@@joseresendiz9161agreed I'm biased because I've worked at Papa John's for over 2 years though. Our quality did take a small hit when we stopped cutting our own veggies though. Now we get them on the truck and they're alright.
I remember when if you got Papa John’s for a party people were impressed. It was like oh you’re willing to spend more for quality- this must be special. Now it’s just another National chain.
It's funny, because I actually always had a bad opinion of PJs because the franchised location in my hometown always made such terrible pizza (late 90s). But once I moved away, I found most other places made really decent pizza and my opinion has since changed and I actually quite like their stuff.
PJs is still miles ahead of dominos and pizza hut at least in the UK. the latter 2 taste like cardboard frozen junk. They give me 50% offers sometimes but i stay with PJs
Really? That sounds like Pizza Pizza. We don’t have Papa John’s in Canada (at least not in Ottawa). We have some American chains, like Pizza Hut and Domino’s. But we usually go to local (in my case Ottawa) chains like Gabriel’s, or Mr. Mozzarella. But if you had Pizza Pizza at your birthday as a kid, you were the man. That or the Mr. Sub Party Sub. 😂
My family used to be a Papa Johns family, but after 2004 (the fist time that john retired as ceo) our local papa johns location started to really screw up our orders... like every time we would order pizza something was wrong. So we switched to dominos, but then they changed their sauce recipe... eventually we settled on a smaller midwest chain called Toppers. never looked back after that point lol
When I was in high school, I was brought into a group of students who would once a month meet with the principal to discuss student/faculty relations. At these meetings we'd have a huge stack of Papa John's pizzas. One time two of the students gathered all the peppers and had a pepper eating contest during the meeting. There was always a bit of a struggle to obtain leftover garlic sauces afterward
@@savagedragon79 I never thought they were, but those classmates I think were from the auto body or auto tech department and not exactly people I associated with an abundance of brains
I lead shifts and drove at 6 locations in the midwest. The job demanded far more effort and hussle than any other job I've had, but building a good relationship with the community and making the perfect pizza for the customers was a delight. The thing is, genwral managers came and went often, and I occasionally had to train them while i was a shift lead. Only 1 store in the franchise of 15 or so stores could meet the impossible goal bonuses, so the general managers would have to work 80-100hrs/wk for a $40k salary. I also noticed most stores don't properly prepare the food with care, dough proofing especially. A properly proofed dough ball makes their pizzas far better, but many locations seem to neglect this. Sales tanked when Schnatter made his comments, and especially after losing the NFL sponsorship. But the rebranding, new menu items, and improved items definitely helped. When a couple of these stores still had to close, i left for a vastly less demanding job with double the pay and full benefits.
what you're both describing is true across all these chains, i did 2.5 years as a manager at dominos and it's the exact same experience, i was at a low sales store and if we got a bonus at all it was close to the 10k a year range, for $13 an hour pay (in 2019), not many benefits, and more stress than anyone should have to handle
One of the best choices papa John's has made was opening locations near colleges. I work at a university and when I need food for many there's very little choice
Wow, I had no idea that Mick's Lounge was the start of Papa John's! Back when I used to live in that area I'd occasionally visit Mick's Bar and never knew! I've never really tried their food, I'd mostly just play pool and drink beer with friends and family.
As a former delivery driver for the company back in the early 2000's, the taste and flavor has massively gone downhill with their pizzas. They never competitively price their pizza versus Dominos and Pizza Hut. They also skimp on the ingredients, especially with meats. Edit: I may give them another try with the recent changes, as I've not eaten their pizza since prior the pandemic.
Not sure where they stand now (the locations near me closed), but as of like 2017 they were still good. The cheese and dough were always better than other chains and the garlic sauce helped too, but I'm a fan of breaded crust in general. As for pricing, Papa John's was much better priced than Pizza Hut in Chicagoland if you used the promotions on their website. Not sure if Pizza Hut does similar, but I was surprised how expensive it was when my friend ordered it.
@mojodom . . . interesting you noted about Papa Johns skimping on ingredients; as I recall in their TV ad campaign some 20 years ago they promoted themselves with being generous with toppings . . . which flew in the face of reality, as the local PJ was so skimpy with the toppings that it was more in the order of "sprinklings" instead of "toppings."
Please consider doing a video on papa Murphy's. The concept of take-and-bake pizza feels like such a relic of another era before ubiquitous food delivery. There could be an interesting story there, and the company is supposedly the fifth largest pizza chain.
Papa John's was my favorite pizza chain back in my single days. But that's exactly why I stopped buying from them. Less toppings and the crust was most of the pizza. I've tried it a few times since but still nothing like what they used to be.
@@nathanielrichards750 I loved 'em in High School... but, then again, I also loved skating across busy intersections on a piece of plywood with four wheels stuck to the bottom back then. Times and tastes change when you mature. It's natural.
My biggest complaint about Papa Johns is that they don’t competitively price their food compared to the other big four. They are definitely the most expensive out of the others and they aren’t even that much better quality.
Papa John's delivery fee is $6.50 in my area compared to "cheap" dominoes $8.50. Not to mention you can get a large works (Supreme pizza) for 13.99 at papa johns which is a hefty pizza, vs. A medium 2 topping at dominos 7.99 with skimpy toppings and sauce their pizzas are dry
There's a reason why they're more expensive... check out the Food Wars video series and learn about all the fucking chemicals Dominos uses, compared to Papa John's which literally just uses 5 ingredients, the only maybe controversial one being soybean oil given the history of Monsanto.
The John Special was my favorite pizza from any major chain. They obviously got rid of that. Beyond that the overall quality of their ingredients has clearly suffered as well.
And, the service has dropped, too. Everytime I ordered in the past year, they've forgotten paid-for ingredients or delivered the pizzas slid and folded in the box
Nothing beats local pizza. I know not everyone has a local place, and not all local places are good, but if you have a local pizza joint you haven't tried, try them.
I live in an area where there's almost 2 on every block AND a Dominos. And even then, Dominos is the only national chain that even did well. We had a Little Ceasars for a year and it didn't do well. Of course, it was in a really stupidly small tucked away area. There was a Johns a town over, but it was taken over by a local chain well before 2017.
I can't fathom not having mom and pop pizza shops. Nearest Popa John to me is at least a 30 minutes away. Same with Pizza The Hut. Local places are the only option. And thank God.
Try living in a small town in Texas. Pizza is almost non existent down here. San Antonio and El Paso are rated some of the worst pizza cities in America lol. But hey we have the world's best BBQ to that's cool and really solid Mexican food
In college there was a Papa John's right next to campus and the next closest pizza place was a mile away. One of the best pizza's I ever had. Have had them since college, I moved across town and the closest one is still next the college, and there are 6 other pizza places that are closer.
It's all about the leadership at the store level. I lived across a Domino's Pizza in Kalamazoo, Mi. The owner operator was there frequently and got to know his customers. Shouts out Rogers Galloway!!
@@CardShark_Chris My hometown Domino's went to crap after the owner got divorced and his wife got the business. The new owner delivered (she caused higher than normal turnover) and they actually stopped delivering to us because of our "vicious" dog...that would simply walk next to the drivers. Every other driver loved visiting our friendly dog. Being in high school aged I knew most people there and they all hated the new owner. Her daughter took over and it got worse for employees because she was Karen before "Karen" existed.
