I'm Boycotting Domino's Pizza

[NI4NI]

Just heard a guest reporter from (I think) the McClatchy Papers state on C-Span WJ that the founder of Domino's Pizza has signed on behind Sam Brownbeck's presidential campaign as a major financial contributor.
I never like Domino pizzas anyway.

[azurnoir]

1. Domino's founder Tom Monahan

is a full fledged bible totin', pro-birthin, and none of them evil stem cells neither fundie. He is reputed to be a major contributor to Focus on the Family and is at one time reputed to advocate giving those on food stamps surplus animal feed instead.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.asp?strID=C00366088

[CrispyQ]

7. How fucking Christian of him:

"...and is at one time reputed to advocate giving those on food stamps surplus animal feed instead."

[TomClash]

16. "Surplus animal feed"

= Domino's pizza.

[Pab Sungenis]

32. Oh, what a lovely googlebomb.

Surplus animal feed

[Ravy]

13. That is why Domino's refuses to deliver pizza on Sundays. Except on special occasions..

like when the day begins an S or ends with a Y.

At least I can respect Chik-Fil-a, who is also a fundy Christian business. They close on Sunday, even in airports.

[Maine-ah]

51. huh?

ours does. we do pizza every sunday. sometimes lunch, sometimes dinner. Never had a problem getting a pizza on a sunday.

[no_hypocrisy]

22. "Life. What a beautiful choice!"

Monahan was the sponsor of those TV ads ca. 15 years ago that had a display of cute, little cherubs running around on the screen, selling them as the end product of foregoing abortion. (Yeah, like you're guaranteed a "perfect" child if you don't get an abortion . . . ) and he was (and still is) financing legislation that incrementally restricts access to be abortion via restrictions.

I stopped sponsoring Dominos Pizza years ago and when I make my own, it's my version of "Freedom Pizza", if you know what I mean.

[Warpy]

31. Actually, I had no problem with those ads

because they specified it was one's choice.

I do have a problem with his funding Operation Rescue.

[mrgorth]

56. Agreed

I see nothing wrong with people peacefully advocating birth over abortion. It's still a choice.

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[iconocrastic]

42. Strong language but how sure are you?

> at one time reputed to advocate giving those on food stamps surplus animal feed instead.

What's the point in making a slam against a man using the word "reputed"?

[DemBones DemBones]

49. Unfortunately, many people at DU think it's fair to say anything about

someone they don't like, especially if that someone is Christian, and particularly if that someone is Catholic.

[Maccagirl]

2. He's an Opus Dei nutcase

The pizza sucks too.

[hobbit709]

3. Haven't eaten one of their pizzas in 20 years

Mainly because they suck-cardboard crap. This is just another reason not to buy one.

[Rockholm]

57. Same here. Their pizza was crap and I hate his politics.

I have boycotted them for at least 10 years.

[alfredo]

65. We stopped a long time ago. Once we found some plastic strapping

in one and in another a sharp piece of metal. They were nasty to us about the plastic strap, accusing us of trying to wrangle a free pizza.

[NJCher]

4. I've always boycotted Dominos

There are some products that I just can't buy because of what their founders and corporate organizations are all about. Coors, for example.



Cher

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Dominos Pizza washed down with Coors beer...

...the breakfast of champions. Exhibit A:

[Kahuna]

19. There are too many good pizza places in our part of NJ that

sell REAL pizza than to ever bother with Dominos, IMHO. I ate some once because the kids ordered it but it was horrible. Tasted like cardboard. Yuck! :puke:

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[liberal N proud]

5. Not a Domino's customer to begin with

Never liked their pizza

[tanyev]

6. Domino = Latin for Lord

I didn't put it together until I found out he was such a fundie nut-job. Wish I'd known about it back in college when I ate a lot of their pizza.

[otohara]

37. Learn Something New Everyday

here at DU.

Interesting and enlightening factoid about the fundy pizza chain.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

63. What's Latin for "Cardboard?"

nt

[Pierre.Suave]

8. Well, they cant find my apt anyway...

so I guess I thats just one more reason not to order from them.

[H2O Man]

9. I wouldn't serve

their sad excuse for pizza to a dog.

[Eurobabe]

11. Me too, they don't exist overseas

At least not in Germany. :D

[styersc]

12. Dominos Pizza is a perfect analogy for conservatism...

...use substandard ingredients, pay labor at poverty scale, confuse speed and convenience for quality and cater to those who don't know the difference then try to use buckets of advertising dollars to covince the public that the product is great.

[Maine-ah]

53. ?

people I know that work there make 12-15 bucks an hour, thats not poverty level.

