Pizza Hut. Domino's. Little Caesars! All other local pizzarias. Rejoice in knowing that no matter…read morehow bad a public opinion on your pizza making restaurant is, Papajohn's will always...ALWAYS be the worst pizza place in the history of pizza. Dang, are they the worst. How is Papajohn's still in business? Someone, dear God tell me. Why are people still buying from this place? I hope they do go out of business across the nation sooner than later so all these poor employees can be liberated from making such unethical food at the highest prices for pizza. I am so baffled and consumed by the fact that this pizza chain is still in business I can't even get to the review...I promise, I sorted out my thoughts and figured I could get into this properly, but dang, I cannot get past how bad this place is. I'll be back...
Okay, I'm back. This is what happens when you listen to other people. I hadn't bought Papajohn's in a very long time because I know what I am getting. It may have been literally a couple years. I will go with one year at the moment, because when a bad memory has migrated with time it can become eliminated from the annals of one's brain, hence recovery can happen.
So, I was told to get Papajohn's. I ordered the Shaq-A-Roni. In the advertisement on the website, it claims "extra cheese and extra pepperoni" on the pizza, as well as extra large New York Style Crust (as seen in the attached). I know Papajohn's hates making pizza well and definitely hates putting toppings on their pizza...I did this to myself to be fair. Anyways, first of all, Papajohn's does not know what New York style crust is. Their crust is just hard, thick crust still. I guess they need to have some delusion of making an actually pizza since there will be no toppings, so make a thick, hard crust, call it New York style and then put zero toppings on there, then they can have what is the mirage of a pizza that keeps the dopey people who buy from this place convinced they are eating pizza. These are the same people who eat at Panera Bread, since that is what we are getting from Papajohn's is bread. Vegan bread!
I get the pizza and I paid the extra $5 for the toppings, so the pizza itself with some kind of "membership" discount tied to the pizza and it comes out to be $17.99. Plus all the other fees, I'm out $25, but I will spend the $5 extra for the extra toppings, because on the website you can add "extra cheese" and "extra Pepperoni" in the menu to a pizza that claims to already have extra cheese and pepperoni (see attached). Hence, if I am thinking correctly, a pizza with extra cheese and extra pepperoni that one adds extra cheese and extra pepperoni that costs an extra $5 means double extra pepperoni and double extra cheese. Someone let me know if I am wrong on that, I might just be one of those dopey people still and cannot figure out what one plus one is.
I get the pizza and yes, I am dopey sucker. I did not get extra cheese and extra pepperoni. I definitely did not get double extra pepperoni and double extra cheese. I know that for a fact. So, Papajohn's is robbing me. They are stealing from me. They are lying to me in an advertisement and pickpocketing me. I am mad. I am at my last straw of a generation of robotic stooges making corporate recipes without any consideration for ethical, honest, or customer satisfaction results.
I call.
The manager does not understand what I am saying whatsoever. I explain that I paid for extra toppings on top of a pizza that promotes extra toppings and that I received a pizza that looks like an old Hot-n-Ready from Little Caesars. He goes out of his way to act like I am wrong. He then concedes and agrees to make my pizza over with double extra toppings and explains how he is doing this for free and is basically relaying to me the idea that he is doing a massive favor for me rather than fixing the old, microwaved pizza I spent $30 on when all is said and done (a $12 pizza with $5 extra for toppings...$30 still, but I digress). I want to make this point clear, Papajohn's did not mess up or steal my money, they are doing me a favor by giving me a brand new FREE pizza.
The new pizza arrives. It is not from the Papajohn's pizza guy, it is from Doordash, so I cannot even explain to an employee directly, I am semi-disappointed because the first pizza was from a Papajohn's delivery driver. I wanted to show the delivery driver the Hot-N-Ready, pathetic pieces of bread I received and to begin a conversation with him on how the manager is a petulant child-man and to relay the message back to the manager that he is a short bus rider and I am proud of him for making it so far in life, despite his limitations. But, it was Doordash. The 2nd pizza is the same as the first. Sadness in a box.
I have to cut this short because of the limit of characters. Bottomline is Papajohns robs people. Their pepperoni tastes like nothing. Their cheese must be gold. And management is six. I just want my money back