I noticed a definite decline with my local Papa John's chain throughout the years in the general quality/size of pizza (almost every time I went there, I had always ordered a pizza with the same toppings, so it was easier to notice their degradation). I always liked them for the thick crust/cheese, but it had seemed like they were just getting flatter and flatter with it, recently I tried their extra large pizza though and it seems to have at least a similar thickness to the pizzas I loved from way back when (2008-2014-ish). The change that angered me the most though was probably when they switched from using whole tomato slices to just roma tomato chunks. I could've sworn they used actual tomato slices back then, but at this point it's been too long for me to clearly remember. I still think their pizza is pretty delicious when it has proper thickness, but that might just be because I've hardly went to/learned of any other pizza places and have a propensity to like thicker crust more, when most places/people around me like the new york style more I assume. To me (at least at my local chain), Papa John's pizza has a unique taste that you'll either hate or love, and it's definitely different than a lot of pizza places because of that. I don't really get Papa John's to get traditional pizza per-se, I get Papa John's because of their seemingly unique thick pizza, which is getting thinner and thinner; so I'm not sure if I'll really want to get it much anymore if it means having to pay almost $20 for a single two-topping pizza because the Extra Large is the only variant that actually has decent thickness...
I remember when I first went to Papa John's here in Spain (they opened a restaurant in my neighbourhood like four years ago), it quickly became my favorite chain pizzeria. However, like a year later or so the recipes changed. It's still better than Domino's but why did they change the recipe?
Because cheaper ingredients while selling pizza for the same or a higher price nets more executive profit. Its why everything in the US is shit quality. We are pay up for shit quality food/items so a few douchey billionaires can become trillionaires. And any time we even ask to solve this, we get called communists. This country fucking sucks.
Everyone is saying it’s still bad, but I beg to differ. I believe good things and bad things have happened. At my local Papa Johns, Service has gotten better and quality have gotten slightly worse. Under Johns ownsership, the service was terrible and you had to wait at least an hour for a pizza and there would always be a problem. That’s all gone now.
In the 90s, papa John's paid well enough that my dad was a delivery driver and we still had a house+2 cars. Now, the one up the street has been "hiring managers" for the last 6 years at least.
PAPA JOHN DID NOTHING WRONG. He said, "I don't want employees using that type of language in my store. It's a bad look when our employees are saying 'what up nigga' to each other within hearing rand of customers."
At that point people were just looking for a reason to kick him to the curb. When he realized that literally anything he said would be taken out of context by social media trolls, he just gave up.
It’s not that hard to not say the slur. I’m black and even in my meetings with my job over diversity and inclusion training, I don’t feel the need to say nigga or any word as I’m in a professional setting. He’s an adult. Self control goes a long way and saves oneself from embarrassment
I order pizza from Papa John's when I'm at work downtown and it's pretty good, still miles better than any Pizza Hut pies I've had in the past 4 years.
I had never tried papa John's until I heard about the controversy. Then I sought out papa John's to make sure I gave my business to a company the makes people I hate angry. It just so happened that Papa John's is utterly delicious and became my favorite pizza place
I’ve always loved papa John’s. It’s been my favorite since I was a child. Partly for quality, but now, also in part for nostalgia. A couple years ago they changed their supplier for pepperchinis which one of my favorite things about their deliveries. But lately everything seems like it’s going downhill. I see it across the board at all restaurants. I contribute it to rising ingredient costs and a general lack of pride in the workforce
Ah yes, my first gig after hs lol. This was like 2010. It was in fact fun slapping the dough around, not so fun on a Friday or Saturday being extremely busy with a full screen. The best was when there was an error on an order and just shared the pizza in the back.
As a former papa johns delivery driver during 2021 the job was alright until you find out the unspoken cost of spending double on your car maintenance. The big gripe I had was just the long hours and overtime I even had to stay almost midnight just to do dishes that only two people do each day.
These chains are notorious for taking advantage of younger people, especially men / boys. The managers know that only males will dump trash, mop floors, clean restrooms, do heavy lifting , etc. Girls are only for doing two things: taking orders, and sitting in the back doing paperwork as "managers". Screw those owners who sold out their own sex / race. Let their franchises die slowly as the Millennials refuse to work at menial jobs for a buck.
@@NeutralityTsar some channels yeah. Each channel is a self contained community tho. It's not like Twitter where everyone is always on edge. But some channels thrive on either intercommunity drama or talking about external dramas which in turn causes comment section drama.
Papa Johns doing stuffed crust was a HUGE game changer for me, I know some frozen pizzas also do stuffed crust, but frozen pizzas are just not as good as a fresh pizza from a chain in my opinion. The nearest Pizza Hut or Little Caesar’s is quite a drive from where I live, but there’s a Papa Johns right down the road, so being able to get a fresh stuffed crust pepperoni pizza less than 5 minutes away from the house is awesome. I’ve never had a problem with their quality.
My city has no corporate Papa Johns restaurants because there's a pre-existing local chain of the same name keeping them out of their exclusion zone. I've always loved our local Papa Johns and was very disappointed as a kid to realize the chain ones out of town were not the same.
A joke I saw around the time of the scandal: Papa John: "I lost my job because of the things I said." Daughter John: "Oh, no!" Mama John: "You fool, Christmas is ruined!" Elton John: "...and I guess that's why they call it the blues."
It seems like I have the same experience as a lot of others were I used to love papa johns and thought it was the best pizza chain by far. But around the john schnatter controversy it seemed that the quality got really bad at the locations near me. I see all the fast food tier lists people make and papa johns is always at the bottom and I remember when it was sooo good. I've had it not too long ago and It seemed okay but now I order from local chains or pizza hut if I want stuffed crust. The one thing I will still praise papa johns over is their website. the other top 4 websites are so awful in comparison and that is the one thing Ill always appreciate about them.
At my first apartment back in 2000, one of the people working at the local franchise was named Andy. We dubbed him “Stupid Andy” and would order on speakerphone to share the pain/entertainment with roommates and friends. After Papa John’s introduced online ordering in 2001 we never talked to “Stupid Andy” again. I give Stupid Andy a little bit of credit for the early success of online ordering. 😂
I remember Papa John's advertising "Better ingredients, better pizza" They bragged about using 100% mozzarella cheese, and they shamed the other pizza chains into switching to 100% mozzarella, but now they say that their cheese is MADE WITH mozzarella cheese. That is not the same as actually using 100% mozzarella cheese. It's just tricky advertising. And their product quality has not been as good as it was when they actually used 100% mozzarella. It's a snow job. The other major chains are doing the same thing. Check their advertising. Often they talk about the importance of quality ingredients, etc., and they talk about the importance of top quality cheese , blah blah blah. It's all just talk. None of them are using 100% mozzarella cheese.
I worked at a papa John's as a nights delivery driver the year before the lock downs. I was going through the manager training courses when I dropped a full XL cambro of about 100 wings on the floor. The boss ordered us to pick them up and run them thru the belt oven to sanitize them. I realized PJ was a trash company to work for due to franchise restrictions and pressures. I backed out of the manager opportunity and quit as soon as I could. No one opened up about it on investigation. No cameras, no evidence, no consequences.
Just in case someone hasn't caught up with the story: He was literally given "examples of racism" to read out loud on the call for some kind of anti-racism training. As ridiculous as it is, a set-up indeed.
Papa Johns was big in my small town up though sometime in the 00s. It was the go to for all school events. It feels like it shifted to other places towards 2010. A fun memory I have though is going on a field tried local Papa Johns where we got to make make our own pizzas.
I just have to say, putting the CEO controversies aside, I have never understood the dislike for the taste of their pizzas. They are truly my favorite. A lot of sauce, a lot of flavor, melt-in-your-mouth bread with a garlic tang to it. And don't forget the pepper and garlic sauce in every box! I always feel like I'm paying for a better experience when I eat Papa John's.
Their pizza is the best in my honest opinion. Out of the big pizza chains. Double sauce it up, pick it up for carryout if out and about. Very reasonable prices and simple and effective rewards program. ✨ Bite the Pepperino pepper and squeeze it on pizza, add some crushed red pepper and drizzle some garlic sauce on the crust. ✨
I was introduced to Papa John's back in 2014 and was surprisingly impressed. It immediately became my favorite place for pizza. I've been a regular rewards member, purchasing more pizza from them than I had imagined I would. Stuffed crust took my favorite pizza to another level 🎉 I did notice the pizza not tasting as great as usual a few times. This explains why now. Its been more difficult for me to consider delivery with a new increased rate.
