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Papa John's blames poor restaurant sales on bad NFL ratings | Fox News
The chain isn't attributing its worse-than-predicted performance to less-than-stellar pies. According to Chief Operating Officer and Papa John’s International Inc. president Steve Ritchie, National Football League ratings over the last season played a major role in weakening sales.
“We’ve seen ratings down 8 percent for the season,” Ritchie said during an earnings call Wednesday. “We’ve made a significant investment in the NFL. An 8-percent decline in ratings played a small factor in some of our performance.
At one time I was a strong fan of Papa John's. The local franchise apparently went out of business and I longed for a good Papa John"s Pizza. They returned to our area after a few years and I believe they changed their sauce recipe. If sales are not stellar I believe that is the reason. When they returned I eagerly bought a pizza. Have not bothered with them since.
Not sure whether this belongs in Food forum or current events forum.
Instead of accepting responsibility and making possible changes to their product & service, they blame NFL ratings. I had Papa John's a few times and frankly, not impressed.
I used to love Papa John's and we ordered it once a week. The last time I ordered it, I happened to peel off the cheese and saw that there was a big black fly baked into the pizza. Since then, I haven't had any urge to order Papa John's. Homemade pizza costs half as much and I know there are no flies in it.
PJ's runs discounts every time either Nats or Caps score. We have ordered a pizza from them on occasion. Hasn't been too bad for us but lately getting ours from store - brand: Calif Kitchen or Screaming Sicilian. Saving between $5.00 - [close to] $10.00.
My local store told me that they will not deliver their smallest pie. I had to order a larger size for delivery. And then they add a delivery charge - that the driver does not get - so they are expecting the customer to tip another three dollars or so? No wonder I haven't completed a delivery order in years.
No thank you.
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Papa John makes me uncomfortable by the way he awkwardly looks directly into the camera in his commercials.
I had said that the last time I saw a PJ commercial. There was just something about him that made me uncomfortable.
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