![]() He also has plans to add 10 to 20 stores annually. Cowabunga is in the midst of a chain-wide initiative to reimage Domino's with a more guest-friendly design, open kitchen, and new technology. These days, Orcutt is hard at work growing his team and organization, which is based in Alpharetta, Ga. "I wanted to be a business owner and have an ownership stake in what I do. "Corporate life is great fun and glamorous on someone else's dime, but I really wanted to be in an equity position," says Orcutt, now 58. By 1989, with three children and a heavy travel schedule, he was primed for a change. Orcutt served as vice president of field marketing and on the corporate leadership team as executive vice president of U.S. A year later, he was named store manager, the beginning of a meteoric rise up the corporate ladder, which included a stint as Southeast regional vice president in Atlanta, where he would later return. He was just 16 when he started delivering pizza in Ann Arbor, where Domino's is based. With 40 years invested in the brand, Orcutt has a unique vantage point about what it takes to succeed in the Domino's system. The company has 1,700 employees and locations in three states (Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina) and reached a milestone with the opening of its 100th store in late 2014. The Team Cowabunga mantra, "To be the best, you've gotta beat the best," is paying off. "Not because we talk about team, but because to us, Team Cowabunga is about everyone having the commitment to do well." "We want the word 'team' in everything we say," he says. His passion for business starts with people. With 101 stores, Orcutt operates the largest singly-owned Domino's franchise in the U.S. store operations for the country's second-largest pizza chain, tacked on "Team" to the front of the name and never looked back. ![]() The managers brainstormed some 200 monikers before selecting Cowabunga, Inc. So let's come up with something that we can be proud of and have fun with,'" recalls Orcutt, a self-described quick decision-maker. "I said, 'You are the ones who are going to have to make it work. Orcutt gathered the group in a small hotel meeting room and gave them their first assignment: name his new company. He admits he was a "little nervous" about how the managers of the nine Atlanta pizza stores he purchased would welcome their new boss. First as a corporate executive for Domino's and, since 1990, as a Domino's franchisee. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Mike Orcutt has experienced franchising from both sides of the fence. This book is not just about a man but about how God uses simple substances to create His greatest miracles. For Tom Monaghan that would be higher education which lead him to founding Ave Maria University.Ī Call To Deliver is a glimpse of the faithfulness of God in each individual life and how important we are His greater plan for the world. He felt he could support many good causes but he learned from the pizza business to stay focused on the one product that could do the most good. This brought him back to a desire to use his wealth for God. As he went from rags to riches he began to acquire many worldly pleasures and face “the sin of pride”. After that he was bounced from one foster home to another but the one constant in his life was his faith.Īlways wanting to go to college Tom inadvertently entered into the pizza business to defray costs but after being forced to stay in the business and give up any dreams of college he decided to make it a success. Tom Monaghan the founder of Domino’s Pizza (Dominus in Latin means Lord) lost his father at the age of 4 and was raised in an orphanage until the age of 12. ![]() A Call To Deliver is the story of how the Lord is in the delivery business and how, in his desire to get all souls to heaven, he would use something as common as pizza to accomplish this plan.
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