I remember way back when, we'd have Friday Night Magic and pool money together to get pizzas from Papa John's, and it arrived at the game store after the second round, usually, and we'd take a little extra time to enjoy some food and chat before continuing the event. I once made the mistake of putting garlic sauce on the entire pizza I had, rendering it beyond my capacity to handle. These days, I rarely have their pizza; Mom usually goes to Papa Murphy's for a big pizza or to King Soopers for a cheap pizza.
Pretty soon, we'll get "Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX: The Rise and fall, and rise again" describing how Musk wound up much like John Schnatter: Being kicked out by his own boards of directors for being a bad CEO.
Papa John's was game changing in the late 90s and early 00s as far as tasty delivery pizza was concerned.. I probably haven't had it in 15 years though..
Hey, if you read this, you should maybe look into doing a video about Farm and Fleet and Fleet Farm. They’re two stores that are almost identical, but are owned by different companies. It could be an interesting thing to look into, since they’re competing stores that have lots of crazy madeup backstories for why they both are so similar. Just a thought, love your videos!
I'm sorry, the whole John being racist is clearly just overblown. It's the typical social media being idiotic. Now I get if he isn't the CEO but without him, the pizza isn't the same.
John Schnatter the founder said "Colonel Sanders called blacks n--s” it was a quote, he probably should not say that but come on he is quoting someone. What's next my English teacher gets fired for reading the n-word. Hope he is having a good retirement didn't deserve to have to watch his pizzas turn to crap.
In Korea, Domino's is the big American Pizza chain, but it is really localized, featuring a constantly changing and updating menu (think like McDonald's Japan or Baskin-Robbins). I prefer the smaller Papa John's (we use the old logo still^^) as it is more consistent, and it tastes closer to American style Pizza. Nothing against local brands like Mr. Pizza or Avalon (I love them too), but when you want American style you want American^^ We actually had the Double Cheeseburger pizza last night at my nephew's request. It is probably my favorite American brand Pizza, if I am being honest, but like all American brands, it is so expensive (maybe the equivalent of like 30 USD?).
Update! All of the TH-cam commercials in Korea now have the new logo, but the restaurants themselves (at least in central Seoul) have the old logo on the buildings. Still my favorite "American style" Pizza^^
@TheSwaggiiBabii Waaaay more expensive. I bought a family size pizza for our last baseball game and it was over 40 bucks! It tasted great, but that is 4 bucks a slice^^ㅋ
I worked at Papa John’s during the pandemic and they had us using expired ingredients and had COCKROACHES that were not taken care of. Management was super shitty and ignored all of this.
I also work as a driver for the company. I get given in between 4 (mid) - 10 hour (open) shifts a day. I would do on average 17 deliveries a day, which isn't that bad tbf. It's rather respectable, and I have noticed some stores picked up in revenue, but others remained on a downhill trend because pizzas are quite expensive around the UK. I tried the pizzas, and I'd say they're okay. Nothing to shout about. But definitely not worth the large sums. The salary is alright for me tbf (£9.50/hr + £1.30/delivery + tips) as I'm in Uni. If you can trust my views, that's lovely. Otherwise, I can understand if you don't.
John Schnatter got in his own head and thought he was too cool for basic rules of running a business. Rule #1 of being the public face of a business: Don't say out of pocket things.
I've given them another try recently, I had the Garden Fresh pizza and it tasted the same as I remember 5-7 years ago. Breadsticks were also delicious. The only negative thing imo is they got rid of delivery drivers and now exclusively use services like DoorDash.
Papa Johns employee here. We do still have first party delivery drivers (at least where I work), but we can call for a DoorDash driver to come and deliver for us if we don’t have a driver that either wants to take it or we just don’t have anyone to take it at all at that moment because they are all on a delivery run at that moment.
@@VMWashington25 ours had delivery drivers, but got rid of them in favor of doordash. And that's a poor excuse as well, doordash do not have pizza hot bags and on their way to you the pizza gets cold. And plus the people aren't vetted (for all we know it's a felon delivering you your pizza).
@@matty2icyy I'd rather wait for a first party delivery driver than to have doordash deliver my food, I hate getting cold pizza, every time it's been a doordash driver it's cold pizza.
@@madmax2069 Yeah that’s understandable, we use DoorDash to keep our Out The Door time low. Although I will say some DoorDashers do have hot bags, and if they don’t they will usually ask for one and we will give them one if we have any.
It's really all the same ingredients you get at pizza hut. The sauce is different but I worked at both places and it's all packaged the same they just label the box's different.
Are you the same person that says there is no inflation or the border is secure? They use the cheapest garbage they can find. The pizza is crap. The sign should just be a 🤮 on the wall. I mean seriously there is a reason 3/4 of the stores in my state have shut down.
I’ve always thought their pizza was the worst among the big chains. I don’t know what their better ingredients are, but their pizza definitely doesn’t taste any better.
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I don't eat Papa John's, but I also don't measure the world in morality like triggered SJW's or pearl-clutching conservatives, so the only time I'll care what Schnatter says is if it involves changing the recipe of the food for the worse.
I loved Papa John's when I was a kid ('90s). I thought it was hands down the best pizza chain, and it was super filling as well, giving you great value for your money. By the time I was a teenager, I felt their pizza had _really_ gone down hill, or more specifically their quality control. I remember our family ordering a pizza and when it arrived, literally half the pizza didn't even have any cheese on it. I eventually stopped getting their pizza since it was always a crapshoot on if you'd get something edible or not. A few years ago (pre-COVID) I decided I'd give them a chance again. Called up their store, and they refused to answer the phone. Checked their website and that location was listed as open and was even taking online orders. Called them again, once again no answer. No idea how their pizza tastes these days, but if ignoring their customers who are trying to place orders is how they run things, I have no interest in giving them my business and haven't since then.
Why didn't you order online then. I work at a non pizza chain but often times we miss phone calls because we are in the middle of something. There was also a week when the phone wouldn't work so we had to get a new one and I bet we missed dozens of calls.
A lot of pizza places have slowly cut staffing that makes it a waste of time to answer phone calls. Often times customers call and they don't know what they want, they ask you about specials, or find some way to waste valuable time, and it's not like you can just hang up on them. It's infuriating when you're at peak business, hustling, trying to keep everything in order and then you get stuck on the phone with a customer who's taking their sweet time getting their order in. I know Pizza Hut has a call center and you'll get transferred there if we don't answer. If you had a complaint your call would be transferred back to the store with a different ringtone which indicated that it's important, probably a complaint or something we need to resolve. It sucks but companies are going to find subtle ways to cut costs as food and labor costs rise at rapid rates.
@@jakeblack2870 Interestingly, yesterday I just ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut for the first time in awhile and I was surprised that I got what sounded like a call center in India. When I picked up my pizza, I asked the woman at the counter about it because I found it odd. I wasn't mad or rude, but she told me to press the button to be directed to the store if I order anything in the future. She said most people don't want to talk to the call center. I used to work at a pizza place, and on busy nights we'd have a couple people dedicated to taking calls. It's called customer service, and is an important part of running a business. God forbid, the executives take a tiny cut out of their multi-million-dollar salaries to provide a few more jobs for the working-class Americans that keep their business running.
