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Like many middle-agers, Domino's Pizza is undergoing a bit of cosmetic surgery.

The world's largest pizza delivery chain, celebrating its 50th year in the business in 2010, announced today it will be entirely changing its core pizza recipe.

"The fact is, we love our pizza, but as times change, so do consumer tastes," said Russell Weiner, Domino's chief marketing officer, in a statement. "We've created a pizza to reflect what consumers are looking for. We're not talking about a slightly altered version of our previous pizza. It's a completely new pizza reinvented from the crust up, and we are proud of it."

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A Domino's Pizza franchise in North Carolina was forced to close its doors forever last week, and its owner puts the blame on disgusting videos two former employees posted on YouTube.

"My business was off 58 percent because of YouTube," franchise owner Kevin Hendren told the Hickory Daily Record. The store closed on Sept. 22.

The franchise's troubles began when two employees of his Conover, N.C., Domino's Pizza allegedly created videos of themselves showing one putting cheese in his nose and then putting it on a sandwich, sneezing on cheese sticks and pulling down his pants, wiping himself with a sponge and then using that sponge to clean a pan. The videos were discovered in April and have been removed from YouTube.

Hendren told the newspaper he will not reopen the Domino's franchise. "I'm just living day to day right now," he told the Daily Record.

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To celebrate the auspicious date of Sept. 9, 2009 (09/09/09), Domino's is offering free food on Sept. 9, but there is a catch.

Domino's is offering 99 $25 coupons to those who can prove they'll turn 9 or 99 on Sept. 9.

As if having Disney's Celebration, Florida, wasn't enough, now Domino's Pizza founder and conservative Christian Tom Monaghan is planning a town near the Everglades that will operate based on Christian principles. The town of Ave Maria will be built in southwest Florida, in the Naples/Immokalee area, and town regulations may prohibit such no-nos as abortion, birth control and pornography, a recent Times article reported. The town will also be the site of Ave Maria University, the first Catholic university built in the U.S. in 40 years. The university will house 5,000 of the estimated 30,000 total residents planned for Ave Maria when it starts being a town in 2007.