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[ascheeseman]

How is Peter Griffin a nerd?

[DrollTroll]

Gawd, Papa John's pizza is soooo awful, I think I'd rather be overweight , or maybe not be a nerd at all. PJ pizza is like moldy rye bread swimming in catsup with 9/11 soot and a few Portobello's liberally sprinkled on top. Definitely not for the faint of heart.

[mad1111]

yea but there garlic butter sauce is de-lic-ious!!! :-)

[JamesReck1956]

Cronyism the rule/problem at Papa John's?

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
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