Papa John's, Facebook on a mission to bulk up skinny nerds
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Papa John's Pizza)
A tragic subculture in our country rarely receives the media attention it needs and deserves. The group I allude to, of course, is the underweight nerd. The Simpsons has Comic Book Guy, Family Guy has Peter Griffin, even The Nutty Professor has Sherman Klump. The skinny guys have...Steven Q. Urkel. Why should all the overweight nerds get all the spotlight?
Facebook and Papa John's pizza are finally teaming up to give the little dudes a little help in their quest to be weightier. Any Facebook user who becomes a fan of Papa John's will automatically receive an e-coupon good for one free medium-size pizza with any online pizza order. The offer expires December 1, so be sure to plan your pig-out soon.
Are these pizza promotions the start of a trend?
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- by JamesReck1956 April 11, 2009 12:23 AM PDT
- Cronyism the rule/problem at Papa John's?
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(4 Comments)I think the basic problem with Papa John's is that they're cheap, despite the relatively high cost of the pizza, and the delivery charge.
They don't pay enough to keep quality management, and as a result, have to take what they can get for the salaries they pay.
They also don't want to spend the money to drug test. (Even those in management or delivery driver positions.)
Were they to do so, the majority of the problems with service, product quality, and delivery times & errors would very quickly solve themselves.
My son worked as a delivery driver at the Papa John's in Snellville GA for a few months, but quit when he realized that that particular location had become a haven for "druggies and petty criminals" as he put it.
He explained that "The manager and her cronies" seemed to spend more time "out back" behind the building, night and day, talking and smoking, than inside serving customers and making pizza.
When I asked him if the managers supervisor was aware of this, he said "How could he not be...!?, Isn't that his job!!"
Some of the stories he's told me about what goes on at that location, especially in the late evening
were hard to believe, until I went in (several times) to pick up in-store orders. Seeing is believing!
He has since taken a position elsewhere, so at least I won't have to worry about him getting involved with that kind of crowd.
Jimmy R
JamesR1956@yahoo.com