Thread 21524830

I'm that Papa Johns nigga maybe you heard of me
you can still AMA
I work there

>>21524830 (OP)
Why don't more Papa John's locations offer individual slices?

do you have the n word pass? I want to give one to papa

>>21524830 (OP)
Based I remember you bro, you take pride in your job and had some good ideas for corporate, hows things going

>>21524830 (OP)
I remember you. I told you there was nothing you could do to attract more customers other than lowering prices and my location raised prices. WTF bro. That's messed up.

>>21524830 (OP)
Would you stay there if they get taken over by private equity?

You’ve said more than enough, Ty.

>>21524830 (OP)
Why are there only Indians answering the phone when I call?

>>21526208
>when I call
why are boomers on 4chan

>>21526230
I enjoy making socially awkward min wage zoomers squirm

>>21526230
I'm sorry I'm a well adjusted adult who can handle phone calls and human interaction. Maybe some day you'll learn how to talk to people too, zoomzoom.

sorry I fell asleep I will now answer what I can
>>21525042
no chain place does, I assume it would be bad for sales or just isn't part of the business model
>>21526120
Very well actually, I won't take full credit for it but quality is improving and standards are being upheld a lot more recently, at least on a local level. I'm not sure exactly whose decision it was, but someone decided enough is enough with being called the shitty pizza place. I really can't complain.
>>21526131
Prices haven't changed here, but I'm sorry about that, it looks like they've decided the way to bring people back is to have like 10 different "specials" and "deals" going at the same time, which is a complete fucking nightmare to deal with at the store-level. As I understand it, nationwide, customers are spending less per order but ordering more individual items.
>>21526172
There was a rumor a while ago that some member of the Saudi Royal Family was offering to buy the company. I'd still stay, just to see what happens, no matter who technically owns the company.
>>21526208
My place doesn't outsource calls to Indian call-centers, we just answer the phone. I dunno what to tell you, your local place is either lazy or gets so many phonecalls that they had to outsource. Both of those are bad signs.

>>21526303
If this was actually true you'd know that calling food places just results in suffering through a load of incomprehensible jeetbabble with no positive outcome, so I have to conclude you're just a larping zoomer faggot yourself

>>21526246
This is actually a real problem with the younger employees, they refuse to answer phones and will do anything possible to avoid interacting with customers most of the time
They will actually just run away from them, or move to the back of the store if they see a person parking up front. Or completely ignore them.

>>21524830 (OP)
If I don't hear "Papa's in the house" I'm call corporate.

>>21526717
from who? where? when?

>>21526491
>no chain place does
there's one in downtown brooklyn that does, $1.50 for a cheese slice

>>21527117
I mean national box stores that mostly do delivery or carryout

>>21527135
yeah it's a PJ's I'm talking about, they do all the usual stuff but they also have slices by the register, cheese, buffalo chicken, pepperoni etc. I'm assuming they can only do that because of volume

>>21527152
damn that's unusual but if it works for them it's probably really good for sales

>>21527155
found an old pic just to prove I ain't making it up

>>21527171
I guess it makes sense being in brooklyn on the sidewalk like that
most places aren't like that
in most places you would just attract homeless people

>>21524830 (OP)
When there’s an economic downturn is it the tips that suffer first or just less volume?

Also do you think Pizza Hut’s decline is terminal?

>>21527320
Interesting question, I would say you definitely see it in the tips first, but it doesn't take long for that wave to crest if you get what I mean. Typically in those times we'll see less delivery in general, and more carryout, especially after we raised the delivery fee (stupid move, corporate, you need to undo that ASAP)
The last few years have been really strange though, obviously people are financially hurting and have been, but it doesn't seem to have done the kind of damage to sales and volume you'd expect. As I said in an earlier post, the trend nationwide is that people are spending less per order, but ordering more actual things. So for whatever reason, maybe it's generational, or just a shift in attitudes, people still feel OK spending almost as much as they used to, as long as they FEEL like they're getting a deal. AND they get it delivered, so tip or not that's a 4.99 delivery fee
It's as if peoples' spending has become nihilistic. Everyone jokes about college kids going into debt just to have a pizza delivered, but I think the current trend is absolutely like that. "I can't pay rent but I really want a large pepperoni right now, and the world is fucked anyway, so I'm getting the pizza"
>do you think Pizza Hut’s decline is terminal?
I don't think it's terminal, but they are closing a lot of locations in the states at least. I'm probably biased, but I don't see what they have that really sets them apart from Dominoes, and most people seem to just prefer Dominoes. However Pizza Hut is just such a long-standing staple that I think they have enough of a loyal fanbase, for whatever reason, to stick around. Just maybe not as the juggernaut they used to be.

