i used to be a driver for papa johns about 5 years ago. in a way i miss it. it was fun and i loved our customers. making the pizza was almost a science. i used to be a real chef before working there and i used to take the screens from the oven by hand. i always had to tell the new guys to not copy me, lol. i had nearly 2 decades of experience that allowed me to be able to do that. i had better pizza, but papa johns was and still is worth it to me. also i never found a pizza that is better cold the next day as papa johns is. PS: i love the PI-day upload being pizza.

@carlroy662

3 ай бұрын

real chef to poppa johns? what felony did you get?

@TheSwarm666X

3 ай бұрын

@@carlroy662got tired of cooking and wanted something easier. now i sell appliances. never know where you'll end up

@BusinessInsider

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

This explains why for the last few years, Papa John' crust has been different, flatter around the edges, harder, almost crispy. It used to be fatter, doughier, nice. I complained once, with pictures, and they sent me two new pizzas later, but they were the same. It's a bother because that is the part of Papa Johns pizza that I crave.

@arandomperson3516

3 ай бұрын

Used to work there. They added machines that roll out the dough much faster, which seems great until you realize it can't make a good crust like when you do it by hand. Recently, Papa John's has started to shift to quantity over quality in my opinion.

@triadwarfare

3 ай бұрын

I guess their current formula isn't to your liking. If they change the formula to fit your taste, someone else is gonna complain. I guess the inconsistency is something that's beneficial. If a store is making something to your preference, you can stick to that store.

@JuanAppleseed-ge6tb

3 ай бұрын

My family never ordered ANY pizza besides Papa John's because of the quality. We moved to a different state around when Papa John's changed the dough, but we didn't know about that. We just assumed it was because this different store didn't make it the same way. So we tried a different store...and another store...and all three of them were NOWHERE even close to being as good as back in the day. Now, we only buy pizzas from small town places with verified reviews for authenticity and quality. No Dominos, Papa John's, Pizza Hut, Marco's, none of that

@sfvirgo

3 ай бұрын

they always raw and doughy in the middle... 3 different stores ive been to are like that now. i gotta say well done jus for it to b finished. and that stuffed crust can make u sick raw dough served and the cheese never hit safe temp

@Etienne_H

3 ай бұрын

Yeah and it tastes like it. Nothing authentic about it.

1:59 factory fail... that woman's sleeve is touching every dough ball she reaches for

@annan.3283

3 ай бұрын

What about the guy getting his arm hair in the dough when flipping it?

@Thorsbeard

3 ай бұрын

@@annan.3283Maybe not, but I think you'd be surprised by the amount of hair and other stuff we ingest everyday.

@bkgdnoize111

3 ай бұрын

@@annan.3283Yes, also gross!

@Shekasheek5925

3 ай бұрын

@@annan.3283 thats all i been thinking about!!!

@Johnnybananass-_

3 ай бұрын

2:15 the womans lower bust touches every tray ? !! LOWER BUST we are all gonna die , its the pizzapocolypse

I love to see all the behind scenes of this businesses.

@sfvirgo

3 ай бұрын

me 2 i always stop goin after i see the cheap stuff they pillun meanwhile the price go up and the quality go down

@BusinessInsider

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Just one thing, when you introduce me can you call me Papa John?

Did you see the girl stretching out pizza with long nails and wearing rings? She’s collecting and keeping dirt/bacteria under those nails!

@TheMagykKonch

3 ай бұрын

They all had bare hands. The dough gets baked in an oven which kills the germs

@ElysetheEevee

3 ай бұрын

​@@TheMagykKonch It kills a lot of germs, but some stuff can survive being boiled/cooked, depending on the temperature. I wouldn't always bet on that being the cure-all for poor food prep. Besides, when you take food safety tests for certification in many states, they tell you not to wear crap like that and to keep your nails short and clean if you're not wearing gloves. I don't know where they're at or what the laws are, but that's still gross.