[Systematic Chaos]

14. I don't know about where you are but in my neighborhood

there are at least two dozen independent pizza places that will deliver to where I am. In the last 3 years I've tried about half of them and most of them are better than Domino's and Pizza Hut by a mile. And those that are only on par are at least cheap.

[dave_p]

15. for the record

According to Snopes, Monaghan sold his interest in the firm, which isn't itself funding the fundies.

That doesn't mean their pizzas are necessarily any good, of course.

[TomClash]

17. For some reason

it doesn't seem to sell that well in Brooklyn.

[acmejack]

18. Monoghan has been pouring money into Pro life causes forever.

We have been boycotting him for a like period of time. Glad to have you aboard.

[Webster Green]

20. I started boycotting them as soon as I tasted their crappy pizza..

That was a long, long time ago.

[Buzz Clik]

21. Brownback is going nowhere.

I'd continue to Domino's Pizza if it was any good.

I won't join a boycott simply because the owner has a political opinion.

[jobycom]

23. The stores are franchise-owned, so you're boycotting small businessfolk

as well as Tom Monohan. LOng ago I worked for DP in high school and college. I knew a couple of flaming liberal store owners, as well as some wing-nut owners. Like any industry, I suppose.

Not saying you shouldn't boycott them if that's what you feel. Just pointing it out.

[salin]

25. plus, I believe that Monighan (sp) sold Dominos years ago.

Granted I haven't eaten that pizza since I first learned about him and his causes, and when he still owned the chain.

[jobycom]

29. He isn't involved in running the company, nor does he own it.

He sold his controlling share a while back.

If we all seriously boycotted every business owned or run by right wing extremists, we'd go hungry, naked, carless, homeless, and entertainmentless, for the most part.

[mrgorth]

55. This is bullshit

I manage to avoid wing-nut companies at almost every turn because I take a minute and look at buyblue.org. Ever dollar you give to companies like Home Depot and Blockbuster is another dime or so for the RNC.

[AlinPA]

24. Let him waste his money on that jerk. Brownback is an asshole and will

only get the evangelical-fundamentalist-bible thumper vote. Easily less than 35%.

[Buzz Clik]

27. Excellent post. Brownback will get close to zero delegates in GOP primaries.

[DainBramaged]

26. ANY local pizza joint beats their shit any day, taste and price

Cardboard overpriced crap. We have one a few minutes from me. Probably changed ownership a couple of times over the last 20+ years. There are two regular pizza places within walking distance that do more business, one for over 25 years and right across the street.


You gonna buy a huge pizzeria pie for $10 or two $10 "medium" Domino's dessert plate pizzas?

[Ian David]

28. Dominionist Pizza-- been boycotting them for years. They're EVIL. n/t

[Warpy]

30. Better late than never

Domino's was one of the primary and major funders of Operation Rescue, that bunch who thought attacking pregnant women outside clinics was god's work.

Monaghan has been a lavish funder of many religious right causes and candidates. No one is nuts enough for Monaghan. He's now building a theocratic town in Florida where he and others like him will be completely insulated from acknowledging the rest of us exist.

Plus, their pizzas really are terrible. I like my mother's description, "tomato flavored flannel."

[MindPilot]

33. I always thought Domino's pizza was a real bargain!

Because when you're done eating the pie, if you're still hungry, eat the box. There is no difference in taste, texture or nutritional value.

In my neighborhood there are many local family-owned pizzerias. After while they get to know you, tip well, and your pizza is always fast, hot, fresh.

[LoZoccolo]

34. I say let the Republicans nominate someone who can't win. n/t

[JerseygirlCT]

38. Some of us have been doing that for close to 30 years now

Monaghan (not sure how he spells it) is a right-wing jerk of the first degree, and completely anti-choice.

Besides, I'd rather have real pizza.

[mtnester]

39. I have been boycotting them since 1983

simply because their pizza is the worst I have ever had.

Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza from a box is better than their crap.

Blech.

[pitohui]

40. me 2 -- boycotting since 1980s because of anti-choice b.s.

and also because they put real pizza makers out of business, i doubt i've ordered 3 pizzas in 2 decades because pizza now just isn't such a much


there was a day, in the 60s and 70s, when pizza actually tasted good, who remembers that now?

[mtnester]

58. There are some wood fired oven places that make a very good pizza

But the mass chain places? I am with you...they are horrible. Give me homeade or a good Mom & Pop any day...there are still a few around.

If you have not tried a Whole Foods pizza oven slice, if you can you should, it is pretty good....and I have NO experience with New York City pizza, although one of these days I hopefully will....I do want to die from overeating in NYC if possible :)

Hold the deep dish PLEASE

:)

[DemBones DemBones]

41. LISTEN UP: TOM MONAGHAN SOLD DOMINO'S YEARS AGO nt

[Blue-Jay]

44. So?

Their pizza is still shitty, and I'm not going to buy one.