How come last year the cheeseburger pizza was large and this year its medium and its the same price?

>>21528366
I wondered the same thing, obviously they're just hoping nobody will notice and still order it because they want it.
They're seeing if they can get away with it. But you noticed.

wish they wouldn't play around with it, the Burger Pizza is actually really good. It's probably my favorite new item we've added in a long time.
I can only hope it proves itself worthy to stick around and becomes a permanent menu option, presumably orderable in any size. Because as weird as pickles on pizza seems at first, it's good. The Burger Sauce is really fucking tasty.

the mighty SHAQARONI recently became a full-time menu item, so if the burger does well enough, it's possible

but it's also like I said, they are obsessed with throwing out "deals" right now and some of the big ones seem to ALL focus around Mediums. Get 2, 2-topping mediums for 6.99 each!
1-topping mediums are also included in the "papa pairings" deal!
recently we had one that was a fucking UNLIMITED BOGO on medium 1-toppings, every place in my REGION ran out of DOUGH
we ran out of PIZZA DOUGH

>>21528378
$12 for a medium pizza is retarded they are insane. I do like the cheeseburger pizza but that is a rip off and insulting. I'll just get a large philly pizza which is my second favorite

>>21528384
Yeah, and as a result I've noticed we're selling a lot fewer of them than we did when it was a Large.
We used to go through the burger sauce almost as quickly as standard tomato sauce, but now it lasts for quite a while. Even with all the deals that should be pushing it, the Burger is stalling
and you're right, $12 for a medium is fucking retarded
>I'll just get a large philly pizza which is my second favorite
That's a good choice, that one at least isn't going anywhere
You tried our Thin Crust? I think it's infinitely superior to the regular crust.

What is more pizza? Two mediums or one large?

>>21528353
Fascinating, appreciate the insights!

>>21528389
Technically 2 mediums
>>21528390
No prob, I love talking about this stuff. It's fascinating to get to see the day-to-day trends play out on the ground level.

>>21528387
>You tried our Thin Crust? I think it's infinitely superior to the regular crust.
Never tried it I will give it a shot next time

>>21528394
I just prefer a crispier crust myself and the thin crust really gets that with how our ovens work and everything

Question 1
Does papa johns think I am retarded? Any coupon that reduces your regular priced items is a ripoff because the regular priced items are extremely overpriced. It is retarded to order anything that is not a "special".

Question 2
Are you required to wear gloves when you make pizza? The pajeet owned one by me has guys working with no gloves and they sweat a lot.

Question 3
I could be wrong but it feels like I want to say 2 or 3 years ago there would be a new temporary special item every month or two. Now it's like you are stuck with like the Shaq pepperoni for 6 months. Did they cut down on the amount of temporary new items or am I hallucinating?

Can I buy your pizza dough if I wanted to? The pizzerias by me sell them for $2 a ball does Papa Johns do that?

>>21524830 (OP)
what are the ingredients to the chocolate chip cookie? i want to try and replicate it myself

>>21526705
what the fuck is wrong with these 'people' lmao

>>21526705
What is wrong with Zoomers, unironically? What causes them to behave like that?

>>21528416
>Does papa johns think I am retarded? Any coupon that reduces your regular priced items is a ripoff because the regular priced items are extremely overpriced. It is retarded to order anything that is not a "special".
Story of the modern times, their goal is to get you ordering online, on the app, joining the rewards program. You know how it goes. "It's only worth it if you use the app and take advantage of the specials" is a tale told all over the fast food world these days
I don't agree with it but the decision has been made
>Are you required to wear gloves when you make pizza? The pajeet owned one by me has guys working with no gloves and they sweat a lot.
No it's not required, makeline employees are constantly washing their hands though, and whatever they've touched while prepping your pizza goes through a super hot oven. Still, if I had an employee who sweat a lot like that I would never put them anywhere near the makeline or the oven or anything where they could sweat on your food. That's fuckin nasty. Can't have sweatballs, that's kind of an unwritten rule.
>I could be wrong but it feels like I want to say 2 or 3 years ago there would be a new temporary special item every month or two. Now it's like you are stuck with like the Shaq pepperoni for 6 months. Did they cut down on the amount of temporary new items or am I hallucinating?
Nah we're still doing new items all the time, but sometimes they may not be rolled out nationally, or they're only here for like a month or something. The burger pizza just came back, and we also just added Cheddar to a lot of things, like you can get cheddar cheese sticks now, and a (frankly ridiculous) 5-cheese Cheddar...thing...it's a mix of our 2-cheese and 3-cheese blend on the pizza, with seasoned cheddar melted on the crust
I don't think that'll be very popular
and yeah SHAQ is BACK as a permanent menu item now, no longer limited time only

