Don Meij

**Donald Jeff Meij** (/meɪ/ for the real guy, /miːdʒ/ for the character) is a character played by Zachary Ruane in the Aunty Donna Podcast, but has appeared himself in several instances. He is based on the real Don Meij.

Don (born 27 December 1968) is an Australian busness entrepreneur and the Group chief executive officer and managing director of Domino's Pizza Enterprises (Domino's Pizza Enterprises). He is a stoner, and had a car crash in his Lambourghini in 2005. When he began doing a series of Facebook Lives promoting Domino's deals, Zach developed an obsession with him, and this spread throughout Aunty Donna and its fanbase.

## Biography

### Feud with Coca-Cola and deal with Pepsi

Don was called by Mark to join in with the podcast again, and was high at the time. He talked to Rural Jan, talking about his introduction of avocado and late-harvest jalapenos. He asked Jan about products he might be interested in, but Jan didn't like junk food. He said about his trip to Denmark where there was a store that had an average delivery time of 13:24, and the new function button on the Dominos app, as well as his car accident in 2005. He said Dominos was not a pizza place but a food technology place. He offered Jan a million dollars for a brand alignment deal, but she upped it to 3 million, leading Don to threaten that he had dropped his deal with Coca-Cola like a year 9, and also threatened Jan again with a fuck. Despite this, he agreed to the deal.

Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent called in about the Coca-Cola feud, but Don said he was looking for someone involved with the Australian market, specifically someone to do with deals with fast food. Ilana Atlas also called in but Don said he didn't want to just talk to a chairman, and Barry O'Connell had left his role as beverages boss earlier that year so also hung up. A Bottle of Coca-Cola called in and he slowed its speech down enough that he heard it giving him death threats, but it apologised if it hurt his little baby feelings. When Pepsi came in, he said it was his new girlfriend, that it had a tight entry market and that it tasted like Coca-Cola but sweeter. He said Coca-Cola didn't call him back, wasn't available and couldn't be bulk bought. After an argument and some yoghurt, he plugged his new dessert pizza which wasn't out yet. (*Podcast Ep 73 - "Rural Jam"*)

### Meeting Aunty Donna IRL

In the summer of 2018, Don invited the boys to Dominos HQ in Brisbane. He showed them around the place and tested their ability to make pizza. He cleared up some confusion around Nick Knight as well as the feud with Pizza Capers. He showed them DRU AI, which caused the boys to fear that Don could be replaced or killed by the AI in the future. Broden alluded to the possibility that Don himself may be an AI and attempted to communicate with him in binary. Don showed them the fastest pizza ovens in the world, and let them cook their pizza in them. While recording a Facebook Live, he said Zach's pizza was the best of the three, and said he would give Zach a franchise but not the trio as a whole, which upset Mark. He gave them all a golden spoodle. After this, Don was paid 36.7 million dollars. (*Aunty Donna's Dominos Special*)

## Appearances

* Podcast Ep 70 - I have no idea how to name this episode (Zach)
* Patreon Poddy $10 + $15 EP 3 (Zach)
* Podcast Ep 73 - "Rural Jam" (Zach)
* Podcast Ep 74 Feat. MATT STEWART (Zach)
* Podcast Ep 80 - Mark Orders A Pizza (Zach)
* Patreon Poddy $10 + $15 EP 5 (Zach)
* Podcast Ep 84 - We Going To Pizza College! (Zach)
* Podcast Ep 105 - Meijgate (Zach)
* Aunty Donna's Dominos Special (himself)
* Podcast EP 227 - A Domino's Dough Deal (referenced)
* Landing a Pizza Deal To Promote Our Netflix Show (himself)
* Podcast Ep 262 - High Pressure Environment (Zach)