Papa John's facts for kids
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Headquarters in Cumberland, Georgia
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Trade name
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Papa Johns |
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| Traded as | NASDAQ: PZZA S&P 600 Component |
| Industry | Restaurant |
| Founded | October 2, 1984 |
| Founder | John Schnatter |
| Headquarters | Jeffersontown, Kentucky, U.S. Cumberland, Georgia, U.S. |
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Number of locations
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5,400 (December 2020) |
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Key people
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Robert M. Lynch (President & CEO) Max Wetzel (CMO) Jim Norberg (COO) |
| Products | Pizza, chicken wings, dessert |
| Revenue |  US$1.81 billion (FY December 29, 2020) |
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Operating income
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US$90.253 million (FY December 29, 2020) |
| US$57.932 million (FY December 29, 2020) |
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| Total assets | US$872.770 million (FY December 29, 2020) |
| Total equity | −US$266.939 million (FY December 29, 2020) |
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Number of employees
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~16,700 (FY December 29, 2020) |
Papa John's International, Inc., d/b/a Papa Johns, is an American pizza restaurant chain. It is the fourth largest pizza delivery restaurant chain in the United States, with headquarters in the Louisville, Kentucky and Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan areas.
Papa John's global presence has reached over 5,500 locations in 49 countries and territories, and is the world's third-largest pizza delivery company.
In January 2002, Papa John's became the first national pizza chain to make online ordering available to all of its U.S. customers. Most other national chains later added online ordering to their services.
History
The Papa John's restaurant was founded in 1984 when "Papa" John Schnatter installed an oven inside a broom closet in the back of his father's tavern, Mick's Lounge, in Jeffersonville, Indiana. He sold his 1971 Camaro Z28 to purchase US$1,600 worth of used pizza equipment and began selling pizzas to the tavern's customers out of the converted closet. His pizzas proved sufficiently popular that a year later he moved into an adjoining space. Dipping sauce specifically for pizza was invented by Papa John's Pizza that same year, and has since become popular when eating pizza, especially the crust. The company went public in 1993. A year later it had 500 stores, and by 1997 it had opened 1,500 stores. In 2009, Schnatter bought the Camaro back after offering a reward of $250,000 for the car.
Images for kids
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Logo used from 1994 to 2018, still used in Ireland
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Logo used from 2019 to 2021
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Papa John's delivery cars in Novosibirsk, Russia.
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A Papa John's Pizza restaurant in Hoofddorp, Netherlands
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Papa John's in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
See also
In Spanish: Papa John's Pizza para niños
