Buzzfeed: Everything You Need to Know About the Internet's Feud with Papa John's Pizza

[MattFancy]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthi...he-internets-f

Our best estimate is that the Obamacare [law] will cost about 11 to 14 cents per pizza – or 15 or 20 cents per order from a corporate basis. To put that in perspective, our average delivery charge is $1.75 to $2.50 – or about 10-fold our estimated cost of the Obamacare [law] to Papa John's. We're not supportive of Obamacare, like most businesses in our industry. But our business model and unit economics [are] about as ideal as you can get for a food company to absorb Obamacare…. We have a high ticket average with extremely high frequency of order counts – millions of pizzas per year. To give you an example, Peter, let's say fuel goes up, which it does from time to time, and we have to raise delivery charges. We don't like raising delivery charges. But the price of fuel is out of our control, as is Obamacare. So if Obamacare is, in fact, not repealed, we will find tactics to shallow out any Obamacare costs and core strategies to pass that cost onto the consumer in order to protect our shareholders' best interest.

So how much would prices go up... if they were to fairly reflect the increased cost of doing business onset by Obamacare? Roughly 3.4 to 4.6 cents a pie.

So basically Papa John's is just trying raise prices and come up with a lame excuse. And I mean really, would they lose customers because the price of pizza went from $10 to $10.10?

[The Evil Genius]

Probably not...especially when your pizza is one step up from cardboard.

What I really want to know is...does their pizza dough come to their franchises pre-made and frozen?

[No_Pressure]

Eh. The most damaging response people could possibly have is totally ignoring them and buying their pizza elsewhere. I don't really get the big pizza chains- papa john's, pizza hut, dominos, etc. in the case of pizza I'd much rather support a local hole in the wall pizza shop than one of them. Papa John's isn't even that tasty...none of them are. They're not horrible clearly but I don't know what the attraction is. I already thought their pizzas were overpriced. Ignore them and we'll see what they do about that.

[Botched]

Probably not...especially when your pizza is one step up from cardboard.

What I really want to know is...does their pizza dough come to their franchises pre-made and frozen?

I don't think so. Pizza Hut's does though.

For the record I think Papa John's probably has the best pizza of all the chain restaurants.

[skinsfan_1215]

We ordered $100 worth of pizza in the office today. First choice was Papa John's. I did not let it happen. Our $100 went elsewhere.

[Bang]

COmpanies pass costs along to the consumer?
No WAY!
My goodness, i always just thought the prices of things were set by the Price Fairy.

Good thing the free market allows for competition.
Hello, Dominos.
if I'm in the mood for crappy pizza, I've got plenty of options.

(And affordable health care for my obesity problems from all the pizza.)

~Bang

[MattFancy]

COmpanies pass costs along to the consumer?
No WAY!
My goodness, i always just thought the prices of things were set by the Price Fairy.

Good thing the free market allows for competition.
Hello, Dominos.
if I'm in the mood for crappy pizza, I've got plenty of options.

(And affordable health care for my obesity problems from all the pizza.)

~Bang

I don't think people are complaining about the price, its just the way he's going about it. Saying how the price will have to go up 10-15 cents a pizza? BFD. If people can't afford 10-15 cents, then they have bigger issues than Papa John's pizza. It's the fact that instead of providing health care to his employees, he's just going to make them work less. No more Papa John's for me.

[skinsmarydu]

We ordered $100 worth of pizza in the office today. First choice was Papa John's. I did not let it happen. Our $100 went elsewhere.

A noble gesture indeed. They make a decent pie, but no more of our "dough" goes to his coffers.

[mboyd784]

Pizza and "shareholders" do not belong in the same sentence. Find a good local place and support it.

[Mr. Sinister]

They are going to get killed from this. The quality of their pizzas has gone down these last few years, at least the ones I've eaten. Everyone else has stepped their game up. A lot of other people I've talked to don't order from them these days either.

[greenspandan]

had Donatos (note: not Dominos) for the first time a few days ago. New one just opened in Fairfax City. Not bad! Beats the crap out of Papa Johns, anyway.

[MattFancy]

I think most local pizza places are way better than Papa John's, Pizza Hut, or Domino's anyway. Though Domino's has gotten better.

[Ellis]

If you're in the Annapolis area.... order from Rocco's Pizza.
Some of the best NY style monstrous slices of pizza you'll ever have!!

[deejaydana]

It's a bit myopic to think that this wouldn't happen. How many other companies are going to follow suit in the coming year? And it's the "Internet's" fued with them? Not sure what that even means.

[laurent]

Tell you what you greedy ****ing bastard, I'll gladly pay the extra 15 cent for a pizza so that the people that break their backs for you can get the care they deserve.

You see, guys like him are what's wrong with the USA. He had no problem with healthcare as long as the cost of it was socialized and the tax payers were left to foot the bill for his insatiable hunger for profit.

His pizza is disgusting and so is his lack of morals and ethics.

Burn in hell you pizza slinging *******.