Posted on 04/01/2005 12:23:54 PM PST by weekendwarrior
TV ad pokes fun at rival's appearance on NBC's "The Apprentice"
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Pizza giant Papa John's aired a commercial poking fun at a rival's featured appearance on NBC's "The Apprentice" Thursday night.
The Louisville-based pizza delivery chain aired a 30-second ad during the broadcast of the NBC reality show with real-estate mogul Donald Trump. On the show, two teams were tasked with creating a new pizza idea for Domino's, a competitor of Papa John's based in Ann Arbor, Mich.
In the ad, Papa John's founder and chairman John Schnatter is shown in a boardroom setting asking "Why eat a pizza made by apprentices when you can call the pros at Papa John's?"
Trump sits in a similar boardroom during the reality series.
Papa John's also used the ad to introduce a new "Spicy Meatball" pizza.
Papa John's said in a statement the ad was scheduled to run in 64 television markets Thursday night.
The pizza from most chains (Dominos, Pizza Hut, Papa John's, etc.) is cooked on conveyor belt ovens. Most of the time the pizza comes out undone.
The only way to cook a pizza is in an old style pizza oven.
As for the help in these places, it's symptom of a good economy and the state of public education.
Do you remember the stone oven baked pizzas from Shakey's back in the late 60's and early 70's?
Pizza crust to die for....
I remember Shakey's but not their pizza, are they still around?
I haven't seen one in the DC area for 15 years.
Har-har-har!
Been eating the boxes again, have you? You never know where those things have been.
I've had great pizza in Chicago, New York and Boston but the only place I'll wait an hour or more in line is in New Haven. The "Pizza Trinity" is Modern, Pippies and Sallies. There might be better pizza somewhere but there cannot be much better.
It was such good ambush marketing. I turned to my wife and asked if Papa John's was the one on the show.Her answer was yes.In the back of my mind I thought it was Dominos but one commercial timed right revered a hour of promotion for Dominos.HaHa
The spaghetti didn't turn out.
Brain food, huh?
Dominos surprised me by NOT offering the pizzas the winning team made, as soon as the show was over. Some kind of cheeseburger thing instead. Papa johns essentially offered the winner's meatball pizza.
Are you saying they put St John's Wort on their pizzas?
Or maybe you can brew beer with it?
Roger that!
Ever since, Papa John is our favorite delivered pizza.
I only eat thin crust. Who wants to eat all those useless carbs in a thick crust pie? There are a few local guys here who make a good thin crust pizza. My favorite is blazing hot, right out of the oven. The crust is a bit browned. Sprinkle some red pepper flakes and garlic powder on it. then wolf it down
Mmmmmm....Totino's! I remember .99¢ pizzas! The plastic....errrr, cheese stuck to my teeth for after meal enjoyment. num-num! 8-§
You probably have Sir Pizza then. Sir Pizza International is the outside-of-Indiana version of Pizza King.
Other pizza is very good but I can't really compare it to these three. If you do go though Modern is just off of Wooster Street at 874 State Street
We were just talking about Shakey's - there are no more pizza joints (chains) anymore like that - at least not in our area. Our Shakeys has a juke box - we used to go there for birthday parties when we were kids. And remember Farrells?
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