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Article: 'I've delivered pizzas since I was 16 and I'll retire at 30' Soaring profits at Domino's pizzas have turned 15 of their managers into millionaires
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- March 14, 2004
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THERE IS plenty of dough in a takeaway pizza. Fifteen people
running outlets of Domino's, Britain's biggest pizza delivery firm,
have become millionaires.
The company, which started in this country in 1990 and now sells
about 14 million pizzas a year, announced last week that its profits
had increased by 50 per cent since 2002 and that 15 of its
franchisees were now worth more than pounds 1 million each.
Some of the 15 started out taking orders and delivering pizzas on
scooters. James Swift joined his local Domino's outlet in Swindon as
a part-time delivery boy when he was 16, while retaking his GCSEs at
college.
Today, a decade later, he is the co-owner of four Domino's shops
and is ...