@@NoName-ik2du I never said that I enjoyed it being the way it is with regards to the call center, I'm telling you as a former employee that it's no longer realistic for the employees at chain pizza places to answer phones on a consistent basis. I'm well aware of how frustrating the call center is, not a single employee I've worked with enjoys dealing with the issues they cause. What you need to understand is that these chain restaurants are trying to push you to order online to cut labor costs. I'm assuming you haven't worked in the industry in a while but you don't seem to understand that things change. Don't blame the employees that are prioritizing keeping the store afloat rather than unnecessarily dealing with a customer who could be ordering online. Most chain places no longer have employees whose biggest priority is phones. I was in the industry from 2012-2021 and I've seen this change happen slowly over time. If you're not a fan of it I understand, but there's not much the employees can do about it. You're better off ordering online or better yet finding a local pizza place you enjoy. Finally, assuming that all the stores are run by a competent staff, Papa Johns is better than Pizza Hut or Dominos as someone who has worked at all three.
@@jakeblack2870 Oh, no doubt, I understand it's not the employees' fault and never take it out on them. Apologies if my message implied it was the employees' fault. Customers who get mad at staff or mad at people in call centers irk me. The customer's problem is rarely that employee's fault. That employee is just doing their best to try to help you within the guidelines that the company imposes on them. My irritation in this thread is 100% directed at the executives in these companies who hog a disproportionate amount of profits and then try to cut costs any way they can by reducing staff and making things harder for the employees who are left holding the bag. When I see a company start to cut costs in this fashion, I take my business elsewhere. I do often go local, but I'm also seeing more and more of my favorite local businesses getting bought out by crappy conglomo chains.
I had never had Papa Johns until just last week when this video came out... WOW, completely blew me away! I used to flip flop between Dominos and Toppers depending on my mood, but I can't see myself choosing either of those over Papa Johns now.
The comments thing is beyond ridiculous, because he was literally saying a list of words that were inappropriate and not OK to use, but because he said the n word, because he was listing words that you should not say, they attacked him and called him racist.
I Love Papa Johns!!! Been a favorite of mine since I was three years old. I have always loved their original crust! Pepperoni and Pork sausage pizza is my go to! A cold two liter bottle of soda and a hot pizza is perfect after a long day at work. My local Papa Johns is only a few minutes away!! The peppers and the Garlic sauce make me want to order more often! Great video my friend!!
As much as I love Papa John's pizza, I won't support them any longer for axing their delivery drivers in favor of using doordash. When doordash delivers your food is cold.
Ironically, my mom and dad always got Papa Johns's in the 90s. It was always on our table every Friday night. My dad got REALLY sick and was in the hospital; it was not looking good, but it was a slow demise. He joked about not having any more PJs. I actually wrote a letter to the company talking about my childhood, the pizza, and my dad's love of the brand, as well as his shared love of the Camaro that he shared with John Schnatter. He may have been racist, ....well, there's no "but" - he's racist. Anyway, Schnatter personally wrote a letter to my dad and sent him an entire BOX of signed, by Schnatter, Papa John's swag (no, you can't have it! It's in a box! In my dad's closet!), including a gift card for hundreds and hundreds of dollars for "all the pizza he can eat" while on this earth. My dad was so tickled. SO tickled. HE DIDN'T DIE. My dad was pissed that WE would get his "death pizza." This was about 15-16 years ago, and my dad is still here, and he loves telling people that Papa John "saved his life." He also did eat a TON of pizza as soon as he came home from the hospital. So, there's that? Ha, never got to tell this story, never seemed relevant.
The man had 40 pizzas in 30 days, don't underestimate him.
Make more videos soon dude.
Also Shaq Daddy ate the whole pie.
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how fat 💀
Hey dude, you watch company man and airtime thrills. It’s cool seeing you in some great channels, you are truly diversified.
Nah, I'm going to underestimate him. 😈
I kind of love how there was no “secret” to their success other than using good ingredients & making good food.
And no Yum brands taking over and screwing it up.
The ingredients aren’t that good and the food isn’t that good. It’s 90% marketing. The pizzas are equivalent quality to little Caesar’s.
@@GhostKing6790little Caesars is not as good as Papa johns
@@joseresendiz9161agreed I'm biased because I've worked at Papa John's for over 2 years though. Our quality did take a small hit when we stopped cutting our own veggies though. Now we get them on the truck and they're alright.
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Incorrect.
I remember when if you got Papa John’s for a party people were impressed. It was like oh you’re willing to spend more for quality- this must be special. Now it’s just another National chain.
So true lol! I always hated when companies I worked for would cheap out for Dominos. Papa Johns really was good.
It's funny, because I actually always had a bad opinion of PJs because the franchised location in my hometown always made such terrible pizza (late 90s). But once I moved away, I found most other places made really decent pizza and my opinion has since changed and I actually quite like their stuff.
@@bamafencer12 It was always trash
PJs is still miles ahead of dominos and pizza hut at least in the UK. the latter 2 taste like cardboard frozen junk. They give me 50% offers sometimes but i stay with PJs
Really? That sounds like Pizza Pizza. We don’t have Papa John’s in Canada (at least not in Ottawa). We have some American chains, like Pizza Hut and Domino’s. But we usually go to local (in my case Ottawa) chains like Gabriel’s, or Mr. Mozzarella. But if you had Pizza Pizza at your birthday as a kid, you were the man. That or the Mr. Sub Party Sub. 😂
I wish you showed the famous “I've had over 40 pizzas in the last 30 days'' clip
Truly a classic
(Profuse sweating intensifies)
That doesnt mean he ate the whole pizza. You can have just a slice of each
to determine the current quality.
it's retarted, as most thing written in twitter and don't serve well for any analysis
Duly noted@@adamsaldana5462
My family used to be a Papa Johns family, but after 2004 (the fist time that john retired as ceo) our local papa johns location started to really screw up our orders... like every time we would order pizza something was wrong. So we switched to dominos, but then they changed their sauce recipe... eventually we settled on a smaller midwest chain called Toppers. never looked back after that point lol
Toppers is great!
18 years of getting it completely wrong and still in business!
That’s great
I wish it severed in Washington State (Where I am)
There are so many better pizza options than the big 3 or 4 chains.
10:23 🤮
I love how you sometimes sound like you're laughing when you say things, thanks for staying consistent with your videos!
When I was in high school, I was brought into a group of students who would once a month meet with the principal to discuss student/faculty relations. At these meetings we'd have a huge stack of Papa John's pizzas. One time two of the students gathered all the peppers and had a pepper eating contest during the meeting. There was always a bit of a struggle to obtain leftover garlic sauces afterward
This is a nice memory 💜
Those aren't spicy peppers.
@@savagedragon79 I never thought they were, but those classmates I think were from the auto body or auto tech department and not exactly people I associated with an abundance of brains
@@FlinxWeasel LOL they're just pepperoncini. Maybe a little hot if you eat the seeds and all, but definitely nothing worth having a contest over. :D
sounds like having a bread eating contest
I lead shifts and drove at 6 locations in the midwest. The job demanded far more effort and hussle than any other job I've had, but building a good relationship with the community and making the perfect pizza for the customers was a delight. The thing is, genwral managers came and went often, and I occasionally had to train them while i was a shift lead. Only 1 store in the franchise of 15 or so stores could meet the impossible goal bonuses, so the general managers would have to work 80-100hrs/wk for a $40k salary. I also noticed most stores don't properly prepare the food with care, dough proofing especially. A properly proofed dough ball makes their pizzas far better, but many locations seem to neglect this. Sales tanked when Schnatter made his comments, and especially after losing the NFL sponsorship. But the rebranding, new menu items, and improved items definitely helped. When a couple of these stores still had to close, i left for a vastly less demanding job with double the pay and full benefits.
I'm currently at GM at Papa John's and yea it's super demanding for right at about 40k
what you're both describing is true across all these chains, i did 2.5 years as a manager at dominos and it's the exact same experience, i was at a low sales store and if we got a bonus at all it was close to the 10k a year range, for $13 an hour pay (in 2019), not many benefits, and more stress than anyone should have to handle
One of the best choices papa John's has made was opening locations near colleges. I work at a university and when I need food for many there's very little choice
Very true, there is one right next to my campus
There's one across from my dorm and if you need food at 1am it's the only place open nearby
Wow, I had no idea that Mick's Lounge was the start of Papa John's! Back when I used to live in that area I'd occasionally visit Mick's Bar and never knew! I've never really tried their food, I'd mostly just play pool and drink beer with friends and family.
