How ordering Domino’s daily saved a man’s life

When loyal customer Kirk Alexander stopped ordering food from Domino’s, employees at the eatery raised an alarm

Kirk Alexander of Salem, Oregon was a loyal Domino’s Pizza customer. So when he didn’t place an order for over eleven days, Domino's staff decided to check on him and were able to save his life.

“He orders every day, every other day,” Sarah Fuller, the general manager at a Salem-area Domino’s, told KOIN.com. She claimed that Alexander, 48, had been a regular customer since 2009.



“His order pops up on the screen because he orders online. So we see it come across the screen and we’re like, ‘Oh, Kirk’s order.’”

But the team at Domino’s soon noticed that it had been a while since Alexander last placed an order. “A few of my drivers had mentioned that we hadn’t seen his order come across our screen in a while,” Fuller told KATU.com.

When Fuller checked the restaurant’s database, she discovered that his last order was placed 11 days ago, which according to Fuller “is not like him at all.”

And so she decided to send longtime delivery driver, Tracey Hamblen to pay a visit to Alexander’s house on Sunday. On arriving at Alexander’s house, Hamblen saw that the lights and television in his house were on, but Alexander was not answering the door or picking up his phone, so he decided to call 911.

According to the sheriff’s office, upon their arrival, deputies heard a man “calling for help from inside the residence." When they entered the home, they found Alexander, who reportedly suffers from severe health issues, in “need of immediate medical attention.”



He was rushed to the hospital, where he is now recovering.

The sheriff’s office expressed their gratitude to Hamblen “for his quick actions and willingness to take time out of his day to care for others.”

The Domino’s crew was widely praised on social media for their life-saving actions. Fuller, however, insisted that the team was just doing their job.

“[Alexander is] just an important customer that’s part of our family here at Domino’s. 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,” she told KOIN.com.

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post.