About Dominos
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| Dominos was created in the United States by a man called Tom Monaghan in 1960. Tom Joined forces with his brother and they opened the first store in Michigan and named it DomiNicks. |
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12 Months Later Tom traded his brother a Volkswagon for his share of the store and named the business Dominos.
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| Today there are over 8,000 stores across the world spanning throughout 50 countries. Globally Dominos employ over 145,000 team members and has over 2,000 Franchises. |
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The first Store in the UK was opened in Luton in 1985. There are now over 600 stores across the UK with the goal of achieving 1,000 stores by 2017. We are not only the largest Pizza delivery company in the UK but also the World.
At Dominos we sum our values up in one chant which is sung across our stores: |
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"Sell more Pizza, have more fun!"
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Our priorities are to:
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Recruit, recognise, develop and retain the best people
Deliver consistently high quality standards and food on time
Deliver exceptional customer service
Innovate in ways that matter to our team members and customers |
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Domino's Progress
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1960 - Tom Monaghan founds the first Dominos Pizza store in 1960 in Michigan, USA, though it is
called DomiNick's until 1965. His brother James sells his share in the venture after a year in
return for a Volkswagen Beetle. |
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1967 - The first franchise opens and by 1983 there are 1,000 stores, including the first outside the
USA. |
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| 1985 - The first UK store opens in Luton. |
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| 1991 - The first Irish store opens in Dublin. |
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1993 - Gerald and Colin Halpern buy the master franchise for Dominos in the UK and Ireland, which
now has 77 outlets. Before, Dominos Pizza was controlled from the USA. |
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| 1995 - 100th store opens in Purley, London. |
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| 1996 - First Scottish store opens in Glasgow. |
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| 1997 - First Welsh store opens in Cardiff. |
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1998 - New HQ for UK and Ireland built in Milton Keynes.
Dominos starts its sponsorship of The Simpsons.
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1999 - Dominos becomes the first home delivery company to float on the Alternative Investment
Market.
Online ordering and interactive TV ordering go national.
200th store opens in the Docklands.
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2000 - Dominos introduces the patented HeatWave™ hot bags to keep the pizzas hot and crisp during
delivery. |
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| 2003 - 300th store opens in Aldershot. |
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2004 - Dominos wins the British Franchise Association, Franchisor of the Year award!
Dominos opens first store in City of London on Queen Street.
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| 2005 - Dominos celebrates its 20th birthday. 400th store opens in Sheffield. |
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2007 - Dominos launches Real Time monitoring system to measure service performance of orders to get pizza out the door in the minimum amount of time.
Dominos removes all hydrogenated fats from its products.
Chris Moore becomes Chief Executive.
Dominos launches first ever SMS pizza order service.
In November, weekly internet sales hit the seven figure mark for first time in UK.
500th store opens in Hatfield.
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2008 - Dominos becomes official sponsor to Britain’s Got Talent on ITV and America’s Got Talent on
ITV2.
Dominos moves from AIM to the main market of the London Stock Exchange. |
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| 2009 - Pizza delivery expert. Dominos Pizza has officially opened its 600th store. Located in High Holborn, the 600th store is a significant milestone in Dominos ongoing expansion plans. |
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