@user-sk5zu9qf6w

3 ай бұрын

tey probs tell them to senetizxe their hands before work or smth

@chubster3271

3 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@user-sk5zu9qf6wsanitising your hands isnt gonna last you a whole work day. it needs to be done throughout the day or your hands will just get dirty again

@davidmartinez1785

3 ай бұрын

I work at Papa Johns. We are required to wash our hand constantly. We wash and sanitize our hand as soon as we come in and after touching anything that could contaminate food, aka money, face, trash, etc

7:04 Vent game on point. Many businesses that tried to pivot during the pandemic were sending out soggy buns and fries.

My aunt used to be a supervisor at one of these plants. Talk about free dough. Always had dough in my freezer. Once they hit their mark for the day. All extra dough was tossed or the employees took it home. Topping once they hit 1 week before expiration it went to the trash or employees.

I worked for a Domino's franchise in the late 80's through the mid 90's (high-school and college years for me). Our goal was a start-to-finish time (start at the make-line to oven) for any pizza was like 75 seconds... without those machines. Amongst other competitions, one corporate and franchise one was the "pep time" - a large (16") pepperoni pizza start to finish by one person (dough pulled from tray, stretched, slapped, screened, sauced, cheesed, topped and then placed on the oven coveyor). My best was 38 seconds.... no where close to the world record! 😂 My store's (at the time) record was 275 pizzas in one hour. My forearms looked like Popeye after working dough like that for a few years!

@sfvirgo

3 ай бұрын

i feel u on the popeye i wrkd dough at an italian restaurant, 1100-1400 pounds a day dependin on day of week

Papa John’s moves down my pizza list after this. It’s not delivery, it’s Digiorno😂

The problem with every. single. Test Kitchen, for every Food company is the same.. The Test Kitchen, is completely 100% Functional, and in Pristine working condition... "This machine can do it right the 1st time, and the 1,000th time." You'll NEVER find 1 actual operating Store, that is like the "Test Kitchen". ... 75% of the Machines are "kinda broken", and very RARELY are consistent.

Never frozen in that pantry but the chicken says “keep frozen” so the pantry cooler must be freezing temps

@nahor88

3 ай бұрын

My optimist self used to think they were actually grilling fresh chicken IN THE RESTAURANT and using it as the pizza topping. 😬

@Barneys69Ruiz

2 ай бұрын

Dude literally said you can’t be in there to long or you will freeze to death! 🥶

@mrsocal09

2 ай бұрын

It's frozen (or used to be) & would slightly thaw out enroute to the store. Used to need 24 hrs in the store fridge before we'd use it. So much wasted cheese & pepperoni on the make line.

Did spending the money on removing the apostrophe actually make a difference, like honestly this is the first ive ever even seen it lol

The docking of the pizza is for the hot air to flow through the pizza and cook it more evenly. Also it eliminates bubbles from forming. These 2 key items were not mentioned in the video.

4:41 His amazement about their forklifts has me worried; I thought that was standard for distribution warehouses.

@matthewseymour128

3 ай бұрын

Newer forklifts have computer screens detailing what storage location each item is at. Some can also reach a pick with more precision and ease than older models.

@sfvirgo

3 ай бұрын

@@matthewseymour128 its called RFT its been standard for decades by now, scan and move system😂

John Schnatter was _quoting somebody else on a company call;_ he didn't use the N-word himself

As an italian watching, this looks like a dystopia

@oledgaming4997

3 ай бұрын

Shut up

@balls9420

3 ай бұрын

What do you think of us in the UK? We get our pizzas from kebab shops. Some places even serve donner meat as a topping.

@giuseppe1720

3 ай бұрын

Yeah man expecially in the end when he mentioned the pineapple. My grandma heard it and died from heart attack...

@anniesama5729

3 ай бұрын

Don't try to compare American pizza and Italian pizza. You'll hurt yourself.

