Chief Executive Officer (current, through Sep 30, 2026), Dominos Pizza
Search every verified Russell Weiner interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. During Domino's Pizza's second quarter 2026 earnings call on July 20, 2026, CEO Russell Weiner stated that the company's order counts were "up meaningfully" in total, as well as individually in both delivery and carryout. He said the company believes the overall QSR industry order counts were flat during the quarter, and described Domino's performance as "significant" in that context. Weiner attributed the company's approach to a "barbell" strategy focused on order counts and ticket size, and said that driving order counts is correlated with franchisee profitability and customer acquisition through the loyalty program. Weiner acknowledged a "discrete event" in the second quarter that negatively impacted franchisee profitability due to a "ticket drag," but said the company is "fixing it" and that it should not affect long-term franchisee profitability. He described the most important lesson from his nearly two decades with Domino's as the principle that "order counts drive long-term success" and that winners in QSR grow order counts while maintaining "healthy ticket through discipline pricing."
“The most important lesson I have learned in nearly two decades with Domino's, it's simple. Order counts drive long-term success. Order counts matter because they fuel growth for both the brand and our franchises. The winners in QSR over time are the brands that can grow order counts while driving healthy ticket through...”
“The QSR industry in the US has been struggling with order counts during a difficult period of macroeconomic uncertainty. We believe this continued in Q2 where QSR order counts were flat. Now despite this backdrop, demand for Dominoes remained incredibly strong. Well, we have not shared specific order count numbers in t...”
“There's about $5 billion worth of pizza that are sold in the aggregator marketplace. About a billion of it could be ours. That's our fair share. If we were on aggregators last year, we got on Uber. We're getting towards the in May and towards the second half of this year we'll be on DoorDash. DoorDash sells about twice...”
“We're not really exposed from an ingredient standpoint. I think, you know, maybe we're we're some could think secondarily if consumer disposable income is down because they're spending on other things, they have less money to spend on restaurants. But Jim, this is what really makes Domino's, like you said during these...”
“we like to think um we have profit power people talk pricing power we price for profits for franchisees which means driving the Top Line it also means really good value for customers”
“our job Jim as you know is to provide only you know positive surprises we we're supposed to be consistent uh there's a Miss there we had to take guidance down like you said 175 to 275”
“I think what we've seen is when we spend too much time talking about technology even though we have the best pizza in the business we don't get credit for it and so today this is one of the first interviews I'm having where I I I still want our amazing team to get credit for all the technology we're going to and we're...”
“we took our pizza and we put it in a competitor's box and we put a competitor's Pizza in our box so not only did blind did our pizza not taste as good as the competition what n a huge differ but wasn't as good but the bigger thing was the brand issue we put our pizza in somebody else's box and all of a sudden it tasted...”
“the tension of our brand was um we were pizza company and our pizza wasn't as good as it could be and um the tension in society this is 2009 2010. the economy wasn't good there were banks going under um there was a big car bailout that you probably don't you were probably 10 or something i don't remember but there was...”
“i think failure is an option okay in fact i um we did a commercial at domino's about failure being an option and actually from that we took we made a big poster in the lobby when you walked in that said failure is an option and the reason i think it is an option is if you don't if you're so worried about failing you're...”
“We have to do 10 years of marketing in 1 year. And so we knew we had to fix the pizza and when, you know, we did. But the question was what what's going to do 10 We didn't have time to be up 1 or 2%.”
“If you actively check things off the list, actively, that's just as good as figuring out what you want to do. And I actively Is that process of elimination? Yeah, and it's only You're not sitting back, you know, watching television saying, 'Come to me, job.' You're saying, 'Okay, this is something I'm going to do, spen...”
“during times when times are tough we find sometimes with dominoes people who maybe would have gone to shop other places come to Domino's because they they can still get that value so as long as the value is right we're excited about the prospects for Domino”
“what these guys are doing is impressive because same store sales are up while they're continuing to grow at a rapid pace so same sort of sales I'm not saying don't don't matter they matter and our franchisees our stores care a lot about a lot about that but if we didn't care about total retail sales and we didn't open...”
07/20/2026 Q&A: 18:03 Domino's Pizza, Inc. operates as a pizza company worldwide. The company operates through three ...
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