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Papa John's

1.5
340 complaints

Address

2002 Papa John Blvd., Louisville, KY, 40299

Papa John's faces severe operational issues with extremely late or missing deliveries being the most common complaint, often exceeding 1-2 hours past promised times. Customers consistently report cold, poorly made pizzas, compounded by rude, dismissive staff who hang up on callers or refuse to resolve issues. Phone communication is particularly problematic with customers left on hold for extended periods or unable to reach stores at all.

Common Issues

45% (82)
latehourswaiting
25% (46)
coldraw doughwrong order
20% (37)
rudehung upunprofessional
15% (27)
on holdno answerwouldn't pick up
10% (18)
refundchargedmoney back

Complaints

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Brandy Durham

Jul 8, 2025
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Visit the store as walk in placed antongo order for 2 large all meat pizzas and a bread sticks and two 2 liters when made it home with the order realized it was at all what we ordered the pizzas were two veggies not two all meat we were missing our bread and both 2 liters tried calling the store that nite with no success finally got a hold of a manger the follow-up day about a possible replacem werent worried about a refund she insisted on calling me a liar and

kept hanging up on me and my fiance now we are on search of what to do next we are invery shocked by the behavior of someone supposing to ne a manager Amy feed hack would bengeeatk appreciate thx in advance did I mention this was the mount Washington location ??

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Rachel Justice

Feb 15, 2024
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Ordered a pizza from there and the driver plus manager that was on shift was so rude even after I had to wait forever to get the pizza and it was cold and the cheese was so nasty then I even still gave a tip and when I offered to bring the pizza back so I could get my money back or a different pizza they hung up in my ear then

started refusing all my phone calls. I just want my refund from this place!!! Total bs

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Mary

Feb 3, 2024
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I was not able to understand the person taking our order. Her English was terrible at best.

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Christy VanDeraa

Jan 27, 2024
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On January 19 I placed an order with the papa John’s in Lexington, NC on Talbert. I opted for your “no contact delivery”. On YOUR app, it states “no personal contact” in the option for “no contact delivery”. I chose this option because my dogs go nuts when a stranger is at the door.

Your driver arrived and sat in my driveway for at least 10 minutes before ever setting my order on the porch. They knocked but I didn’t open the door because of my dogs AND because this was supposed to be “NO CONTACT DELIVERY”. Eventually, your driver did set my order on the porch, got in their car, and left. My food was cold. I had also ordered “extra cheese” on my pizza but didn’t receive it.

I’ve contacted the store and communicated with your manager, but he has been very rude and unprofessional. Attached,…

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Lisa Hudspeth

Jan 13, 2024
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Got a large pizza yesterday, it was terrible. There was no pizza sauce on the pizza, there were very few toppings. All crust and not done. The service was terrible too!

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Sherri

Jan 1, 2024
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I ordered a pizza and wings and both were cold this never happened to me before…. Spent 33.00 and some change ! Wasn’t happy

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M. Nixon

Dec 18, 2023
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Ordered a pizza 2 hours ago. After one hour. I called in they said our ovens are down but the driver just left the store. 50 minutes later he’s still not here. I call the store and the manger puts me on hold.

10 minutes later still on hold. No driver yet.

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Steven Rebello

Nov 6, 2023
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Hi, I have this customer of Papa John’s. The last three times I’ve ordered I came to problems so we’re decision at this present time I don’t think I’m no longer gonna order from them because of the problems. If it continues the first problem I had with them was it was actually 35 minutes before closing time and I called.

They said our ad takeout is closed, but you could do not online so I didn’t online and then when I called them tell if I did it they said I’m sorry but we’re not gonna be able to deliver to you because we it’s already 15 minutes before closing time so that was very very very aggravating and disappointing to me second time did not make the pizza that I wanted and

told him to create Which was I told him I wanted it well done and a pizza was all over the place I guess the…

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Teresa Crockett

Nov 4, 2023
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For authorizations came on my card yesterday which complicated things for me trying to get out of a parking garage because I couldn’t pay. 00$ was pre-authorized. And my order was only. 94. Store 2401# 11/03/23

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Nani Kaya

Nov 1, 2023
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twice ordered from store 2372. twice delivery 30+ mins late!!! understandable it's halloween; order placed this morning for 5:45pm delivery; it's 6:10pm, no order yet! not impressed, again!!!

spoke with manager Jeff (id# 10233386). he stated they had an excess of 15 orders for my delivery time frame. understandable! he apologized, said the order was on the way. hoped my complaint would help the issue, moving forward.