@LordQueezle

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, this isn't Italian pizza and it's not meant to be. But it is still tasty. And if you don't want to eat it don't

I worked at Domino's for about 10 years and super bowl Sunday was crazy

3:44 That animated papa John is cursed

I can't believe that at 4:24 this guy said that they have people come to work on their day off for a video that's gonna end on the internet. That's a bit of a slip for such a large company.

@kikujirob1ll

3 ай бұрын

They get overtime I’m sure.

@theepicsealshow123

3 ай бұрын

pretty sure its by choice

@dodda

3 ай бұрын

Same guy says its freezing like 6 times while in the cooler right after the naration says "Pappa Johns says the ingredients are never frozen"

@TRIMMEDshort

2 ай бұрын

​@@doddano 💩 after 2h inside you would freeze but it not freezing temperatures

@BOMBON187

2 ай бұрын

They're not going in for free.

papa john's had a promotion a few years back where you could buy a gallon of their garlic butter sauce. Somehow I ended up with two.

Idk about the US but Papa John’s is prob the best pizza in Korea. Every other chain like pizza hut, dominoe’s localized it to cater to Korean tastes, and needless to say some of it arent even pizza lmao. Kudos to Papa John’s for making actual pizza in Korea.

@ElysetheEevee

3 ай бұрын

What are the other chains like there? I'm always curious about global food chains and localization with menu options lol.

@i_need_apple_piepls5174

3 ай бұрын

@@ElysetheEevee Well, a lot of pizza franchises dont seem to use tomato sauce the way the US does? It looks and tastes kinda like watered down ketchup(except papa johns) Also places like Dominoe's here uses barbeque sauce, some mayonnaise base sauce instead of tomate sauce on some of their menus....

@kifacorea

2 ай бұрын

SOUTH korea

"Pies"being used instead of just calling them Pizzas always stresses me out way more than it should.

Nice to show the employees with fake painted nails WITH A RING ON.

Doughtoli shoulda been a feature on here

@augburn116

26 күн бұрын

The new face of the company. Forget Shaq

Papa John’s was my first ever job and the only pizza I like to eat. I might be a bit biased 🙃

Thank you great video 😊

@BusinessInsider

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Their pizza would be a lot better if they finished cooking it.

@DaRealPhillyJawn

3 ай бұрын

No all you had to say was "Their pizza would be alot better." 😂

@misterhat5823

3 ай бұрын

That's a franchisee problem and it happens with all the big chains when they speed up the belt. But, Papa Johns does give a "well done" option for online ordering.

@alitharealist4730

3 ай бұрын

Have you ever tried pizza from a actual Pizzeria? Or have you been eating cardboard corporation stale pizza all your life?

@cshubs

3 ай бұрын

@@alitharealist4730 My family is from New Haven.

@alitharealist4730

3 ай бұрын

@@cshubs Fair enough, Thought you were just wanting it a lil more cooked because your a regular at these disgusting dominos spots not even cooking it will save the pizza.. But since your from new haven Your lucky lol

Faster is not always better😬. Explain why their pizza sucks now

@wunderfull

3 ай бұрын

Some people just want to eat as soon as possible 😄

@aamirtalpur9740

3 ай бұрын

I can answere this as I am from pakistan but will not as I may risk my security..

@Premium-Content

3 ай бұрын

My favorite pizza place in town is a small place run by one guy and his kid. First time I ordered there I asked on the phone how long before the pizza would be here and he started yelling “it’s done when it’s done you get it after I make it” then he mumbled something in Italian and hung up. Pizza came about an hour later. Best pizza I’ve had

@misterhat5823

3 ай бұрын

@@wunderfullThe fastest, lowest quality, pizza is what we have Dominoes for.

@AN-ks2ep

3 ай бұрын

it always been rubbish.

Gotta like how they came up with the new container for wings. I actually reuse mine for my lunches or even in front of the TV for chips n dip

@7:58 so they went from env friendly to plastic! nice.

