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So you'd think if Papa John's was really following a different model, they'd want to tell us all about it. Too bad they don't. Those "better ingredients": Good luck finding out what they are. Unlike the packaged products you buy at the supermarket, restaurant food isn't required to list ingredients. Many fast food chains, like McDonald's, Taco Bell and Subway, do voluntarily provide them, in part for indemnity against lawsuits and in part because they realize some of their customers actually want to know what they're eating.
But not Papa John's. They've decided it's better to keep their ingredients a secret. You won't find any information about them on either the company's website or in stores. Charlie, the friendly and accommodating employee who took my order for a small cheese pizza at my local Papa John's in Boulder, Colo., told me that he didn't know what the pizza ingredients were. "I think they're listed on the website," he said, making a reasonable assumption.
When I called Papa John's customer toll free number, I was told that for "additional information on allergen or nutritional info" I should leave a message with Connie Childs, who would return my call the next business day. I left two messages, but Connie never called. Public relations wasn't much help either. My emails and voicemails went unanswered. Only Charlie offered a few thoughts about what exactly makes Papa John's pizza "better."
"We get deliveries in every three days, so nothing that's in the fridge is more than a few days old. And we form the dough here. It doesn't come ready to go, though it is made in a central facility and then frozen," he said, offering a slightly different version of the story than what's printed on the pizza boxes.
http://news.yahoo.com/papa-johns-doesnt-want-know-food-194013379.html
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)There is a trade magazine for the pizza restaurant industry. It used to be a magazine called "Pizza Business." Today, it's a magazine with the title, "PMQ Pizza Magazine." The ads and articles are informative, and you can go visit the websites of the companies that supply ingredients to the restaurants.
Be warned, though: If you read a few issues of this publication, you won't be all that excited about ordering from a chain pizza store. Truly.
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)favorite thing to do. I can't stand chain pizzas you can tell the difference I got stuck eating pizza Hut the other day. The best part of it was when it was done
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...want fast and cheap and that's the pizza you're sure to get. Being from Chicago I live in Pizza nirvana...why go with cardboard and a little tomato sauce from a place that thinks paying employees a living wage will kill his lavish lifestyle when you can enjoy a real deep dish from a family-owned restaurant.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)William769
(55,146 posts)Their pizza sucks!
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)I know it's hard to imagine, but it's worse than Domino's.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)I had PJ's once years ago...never tasted such sweet sauce and dough in pizza.
Yuck
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)UNWRAPPED, open to the air and whatever vermin or dirty hands might happen along. Sitting on that dirty plastic.
I don't care where they mix it up and where they form it. It's extremely unsanitary. Though the hot oven would kill any surface germs, lol.
I know this for a fact because we have one right next door to my clinic and I walk past their truck as they are offloading deliveries almost every week.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)I'll eat it. Pizza is a frequent go to for office parties where I work. I'm just happy for the free lunch.