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Improving the quality of this data will be important for aligning on specific goals and setting supplier and corporate expectations.
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Going forward we will look to implement systems and programs to track water usage more closely, as well as understand watershed implications from key suppliers with the greatest water impact.
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Domino’s is looking at ways to increase our diversion rate in our supply chain facilities and we are working with our waste vendors across the company to improve data quality, as limited information is currently available on waste generation rates in certain markets for specific categories.
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Corporate stores often have recycling and waste practices that are determined by building owners, but plans will be created going forward aimed at developing a better understanding of what improvements can be made at the store level as well.
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RESPONSIBLE PACKAGING The vast majority of the products Domino’s sells leaves the stores in one kind of packaging – corrugated boxes.
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In percent of recycled content in the boxes from 40% to 70% with 100% of our paper-based packaging sourced from fiber from responsibly managed forests and recycled sources.
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Their policies do not allow the purchasing of fiber from illegal logging, the trade in illegal wood or forest products.
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Our box suppliers do not purchase from operations that would have an adverse impact to regions of high conservation value.
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They have further policies and procedures in place to promote and utilize sustainable forestry and extensively participate in outreach and education with landowners on scientifically supported sustainability practices.
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According to the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), corrugated cardboard can be recycled at least seven times, and grease and cheese do not impact recyclability.
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However, this information isn’t widely known and customers are often confused about what to do with leftover pizza boxes.
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Domino’s is committed to increasing awareness of the recyclability of pizza boxes and provides tools and information for customers through the website recycling.dominos.com.
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At this site consumers can learn more about pizza box recycling in their local area, learn facts about how corrugated packaging can be recycled and then encourage their local recycling program to update its recycling guidelines regarding pizza boxes.
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divert pizza boxes from landfills into the recycling stream, to make sure the corrugated fibers reach their full recycled potential.
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a priority; they are embedded as core values within the brand culture.
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The supply chain division of Domino’s is the primary source of pizza store products for the U.S. system, as well as Canada.
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Through its network of fresh dough manufacturing and food distribution centers, along with one vegetable processing plant and two facilities that make the company’s thin crust product, Domino’s supply chain regularly provides pizza stores with more than 240 products.
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Food safety and product quality standards are among the highest in the industry and we monitor compliance via operations assessments and food safety evaluations from third-party audit companies.
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Our product procurement team collaborates with Domino’s suppliers to ensure the thousands of stores in the U.S. are consistently supplied with everything they need.
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At the same time, this team works to verify that our suppliers are providing products that are safe, of high quality and reliably fulfill the required specifications at an affordable cost for our system.
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All suppliers in the U.S. and Canada are required to achieve the highest level of food safety certification and we are working toward a similar objective for suppliers around the globe.
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Our Supplier Code of Conduct establishes our expectations for ethical behavior at our suppliers, including anti-corruption policies and clauses on human rights.
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our suppliers are expected to adhere to our Supplier Code of Conduct, which can be found on our website.
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For Domino’s, responsible sourcing means acknowledging the role we play in innovating and partnering with our suppliers as we move forward, in a way that increases ingredient information for our customers, enhances animal care standards and reduces our carbon footprint.
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We are proud of our history of purchasing the majority of all food products sold in our U.S. and Canadian stores from domestic suppliers.
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Domino’s is also committed to supporting America’s farmers.
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We believe that farmers’ generations of experience in raising animals and crops to feed the country’s population make them best able to determine how to be good stewards of their farms, produce and animals, using science-based practices, government-approved standards and procedures.
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Plans are in place to begin a supplier roundtable group with our largest suppliers to work more proactively on the larger elements of our responsible sourcing program.
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We are encouraged to see many of our top suppliers already working diligently on many areas of responsible sourcing.
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We believe Domino’s is well-positioned to collaborate with our suppliers and their farming partners on sustainability projects in the future.
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be carbon neutral by 2050 and are actively working towards it.
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FOOD SAFETY Domino’s is focused on consistently providing safe and high-quality food to our customers.
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Our quality and food safety standards are reviewed annually and shared with our franchisees around the world.
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We monitor compliance to these standards by auditing store and supply chain centers on a regular basis through a combination of internal and external food safety professionals.
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Food safety cannot be guaranteed by a simple standards-based approach.
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Our strong food safety culture ensures that good practices are understood and, more importantly, being followed.
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Domino’s global food safety standards are a part of our “Farm to Fork” quality assurance strategy that starts with our suppliers, including from the farm, and through to supply chain centers and ultimately our stores.
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These standards were created with cross-functional input from franchisees and operations teams and benchmarked with external food safety experts.
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Meanwhile, our quality assurance and procurement teams are responsible for assuring that appropriate food safety systems are in place, based upon the inherent risk of each type of ingredient, and we routinely sample key ingredients to confirm compliance to specifications.
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We host regular best practice sessions with our top franchisees to facilitate sharing around the world.
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Domino’s works with third-party food safety experts to provide enhanced food safety training and conduct annual unannounced food safety evaluations at our stores with a focus on building and sustaining a strong food safety culture.
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Through rigorous data analysis, we leverage technology to drive key insights to establish improvement opportunities and areas in need of focus.
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Through our efforts, we are now among the leaders in the QSR industry regarding compliance during external health inspections.
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Domino’s requires that all suppliers comply with U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations on the humane treatment of animals as a baseline for all animal care.
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It’s important to highlight that Domino’s does not own, raise, transport or process the animals used for our products.
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Domino’s purchases pork, beef and poultry ingredients from suppliers who obtain their products from farmers and ranchers who raise and care for their animals in compliance with local, state and federal guidelines, industry best practices and the support of farm animal veterinarians.