As a former delivery driver for the company back in the early 2000's, the taste and flavor has massively gone downhill with their pizzas. They never competitively price their pizza versus Dominos and Pizza Hut. They also skimp on the ingredients, especially with meats.
Edit: I may give them another try with the recent changes, as I've not eaten their pizza since prior the pandemic.
Not sure where they stand now (the locations near me closed), but as of like 2017 they were still good. The cheese and dough were always better than other chains and the garlic sauce helped too, but I'm a fan of breaded crust in general. As for pricing, Papa John's was much better priced than Pizza Hut in Chicagoland if you used the promotions on their website. Not sure if Pizza Hut does similar, but I was surprised how expensive it was when my friend ordered it.
That risk is yours to take. Be warned though. I wouldn't waste my money or time.
Their pizza sucks now. Save your money.
True and their sauce is so iffy I go locally now, never chain
@mojodom . . . interesting you noted about Papa Johns skimping on ingredients; as I recall in their TV ad campaign some 20 years ago they promoted themselves with being generous with toppings . . . which flew in the face of reality, as the local PJ was so skimpy with the toppings that it was more in the order of "sprinklings" instead of "toppings."
Please consider doing a video on papa Murphy's. The concept of take-and-bake pizza feels like such a relic of another era before ubiquitous food delivery. There could be an interesting story there, and the company is supposedly the fifth largest pizza chain.
How about Papa Louie's there's a Papa Louie's pizza in Lawton, Oklahoma
the last two large pizzas i had from there had, no lie, crusts that were over 1.5 inches wide. making the diameter of actual pizza about a medium.
Wow that is a rip off!
@@ninja1man4u No... that's an average Papa John's experience. It's garbage.
Papa John's was my favorite pizza chain back in my single days. But that's exactly why I stopped buying from them. Less toppings and the crust was most of the pizza. I've tried it a few times since but still nothing like what they used to be.
@@nathanielrichards750 I loved 'em in High School... but, then again, I also loved skating across busy intersections on a piece of plywood with four wheels stuck to the bottom back then. Times and tastes change when you mature. It's natural.
i only go for their thin crusts now
7:40 "I encourage you to look up his exact comments...which can't be repeated on youtube" good duck, chief xD
“The day of reckoning will come”
- Papa John
Cheese and bread will be the cornerstone of this utopia
What did he mean by that? Was it just business?
And it will be here in 30 minutes or less... oh wait, that's Domino's
My biggest complaint about Papa Johns is that they don’t competitively price their food compared to the other big four. They are definitely the most expensive out of the others and they aren’t even that much better quality.
yeah, way more expensive but way better than Dominos. Pizza Hut is a close second for me
Papa John's delivery fee is $6.50 in my area compared to "cheap" dominoes $8.50. Not to mention you can get a large works (Supreme pizza) for 13.99 at papa johns which is a hefty pizza, vs. A medium 2 topping at dominos 7.99 with skimpy toppings and sauce their pizzas are dry
Yep, today's pizzas are too pricey. However, their pizzas are still mouthwatering.
@@99Doogs fr
There's a reason why they're more expensive... check out the Food Wars video series and learn about all the fucking chemicals Dominos uses, compared to Papa John's which literally just uses 5 ingredients, the only maybe controversial one being soybean oil given the history of Monsanto.
It seems that it used to be Papa John’s, Pizza Hut, then Domino’s in order of taste and overall quality.
Now it’s in the exact reverse order.
Good analysis
Dominos hasn’t changed in 10 years. It’s fing gross
@@rileycopple7896 they recently changed their pizzas like 2 or 3 years ago
Wrong both times. Pizza Hut will always be superior and dominos is, as you said, definite last, low tier crap.
@@TheAbandonedAccount7 At least Papa John's doesn't have an unnecessary salad bar
They’re definitely on the downfall right now. Their quality has gone way down hill the last few years.
The John Special was my favorite pizza from any major chain. They obviously got rid of that. Beyond that the overall quality of their ingredients has clearly suffered as well.
And, the service has dropped, too. Everytime I ordered in the past year, they've forgotten paid-for ingredients or delivered the pizzas slid and folded in the box
Their balance sheet says otherwise but what ever.
I dunno their buffalo wings are still the best imo
You’re opinion of the quality of food doesn’t matter. It’s all about sales.
Papa John's was my first job back in 2007. Worked there for 3 years. I still enjoy their pizza to this day.
I'm sorry to hear that
Sir Porkster your sorry huh?
@@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw Learn to read 💀
Nothing beats local pizza. I know not everyone has a local place, and not all local places are good, but if you have a local pizza joint you haven't tried, try them.
@ghost mall good, local pizza costs twice as much.
I live in an area where there's almost 2 on every block AND a Dominos. And even then, Dominos is the only national chain that even did well. We had a Little Ceasars for a year and it didn't do well. Of course, it was in a really stupidly small tucked away area. There was a Johns a town over, but it was taken over by a local chain well before 2017.
I can't fathom not having mom and pop pizza shops. Nearest Popa John to me is at least a 30 minutes away. Same with Pizza The Hut. Local places are the only option. And thank God.
@@John_Locke_108 We have so many in my area, I can just walk from my house to one of them quicker than a delivery car.
Try living in a small town in Texas. Pizza is almost non existent down here. San Antonio and El Paso are rated some of the worst pizza cities in America lol. But hey we have the world's best BBQ to that's cool and really solid Mexican food
Weird thing is he hired the PR firm that was supposed to get back from NFL fiasco which actually screwed him over by releasing part of the soundbite.
In college there was a Papa John's right next to campus and the next closest pizza place was a mile away. One of the best pizza's I ever had. Have had them since college, I moved across town and the closest one is still next the college, and there are 6 other pizza places that are closer.
It's all about the leadership at the store level. I lived across a Domino's Pizza in Kalamazoo, Mi. The owner operator was there frequently and got to know his customers. Shouts out Rogers Galloway!!
@@CardShark_Chris My hometown Domino's went to crap after the owner got divorced and his wife got the business. The new owner delivered (she caused higher than normal turnover) and they actually stopped delivering to us because of our "vicious" dog...that would simply walk next to the drivers. Every other driver loved visiting our friendly dog. Being in high school aged I knew most people there and they all hated the new owner. Her daughter took over and it got worse for employees because she was Karen before "Karen" existed.
I noticed a definite decline with my local Papa John's chain throughout the years in the general quality/size of pizza (almost every time I went there, I had always ordered a pizza with the same toppings, so it was easier to notice their degradation). I always liked them for the thick crust/cheese, but it had seemed like they were just getting flatter and flatter with it, recently I tried their extra large pizza though and it seems to have at least a similar thickness to the pizzas I loved from way back when (2008-2014-ish).
The change that angered me the most though was probably when they switched from using whole tomato slices to just roma tomato chunks. I could've sworn they used actual tomato slices back then, but at this point it's been too long for me to clearly remember. I still think their pizza is pretty delicious when it has proper thickness, but that might just be because I've hardly went to/learned of any other pizza places and have a propensity to like thicker crust more, when most places/people around me like the new york style more I assume.
To me (at least at my local chain), Papa John's pizza has a unique taste that you'll either hate or love, and it's definitely different than a lot of pizza places because of that. I don't really get Papa John's to get traditional pizza per-se, I get Papa John's because of their seemingly unique thick pizza, which is getting thinner and thinner; so I'm not sure if I'll really want to get it much anymore if it means having to pay almost $20 for a single two-topping pizza because the Extra Large is the only variant that actually has decent thickness...
they did use slices, they are diced now.