Wow forklifts help people be faster. I never would have guessed. Man papa John’s spoiled their employees

The best pizza chain

1:21 dro Daniel Ford really means it, he personally tastes each item in the facility 😅😅😅

The dudes working in the "test kitchen" have the most basic ideas and somehow these ideas are only coming up in recent years - but i bet they are way overpaid compared to the workers who actually do all the work that keeps the business running.

@RudieObias

3 ай бұрын

It’s not just coming up with ideas, it’s also engineering, problem solving, and testing. Way more work and training than average pizza shop workers 😅

@Zero11_ss

3 ай бұрын

@@RudieObias yeah but look at what they came up with, just replaced the cardboard and foil with a plastic box and oh look at this amazing hole to hold the sauce. Its a total joke dude, and the fact that these ideas werent already thought of and put in place like 20 years ago makes it an even bigger joke. A machine to stretch the dough? Like come on, making a pizza only has a few steps - its not hard to think of making a machine that does one of the most repetitive parts of that job.

@RudieObias

3 ай бұрын

@@Zero11_ss Yes, it's obvious now. But hours of engineering came up with that design. Hours of logics to make sure they can have it made at scale. Hours of training to make sure workers know how to use it properly. Hours to figure out how to ship to thousands of stores nationwide at cost. Hours of figuring out if these plastic containers are profitable. Hours to figure out recycling regulation for each state. And hours to implement and execute at scale. And that's just for one plastic box. Can your average pizza shop worker figure that out on such a large scale, while making it run smoothly so the pizza shop doesn't lose sales in shipping, training, and implementation?

@Zero11_ss

3 ай бұрын

@@RudieObias you are highly overvaluing the work these guys are doing and youre also confusing their job with multple other jobs. Logistics(distribution) is not their job for example. Im not saying a pizza maker should get the same wage - I'm saying these office workers are highly overpaid for what they are actually doing relative to the pizza maker.

@RudieObias

3 ай бұрын

@@Zero11_ss In my life, I currently work in an office in the media industry for the past five years. I used to work in a warehouse in retail distribution industry for six years before that. I can tell you, I prefer working in a warehouse for 8 hours per day.

1 year shelf life on meat is crazy !! Preservatives is whats killing us!

How long have they been doing it this way? I feel like their pizza used to be better than what it is now.

People work hard. That's how. Easy. Done.

These staffs are so lucky they are using gloves. My old company tricked me into touching experimental plastic material by hand

I worked at the warehouse in Arlington. It's very physical.

We love pizza, Italian and American pizza are the best ❤❤❤

In Huge Agreement that 🍍🥓 do belong on pizza and it is a Canadian invention. Made the First time in Hamilton Ontario Canada in 1958🎉🎉🎉🎉there is a story to this BI might be interested in too

@chelseagirl278

3 ай бұрын

fellow Canadian here, yes it was invented in Canada but it was actually in Chatham, Ontario :)

@m.pearce3273

3 ай бұрын

@@chelseagirl278Chatham-Kent I stand corrected thanks Dear

I make my pizzas at home most of the time. I know the Pizza Hut where I live will go out of business and dominos I'm not sure of but Little Caesars is always packed.

Love papa john this pizza 🍕😘

That’s why the pizza doesn’t taste the same the thing to make it flat takes away the pizza texture it used to have 😒😔

Ohhhhh, Beautiful Pizza❤

Having recently tried papa jhon’s pizza for the first time in Toronto, Ontario Canada, I can say it will be the last as there are 10 Better pizza options within walking distance. 3/10 at best

@misterhat5823

3 ай бұрын

Consider yourself lucky.

From a Papa Johns worker: 3 reasons the quality's gone downhill- 1) Ingredients are mass shipped & not fresh. Before they'd have us cut fresh vegetables. Now it's all bagged pre-cut vegetables 2) The pay ain't terrible but they purposely understaff stores to save every penny on labor costs, rather than try & boost sales for a better product... so people prep dough hours ahead of time because they can't handle a rush & just sauce it when an order comes in. Not supposed to do that. 3) instead of exclusively hand-tossing, more n more stores use a dough spinner now & that makes the pizzas flat as a pancake Bottom line, Papa Johns sacrifices freshness to be cheap. Highway robbery cost for pizza, unbelievably stingy with cutting labor costs, they cut corners instead

Now I understand why my stomach rejects Papa Johns pizza. I used to like it but can no longer eat it.

