So to preface, I only really use doordash when I’m sick and I want to get food without spreading whatever I have. So I don’t open the app much. I just noticed that dominos is on the doordash app in my area. Why in the world would anyone ever doordash a dominos pizza when they already do delivery anyways? That just seems like a great way to burn a bunch of extra money for a worse service.
For your specific example, Dominos still does 100% of its own delivery, even when ordered through a third party app. When you order Dominos through Doordash, the person who shows up is a Dominos franchise employee wearing a Dominos uniform. Domino’s was exclusively first party delivery up until 2023, when they partnered with Uber Eats under this framework (we’ll let your app access our stores if we still handle the delivery itself), and they added Doordash this month and are currently rolling it out to all locations.
Conversely, I think Papa Johns (?) has offloaded all of their delivery to Doordash. I remember ordering from their app and a DD driver rolling up.
Can confirm at least my local papa johns is 100% 3rd party deliveries. Worse, I was waiting in the store once and multiple drivers came in for a pizza that had already been picked up. It sounded like it was a common occurence, so clearly the system wasn’t working great.