If you could eat your favorite food every day of the week for the rest of your life, would you?
Perhaps you have a penchant for creamy carbonara, love chowing down on tacos or literally can’t get anything done until you’ve finished your afternoon grilled cheese with a side of fries - sometimes your preferred meal just hits the spot, right?
For one food lover named Kirk Alexander, his ride-or-die was a Domino’s Pizza.
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Every day for a decade he would order a fresh pizza from his local eatery in Salem, Oregon.
And due to his daily takeaway requests, it’s fair to assume the branch’s employees expected to see Alexander’s name pop up on a ticket at least once during their shift.
But in 2016, workers at the joint became worried when they realized they hadn’t received an order for Alexander for 11 days.
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Naturally, you would assume that perhaps the man had gone on vacation or had simply grown sick of digging into pizza.
Sarah Fuller, who was managing the branch at the time, explained: “A few of my drivers had mentioned that we hadn't seen his order come across our screen in a while, so I went and looked up to see how long it had been since he last ordered and it was 11 days, which is not like him at all.”
Staff at Domino’s asked a driver to go to Alexander’s house to see whether things were okay.
While there, they spotted lights on in the home and the sound of the TV audible through the door.
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However, when the driver knocked, no one answered the door - prompting the dedicated employees to call the police and ask them to investigate the missing person further.
When the Marion County Sheriff’s officers arrived at Kirk's house, they heard a man ‘calling for help from within the residence’ and broke the door down.
Inside, they found Kirk 'in need of immediate medical attention’. He was subsequently rushed off to a local hospital, where he was stabilized.
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After helping to save his life, staff from the pizza place visited Kirk in the hospital with flowers and cards - although no pizza.
The customer was aware that he owed the staff a great debt of gratitude, but the pizza employees brushed that off.
"[He is] just an important customer that's part of our family here at Dominos," Fuller said.
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"He orders all the time so we know him. I think we were just doing our job checking in on someone we know who orders a lot.
"We felt like we needed to do something."
The Domino’s employees did end up getting some rewards for their efforts in an appearance on Good Morning America, where they were given some tickets for a group of them to go and see 2016’s Captain America: Civil War in cinema.
Topics: Food and Drink, US News, Health
Ella Scott