Who did he sell it to, by the way?


Edit: SO?

THEIR PIZZA IS STILL SHITTY, AND I'M NOT GOING TO BUY ONE.

WHO DID HE SELL IT TO, BY THE WAY?

(There. now we "yelled" to get attention.)

[DemBones DemBones]

48. If you don't like it, don't buy it, but don't boycott it because you think

you'll hurt Tom Monaghan. He made his fortune and sold the company years ago.

AND I YELLED BECAUSE THIS SAME DAMN ISSUE IS RAISED AGAIN AND AGAIN ABOUT BOYCOTTING DOMINO'S.

I'd like people to DO THEIR RESEARCH before deciding to boycott a company. A boycott will always hurt a company's employees as well, usually more than it will hurt the owners, and that's something people don't seem to think about. If you organized a large scale boycott of your local Domino's, you'd be hurting a local franchise owner and local employees, not the company's current owners, and not Tom Monaghan.

[maddezmom]

54. according to their site, he still owns 7% of the biz and sold the rest to Bain Capital, Inc

1998
Domino's launches another industry innovation, Domino's HeatWave®, a hot bag using patented technology that keeps pizza oven-hot to the customer's door.

Domino's Pizza opens 6,000th store in San Francisco, California in April.

Domino's Pizza founder, Tom Monaghan, announces retirement and sells 93% of Company to Bain Capital, Inc.

http://www.dominos.com/Public-EN/Site+Content/Secondary/Inside+Dominos/Our+Heritage/

:hi:

[mitchum]

43. Due to your palate or Monaghan's christofascist politics?

Both are very good reasons

[ToeBot]

45. I quit eating Dominos when I heard about Ave Maria, FL nt

[Bombtrack]

46. Yeah, not even their prominent product placement in the original Ninja Turtles movie can do me over

and get me to patronize something run by right-wing creeps.

Still, turtle power.

[WCGreen]

47. Well, there pizza sucks....

That all that really matters....

[tritsofme]

50. I'm from Chicago

I won't eat corporate pizza, period!

[Adelante]

52. I never had Chicago pizza

But I'm from NYC so I agree with the sentiment. If you're really stuck someplace outside good pizza land, Domino's is still terrible pizza. I'd rather eat Red Baron's frozen.

[MadHound]

61. Oh, you would be suprised about what you can find outside "good pizza land"

I live in Mid Missouri, home of Shakespeare's Pizza. Frankly it is the best pizza that I've ever tasted, bar none, anywhere in this country. Not saying that there isn't someplace better, but I've been to Chicago, NYC, St. Louis, many places in "good pizza land" and have found none that live up to Shakespeare's. Don't believe me, well next time you're passing through Columbia Mo, stop and have some, you will be pleasantly suprised.

[Adelante]

62. Well, then, Columbia Mo is in Good Pizza Land

I'm not, though, anymore.

[B3Nut]

60. No reason to eat CorporoPizza in Chicago!

But then again, you knew that. :D Some kickass pies to be had in that city, for sure. In my little Wisconsin town there's an Italian restaurant that has a stuffed pizza that's insanely good, little mom'n'pop joint. Their regular pizzas are fantastic, too.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[Freddie Stubbs]

59. Monaghan no longer owns Domino's

I agree with you however, that Domino's is not the best pizza to eat.

[maxsolomon]

64. going to? i haven't eaten that crap in 20 years.

buy local or make your own. ITS JUST PIZZA.

[ThomCat]

66. Welcome. Some of us have been boycotting them

for decades.

[donheld]

67. You should have been boycotting him all along

Domino's is run by rabid right wingers.

[LynneSin]

68. I haven't touched Domino's for about 15 years

The guy is rabid anti-choice. Also the guy that runs those Curve Gym's for women - anti-choice too

[SaveElmer]

69. I have friends and customers of mine who work at Dominos...

And one franchise owner who is most definitely a Democrat...

Any boycott would only hurt local employees...

Their pizza is nothing to write home about, but it isn't that bad...

Their wings are surprisingly good I have to say!

[DaveinMD]

70. I've been boycotting them for years

they are major donors to Operation Rescue.

[MrRobotsHolyOrders]

71. I also am boycotting

But mostly because their food tastes fucking attrocious.

I bet this joke has already been made at least five times in the posts above mine. I should probably read them.

[Greg Helmsley]

72. I am shocked all of you overlooked this.

Monohan bought a HUGE piece of land in Florida and is building a town called Ave Maria. You might remember the controversy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Maria,_Florida