The reason why the pizzas are not as thick is because we use a dough spinner instead of hand-stretching.
I remember when I first went to Papa John's here in Spain (they opened a restaurant in my neighbourhood like four years ago), it quickly became my favorite chain pizzeria. However, like a year later or so the recipes changed. It's still better than Domino's but why did they change the recipe?
Same reason as all the others, money
Money
Because cheaper ingredients while selling pizza for the same or a higher price nets more executive profit. Its why everything in the US is shit quality. We are pay up for shit quality food/items so a few douchey billionaires can become trillionaires. And any time we even ask to solve this, we get called communists. This country fucking sucks.
Because John Schatter's no longer in charge.
It’s always sucked
It’s not Papa John’s without Papa…
I love your channel there’s a restaurant in North Carolina call Bojangles I would love for you to do a story about them
Wow! You still have a Bojangles? Haven't seen one of those in _years._
@@rareblues78daddy they are all over the place in NC and growing
@@samhainnc9416 Nice!
Everyone is saying it’s still bad, but I beg to differ. I believe good things and bad things have happened. At my local Papa Johns, Service has gotten better and quality have gotten slightly worse. Under Johns ownsership, the service was terrible and you had to wait at least an hour for a pizza and there would always be a problem. That’s all gone now.
In the 90s, papa John's paid well enough that my dad was a delivery driver and we still had a house+2 cars.
Now, the one up the street has been "hiring managers" for the last 6 years at least.
John was 100% set up. Feel bad for what they did to him. Imagine being forced out of your OWN COMPANY. Brutal.
Another example is Steve Jobs.
PAPA JOHN DID NOTHING WRONG.
He said, "I don't want employees using that type of language in my store. It's a bad look when our employees are saying 'what up nigga' to each other within hearing rand of customers."
still shouldn't have said it.
At that point people were just looking for a reason to kick him to the curb. When he realized that literally anything he said would be taken out of context by social media trolls, he just gave up.
It’s not that hard to not say the slur. I’m black and even in my meetings with my job over diversity and inclusion training, I don’t feel the need to say nigga or any word as I’m in a professional setting. He’s an adult. Self control goes a long way and saves oneself from embarrassment
BINGO! You are exactly right! PC people MAKE ME SICK.
@@boomerpatrol2838 You shouldn't have posted. You just made a fool of yourself.
Great video. You weren't kidding when you said you'd finish the year with lots of good content. Appreciate it!
Should rename it to papa shaq
Ikr. 😅
God I miss John Schnatter (Ex Head of the company).
I order pizza from Papa John's when I'm at work downtown and it's pretty good, still miles better than any Pizza Hut pies I've had in the past 4 years.
I’m surprised there wasn’t a bit more of a story behind Shaq’s involvement
I had never tried papa John's until I heard about the controversy. Then I sought out papa John's to make sure I gave my business to a company the makes people I hate angry. It just so happened that Papa John's is utterly delicious and became my favorite pizza place
I’ve always loved papa John’s. It’s been my favorite since I was a child. Partly for quality, but now, also in part for nostalgia. A couple years ago they changed their supplier for pepperchinis which one of my favorite things about their deliveries. But lately everything seems like it’s going downhill. I see it across the board at all restaurants. I contribute it to rising ingredient costs and a general lack of pride in the workforce
Ah yes, my first gig after hs lol. This was like 2010. It was in fact fun slapping the dough around, not so fun on a Friday or Saturday being extremely busy with a full screen. The best was when there was an error on an order and just shared the pizza in the back.
Some things never change
As a former papa johns delivery driver during 2021 the job was alright until you find out the unspoken cost of spending double on your car maintenance. The big gripe I had was just the long hours and overtime I even had to stay almost midnight just to do dishes that only two people do each day.
These chains are notorious for taking advantage of younger people, especially men / boys. The managers know that only males will dump trash, mop floors, clean restrooms, do heavy lifting , etc. Girls are only for doing two things: taking orders, and sitting in the back doing paperwork as "managers". Screw those owners who sold out their own sex / race. Let their franchises die slowly as the Millennials refuse to work at menial jobs for a buck.
"Better Ingredients Better Pizza" - Papa Johns
You have a soothing narrator’s voice.
This channel is a happy place to me….drama free TH-cam content
Is there that much drama yet on TH-cam? I feel like it calmed down quite a bit over the past several years, but I could just not be noticing it.
@@NeutralityTsar some channels yeah. Each channel is a self contained community tho. It's not like Twitter where everyone is always on edge. But some channels thrive on either intercommunity drama or talking about external dramas which in turn causes comment section drama.
Papa Johns doing stuffed crust was a HUGE game changer for me, I know some frozen pizzas also do stuffed crust, but frozen pizzas are just not as good as a fresh pizza from a chain in my opinion. The nearest Pizza Hut or Little Caesar’s is quite a drive from where I live, but there’s a Papa Johns right down the road, so being able to get a fresh stuffed crust pepperoni pizza less than 5 minutes away from the house is awesome. I’ve never had a problem with their quality.
My city has no corporate Papa Johns restaurants because there's a pre-existing local chain of the same name keeping them out of their exclusion zone. I've always loved our local Papa Johns and was very disappointed as a kid to realize the chain ones out of town were not the same.
That how it was when I stayed in Lansing, MI.
@@d.e.carter5129 Yup, Lansing is where I'm talking about
A joke I saw around the time of the scandal:
Papa John: "I lost my job because of the things I said."
Daughter John: "Oh, no!"
Mama John: "You fool, Christmas is ruined!"
Elton John: "...and I guess that's why they call it the blues."
It seems like I have the same experience as a lot of others were I used to love papa johns and thought it was the best pizza chain by far. But around the john schnatter controversy it seemed that the quality got really bad at the locations near me. I see all the fast food tier lists people make and papa johns is always at the bottom and I remember when it was sooo good. I've had it not too long ago and It seemed okay but now I order from local chains or pizza hut if I want stuffed crust. The one thing I will still praise papa johns over is their website. the other top 4 websites are so awful in comparison and that is the one thing Ill always appreciate about them.
According to Papa John after his ousting they decreased the quality of their ingredients dramatically, which would account for that.
There isn't one within a 53 mile radius of my residence lots of little Caesars, domino's and hungry Howie's.
At my first apartment back in 2000, one of the people working at the local franchise was named Andy. We dubbed him “Stupid Andy” and would order on speakerphone to share the pain/entertainment with roommates and friends.
After Papa John’s introduced online ordering in 2001 we never talked to “Stupid Andy” again.
I give Stupid Andy a little bit of credit for the early success of online ordering. 😂
I remember Papa John's advertising "Better ingredients, better pizza" They bragged about using 100% mozzarella cheese, and they shamed the other pizza chains into switching to 100% mozzarella, but now they say that their cheese is MADE WITH mozzarella cheese. That is not the same as actually using 100% mozzarella cheese. It's just tricky advertising. And their product quality has not been as good as it was when they actually used 100% mozzarella. It's a snow job. The other major chains are doing the same thing. Check their advertising. Often they talk about the importance of quality ingredients, etc., and they talk about the importance of top quality cheese , blah blah blah. It's all just talk. None of them are using 100% mozzarella cheese.
Papa Johns has always been my personal favorite pizza chain.
Same here
I worked at a papa John's as a nights delivery driver the year before the lock downs. I was going through the manager training courses when I dropped a full XL cambro of about 100 wings on the floor. The boss ordered us to pick them up and run them thru the belt oven to sanitize them. I realized PJ was a trash company to work for due to franchise restrictions and pressures.
I backed out of the manager opportunity and quit as soon as I could. No one opened up about it on investigation. No cameras, no evidence, no consequences.
Just in case someone hasn't caught up with the story: He was literally given "examples of racism" to read out loud on the call for some kind of anti-racism training. As ridiculous as it is, a set-up indeed.
