For the past several years, Domino’s Pizza Inc. executives have railed against rival U.S. food-delivery apps like DoorDash Inc. DASH, Grubhub and Uber Eats. The apps were losing money, and their aggressive free-delivery and discount offers to customers were unsustainable, they said. They argued that the pizza chain’s own delivery model — which unlike the apps had its drivers hauling pizzas to customers and returning to a single store — was more centralized, more predictable and thus economically superior.
But at a conference…
