothing comes to mind. If you’re in contact with the customer see if they can clarify where in the pizza these were. Their dough isn’t made in house. It’s shipped already made and from the warehouse. Could be from them.
Sauce comes from a bag that’s ready to use or a concentrate you just add water to. Those peices don’t look like it, but maybe from an immersion blender. We just mixed with a whisk, just check how they do sauce there. Or once again came from the factory with them in it.
What’s the material? Is it metal? Are those the same color and one is just reflecting the light? Are they plastic-hard or soft? Are they actually blades or just vaguely sharp if that? Do they have any signs of residue like glue marks?
It could be from electric equipment or honestly this could even be off some type of jewerly or decoration, like you’ll see shirts with rindstones etc glued all over. If it is a blade that’s like a scalpel- maybe being used to open boxes? Can’t imagine how two of them would get into food.
These could also be from the track that goes in the oven, the curved sections are to grab onto linear spokes and the flat parts either support or are the vertical surfaces you place the pizza on. MUCH more likely than the dicer blade as those don’t have the small circular sections (where a wire would go)
Maybe from self cutting zip ties? I had never seen them before but needed to borrow a few at an event center and they had little blades in each one.
[https://www.homedepot.com/p/Commercial-Electric-14in-Twist-and-Cut-UL-Listed-UV-Resistant-Cable-Zip-Ties-100-Pack-UV-Black-GTSC-370STUV-100/318442364](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Commercial-Electric-14in-Twist-and-Cut-UL-Listed-UV-Resistant-Cable-Zip-Ties-100-Pack-UV-Black-GTSC-370STUV-100/318442364)
Microchips??? In my dominos pizza …
Those look like blades from self-cutting cable ties. I have them at home and have dislodged the blades from twisting and pulling at the same time, instead of twisting only when the zip tie is fully tight.
I pulled one out, dislodged the blade on purpose and they look exactly the same. The material, shape, and size are all spot on. These are widely available and sold at Home Depot, potentially under different brands like Commercial Electric. Would not be surprised if a new piece of equipment was added in the kitchen, self cutting zip ties were used to secure wiring and the blades got dislodged from improper use.
https://www.gardnerbender.com/en/p/46-308UVBSC/Cable-Tie-Self-Cutting-8-inch-50lb-Black
As everyone else has already mentioned, definitely part of a dicer blade. The pizza probably had diced peppers, tomato, or onions on it. If whoever is using the dicer is being a complete ape about it they’re pretty easy to break. They also have a few rubber parts to them that end up wearing out and becoming loose which means the plunger part of the dicer no longer lines up correctly with the blade, resulting in these popping off.
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Ask in the Dominos sub. The workers there may know better. I worked at Dominos for a few months to help a friend out.
They do no food prep that consists of more than rehydrating pizza sauce. All ingredients come pre-cut in bags sized per portion container. Noting is frozen, and the only metal things that pizza touches start to finish is the pan and the pizza cutter. I do not know what these could be or how they got introduced.
those toppings are called compensation.
phone domiones and say you’ve just shat them out and they are covered in blood
If someone found these in their pizza I would be very shocked that the person making the pies didn’t cut themselves on these. I think other posters are correct that they are from some sort of dicing equipment, but as a former Domino’s employee I feel pretty confident that this physical contaminant came from commissary not the actual location that sold the pizza.
The possibility that these blades are from self-cutting zip-ties is also plausible, but I know one thing about Dominos with certainty – they are fucking cheap. Those fancy zip-ties are expensive and I see no reason the company would pay more for something like that because obviously the expense, plus this exact situation – those little blades are risky around food production.
My sister once found pieces of metal in her Domino’s Pizza. They were rusted off from the conveyor belt oven they use. She called Domino’s and they offered her 52 free one topping medium pizza coupons.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/364112243219
Hmmmm….
single edge blade on one end…
some way to attach the blade on the other…why the small blade though…stainless steel
Probably need to contact Corporate as it likely came from a supplier. These chains purchase ingredients through corporate franchise suppliers.
After looking at various possibilities it comes down the pizza box. Probably from die cutting the slots that make the folds in a pizza box…(I happen to have pizza boxes and verifies the typical pizza box is folded at die cut slots about the same dimension the pictured blades)
I will post a picture in a post shortly…
There are huge commercial pizza box fabricators.
(order a domino’s pizza from the same place and verify the blades fit in the pizza box fold holes and you will have your answer.
Maybe the fold die cutting machine uses these tiny blades…maybe the zip ties use the fold die cutting machine blades…
Google
# Pizza Box Common Shape Carton Printing Slotting Die-cutting Machine With One Two Three Four Colors Print
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Could be from a dicer blade.
Post in r/dominos maybe. I worked at and managed a Dominos for years but have never seen anything like that before
I’ve actually found one of these in a pizza box years ago. I like the self-cutting zip tie theory because don’t the boxes come bound from the printer in zip ties?
U getting microchipped
JFC. They look like a really bad time if consumed
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