I’m going to guess their terrible pizza also plays a role.
Lots of very good quotes at the link.
Want to see sales jump? Announce you are pulling your ads. It worked for the Pittsburg Army Ranger who for a day made us believe he had backbone and his jersey sales went to #1. When he caved the next day, his reputation went with it.
Well PPJ, you should team up with Home Depot, Lowes, and ACE. Lots of pizza in home projects.
Business is probably not going to get better now that one of his larger franchisees and advertisement stars, Payton Manning, has been accused of sexual harassment
You mean when they hired a Clinton flack as the communications face?
He says he thought protests were nipped in the bud last year. Really?
Uh, so where’s his condemnation for the kneelers? Or is it all about his profits.
I had a PJ pizza once. Don’t remember what it was called, but it was thin as cardboard and tasted like it, too. Very little cheese, almost no sauce.
Either he has a different pie better than the one I picked or a lot of people don’t know what what good pizza is. I don’t hold that against anyone, but I’d gladly make you a pizza to illustrate the difference.
PJ is a Louisville company and the owner has been very generous to this town and is rumored to be a good man (I don’t know him personally). And I really like his pizza. Each to his own, I guess. I think he will do the right thing and pull the ads. It doesn’t take a master analyst to figure out that associating with the Hate White Priveldge League is counterproductive.
If they pull their ads (and support for NFL), I will go back to buying their pizza.
Papa John’s secret is the sweet sauce! You can get extra just for asking - that is what made PJ’s the best 15-20 years ago. What had turned me OFF to PJ’s was too damn much of Manning - I used too, very much, like Payton Manning commercials but PJ’s just killed their pizza’s with those continuous Payton campaign commercials.
My guess is that there are a lot of other NFL Sponsors feeling the same! Or should I say, I hope!! Papa Johns is not near our house so we cannot boycott them but we’ve really tried to put a dent in our spending related to all of the NFL sponsors. Our goal is to have the sponsors twist the NFL ‘s arm (pocketbook) like a pretzel, and directly impact their pocketbooks, and thereby the players! I know we’re just one household, but if we’re part of hundreds of thousands, it just may make the idiots stand for our police, our military, our flag, anthem and country! But to be honest now that we’ve been boycotting the NFL for a year, we truly have no thoughts or desire to ever go back. Anyway, I sure hope we’re hurting sales of a lot more brands than just Papa Johns!
PJ’s pizza is just OK. It’s better than frozen, but....
I haven’t seen nearly as many of his commercials this year. And of course his pizza sucks.
I just ordered Papa John’s pizza and got a short survey by email. I rated their pizza a 10 but asked them why they would want to advertise on the NFL since they are becoming so unpatriotic!
(I posted this reply to a thread on 10/29. Maybe I’m not the only one doing this?!)
I live in NJ, which means there are a plethora of off-the-boat pizza makers that make Papa Johns look & taste like cardboard with ketchup in comparison.
If PJ is suffering....oh well, sad to tell. Lay down with dogs, so to speak...
And what’s with a 40-something dude calling himself “Papa”? That’s just a little bizarre.
Dear John, sorry if you think that has to do with your profit, but the cardboard box tastes better...