The new issue of Businessweek has an interesting piece comparing and contrasting Michigan’s aging pizza barons, Tom Monaghan and Mike Ilitch. And, as it’s been a while since we’ve discussed Monaghan, who started Domino’s here in Ypsilanti in 1960, I thought that I’d share a bit. Tom Monaghan was once a billionaire. He owned 244 […]
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Checking in with Ypsi’s least favorite son, Tom Monaghan
Posted in History, Ypsilanti Also tagged anti-abortion, anti-gay people who are most likely gay, anti-homosexual nonsense, Ave Maria, baseball, birth control, Catholicism, Detroit Tigers, Domino's, Gyrene Burger, Harry Bennett, homophobia, Jim Towey, John Norman Collins, Joseph Fessio, Little Caesar's, Mike Ilitch, pizza, pro-life, religious fundamentalism, Tom Monaghan 20 Comments
Can we please stop complaining about the Blimpy Burger crowd funding campaign?
Apparently I have a lot of friends up in arms this evening over the fact that Rich and Chris Magner, the owners of Ann Arbor’s iconic Blimpy Burger, have launched a crowd funding campaign in hopes of raising the money needed to reopen their restaurant in a new location. (As most of you probably know, […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, entrepreneurism, Food, History, Uncategorized Also tagged 1953, Blimpy Burger, Chris Magner, crowd funding, fundraising, restaurants, Rich Magner, University of Michigan 58 Comments