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Papa John's
Papa John's is one of the world's largest Pizza franchises with over five thousands establishments worldwide. The company is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky and trades on the NASDAQ with the symbol PZZA.
The restaurant was founded by John Schnatter who added a pizza kitchen to his father's tavern in 1984. He opened his own restaurant in the following year.
The restaurants concentrate on take out and delivery with a web site and communication system that allows the public to order their pizza online. Some of the restaurants have a seating.
Gift Card
You can buy Papa John's gift cards at giftcard.com. (FCC Disclaimer: This site might benefit by purchases made through gift card link.). The video shows the Papa John's story:
Corporate History
This section shows select corporate event's in the company's history. The history has been fairly straight forward. An entrepreneur started the firm, held an IPO and grew the firm. The story took a big turn when the founder was forced out of the firm in 2018.1,2.
- 1984: John Schnatter started selling pizza at Mick's Tavern in Jeffersonville, In.
- 1985: Papa John opened his first restaurant.
- 1986: Papa John's began franchising.
- 1989: Papa John's moved its headquarters to Louisville, Kentucky.
- 1993: Papa John's raised $12 million with an IPO.
- 1996: The chain grew to over a thousand locations.
- 1998: Papa John's expanded into Mexico.
- 1999: The chain passed 2000 locations.
- 1999: Papa John's acquired Perfect Pizza Holdings, Ltd. in the United Kingdom.
- 2012: The chain crossed the 4000 location mark.
- 2017: Schnatter was critical of the way the NFL handled the anti-Trump kneeling protests.
- 2018: Schnatter used a word that begins with N while discussing political correctness. He was subsequently forced to resign as CEO.
- 2019: Papa John's appointed Shaquille O'Neal to the Board of Directors to stem the bad publicity caused by the politically incorrect statement.
This is Schnatter's recounting the incident. Schnatter used the word-must-not-be-said in a comment about political correctness. The stock chart for PZZA shows that the stock took a nose dive during the controversy indicating leading credence to the claim that the controversy was hyped up by people playing games with the stock.
References:
- Wikipedia - Papa John's (Drawn 11/10/2019)
- Funding Universe - Papa John's (Drawn 11/10/2019)
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