SYDNEY — Domino’s Pizza Enterprises, whose stock has risen more than 800% in five years on the Australian stock exchange, wants to take fast food to another level: the three-minute pizza.Australia’s biggest pizza chain was testing high-speed cooking technology and military-grade delivery robots in a bid to cut typical baking and delivery times by more than half, CEO Don Meij said. He is calling it Project 3-10: pizza ready to take away in three minutes, or at your door in 10."The growth that’s going to come from that is mind-boggling," said Mr Meij, who started his three-decades long career at Domino’s as a delivery driver.Mr Meij’s challenge is to maintain growth that in the past decade swelled profit tenfold and turned Domino’s into Australia’s best-performing consumer stock. Having persuaded customers to order more using their mobile phones, Mr Meij is asking them to embrace other innovations to get fed faster — like a 180kg wheeled robot that scans an eyeball before handing over...
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