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There was a time when Erin Mullins' greatest business worry was if one of her pizza delivery drivers would make it safely through a shift without being robbed.

That was back in the late 1990s, when she managed a pair of Domino's Pizza locations in and around Trenton, N.J. The area, south of New York City and northeast of Philadelphia, is notorious for pizza delivery robberies. Mullins herself, when she was a delivery driver, was held up with a nighttime deposit outside a bank.

“When you are a manager, these people are like your family,” says Mullins. “There is a real sense of urgency in protecting them.”