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I'm pretty slow, because until recently I had no idea about the founder of Domino's Pizza: Tom Monaghan.
For me, this is an incredibly inspiring story. I think it would be an interesting type of unit study for teens who love pizza...
(Note: not trying to start any type of political discussion here... I just enjoyed reading about a man who had *everything* and then gave most of it up to focus on getting souls into heaven).
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He is a friend of my parents. Whatever mistakes he has made, and we think he has made plenty, he is a good man with a noble goal and has overcome incredible odds. Yes, his story is good study.
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Have you read his biography? It's really quite fascinating.
I've not read it, but a friend of mine did and she shared excerpts from it. It is interesting to hear the things that form a person into who he is, and still make decisions/judgments as he has. We are all human - no matter what we've been through.
He has very noble ideas. I genuinely pray that the fruit will be plentiful. Those words have been a long time in coming - thank you for mentioning him here.
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I have his biography on reserve at the library to pick up. It was published in 1986, though, and there doesn't seem to be anything more recent in book form.
I can imagine there have been many mistakes along the way and things he would have done differently looking back. I think we can all say that 
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We read the book in MBA for Ops Mgmt and then went and did a tour of a Dominos -- they have the "assembly line" down pat!
My almost 19yod goes to Ave ... so everytime you buy Dominos ... you help a little bit ... altho, the funny thing is that Ave Maria doesn't have ANY Dominos on campus!
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Mary G wrote:
We read the book in MBA for Ops Mgmt and then went and did a tour of a Dominos -- they have the "assembly line" down pat!
My almost 19yod goes to Ave ... so everytime you buy Dominos ... you help a little bit ... altho, the funny thing is that Ave Maria doesn't have ANY Dominos on campus! |
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Didn't Monaghan sell Dominoes?
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CrunchyMom wrote:
Mary G wrote:
We read the book in MBA for Ops Mgmt and then went and did a tour of a Dominos -- they have the "assembly line" down pat!
My almost 19yod goes to Ave ... so everytime you buy Dominos ... you help a little bit ... altho, the funny thing is that Ave Maria doesn't have ANY Dominos on campus! |
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Didn't Monaghan sell Dominoes? |
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I have no idea ... we just like to have an excuse to buy pizza ...
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He sold it years and years ago, then came back to help manage it briefly during a slump in the 90's.
After reading the chapter on pride in Mere Christianity (CS Lewis), he gave away or sold a lot of his possessions, including the Detroit Tigers. He started using the money for his many charitable causes.
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CrunchyMom wrote:
Mary G wrote:
We read the book in MBA for Ops Mgmt and then went and did a tour of a Dominos -- they have the "assembly line" down pat!
My almost 19yod goes to Ave ... so everytime you buy Dominos ... you help a little bit ... altho, the funny thing is that Ave Maria doesn't have ANY Dominos on campus! |
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Didn't Monaghan sell Dominoes? |
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And look at me, threatening to take that from you 
of course, I don't need much of an excuse myself to buy pizza 
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