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In reply to the discussion: I will NEVER eat Papa John's again.... [View all]ChazII
(6,204 posts)116. What about the workers?
What happens to them when their store closes? Like I said in my previous post I am a Pizza Hut consumer but we do have a Papa Johns in my neighborhood.
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We finally got a Papa John's in my town. Not impressed and i don't like Domino's
brewens
Nov 2012
#63
I just sent them an email saying they lost my business (they did - they are next door to my
kestrel91316
Nov 2012
#7
I also shop at Aldi's, but know that they are NON-UNION. I stayed away for decades.
WinkyDink
Nov 2012
#110
You certainly are. Out here in the west pizza costs $25 and up for barely adequate if you're
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#100
QB Peyton Manning just bought a few Papa Johns pizza franchises in the Denver area.
aaaaaa5a
Nov 2012
#13
So he can afford to give away free pizzas, but he can't afford to pay his workers.
tarheelsunc
Nov 2012
#46
Yup. Apparently he and Manning just "can't afford" another 14 cents per Pizza. nt
aaaaaa5a
Nov 2012
#48
Citizen Kane is fitting. This guy obsessed over a car he sold to start his business:
Norrin Radd
Nov 2012
#16
find a good local pizzaria and tell them why you are eating at their restaurant....
trailmonkee
Nov 2012
#17
Pizza Hut was the chain that pushed Rush Limbaugh on millions of Americans
Bjorn Against
Nov 2012
#27
That was a VERY VERY stupid thing for them to do...not good business sense at al
uponit7771
Nov 2012
#22
But do they use free-range or factory-farmed vegetarians to squeeze into sauce?
Ikonoklast
Nov 2012
#37
Thanks to Stephen Colbert, Papa John's will forever be known as a "hot turd pie".
Initech
Nov 2012
#33
This was totally expected. We should have a Canadian-style system and skip all this mess.
limpyhobbler
Nov 2012
#34
Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, and others) is planning on cutting hours too
TexasBushwhacker
Nov 2012
#99
Better than boycott: make sure his employees are fully aware of what he is doing.
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2012
#50
I'm sorry for the people who work for him but I don't know anyone who eats that fake pizza.
Walk away
Nov 2012
#57
Overpriced sucky pizza, not worth buying in the first place. Now Never Again
we can do it
Nov 2012
#58
I read somewhere before the Presidential campaign got really going that Papa John's owner
Grammy23
Nov 2012
#60
I've heard that throughout his chain, employees routinely put nose boogers on all the pizzas
aint_no_life_nowhere
Nov 2012
#64
I bought one of his pizzas several years back, it was horrible. The shop was apparently a poorly
bluestate10
Nov 2012
#74
I've never eaten one. I've never looked at one of their signs. In fact, I've never even
cherokeeprogressive
Nov 2012
#92
I'll do you one better - I actually moved out of a town that a Papa Johns located in. nt
Flatulo
Nov 2012
#93
I'm sorry. I'm truly sorry. But I can't -truthfully- say I'll never eat Papa John's again.
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2012
#102
I am from NYC...therefore I would never eat a chain pizza and frozen bagels unless traveling
graham4anything
Nov 2012
#103
That is in my area. I don't eat pizza often and definitely won't get one from them.
Michigan Alum
Nov 2012
#104