>>21528432
Nah we don't sell the dough, we need that stuff. We have to order our inventory very carefully to anticipate potential sales volume, so we can't just sell our most important ingredients. We need literally every dough ball.
>>21528450
>>21528455
I don't really blame them personally but it's just a side effect of their generation not really being forced to interact with others that much growing up. They're literally just terminally shy.
Not all of them, but most

>>21528448
Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (Sugar, Unsweetened Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Milkfat, Soy Lecithin, Natural Vanilla Extract), Enriched Bleached Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Margarine (Palm Oil, Water, Soybean Oil, Contains Less Than 2% Of: Salt, Whey, Natural Flavor (Contains Milk), Mono & Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin, Vitamin A Palmitate Added, Beta Carotene [Color]), Sugar, Brown Sugar, Eggs, Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Corn Starch, Monocalcium Phosphate), Vanilla Extract, Salt.

the cookies, brownies, and cinnamon pullaparts come premade, refrigerated, we just pop them in the oven

the oreo bites, however, and freshly handmade
I miss the Twix Bites. Those were so good they should be illegal.

I am noticing you can order Papa Johns on like Uber Eats and other apps. Its even more expensive and you get no points doing that which seems dumb to me. Are orders like that common? Also is that a coordinated effort to slowly eliminate Papa Johns delivery drivers?

>>21528503
Yeah, we have a "partnership" with doordash to outsource delivery that was meant to just augment delivery drivers in times when we didn't have enough drivers to cover volume
We do also accept UberEats carryout, but you're right, that's a dumb way to do it. Still, they are pretty common. Beats me, I guess UberEats might have its own rewards program?
The best way to do it is definitely just going to the actual papa johns website/app. That way you at least have a CHANCE of getting a real delivery driver.

But sadly there is a lot of pressure coming down to just get rid of delivery drivers altogether. I VEHEMENTLY disagree with this as I started as a driver, and lots of people who move up to shift lead/manager do that. Almost every GM I've had over the years started as a driver, then learned more about the business and worked their way up.

Doordash and UberEats drivers have no real incentive to get your order right, beyond potentially impacting their score (they don't are, if they get "fired" they just buy a burner phone and scam the verification and they're right back on the road again)
And it sucks for us because when we get comlpaints from customers about a doordashers, we have to basically say
>We can't do anything about that, since they don't actually work for us, you'll have to call Doordash customer support
which, obviously, makes people very angry

It's a huge mistake, and only Papa Johns seems to be making it. Dominoes and Pizza Hut still have drivers, you see them all over town, it seems to be only us who got roped into this "partnership" with Doordash which I guess doesn't expire for quite a while so the prevailing attitude seems to be
>well we're paying for the doordash delivery, so we might as well take advantage of it
despite dedicated, real drivers being proven to be massively superior

>>21528503
also you'd be fucking shocked (or maybe not) to discover how often doordash/ubereats drivers will just straight up steal the food

by which I mean they accept a big order, and then simply do not deliver it. They just keep it.

>>21528499
Thanks Papa Johnsbro. And I love the pullaparts, they're my second fave in their desert menu

>>21528526
yeah those things are pretty damn good but I'm with you I think the Cookie reigns supreme

>>21528514
Yeah there is a balance where UberEats is only ever slightly worth it if you order enough volume with discounts, but if you order too much you risk the delivery driver just taking all your shit.

>>21528544
sometimes they try to get sneaky and will just "forget" one item
even though I watched them walk out with 4 pizzas, and they confirmed it and took a picture
mysteriously, the customer only receives 3 pizzas!

how curious
I wonder what could have happened!

>>21524830 (OP)
The Papa John's by me has a TV in the waiting area. They've always got two things on, sports and that Impractical Jokers show. Love that shit, fucking Joe and Sal, funny motherfuckers. I'd buy a gimmick pizza they were involved with; like the Murr-oni, which is a thin crust pepperoni pizza with the meat arranged in a way to look like Murr's face.

You watch Impractical Jokers? Please explain your answer thoroughly.

>>21529125
We have a TV too
>You watch Impractical Jokers?
No, but I know what it is
>Please explain your answer thoroughly.
............I'm not sure how

When is the day of reckoning coming?

>>21529134
>I'm not sure how
That's cool, thanks for trying anyway. I just like these threads. Last time I was in one I posted a list of waifus that I wanted in a hypothetical Papa John's pizza dating sim.

What's on your guys' tv? Do you have any ideas for gimmicky pizzas that would help make corporate rich?

