{"id":481,"date":"2004-01-14T15:09:22","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T20:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/gibbs_return_leads_to_pizza_cu\/"},"modified":"2004-01-14T15:09:22","modified_gmt":"2004-01-14T20:09:22","slug":"gibbs_return_leads_to_pizza_cu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/gibbs_return_leads_to_pizza_cu\/","title":{"rendered":"Gibbs&#8217; Return Leads to Pizza Customer Name Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The return of football Hall of Fame coach Joe Gibbs has brought good news to some&#8211;but not all&#8211;pizza consumers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pizzamarketplace.com\/news_story.htm?i=17966\">around Washington D.C.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The return of Joe Gibbs to the head coach\ufffds spot at the Washington Redskins, the very team he led to three Super Bowl wins, has sparked a goodwill bargain battle between Domino\ufffds Pizza and Papa John\ufffds stores in the area.<br \/>\nDomino\ufffds, which used to be the official pizza of the Redskins, announced recently it would apply a &#8220;Gibbs tax&#8221; to pizzas sold on Jan. 14. Customers named either Joe or Gibbs would get $3 off their pizza orders, while those with first or last names mirroring of any of the \ufffdSkin\ufffds failed coaches\ufffd names would have to pay $1 extra (see story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pizzamarketplace.com\/news_story.htm?i=17926\">Domino\ufffds Pizza franchisee applies \ufffdGibbs tax\ufffd to celebrate return of Redskins coach<\/a>). The proceeds of the &#8220;tax&#8221; will be donated to a Gibbs-founded charity for at-risk teen boys.<br \/>\nPapa John\ufffds, the current official pizza of the Redskins, announced on Jan. 14 it will celebrate Gibbs\ufffd return by selling large, three-topping pizzas for $9.99. According to a news release, each topping represents his three Super Bowl wins with the \ufffdSkins. The limited-time special runs through Feb. 2 at D.C.-area Papa John\ufffds Pizza stores.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Life&#8217;s just not fair, is it?  I expect to see that <i>Robiskie<\/i> class action lawsuit popping up any minute now.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/entries\/0104\/skins_as_the_new_news.html\">Oliver Willis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/gibbs_return_leads_to_pizza_cu\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Gibbs&#8217; Return Leads to Pizza Customer Name Discrimination\"><p>The return of football Hall of Fame coach Joe Gibbs has brought good news to some&#8211;but not all&#8211;pizza consumers around Washington D.C.: The return of Joe Gibbs to the head coach\ufffds spot at the Washington Redskins, the very team he led to three Super Bowl wins, has sparked a goodwill bargain battle between Domino\ufffds Pizza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}