The history of the founding fathers.

**Domino's Pizza* Founder Tom Monaghan Biography
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**Thomas Stephen**

 Monaghan was born in 1937 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. His father died when he was four years old, and, two years later, his mother placed him and his younger brother James in an orphanage run by an order of nuns, the Felician Sisters.

Although his mother was later able to raise the

 boys on her own, the nuns had a tremendous effect on Monaghan, leading him to consider becoming a priest. At the time, though, he did not have the necessary discipline and was expelled from the

 seminary. He gained a better sense of discipline by serving three years in the U.S. Marine Corps.

The Beginnings of

 Domino's Pizza
Upon his discharge in 1959, Monaghan returned to Ann Arbor and enrolled in the nearby University of Michigan.

 He studied to become an architect, inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1960, however, he and his brother James borrowed $500 to buy a pizzeria in nearby Ypsilanti.

The previous owners were named Dominic and Nick, and it was called DomiNick’s. Tom

 changed the name to Domino’s Pizza, and after growing it to four stores bought out his brother by trading a Volkswagen Beetle for his brother's part of the business.

The stores were losing money, but with his experience in the college town, Tom Monaghan knew how to, literally, cater to them. He dropped sandwiches from the menu and focused on the pizzas and their delivery.

He invented an insulated box that would not only keep the pizza warm but also support the weight of multiple boxes on top of it, allowing several to be delivered at once, without the box’s lid sagging and causing the cheese to be stuck to the top.

Monaghan’s emphasis on delivery led him, in 1973, to institute the guarantee of having a

 pizza delivered within 30 minutes of a phone order being placed, or the order would be free. Domino’s took off as a result of its improved delivery

 system. Monaghan was able to spread his stores all over North America.