>>21529992
Oh haha, yeah, of course I remember you
hard to forget a suggestion like the dating sim
>What's on your guys' tv?
Varies wildly, pretty often just music, kinda depends which manager is in charge. When it's football season that's pretty much the default, although honestly I sometimes have to play the bad guy and say we're not turning it on, like during rushes, or if the zoomies are getting a little too distracted. Generally it's not really for our entertainment but just there to be inoffensive background "something" so that waiting customers wait more patiently, and we don't all go insane. So you want to just put on something inoffensive like marvel movies or something.
Although I am kind of an autistic weirdo so I prefer when the store is just silent with the oven running
>Do you have any ideas for gimmicky pizzas that would help make corporate rich?
Probably nothing they haven't already heard a million times, and I actually think the best path for us in the future is ANTI-gimmick. If you have too many gimmicks, they stop being special. Maybe just make the Burger Pizza a permanent menu item, or the Cheddar stuff, whichever of those two wins out. or merge them into the cheddard cheeseburger pizza, which seems obvious.
But I actually think we should stop trying to look for a miracle product outside our current menu, and instead turn inwards and pare down the menu and just hyper-focus on the biggest sellers and make sure we do them really really well.
Like, are we "Better Ingredients, Better Pizza" or are we "Papa Jorge's Wacky Pizza Emporium"?

as a joke i would say let's do a dessert pizza, with graham cracker cinnamon crust, chocolate sauce, and melted marshmallows as a topping
they'd probably take me seriously and try it
like a s'mores pizza
a SMOREgasbord haha get it

....lets fuckin do it

>Papa John is drunk
>goes out looking for some ass to rape tonight
>sees you (op)
>belches and unzips his pants
are you a bad enough dude to take on Papa? think you could kick his ass?

>>21530852
John Schnatter is 63 years old so I like my chances, but he's also got that dog in him
50-50

>>21524830 (OP)
what is the process to making those cinnamon pull-aparts. like ingredients and su

>>21530917
and such*

>>21530917
You won't like it but they come premade, we just pop them in the oven

>>21530924
damn. well that's pretty good stuff, can't lie

>>21530926
Yeah they're really good, probably for the best. We do drizzle the icing on them though, it's a cream-cheese based icing if that helps at all.

but I do want to clarify that those 3 desserts - cookie, brownie, pullaparts - are the ONLY thing that comes premade like that. We do actually use fresh never frozen dough, that's not bullshit. Our ingredients are fresh too, just refrigerated. We go through enough volume that we don't have to freeze things.

And at least in my store, we don't even pre-rack the dough. What that means is most places will portion out small, medium, large crusts and put them up on a rack, so when the order comes in they can just grab one and start putting ingredients on it
Most stores do that I think, and maybe they have to just for practical reasons, but my place slaps that dough by hand every single time.

>>21528511
I've been driving for four years at a Canadian chain, no way could we possibly survive without in house drivers. The difference in speed and customer rapport is crucial.

I've practically become the face of my location because I'm personable and professional.

>>21531020
Yeah trust me you're preaching to the choir, having our own dedicated drivers is so obviously and demonstrably superior to fucking DOORDASH of all things. It's honestly frustrating that nobody higher up seems to really understand what a mistake it is.

I would take the absolute worst driver we've ever had over a random doordasher, every single time. Without hesitation.

Do they call it Papi John in Mexico?

I miss when Papa John's sliced their Canadian bacon instead of julienning it. Much better experience.

>>21531756
you're really gonna diss my boi julienning like that

>>21531705
No, es lo mismo en español.
>>21531756
Agreed, it cooked more evenly too. The julienned stuff is definitely not my favorite.

>>21524830 (OP)
You ever gotten laid cause you worked at Papa Johns? We all know how much tail the guys at Pizza Hut score.

>>21532976
not BECAUSE I worked there, but in a roundabout way yes because of people I met there
>We all know how much tail the guys at Pizza Hut score
Now you're just baiting. Those nerds? No way

Do think the company would be better run if Papa John was back in charge. It was so based when that guy would show up in random places
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vYkY4z4Z8

>>21533081
Almost certainly
People were quick to pile on him for being a "mean" boss but that's exactly why the place was what it was
He was strict and refused to compromise on standards. I recently listened to his interview from a while ago about how he tried lots of pizzas from different "new" papa johns locations and thought they were all slop compared to when he was running the company.

They really did him dirty. Saying he said the no-no gamer word on a call? Yeah, they goaded him into it. It was literally some sensitivy training bullshit where they pretty much kept prodding him
>So what's that one word that you should never say ever?
>Can you say it for us?
total bullshit