COLUMBUS (WCMH) – This year, Donatos Pizza is celebrating 60 years of sizzling hot pizza, but the Grote family’s lifetime of pizza making started a few years before that. It was at 14 years old that the company’s founder Jim Grote started working in a local pizza shop and learning a business that would shape […]
Donatos was founded in 1963 when my father, Jim Grote, bought a small pizza shop in Columbus, Ohio, as a sophomore at Ohio State University for $1,300 from a young seminarian. Growing up, my dad was advised to be tough in business and nice at home. However, he knew that when he started a business of his own that he was determined to stray from that outdated idea and choose a new path: to treat others the way he wanted to be treated and to lead with love in every decision that was made.
Pizza chain Donatos has partnered with Habitat for Humanity to raise $100,000 to be distributed among 44 Habitat affiliates located in communities where Donatos operates, according to a press release. The Donatos Family Foundation was founded on three pillars …
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