CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man said he tried to order a pizza for delivery and was denied because his west Charlotte neighborhood was in an area with a high crime rate.
The man said the manager at the Domino's on Fourth Street in Midtown told him that when he tried to get a pizza delivered along the Beatties Ford Road corridor that is next to a school and police department.
People who live and work in the area were outraged after the Domino’s refused delivery to someone in the 1400 block of Beatties Ford Road.
The pizza delivery store wouldn't deliver because the area was too dangerous.
“It's sad to say, in 2017, a pizza company as dominant as Dominos will not deliver here,” resident Bobbie Kanu said.
Channel 9 crime-mapped the area and discovered over the past four weeks there have been 131 crimes within a mile of the stretch of Beatties Ford Road, with 60 of the crimes being either robbery, assault, larceny or burglary.
That's four more total crimes that occurred at the location of the Domino's that refuses to deliver there.
There were 72 crimes in the area of that Dominos including robbery, assault, larceny or burglary.
“You go here. You could go to Ballantyne. You could go to Dilworth. You can go to Fourth Street, where they are located,” Kanu said. “Crime has no address.”
Officials at Domino’s corporate office said it is up to each individual franchise to decide whether or not to deliver to areas it feels are problematic.
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