Papa John's: Scandals, Betrayal & Dumpster Diving

The INSANE Story of Papa John’s business by MagnatesMedia: Papa John’s franchise has over 5500 locations globally, revenues reported at over $2 billion dollars, and is one of the most successful pizza fast food chains in the world. And so it may be hard to believe that Papa John’s started out of a bar’s broom closet, that its founder resorted to dumpster diving in hopes of getting customers. This is the untold truth of Papa John’s Pizza business empire, and the founder who made it all happen… The Papa John’s story really began when a young 15-year-old kid by the name of John H. Schnatter got his first job washing dishes at a small Italian pizzeria known as Rocky’s Sub Pub. But John wasn’t content with just dish washing and set his sights on making pizzas from his first day. After months of hard work, the Fondrisi family who owned the restaurant allowed John to start occasionally preparing the pizza dough and tomato sauce, but they adamantly kept the honor of baking pizzas within the family. John was determined one day to run his own pizza business, but he’d have to wait quite a while to get the funding he needed. In fact, Papa John’s would actually begin out of a bar. And it’d be years before John could get the financing needed to create the first proper Papa John’s store. In this Papa Johns documentary, we follow the rise of the business, the very unconventional marketing strategies to get more customers, and the controversial twist in Papa John’s story. This business story is a rollercoaster of emotions - enjoy! (Produced by John Frazer. Co-written by John Frazer & L.D. Murphy). #Business #Entrepreneur #Magnates #documentary #businesses #company #papajohns

The Untold Truth of Papa John's: Scandals, Betrayal & Dumpster Diving
Papa John's: Scandals, Betrayal & Dumpster Diving
Scandals, Betrayal & Dumpster Diving: The INSANE Papa John’s Story
The Uncomfortable Story of Papa John’s
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Scandals, Betrayal & Dumpster Diving: The Untold TRUTH of Papa John's

⏳THE STORY OF PAPA JOHNS PIZZA BUSINESS - CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro To The Story of Papa John's
00:26 Chapter 1: The Doughboy Days
02:54 Chapter 2: The Terrible Tavern
04:13 Chapter 3: Dumpster Diving
06:29 Chapter 4: The First Location
10:08 Chapter 5: The Rise of Papa John's
13:30 Chapter 6: The Power Struggle
15:37 Chapter 7: A Controversial Ending

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[AwokenEntertainment]

The dumpster-diving story is strangely inspiring..

[MapsAndCaps]

John got such bad press for his big game hunting but after hearing this story, I cant help but respect the hard work and determination he had.

What a great channel.

[joshschoolcraft]

I worked for papa johns from 2011 until a few months ago. From being on register only to delivering, then back inside making pizzas.. managing.. then I became a GM in 2017. I quit this year. You want real hard facts? John was the company. Hate him or love him, he made the company what it was. It has been a steady decline since 2018 when he was ejected. The only thing that saved PJs was covid. Corporate greed slowly downgraded food, upped expectations, they upped waged while shitting on the General Managers. Now they spawn out new products that make life more and more difficult on the instore workers just to try everything possible to stay afloat and try to hold on to what covid brought in... For real. You want to talk about the company having shitty pizza? John had standards and had people from corporate coming monthly, and at random, to make sure stores were holding their quality standards. There is no standard now. It's slowly going away because veteran GMs are being ran ragged and shortcutting to not lose their minds, and most are quitting. So those standards that were ingrained in us are disappearing from the stores, because we were the only ones that still pushed them.

[serioushex]

he definitely looked like he had 40 pizzas in 30 days. that man practically sweats grease.

[demorbe-official]

One thing that is still blowing my mind is how you are able to pump out high quality videos in a very short period of time.
Are you having a team that you are working with or its and you alone.

I love the efforts you put see see soon hit that half a milli sub count on your channel. You deserve better man.

[AllSkitzd]

I used to work at Papa John's as a driver in Dallas, you could easily make over $55, 000 a year equivalent until Papa John's kept trying to cut cost at the customers and employees expense. They pushed hard for you to favor Papa John's on your 401K saying that it always goes up but they tried to avoid downturn but cutting cost, drivers could take two deliveries at a time which did not work in busy stores so orders would go late and they wanted managers to cut labor. The reason behind the 2 orders at a time was to keep drivers on road more making $4.50 instead of $7.50 when in the stores.

UberEATS and door dash would have hurt them anyways but it was sad to see them self destruct bringing down such a good thing.

[kennedyamosjr]

How does this channel manage to churn out super High quality videos so frequently? It's mind-blowing. With all the research that goes into this, I can't imagine how much effort tall this takes. I really love this channel. ❤️

[visionaryq]

This is one of the most underrated channels I have ever seen there’s so much good editing and story telling thats has me wrapped when I first click on the video.

[Babalola]

Channels like this are what make and keep YouTube an amazing platform. Incredible, inspiring stories. New perspectives and top it off, highly motivating....keep up the world class work!

[TheRootMessage]

BRB, heating up my papa johns leftovers so I can watch this comfortably without remorse later.

[kpballa]

"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall" - Proverbs 16:18

[Marksj-qr]

Fantastic content, by far the best business documentaries both online and on TV. Well done, fantastic productions, concise, interesting and very entertaining. I can't believe, that I have binge watched your videos for three days straight. Well Done!

[Feeling_goood]

The video sequence around the 8 minute mark is perfect for that part of the story and really pulls you in.. brilliant video editing once again and certainly one of the best channels on youtube💯

[fredericmartin]

I worked at Papa John's in Richardson, TX in the late 1990s. Area manager was lousy and became one of the highest ranking executives in the company.

[tonezic]

your editing is insane bro! you're such an inspiration.

[calebbritannia]

I always get super hyped when I see you upload, thanks so much for making such fantastic content for free!

[FairwellNoob]

Honestly feels like the new Jake Tran of YouTube business, hopefully you don't fall too deep into a downwards spiral.

[huseman]

A long time ago papa johns was hands down the best pizza. Once I tried it I was sold for life. Well, now after they changed to the worst and cheapest ingredients they could find in china the pizza is just a tad bit better than Kroger's brand frozen pizzas. Its horrible, I never eat it anymore.

[Kidradd]

I see the real moral of this story is: There's no such thing as a "Mom & Pop" restaurant chain while also being a mega franchise with stock shares in a public company. Eventually, they always have to cut corners and costs of operating. John wasn't betrayed by business associates, he betrayed his own core business values while being hypocritical.