Recession delivers gain for growing Domino’s

Domino’s Pizza UK & Ireland is to press ahead with expansion plans in 2012 as it benefits from cash-strapped consumers eating its pizzas at home rather than dining out.

The company yesterday reported a 3.5% rise in first-quarter like-for-like sales at its 660 established stores, and said it was sticking to plans to open 72 stores in 2012.

But Domino’s had found trading in Ireland tougher, after the economy here suffered the deepest recession in the industrialised world.