Thankfully I make my own pizzas. Though, one always has to wonder in what indirect way one my be financing some inane cause...

Surely there's a list somewhere.

Isn't Papa Johns the same way?  I know for damn sure chik-fil-a is. I would think most pasta/pizza shops would also be dominated by Christians.  Want to avoid Christians?  Buy nothing but Indian and Asian.

Correction, Monaghan doesn't own Dominoes Pizza, he was the founder of it, but sold it in 1998. And it is now a publicly owned company, Monaghan does have 27% non-controlling stake in the company, but that's it. But if you want to claim that you shouldn't support any business that has theist share holders, most of you would probably going starving. 

Uhm, what part of Domino's is a publicly traded company don't you understand? And just because you're a shareholder who actively supports Christian organizations, doesn't mean that the company you hold shares in actively supports Christian organizations (let's not forget that Tommy doesn't even have a controlling stake in the company).

Pat Robertson can go ahead and buy shares without much if any restriction of Lagardère Group, which owns the publishing company that prints Christopher Hitchen's God is Not Great, would you then say you should boycott purchasing the book?

Judging that most wealthy investors have diversified portfolios, wealthy individuals who do contribute to DI, and such, are bound to have shares of a wide and far reaching amount of companies, and if you were going to boycott publicly traded companies which have shareholders who support agendas you're opposed too (let's not forget many companies have thousands of shareholders) you're going to paint yourself into a corner. You probably won't be able to put gas in your car, or even buy a decent box of cereal, or even medicine. 

In fact if that's exactly what individuals here are advocating, that atheist here should boycott companies who have shareholders that support agendas that they are opposed to, I might just buy some shares of companies which make products you guys love, and than donate a little to Focus on the Family, just to piss you off. 

I mean it's silly. It's sort of like saying since James Dobson owns a Taurus, you shouldn't buy Ford cars

Regardless the correction still stands, Tommy is not the owner of Domino's pizza, he owns some shares of it, but they are not even controlling shares. Domino's pizza does not actively support intelligent design, or any other politically motivated theist agendas, some of their shareholders just might (Dominos pizza doesn't have much if any control of how their shareholders decide to spend their money), but you're bound to find such a situation with nearly any major publicly traded company. 

As I said previously, publicly traded companies don't have any real control of who buys their shares, any more so than they have control over those who buy their pizza. Tom Monaghan doesn't own any of the Domino's franchises, all he owns is some non-controlling shares of the company. Any nut job, James Dobson, Pat Robertson can buy shares of a publicly traded company, and be in a position no different than Tom Monaghan, but penalizing Domino's for the endeavors of their shareholders, would be like penalizing them for endeavors of those who buy their pizza. 

  With Christians numbering in the tens of millions ( in the US ) not patronizing Christian owned businesses would be like living in Saudi Arabia and not patronizing Muslim owned businesses.  The odds are stacked against you.

    Yeah, I hate seeing the signs that are emblazoned with the Christian "fish" symbol.

The idea that he would get 27% of anything you spend there is incorrect.  The companies Sales will affect their Net Income which in turn will affect there Retained Earnings, but none of theses thing directly affect the stocks market price.  If a company is doing well it will usually lead to an increase in there stocks market price, but this price is affected by many other factors including the economy, and the buying habits of investors.  That said if you somehow managed to drive the company out of business Monaghan would most likely lose a huge amount of money(assuming he still owned stock in the company at the time), but in the process many innocent people would be hurt including other investors, and all of the company’s employees.  This really wouldn’t be fair because these people have no control over who has ownership of the companies stock (that’s what being a publicly held company means, it’s held by whoever is willing to fork out the cash to buy some of it).     

Uhm sure, if the dominos corporation wanted contribute money to different organizations they can do that, but the Dominos corporation has not donated any money to the ID movement, so the notion of boycotting them is silly. 

This doesn't really help much, but it was all I could find.

Dominoes has contributed $3.8 million to St. Jude in the first four years of their partnership.

It Partners Foundation has disbursed $6.0 million to help employees in financial need.

Also Over the last three years, the Domino’s Pizza system has contributed approximately $5.0 million to external charitable organizations in monetary and in-kind giving.