Now I'm hungry, ffs.

I know Shaq is a franchisee for Papa Johns however, I never knew Richard Sherman worked at the distribution centre for pizza dough at Papa Johns 2:54

Dystopian

@alitharealist4730

3 ай бұрын

Disgusting.. Its not even hard to make a real delicious pizza with real ingredients.. And less people loose there jobs.. They want us to eat this bs and get rid of the local pizzeria's to reel in all the money for them.. They are trying to drive out all the local business's that make REAL FOOD and replace with robots that make pile of shh weird textured for their own benefits.. Im so sick of it

We need more carlin tucker .

says never frozen but that guy was complaining how cold it was and you could see him shivering and his breath like... okay

@davidmartinez1785

3 ай бұрын

I work at Papa Johns and the walk in coolers we have at stores are also like that and they are above freezing. After being in there so long you really start to get cold even if it's not freezing

I made 3 pizzas and it was a lot of work.

Whoever thought of that wing thingy couldn’t think to toss em either hate the new wing packaging for that reason only 8:04

They have to raise everything in quality and stand out because I think they are just surviving and really the food leaves you feeling like you ate a bunch of it because you paid for it and not because it was delicious. A one time grease bomb and you might order it again in a year or two when the memory fades .

Papa John is insane!! mid pizza too

Get a Hawaiian pizza add jalapeno and franks red hot dipping cup. So good.

Mexican restaurants seeing Papa John’s say they basically reinvented the tortilla press 👁️👄👁️ Everyone when he said they basically reinvented plastic containers 👁️👄👁️

I always get Papa John and Papa Ginos mixed up 😂

3:01 So you’re telling me unfrozen chicken is lasting 10 months!?

"No, not papa-john', don't make me go to papa-john'!"

So they replaced cardboard with plastic. Genius. Not.

@misterhat5823

3 ай бұрын

From a "business" point of view it is. From the "rest of us" point of view... Not.

@blikpils

3 ай бұрын

Not just plastic, Transparent and black, I know Recycling is a fad but even if it lands in the right spot the sensors have a hard time picking up black and transparent

@edwardbyard6540

3 ай бұрын

@@blikpils Maybe where you live, but here we recycle almost everything. Weekly food waste collections (fertiliser and bio gas), paper/cardboard/metal/glass all recycled, and most plastics have to be made from recyclable material. Most plastic packaging is now recycled and Coke bottles etc all proclaim they're 95% recycled material. The rest is mostly incinerated as landfill tax is VERY expensive.

@petertwining5729

3 ай бұрын

I thought the same

@joannadenise420

3 ай бұрын

Our store went back to cardboard. Cost cutting.

They did NOT invent that dough press! 😅 its been around way before 2019

so efficient

Papa John's my pregnant daughter asks that her bring her the worst pizza ever and yours is that Peter griffin

I can literally walk there from my house it’s right behind the bp exit 277 on I-75 N acworth/woodstock exit I’ve always wondered what went on in there I had no idea it was all that

Ahhh yes the story of the franchise, everything is controlled in central kitchens, then shipped out to other franchise locations so everything is the same, and absolutely nothing is done in house fresh.

That guy is six sigma certified.

Damn they don’t make it in house 😕….i used to work at a local pizza shop and we made all our dough fresh every morning

0:45 that's 3.66 hours saved

one time i saw a papa johns right next to a dominos

I worked there for 5 years.. was the last “normal” employee that was there from start up before I left. This company and corporation is CORRUPT! Stayed there way too long. They’ve been through 6 Ops managers since they opened in June of 2017.

