Domino’s Mix & Match Stayed $5.99 for 12 Years. Hoosiers Pay $6.99 Now
A $1 jump on your pizza night order may upset you, until you see what the rest of eating out has done.
Domino’s raised its price on delivery first, then carryout.
Here’s what changed and how that $1 increase compares with the rest of what eating out now costs.
The $5.99 Launch
Domino’s started its national Mix & Match deal in December 2009 at $5.99 an item, a 2022 QSR Magazine report says.
You had to buy at least two items. So the smallest order came to $11.98.
Today the same two items cost $13.98, at $6.99 each.
More than 10 years after the launch, a January 2020 release was still pushing the deal, this time to game-day orderers.
Domino’s ran it as a national deal. So these are national prices, not always what your store charged.
The 2022 Price Hikes
Delivery went first.
The Mix & Match delivery price rose to $6.99 an item on March 14, 2022.
Carryout stayed at $5.99.
That changed on October 17, 2022, when the carryout price rose to $6.99 too.
For roughly seven months, delivery cost a dollar more per item than carryout.
So how long did $5.99 last?
It depends on how you ordered.
On its fourth-quarter 2021 earnings call, Domino’s said the delivery change was the first to the $5.99 offer in more than 12 years.
The coupon would also split into $6.99 for delivery and $5.99 for carryout.
Counting from the launch, delivery orders got about 12 years at $5.99.
Carryout got close to 13.
After October 17, 2022, delivery and carryout matched again at $6.99.
What the Extra Dollar Costs You
The deal went up $1 an item. Here’s what that does to your total.
Two items went from $11.98 to $13.98.
Three items went from $17.97 to $20.97.
Four items went from $23.96 to $27.96.
Six items went from $35.94 to $41.94.
Say you order four items about once a week. That costs you $4 more each time, or $208 over 52 orders.
These totals are just the deal price times the number of items. They leave out everything else on your bill.
Why Delivery Went First
Why did delivery go first?
Domino’s gave its reasons on two earnings calls.
On the fourth-quarter 2021 call, it called delivery the side that was short on workers.
Carryout had stayed much stronger.
Food costs at its U.S. stores were also expected to run 8% to 10% above 2021 levels.
In other words, Domino’s was paying more for ingredients.
Delivery customers, Domino’s said, were still getting a good value at $6.99.
For carryout, Domino’s pointed on its third-quarter 2022 call to six months spent studying how rivals’ prices had changed.
Its analytics backed raising the carryout price too.
Its research shows a higher delivery cost might push some customers to cook at home.
What You Pay Today
As of Domino’s August 2026 release, Mix & Match costs $6.99 each for any two or more menu items.
That includes a two-topping Domino, a new pizza set to launch nationwide on August 31.
A footnote says prices are higher at some locations. So your store may charge more than $6.99.
Domino’s said on its 2022 earnings calls that franchisees decide menu prices and delivery fees.
Earlier sources list the same $6.99.
A September 2024 report described a limited-time offer on the deal that ran September 9 to 29.
Online customers who mixed and matched two or more medium two-topping pizzas at $6.99 each could upgrade one pizza to a large at no extra cost.
The large could be Hand Tossed, Thin Crust or New York Style.
A Domino’s September 2025 release introduced cinnamon and garlic Bread Bites.
The $6.99 deal includes 32-piece orders of Bread Bites, with the same footnote about higher prices at some locations.
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Is $6.99 Really That Much?
One Mix & Match item costs $1 more than it did before 2022.
But the cost of eating out has climbed faster.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) tracks what people pay for restaurant and takeout food, which it calls food away from home.
Those prices were about 77% higher in August 2026 than in December 2009.
Say the $5.99 from December 2009 had risen at that same pace. It would be about $10.60 today.
At $6.99, you pay about $3.61 less than that.
Now start in January 2020, when Domino's release listed $5.99. By August 2026, those prices were up about 38%.
That would put a $5.99 item near $8.24.
Start in October 2022, when carryout hit $6.99.
Those prices rose about 17% after that, which would put a $6.99 item near $8.17.
Prices for all items rose less than that, about 55% since 2009. That would put the 2009 deal at about $9.29 today.
So $6.99 is a dollar more than before. But it is still lower than where $5.99 would be if it had moved with restaurant prices.
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