![]() “I have stores up 100 percent over this time last year.” That allowed him to spur sales this summer with an offer of a $3.99 carryout medium pizza. Then the price of cheese and other ingredients fell to what Mand calls reasonable levels. While none was a runaway hit, “they all had a punch,” he added. ![]() “Domino’s started giving us new products - the sandwiches, gourmet pizzas and the pastas,” Mand said. Several factors put his business on the road to recovery, Mand said. “What Tony realized, like a lot of small business people, is you can either sit back and lament the problems, or you can look for an opportunity, and one of the things that Tony has done is looked for that opportunity,” Stansik said. The one-two punch of high commodity prices and sagging economy made a tough climate for franchisees, said Jim Stansik, executive vice president of franchise relations for Domino’s Pizza. The tough times forced him to close the Breckenridge store, and he had to get a loan to keep the other stores in operation, he said. Then the economy began to sour and sales sagged, Mand said. Other commodity prices, including the price of flour, also rose. “My cheese bill, for the same amount of cheese, went up $20,000 a month,” he said. Then, cheese prices started to soar, nearly doubling from their lowest point in 2007 to their peak in 2008, Mand said. ![]() He had just opened a Domino’s in Breckenridge and planned on expanding to all the ski towns. In spring 2007, though, he seemed on solid footing. Through his career, he has seen plenty of peaks and valleys. A graduate of Coronado High School, he doesn’t have a college degree but relies, he says, on “common sense and business intuitiveness.” In 1979, at age 21, he opened his first Domino’s on Peterson Road in Colorado Springs. Mand, who also has a 49 percent ownership in nine Domino’s in the Oklahoma City area, began in the business as a delivery boy. I’m going up faster than I’ve ever gone up.” ![]() “I almost went bankrupt June of last year,” Mand said. Now, as he prepares to celebrate 30 years as a Domino’s franchise owner, he’s dreaming big again. ![]()
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