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April
23,
1963, Tom
Monaghan and
his
brother,
James,
took
over
the
operation
of
DomiNick's,
an
existing
location
of
a
small
pizza
restaurant
chain
that
had
been
owned
by
Dominick
DiVarti,
at
507
Cross
Street
(now
301
West
Cross
Street) [8] in Ypsilanti,
Michigan,[9] near Eastern
Michigan
University.[10] The
deal
was
secured
by
a
$500
down
payment,
and
the
brothers
borrowed
$900
to
pay
for
the
store.[11] The
brothers
planned
to
split
the
work
hours
evenly,
but
James
did
not
want
to
quit
his
job
as
a
full-time
postman
to
keep
up
with
the
demands
of
the
new
business.
Within
eight
months,
James
traded
his
half
of
the
business
to
Tom
for
the Volkswagen
Beetle they
used
for
pizza
deliveries.[11]
By
1965,
Tom
Monaghan
had
purchased
two
additional
pizzerias;
he
now
had
a
total
of
three
locations
in
the
same
county.
Monaghan
wanted
the
stores
to
share
the
same
branding,
but
the
original
owner
forbade
him
from
using
the
DomiNick's
name.
One
day,
an
employee,
Jim
Kennedy,
returned
from
a
pizza
delivery
and
suggested
the
name
"Domino's" [8] Monaghan
immediately
loved
the
idea
and
officially
renamed
the
business Domino's
Pizza,
Inc. in
1965.[11]
The
company
logo
originally
had
three
dots,
representing
the
three
stores
in
1965.[11]Monaghan
planned
to
add
a
new
dot
with
the
addition
of
every
new
store,
but
this
idea
quickly
faded,
as
Domino's
experienced
rapid
growth.[11] Domino's
Pizza
opened
its
first
franchise
location
in
1967[12] and
by
1978,
the
company
expanded
to
200
stores.[13] In
1975,
Domino's
faced
a
lawsuit
by Amstar
Corporation,
the
maker
of
Domino
Sugar,
alleging
trademark
infringement
and
unfair
competition.
On
May
2,
1980,
the Fifth
Circuit
Court
of
Appeals in New
Orleans found
in
favor
of
Domino's
Pizza.[14]
May
12,
1983,
Domino's
opened
its
first
international
store,
in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada.[15] That
same
year,
Domino's
opened
its
100th
store,
its
first
in Vancouver,
Washington.
In
1985,
the
chain
opened
their
first
store
in
the
United
Kingdom
in Luton.[16]Also,
in
1985,
Domino's
opened
their
first
store
in Tokyo, Japan.
In
1993,
they
became
the
second
American
franchise
to
open
in
the Dominican
Republic and
the
first
one
to
open
in Haiti,
under
the
direction
of
entrepreneur Luis
de
Jesús
Rodríguez.[17] By
1995,
Domino's
had
expanded
to
1,000
international
locations.
In
1997,
Domino's
opened
its
1,500th
international
location,
opening
seven
stores
in
one
day
across
five
continents.[18] By
2014,
the
company
had
grown
to
6,000
international
locations
and
was
planning
to
expand
to
pizza's
birthplace,
Italy;
this
was
achieved
on
October
5,
2015,
in
Milan,
with
their
first
Italian
location.
CEO
Patrick
Doyle,
in
May
2014,
said
the
company
would
concentrate
on
its
delivery
model
there.[19]
In
February
2016,
Domino's
opened
its
1,000th
store
in
India.[20]
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