I can't find were the last five million went to so I have no idea if it goes to Christian organizations.  I got this all from there 2007 finical report.  

http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/13/135383/DPZ158915_DominosAnnualReport%2007.pdf

I once saw a business named "Integrity Motors", and the first T in "integrity" was a full-on crucifix. It was quite sad-funny.

-Triften

 Um... were you not responding to my post, where I very clearly explained that regardless of ownership, their corporate donations should be public record?

Did you not get that we have learned as we've read each others posts, and that what we're interested in knowing is whether or not the Dominoes corporation donates money to any ID organizations, regardless of how that money is given?

I repeat my question.  Have you any firsthand knowledge of Dominoes corporate contributions, or were you just lying when you said you know the corporation doesn't support any ID groups?

I don't know whether Dominoes does or not.  I think you don't know either, but if you have documentation, I'd love to know where to find it so I could learn.

Oh. Yeah, I was missing that.

I'm still here, and if Dominoes does make contributions to ID orgs, I'd be interested in knowing.

So I guess you're wrong yet again.

An interesting tidbit of info here. When Monaghan sold Dominoes, it was to Bain Capital. Bain Capital's founder and CEO at the time was Mitt Romney.  Romney, formerly pro-choice now turned pro-life, campaigned for Republican Presidential candidate in the last election, and was quoted in 2002 as saying "Call me old fashioned, but I don't support gay marriage nor do I support civil union."

True to form, he has even flip-flopped a little on that position as well, but I digress.

During the presidential nomination campaign, Monaghan threw his financial weight behind Romney. with money pouring in from Monaghan's Ava Maria University.

Romney is no longer CEO of Bain Capital, but it is obvious that he and Monaghan have close ties and objectives. This does give me reason to wonder still where Dominoes dumps its money. I'm inclined to bet that somewhere in the tangled web of ownership, there are ties to a Fetusmobile, ID, and other wholesome Christian ventures. I just wish I could find the grants & charities arms of Dominoes and Bain Capital.

I try really hard not to order pizza anywhere because they're all shit on a shingle, but when I have to do it, I order from Papa John.  They have a store right down the street from me, and I can order over the internet, bypassing all human contact until the pizza is delivered.

IMHO, from best to worst are Papa John, Pizza Hut, Dominoes, although Pizza Hut and Domiones are both really bad.  I think it's just a matter of how much the employees at a given store give a shit.

Also IMHO, someone earlier was on the right track talking about charity arms.  I can pretty much guarantee that the Dominoes corporation doesn't give directly to "WE SAVE BABIES, Inc."  That would be politically... stupid.  If they follow form, they'll have intermediate philanthropic organizations that are owned and operated by like minded people.  So, Dominoes donates to X, and then X doles out money to various organizations, including right to life or ID stuff.  That is... if they are doing it at all, that's how they would do it.

So the question is, has anyone actually done the legwork to track down the connections, or is the Dominoes thing just a rumor because of its ownership?

No he's not.  Reading and learning does not require posting.  I appreciate the information I've been given here.

 That's actually about average -- the 3% -- for franchise companies.  It may not seem like much, but consider that with fifty franchises each with ten thousand a week in gross sales, you're looking at 300x50 = 15000 per week = 60k per month = 720k per year.

The thing we've been getting at is that no particular owner needs to contribute money to any particular cause for this rumor to be true.  Dominos, LLC is publicly owned, but that doesn't mean there isn't a president, vice president, and most importantly for this discussion, director of philanthropy or whatever title they decide to give him.  Corporate contributions are really important, especially for LLCs, as they relieve the tax burden significantly and can be used as tools to increase overall sales without increasing the rate of taxation, thus producing more actual profit than if money had NOT been given away.

So, regardless of what your owner might or might not believe in supporting, Dominos, LLC does give money to various causes.  Among those causes is a nebulous 5 million or so to "various" groups.  The question is whether any of those groups include organizations that promote intelligent design, anti-abortion legislation, or any other particularly Christian causes.  The most likely scenario is that Domiinos would not give directly to such groups, but would use a "middle man" philanthropic organization to avoid appearing to support such causes.

 Some food for thought