Do we like Domino's?
World's largest pizza company: franchised pizza delivery and takeaway chain, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
Our score: 5 out of 10. Mixed. Big, steady charity giving to St. Jude, but franchise wage and child-labor cases keep recurring. We'd hold off on backing them for ethics.
Domino's is now the world's biggest pizza company, run from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and listed on Nasdaq. Most of its stores are run by franchisees. In June 2026 it said CEO Russell Weiner would step aside, and long-time COO Joe Jordan took over as CEO on 1 October.
The recurring problem is how workers are treated in franchise stores. In 2016 New York's attorney general sued Domino's Pizza Inc. and three franchisees, alleging they underpaid workers at least $565,000 at 10 stores. The AG said headquarters was heavily involved, and Domino's was accused of being a joint employer.
The franchisees later settled with the AG for $480,000 in restitution, and the case went on against Domino's itself. Other cases involve individual franchisees. A Denver franchise settled for $545,000 over alleged pay and mileage-reimbursement violations. A Pennsylvania franchisee was fined $344,000 over child labor.
On the good side, Domino's says its system has given about $162 million to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital since 2004, and it has pledged $300 million by 2034. It also runs a fund to help team members in crisis. Those figures come from its own annual filing.
Our score is 5. The charity work is real and long-running. But repeated franchise labor cases, and an AG's claim that head office shaped the pay problems, stop us from giving it a happy thumbs-up.