But he's a big mean peepee poopoo head that smells!
😱😱😱
John Schnattter should come back, The People basically stole his child from him. Papa John Belongs to John
I always liked the topping combinations at Papa John's. So once they got stuffed crust, it was over for other pizza chains for me.
My biggest problem was the crust. Stuffed crust fixed it, now its the best chain for me.
I'm from Scotland and our local Papa John's still has the old logo and branding.
Papa Johns was big in my small town up though sometime in the 00s. It was the go to for all school events. It feels like it shifted to other places towards 2010.
A fun memory I have though is going on a field tried local Papa Johns where we got to make make our own pizzas.
I stopped eating their pizza when John left! He got a raw deal! Up until then they were my preferred pizza
I just have to say, putting the CEO controversies aside, I have never understood the dislike for the taste of their pizzas. They are truly my favorite. A lot of sauce, a lot of flavor, melt-in-your-mouth bread with a garlic tang to it. And don't forget the pepper and garlic sauce in every box! I always feel like I'm paying for a better experience when I eat Papa John's.
Can you beak down Quiznos?? Like I need to be sure that it wasn't a fever dream.
Papa Johns was good when John was in charge. Now it sucks. The quality has gone way down and the prices way up.
I actually just happened to be eating Papa John's when I stumbled upon this video 😂
Just noticed the new logo on the box. Very suddle
Their pizza is the best in my honest opinion. Out of the big pizza chains. Double sauce it up, pick it up for carryout if out and about. Very reasonable prices and simple and effective rewards program.
✨ Bite the Pepperino pepper and squeeze it on pizza, add some crushed red pepper and drizzle some garlic sauce on the crust. ✨
I agree. It beats all the big chains by far.
I was introduced to Papa John's back in 2014 and was surprisingly impressed. It immediately became my favorite place for pizza. I've been a regular rewards member, purchasing more pizza from them than I had imagined I would. Stuffed crust took my favorite pizza to another level 🎉 I did notice the pizza not tasting as great as usual a few times. This explains why now. Its been more difficult for me to consider delivery with a new increased rate.
I remember way back when, we'd have Friday Night Magic and pool money together to get pizzas from Papa John's, and it arrived at the game store after the second round, usually, and we'd take a little extra time to enjoy some food and chat before continuing the event. I once made the mistake of putting garlic sauce on the entire pizza I had, rendering it beyond my capacity to handle.
These days, I rarely have their pizza; Mom usually goes to Papa Murphy's for a big pizza or to King Soopers for a cheap pizza.
Pretty soon, we'll get "Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX: The Rise and fall, and rise again" describing how Musk wound up much like John Schnatter: Being kicked out by his own boards of directors for being a bad CEO.
After all of the BS I still support the founder.
Based.
$15 fuckin dollars for a 1 topping pepperoni? Yeah, I think I'll take my business literally anywhere else.
Papa John's was game changing in the late 90s and early 00s as far as tasty delivery pizza was concerned.. I probably haven't had it in 15 years though..
@@slv72 I like Little Caesars Detroit-style Deep Dish.. they also have great prices compared to all of the other chains..
Papa John deserved better. And one thing he was definitely right about - the quality has DEFINITELY gone down. A shame.
Hey, if you read this, you should maybe look into doing a video about Farm and Fleet and Fleet Farm. They’re two stores that are almost identical, but are owned by different companies. It could be an interesting thing to look into, since they’re competing stores that have lots of crazy madeup backstories for why they both are so similar. Just a thought, love your videos!
Papa johns is a hero
He should be brought back
I'm sorry, the whole John being racist is clearly just overblown. It's the typical social media being idiotic. Now I get if he isn't the CEO but without him, the pizza isn't the same.
Papa Johns is my favorite pizza because it seems less greasy than dominos or Pizza Hut. I love the Papa Johns pizza crust.
John Schnatter the founder said "Colonel Sanders called blacks n--s” it was a quote, he probably should not say that but come on he is quoting someone. What's next my English teacher gets fired for reading the n-word. Hope he is having a good retirement didn't deserve to have to watch his pizzas turn to crap.
That still doesn't make it right. Why even say it to your employees. Pfft
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld not something you should say in the workplace but also something you shouldn't get fired for he had no ill intent
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld Go to hell. "Still doesn't make it right..." What an asshat comment.
"Pizza was the fastest selling food during the 90s." I think some cartoons had something to do with that lol.
In Korea, Domino's is the big American Pizza chain, but it is really localized, featuring a constantly changing and updating menu (think like McDonald's Japan or Baskin-Robbins). I prefer the smaller Papa John's (we use the old logo still^^) as it is more consistent, and it tastes closer to American style Pizza. Nothing against local brands like Mr. Pizza or Avalon (I love them too), but when you want American style you want American^^ We actually had the Double Cheeseburger pizza last night at my nephew's request. It is probably my favorite American brand Pizza, if I am being honest, but like all American brands, it is so expensive (maybe the equivalent of like 30 USD?).
Local brands suck. I prefer Papa John's unless I'm going to a fancier sit-down place. I'd argue the pizzas are more expensive in Korea too.
Update! All of the TH-cam commercials in Korea now have the new logo, but the restaurants themselves (at least in central Seoul) have the old logo on the buildings. Still my favorite "American style" Pizza^^
@TheSwaggiiBabii Waaaay more expensive. I bought a family size pizza for our last baseball game and it was over 40 bucks! It tasted great, but that is 4 bucks a slice^^ㅋ
I worked at Papa John’s during the pandemic and they had us using expired ingredients and had COCKROACHES that were not taken care of. Management was super shitty and ignored all of this.
I work as a driver at a papa johns and I can confirm that we are insanely busy. And yes, the shakAroni is really good lol
Always trust a person that works for the company. That goes along with Joe Biden being a great president.
I also work as a driver for the company.
I get given in between 4 (mid) - 10 hour (open) shifts a day. I would do on average 17 deliveries a day, which isn't that bad tbf. It's rather respectable, and I have noticed some stores picked up in revenue, but others remained on a downhill trend because pizzas are quite expensive around the UK.
I tried the pizzas, and I'd say they're okay. Nothing to shout about. But definitely not worth the large sums.
The salary is alright for me tbf (£9.50/hr + £1.30/delivery + tips) as I'm in Uni.
If you can trust my views, that's lovely. Otherwise, I can understand if you don't.
haha yeah cancellation-addict WOrKEr
John Schnatter got in his own head and thought he was too cool for basic rules of running a business.
Rule #1 of being the public face of a business: Don't say out of pocket things.
I've given them another try recently, I had the Garden Fresh pizza and it tasted the same as I remember 5-7 years ago. Breadsticks were also delicious. The only negative thing imo is they got rid of delivery drivers and now exclusively use services like DoorDash.
Some locations do not have the driving staff for every shift so that is when they use DoorDash.
Papa Johns employee here. We do still have first party delivery drivers (at least where I work), but we can call for a DoorDash driver to come and deliver for us if we don’t have a driver that either wants to take it or we just don’t have anyone to take it at all at that moment because they are all on a delivery run at that moment.
@@VMWashington25 ours had delivery drivers, but got rid of them in favor of doordash. And that's a poor excuse as well, doordash do not have pizza hot bags and on their way to you the pizza gets cold. And plus the people aren't vetted (for all we know it's a felon delivering you your pizza).
@@matty2icyy I'd rather wait for a first party delivery driver than to have doordash deliver my food, I hate getting cold pizza, every time it's been a doordash driver it's cold pizza.
@@madmax2069 Yeah that’s understandable, we use DoorDash to keep our Out The Door time low. Although I will say some DoorDashers do have hot bags, and if they don’t they will usually ask for one and we will give them one if we have any.
I love these! Haven't had Papa John's sense I was like 18, boy does that bring back 90s I remember it being so good the peppers were bomb.