8:11 So who's bringing this guy's improvement average down from 1 minute to 13 seconds. 6:14

I love pizza!!!!

At 1.21: Looks like a kind of a modern Buddha. 😁 ;-)

With as much automation as restaurants incorporate, they should just make frozen (or whatever PJ’s degree is) pizza and send it to the store. Computer pulls it from fridge to oven then box. Just need someone there to take the money.

@jamesdagmond

3 ай бұрын

Fresh dough is better than frozen.

Switching the wings packaging is convenient for the workers, but companies like Papa John's always do the bs of saying they're climate friendly while switching from carboard and tinfoil to plastic packaging which is way less climate friendly.

Yo, if this is how you make pizza that’s crazy😂

that closing statement is GOLD

I always wondered how papa John’s stays in business, i don’t know anyone who eats or likes it but apparently plenty of people do. Like 20 years ago i knew someone that worked there and they would bring free pizza to parties and no one would eat it

@alexd.3048

3 ай бұрын

I guess it really depends what's your taste. In summertime I worked at a Domino's in France. I loved the pizza because it has a special taste and bite that is different from traditional italian pizzas. The added sauces, "American", "Mexican", "Whatever" styles you won't get in a normal Restaurant, its light puffyness yet crunch... You know what you get, it's industrially standardized. Then I went to Germany and tried a Domino's there: it was bland, extra-crunchy and dry. I tried 2 other times and never ever ordered since then. But almost every time I go back to France, I get myself a Domino's Pizza. Don't worry: I would always take a "real italian" pizza over Domino's but it's just too different to be comparable.

@JoeFpoc

3 ай бұрын

@@alexd.3048 yeah I prefer the small pizza places to any of the big chains. I don’t HATE papa John’s i would just put it on the bottom of my list. If someone brought some to work i would eat a few pieces just cause it’s free but never really cared for it. Very meh

@Jacksimon18909

3 ай бұрын

This pizza is very popular with soldiers who can get thousands of calories per pizza and they normally do solid discounts but apart from that I took it home to a homeless shelter it was so bad.

STARTED IN QUEENS NEW YORK

You'de be impressed with the Brazilian pizza hahahaha

A complete opposite of how I want to have my food to be made.

Interview Papa John's, 😂 LOL!!! That's more entertaining than sponsored content.

Mmmm piza 🤤

100% GMO seed oils yum ♥️

that secret temp is 36-40 degrees f

Good

2:20 Papa John logo “fresh dough”, gets made in factory… only in America

Use by 24/7/22 why this video took so long ? At 2:59

@LouisMcE

3 ай бұрын

It says "USE BY: YY/MM/DD" below that, so it is still good

@bunnywarren

3 ай бұрын

It's probably Year-Month-Day because the box at 3:02 says 10/20/24

@drelectronics13

3 ай бұрын

@@bunnywarren yeah it could be 😗

8:26 so you’re saying that you make a pepperoni pizza faster than you can make a cheese pizza?

Joel Brown looks like Babish's long lost brother

To call it pizza has to make anyone Italian distraught. I honestly prefer Digiorno over this muck.

Never frozen but boxes clearly say “Keep Frozen”

I order a cheeze pizza, but buy my on pineapple from the market. It tasted so much fresher!

In my opinion pizza dough needs time to ferment before being used 1 day plus preferred

Real pizza dough has water, yeast, salt, flour and some recipes add olive oil. Want to bet Papa has more ingredients from a chemistry lab?

@davidmartinez1785

3 ай бұрын

No our dough actually is made with those ingredients. I currently work there and at least the last time I checked, it was those ingredients. No chemistry lab necessary. That would more be a domino's thing

Why couldn’t they have the containers for the wings when I worked there lol. That foil and box stuff was a joke and just a mess I didn’t work there with the dough spinner but on busy nights one person spun and docked and one slapped one sauced 1 topped. Until the manager left and so did most of the staff with him because the new manager was horrible