Anthony "Tony" S. Mand

He was a son of Francis Felix and Iris (Heathcote) Mand. Tony was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming on December 12th, 1957. He was the eldest of four children. He was survived by 3 brothers; Andrew, Craig, and Michael (Kerry) Mand, 4 nephews; Micheal, Dante’, Baiza and Zachary Mand, 4 nieces; Mahalia, Hannah, Kalyssa and Arieanna Mand, 1 great nephew Chet Betteridge, numerous cousins and his Aunt Germaine. He was preceded in death by all of his grandparents, both of his parents, all of his parents’ siblings, several cousins and his nephew Matthew Mand.

He grew up in Colorado Springs, in his high school years he was very active in band playing the baritone and valve trombone. He also was an Eagle Scout in Troop 9 and led the troop on many outings including being recognized as “honor troop” at Camp Alexander, numerous camping and fishing trips, hiking/camping on Pikes Peak and much more. He graduated from Coronado High School in 1975.

Tony was a very hard worker and very motivated. He started working as a paperboy for the Gazette Telegraph in 1970. That paper route stayed in the family for 14 years and was given up by his youngest brother Michael in 1984. After high school he had several jobs, attended college and started working at Domino’s Pizza in 1977 at the B street Domino’s Pizza store (2nd store west of the Mississippi)! Domino’s had about 200 stores at that time.

In 1979, at the age of 21, Tony opened his first Domino’s Pizza franchise at 628 Peterson Road that served Peterson AFB. He quickly followed that store with another at 801 N Tejon St that served Colorado College in 1980 and by the end of 1982 he had 9 stores between Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Canon City. In 1985 Tony ventured to Chicago and started opening 11 stores there over a 3 year period. He sold his Chicago stores in 1990.

In the 1980’s Tony sponsored several employees who went out and opened their own Domino’s franchises across the country including David Cooper in California, Matt Starr in Minnesota, Randy Drude in Michigan, Geraldine Antonio in Sterling and Fort Morgan, Rodney Frank in Durango, and Bob Brock in Oregon. Additionally he helped Julie Bradley and Milton Burgess establish their stores in Chicago.

Tony also helped Joe DeLao (Subway), Jim Eden (Pizza King), Ted Dorr (Double D’s), Derrick Webster (Subway) and Randy Kist (Kist Inc) gain the experience they needed for their business ventures. We are certain there are many more people that can credit Tony with some part in their business venture and lives.

Tony liked to get things done and was very frustrated by inefficiencies. He read the “One Minute Manager” and lived his life to a large degree by those principles. He really liked to help people and always strived for win-win situations.

Tony was a trailblazer. He liked to do things that hadn’t been done before. Some of the firsts he had included first rotating Domino’s Pizza sign at his Canon City store, the largest Domino’s Pizza sign at his northside Pueblo store, first 24 hours Domino’s Pizza store LaSalle and Division in Chicago, largest Domino’s dine in area at his 29th street store in Pueblo.

Tony was self-described as “adventurous, competitive, and diversified. I love setting goals and accomplishing them.” Tony, in his adventurousness, loved to travel. He took a bike tour of Europe, and went back to the Netherlands to visit the areas he grew up in while our dad was in the Air Force. He planned trips to Puerto Vallarta Mexico, cruises, ski trips, camping trips, as well as renting a gym for dodgeball, softball games in the park, wallyball, company picnics, trips to Water World and many, many more activities for his family and employees to enjoy with him. He traveled to virtually every continent on the globe. He gave our parents a trip to England to visit my mom’s relatives and to Los Angeles for the 1984 Olympic Games.

Tony, in his competitiveness, would challenge his brothers, friends and employees to many things including box folding contests, coupon contests, two tray competition in which Tony frequently had representatives qualify for nationals, chess games, pinochle, ski races, weight loss challenges, running races, weight lifting challenges and many, many more.

Tony called himself diversified. He liked to do a wide variety of things which in his personal life was skiing, traveling, dating, shooting pool, playing cards, chess, board games, cards, swimming and much more, in his professional life besides his Domino’s Pizza franchise he also at times had the QuarterZone Video arcades in Canon City and Colorado Springs, the Movie hotline which delivered VHS movies to your home, a Laundromat and real estate investments.

Tony will be dearly missed not just by his family, but each and every person who was his friend and associate. His life touched so many people, and we celebrate it today with you. We invite you to use the email address [email protected] to share photos, stories, memories, thoughts and prayers with the family anytime you’d like. We appreciate your love of Tony!