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Papa John's testing $2.99 "Papa Priority" fee to let customers jump to front of line
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Randolph Freelander
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At most, an extra $15 of revenue per store per day hardly seems worthwhile.
Complistic
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Is papa johns being bad a gaf thing? Because I mean, I've had their pizza a few times and it's certainly nothing special, but most of you guys are acting like they literally empty their trash onto some crust.
Though It was only at one papa johns, maybe that one just wasn't terrible?
Though It was only at one papa johns, maybe that one just wasn't terrible?
MisterNoisy
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It's pretty awful to me, largely because the sauce is basically sweetened ketchup with a little oregano sprinkled in.
Tertullian
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I don't get it either. It's not good pizza, but it's a step above fuckin Little Caesars for heaven's sake.
Complistic
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True, though the thing about Little Caesars is that it's dirt ass cheap so if you're looking for something like that, it'll get the job done.
Aaron Strife
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lol what's the point of doing this at a pizza place?
I guess for delivery but every time I've gone for pickup I'm the only one there.
I guess for delivery but every time I've gone for pickup I'm the only one there.
Papa J opens up another bottle of Ace of Spades on his yacht.
Muppet of a Man
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For their current test, there's a daily limit on priority orders per location. It's even bolded in the OP, which is only 4 lines.
I saw that. I figured that it was limited in its implementation at the outset just because they are testing it, not because they planned on limiting its use if or when it's actually implemented everywhere. What would be the incentive to implement the policy at each store? An extra $15.00 in revenue a day? Those economics make no sense whatsoever.
GAF Papa haters are weird, they probably think Dominos is good pizza.
This obviously isn't saying much, but from all the huge chains, Papa's has the best pizza, certainly the most fresh, and that garlic sauce is great.
That said, their corporate goons (and Pappy himself) are obviously shit and stuff like this is disgusting. If Pizza Hut had better prices and coupons I would stick with them if I had to get chain pizza.
Muppet of a Man
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This. It really is the perfect metaphor for capitalism sadly.
That's a good point. Where are these Papa Johns with such long lines that need cutting money?
Muppet of a Man
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That's what makes the scheme brilliant. People will pay the extra 3 bucks for nothing and always get it relatively quickly because only 20 orders are made at each location daily.
KO Traveling Hobo
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If you want cheap, just get the garlic parmesan breadsticks with pizza dipping sauce. It's a pizza-sized box of seasoned, oily bread with pizza sauce for FOUR DOLLARS ( $ 4 ).
There was a brief period where I was living off of those breadsticks, and I literally gained twenty pounds.
Pizza Hut with excessive flavor crust >>> Pizza Hut > Papa John's >>> Domino's
Never had LC but from what I've heard it's the worst of the bunch.
There was a brief period where I was living off of those breadsticks, and I literally gained twenty pounds.
Pizza Hut with excessive flavor crust >>> Pizza Hut > Papa John's >>> Domino's
Never had LC but from what I've heard it's the worst of the bunch.
Flown Southwest in the last 5 years? Like that.
Except presumably the family of 15 won't be saving half the plane with a single early bird fee.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Sounds like you might just be cool with eating trash on a crust. That's okay, you do you.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Nah, it is known through out the internet(and real life) that Papa John's garbage tier pizza, the lowest of the big 3 chains, and the Arby's of the pizza world.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Arby's has fucking ridiculous curly fries. That alone makes it top tier.
Bingo. This is equal parts brilliant and nefarious. It's so cheap that most people wont care about the cost, anything slightly faster than 45 min. average wait time will seem "faster" to anyone. And most importantly, if your pizza is slow they can tell you a bunch of people paid for the fast pass before you regardless if that's true or not because only the staff at the Papa John's know the wait queue. And you know Papa John's will likely inflate the expected wait times online and over the phone to drive sales even if there is no like.
What ends up happening is a majority of people fork out an extra $3 for a perceived benefit that likely won't be there on average.
Nappuccino
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In a future where poor people never get their pizzas . . .
Muppet of a Man
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Are they considered poor people or lucky people if they don't get their pizza from Papa Johns because of this?
Poor and unlucky because they are in line and they will eventually get that bad pizza.
Aaron Strife
Banned
And that's another thing. Arby's is delicious.
Laevateinn
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With pizza so bad, I doubt there's enough of a line to justify paying three dollars more for this.
Princess Viola
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Naw Papa John's is trash.
I'd honestly rather have Little Caesar's, at least that has the excuse of costing $5.
Mushroomer25
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One and done. I'd rather pay an annual fee to have Papa John's barred from delivering to any location I'm currently inhabiting. Fuck their pizza, fuck their garlic grease dip, and fuck their figurehead for whining about public health care.
Also fuck Peyton Manning.
Escape Goat
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Ok? Nobody is going to use this.
Garbage attracts garbage and there's a whole lot of garbage out there.
efyu_lemonardo
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That's the spirit!
bad chain pizza places have pushed many smaller mom and pop pizza places out of business, so places have no other options.
of course they had to start as bare bones shitty empty store front pizza sellers to get there, and most of them never changed, but now they're billion dollar companies.
Still one of my favorite tweets lol
It has a timeless appeal doesn't it.
RedAssedApe
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err just order online early. lazy bums.
The Jazz Cabbage Master
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