ANN ARBOR Mich. Domino's Pizza celebrated hitting the 9,000-store milestone with the openings of two units on opposite sides of the world.
Franchisee Jubilant FoodWorks opened its 300th unit, and Domino’s 8,999th, in New Delhi, India, and then RPM Pizza opened its 135th unit, Domino’s 9,000th, in a New Orleans neighborhood that had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Domino’s had marked the opening of its 8,000th store in 2006 similarly, with the opening of units in Chicago and Panama City, Panama.
In explaining the symbolic importance of the two locations, Domino’s said India is the company’s fastest growing international market and that the new restaurant in New Orleans is “hurricane ready.” The Louisiana restaurant has its own generators and an extra-large cooler and is intended to be able to reopen quickly after storms in order to serve the community, the company said.
“Opening our 9,000th store is a great milestone,” said Domino’s chief executive J. Patrick Doyle, “and we’re looking toward one of the goals we set some time ago: We want to clip the ribbon on our 10,000th store within the first half of this decade.”
Domino's is based in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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