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towards creating an animal care policy for applicable suppliers.
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• Freedom from hunger, malnutrition and thirst • Freedom from fear and distress • Freedom from physical and thermal discomfort • Freedom from pain, injury and disease • Freedom to express normal patterns of behavior We support the efforts of the dairy industry, at farms both large and small, to use best management practices as outlined by the National Dairy Famers Organization in the Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) program.
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SIMPLE INGREDIENTS We believe in selling good quality food that we are proud to serve to our customers and our own families.
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We have eliminated virtually all artificial food coloring from our products in the U.S.
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list of ingredients from all our core products including the preservatives BHA/BHT, as well as trans-fat from core pizza products (apart from that which is naturally occurring in cheese and some meats).
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We spent two years working to gradually reduce the sodium in our pizza sauce by for the reformulation.
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In customers who are looking to reduce gluten in their diet.
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We provide online our entire ingredient and allergen list for the products Domino’s sells.
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We also provide a nutrition calculator that can provide full nutrition information on millions of combinations of products on our menu.
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We care about the food we serve to customers and our families, and we want it to be safe.
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We also support the care and wellbeing of animals, including those who are sick and may require antibiotics to become well.
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We believe that farmers and veterinarians who want to be able to treat sick animals and prevent the spread of disease should be able to.
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We also want to make sure that the use of antibiotics in farm animals does not lead to antibiotic resistance in humans, which could prove to be a larger threat to human health.
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No meat in the U.S. food supply can have antibiotic residue in it when it is sold to the public.
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The USDA inspects all meat to make sure it is free of antibiotic residue before it can enter the market.
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We do not purchase products from broiler chickens raised with fluoroquinolones or steroids.
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Pork & Beef Although the poultry industry has reacted rapidly to providing new antibiotic protocols, it is not quite as straightforward or easy in the production of pork and beef.
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We believe that the pork and beef industries have made a considerable amount of progress.
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is accessible by suppliers that meet Domino’s requirements.
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Specifically, we intend to transition to pork and beef sourced from animals raised without the routine use of medically-important antibiotics for disease prevention purposes once a sufficient supply of such pork and beef is available in the U.S. market.
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This needs to come from suppliers who satisfy our food safety, quality, cost and other product standards, and who can demonstrate their ability to reliably source and distribute these products with appropriate business continuity measures.
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Domino’s is proud to report that stores in the United States come from domestic suppliers, and that the majority of our dairy and meat suppliers source their feed from domestic sources.
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Having completed our first assessment for not only emissions, but also land use change impacts, we are pleased that the vast majority of our sourcing choices to-date have resulted in few ingredients with deforestation impacts.
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While palm oil represents one of Domino’s ingredients that has the highest potential impact on deforestation, our supply chain team has taken extra steps to reduce the risk of impact.
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Domino’s sources sustainable mass balance palm oil product through our supplier, AAK USA.
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Domino’s does not purchase raw palm oil, but does use a product made with palm oil for our pan pizza dough and some bread sides.
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Pan pizza dough is not the primary dough sold in our stores or produced at our supply chain centers; nor is palm oil used in the majority of products we sell.
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We are proud to say that Domino’s is also a member of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
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We are committed to sourcing palm oil that is produced without deforestation of high conservation value areas, high carbon stock forests or the destruction of peat land.
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Domino’s requires that AAK USA remains a member in good standing of the RSPO.
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emPoWerING PeoPleemPoWerING PeoPle 20 Domino’s is a purpose-inspired and performance-driven company with exceptional people committed to feeding the power of possible, one pizza at a time.
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At the heart of our brand is a commitment to a set of values that define our core beliefs on how we run our business, treat our people, support our franchisees and serve our customers.
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and uncommon honesty are at the heart of how we work together.
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and to giving back to the communities where we live and work.
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and we value the differences each team member brings.
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and know that they can belong, contribute and reach their potential.
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collective potential to be bold and think big.
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to solve customer needs in new and relevant ways.
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• Grow and Win Together: We are not playing a finite game.
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committed to building an enduring brand that outlives any of our individual contributions.
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the Domino’s brand in a better place for those that come after.
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Exceptional people are the core of our business.
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Our mission is to foster a more diverse, highly engaged workforce that sees our company as the employer of choice and is representative of the communities we serve.
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We want our team members to feel comfortable bringing their unique experiences and diverse backgrounds to discussions where they can share, learn and listen together enabled by conscious inclusion practices and our leadership competencies.
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Domino’s is focused on building an inclusive culture that welcomes and supports everyone, seeks to understand and listen to team members and our neighborhood community members.
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As part our workplace initiatives, we provide leadership and funding to support team members in participating in Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
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We currently have ERGs representing the Black, Hispanic and LGBTQ communities, as well as women in the workforce and individuals with disabilities, with more to come based on team member interest.
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Our Board of Directors has established an Inclusion and Diversity Committee, which meets regularly and provides oversight, guidance and support for our company’s inclusion and diversity initiatives, as well as monitoring and measuring progress of developing a workforce that is as diverse as the communities we serve.
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital), Domino’s also supports organizations dedicated to addressing the specific needs of minorities and other underrepresented populations.
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We have announced a $3 million three-year commitment to support the Black community.
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100 Black Men of America, Black Girls Code and others.
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We also launched the Black Franchisee Opportunity Fund to help Black team members in their quest to become owners of Domino’s stores.
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The fund totals $million in support of qualified candidates.
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can be found below under Opportunity in Franchising.
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