During these years Monaghan worked a lot of jobs, many of them on farms. His mother, after finishing nursing school and buying a house, made two attempts to have Tom and his brother live at home with her, but she and Tom failed to get along. Following his father's death in 1941, Monaghan lived in a succession of foster homes, including a Catholic orphanage, for much of his childhood. Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza, was born in 1937 near Ann Arbor, Michigan. In recent years the company has added salads, breadsticks, and other non-pizza items to its menu in an effort to stave off rivals Pizza Hut and Little Caesar's, but has otherwise held fast to its focus on the basics of providing quality pizza and service.
Domino's was built on simple concepts, offering only delivery or carry-out and an extremely limited menu: for more than thirty years, the company offered only two sizes of pizza, eleven topping choices, and-until 1990-only one beverage, cola. Privately held Domino's Pizza, Inc., is the largest pizza-delivery company in the world, operating more than 5,700 units throughout the United States and in 58 other countries.