Thank you for cutting back on the stock footage. It makes the videos so much more pleasant to watch.
When Papa John’s and Pizza Hut were having that “feud,” you could say that Pizza Hut was worried Papa John’s would “Out Pizza The Hut.”
Papa Johns pizza is by far my favourite. The ingredients are just way higher quality in my opinion. Plus that garlic sauce is great
It's really all the same ingredients you get at pizza hut. The sauce is different but I worked at both places and it's all packaged the same they just label the box's different.
Are you the same person that says there is no inflation or the border is secure? They use the cheapest garbage they can find. The pizza is crap. The sign should just be a 🤮 on the wall. I mean seriously there is a reason 3/4 of the stores in my state have shut down.
I’ve always thought their pizza was the worst among the big chains. I don’t know what their better ingredients are, but their pizza definitely doesn’t taste any better.
Papa Johns in 2017: NFL PLAYERS KNEELING DURING ANTHEM IS HURTING OUR REVENUE
Also Papa Johns in 2017: Makes nasty pizza that tastes like the cardboard boxes it comes in
I don't eat Papa John's, but I also don't measure the world in morality like triggered SJW's or pearl-clutching conservatives, so the only time I'll care what Schnatter says is if it involves changing the recipe of the food for the worse.
I loved Papa John's when I was a kid ('90s). I thought it was hands down the best pizza chain, and it was super filling as well, giving you great value for your money.
By the time I was a teenager, I felt their pizza had _really_ gone down hill, or more specifically their quality control. I remember our family ordering a pizza and when it arrived, literally half the pizza didn't even have any cheese on it. I eventually stopped getting their pizza since it was always a crapshoot on if you'd get something edible or not.
A few years ago (pre-COVID) I decided I'd give them a chance again. Called up their store, and they refused to answer the phone. Checked their website and that location was listed as open and was even taking online orders. Called them again, once again no answer. No idea how their pizza tastes these days, but if ignoring their customers who are trying to place orders is how they run things, I have no interest in giving them my business and haven't since then.
Why didn't you order online then. I work at a non pizza chain but often times we miss phone calls because we are in the middle of something. There was also a week when the phone wouldn't work so we had to get a new one and I bet we missed dozens of calls.
A lot of pizza places have slowly cut staffing that makes it a waste of time to answer phone calls. Often times customers call and they don't know what they want, they ask you about specials, or find some way to waste valuable time, and it's not like you can just hang up on them. It's infuriating when you're at peak business, hustling, trying to keep everything in order and then you get stuck on the phone with a customer who's taking their sweet time getting their order in.
I know Pizza Hut has a call center and you'll get transferred there if we don't answer. If you had a complaint your call would be transferred back to the store with a different ringtone which indicated that it's important, probably a complaint or something we need to resolve.
It sucks but companies are going to find subtle ways to cut costs as food and labor costs rise at rapid rates.
@@jakeblack2870 Interestingly, yesterday I just ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut for the first time in awhile and I was surprised that I got what sounded like a call center in India.
When I picked up my pizza, I asked the woman at the counter about it because I found it odd. I wasn't mad or rude, but she told me to press the button to be directed to the store if I order anything in the future. She said most people don't want to talk to the call center.
I used to work at a pizza place, and on busy nights we'd have a couple people dedicated to taking calls. It's called customer service, and is an important part of running a business. God forbid, the executives take a tiny cut out of their multi-million-dollar salaries to provide a few more jobs for the working-class Americans that keep their business running.
@@NoName-ik2du I never said that I enjoyed it being the way it is with regards to the call center, I'm telling you as a former employee that it's no longer realistic for the employees at chain pizza places to answer phones on a consistent basis. I'm well aware of how frustrating the call center is, not a single employee I've worked with enjoys dealing with the issues they cause. What you need to understand is that these chain restaurants are trying to push you to order online to cut labor costs.
I'm assuming you haven't worked in the industry in a while but you don't seem to understand that things change. Don't blame the employees that are prioritizing keeping the store afloat rather than unnecessarily dealing with a customer who could be ordering online. Most chain places no longer have employees whose biggest priority is phones. I was in the industry from 2012-2021 and I've seen this change happen slowly over time.
If you're not a fan of it I understand, but there's not much the employees can do about it. You're better off ordering online or better yet finding a local pizza place you enjoy. Finally, assuming that all the stores are run by a competent staff, Papa Johns is better than Pizza Hut or Dominos as someone who has worked at all three.
@@jakeblack2870 Oh, no doubt, I understand it's not the employees' fault and never take it out on them. Apologies if my message implied it was the employees' fault.
Customers who get mad at staff or mad at people in call centers irk me. The customer's problem is rarely that employee's fault. That employee is just doing their best to try to help you within the guidelines that the company imposes on them.
My irritation in this thread is 100% directed at the executives in these companies who hog a disproportionate amount of profits and then try to cut costs any way they can by reducing staff and making things harder for the employees who are left holding the bag.
When I see a company start to cut costs in this fashion, I take my business elsewhere. I do often go local, but I'm also seeing more and more of my favorite local businesses getting bought out by crappy conglomo chains.
I had never had Papa Johns until just last week when this video came out... WOW, completely blew me away! I used to flip flop between Dominos and Toppers depending on my mood, but I can't see myself choosing either of those over Papa Johns now.
The comments thing is beyond ridiculous, because he was literally saying a list of words that were inappropriate and not OK to use, but because he said the n word, because he was listing words that you should not say, they attacked him and called him racist.
You are in the minority of sentient beings these days. It was one of the most vicious deceitful PC things I've seen.
Once he left, their ingredients suffered.
They did John wrong the way they accused him of saying a “racial slur” what bs. Feel for em honestly.
I Love Papa Johns!!! Been a favorite of mine since I was three years old. I have always loved their original crust! Pepperoni and Pork sausage pizza is my go to! A cold two liter bottle of soda and a hot pizza is perfect after a long day at work. My local Papa Johns is only a few minutes away!! The peppers and the Garlic sauce make me want to order more often! Great video my friend!!
As much as I love Papa John's pizza, I won't support them any longer for axing their delivery drivers in favor of using doordash. When doordash delivers your food is cold.
After not eating their pizza for years because the quality went downhill quick, I can say they’re back to making the best fast food pizza.
The quality is still the same; big blob of grease
“You should look up what he said before you judge him.”- Documentary style TH-cam channel.
Amazes me how flavorless the pizza they make are.
I Tried ordering papa John's a few years ago, before John outed himself as a racist. It was terrible! Never again!
Very interesting, my problem with Papa Johns is they don't offer that much in regards to deals or coupons. Dominos is my go to pizza chain place
There was a kid in my 3rd grade class that swore up and down that he was johns nephew, to his credit he did look EXACTLY like him.
Ironically, my mom and dad always got Papa Johns's in the 90s. It was always on our table every Friday night. My dad got REALLY sick and was in the hospital; it was not looking good, but it was a slow demise. He joked about not having any more PJs. I actually wrote a letter to the company talking about my childhood, the pizza, and my dad's love of the brand, as well as his shared love of the Camaro that he shared with John Schnatter. He may have been racist, ....well, there's no "but" - he's racist. Anyway, Schnatter personally wrote a letter to my dad and sent him an entire BOX of signed, by Schnatter, Papa John's swag (no, you can't have it! It's in a box! In my dad's closet!), including a gift card for hundreds and hundreds of dollars for "all the pizza he can eat" while on this earth. My dad was so tickled. SO tickled. HE DIDN'T DIE. My dad was pissed that WE would get his "death pizza." This was about 15-16 years ago, and my dad is still here, and he loves telling people that Papa John "saved his life." He also did eat a TON of pizza as soon as he came home from the hospital. So, there's that? Ha, never got to tell this story, never seemed relevant.
I love this story!
I had to stop eating there cause I got sick each and every time I ate there.