6:22pm- still no order! (30+mins late again!). perhaps jeff wasn't truthful that it was really "on its way" at 5:50pm? we live 7-10 mins away!

apologies for the yada! would welcome a free pizza or points for the inconvenience!

Rjani & Nani Kaya 6104 N Brook Pl Boise, ID 83714

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Deantrae Luster

Oct 27, 2023
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I called for a pizza and they confirmed my order told me my price and how long it would take as I sat outside In the cold waiting arrival I sat way over the 25 to 35 minutes they told me that my order would come I'm currently still outside and waiting this was about 11:25 11:30 pm and it's freezing and I'm starved if this doesn't get resolved I.

A way I feel right I will never purchase anything else from your u guys this is obsurs if I couldn't get a order delivered why would you guys even accept the order and tell me the price you could have not even answered this is unfair and rude my name deantraeluster I go by Trae and I tried to be realistic and understand it takes time to prepare but

I can't stand for this in no way I promise you if I don't feel this was took carew of in a righht…

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Evelyn Merle

Oct 17, 2023
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Placed an order on line for 2 large pizza’s. One being ham, pineapple and light cheese. The second being a cheese pizza with extra cheese. Well, they got the cheese situation all backwards. Where we wanted light cheese we got extra and where we wanted extra cheese we got light cheese.

Needless to say, my daughter refused to eat any of it We are very disappointed with the quality of the food.

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Shawna

Oct 16, 2023
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I had a remake order that took forever to verify because it was Uber eats then when I couldn't make it to pick it up I called and let them know I had an emergency I thought I would be able to go get it but the hospital kept my daughter so I couldn't leave and now they are being rude and won't let me have my replacemnt order

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Jolina oneal

Oct 12, 2023
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I had to complaint with my delivery service with this company the delivery driver was really rude and made a comment about my order and maybe quite uncomfortable and when I contacted customer service they had emailed me the back then next very day but then they stop emailing me after that in regards to conversation or my money back in regards to my order being that I had to deal with the situation

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Hadi Mahdi

Oct 1, 2023
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We visited papa John’s restaurant today at Lac 1 - Tunis-Tunisia and we’re complaining on the following: - the gay who prepared our pizza was not wearing gloves and he topped it with his hands !!! We ordered also Cheese Sticks as we used to order in Riyadh- Saudi Arabia, but we were served a pie topped with cheese having nothing with cheese dtickd ( attached the picture)

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Binh

Sep 29, 2023
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99 and I ordered a 2L Pepsi. The delivery driver forgot my Pepsi & said he was going to run back to the store and grab it. This was at 1:40am when he delivered & it is now 2:15am. I can’t be waiting all night for this delivery person..

i do not appreciate this and I would like a refund. I’m going to bed. I have to work in the am and I don’t think this person is coming back. I’m getting really annoyed with people thinking they could just rip me off like this I would like my money back please .

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Jaycee Jaglowitz

Sep 27, 2023
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I worked for Papa John's. I worked 122 hours and didn't get no overtime pay. Then I worked 53 hours and they didn't want to give me my check bc I was quitting. I had to contact corporate. Then it took 4 weeks just for me to get my check in the mail.

And yet th After doing the math I literally got paid $4 an hour! They refused to give me my paystub. This is COMPLETE BS! I need the money I worked for! Not for me to be ripped off. And in addition I had to deal with cockroaches crawling around!!

I will be contacting a lawyer.

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Michelle Hawkins

Sep 16, 2023
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The Pappa Johns here in Okeechobee Florida is horrible! I just paid $25.00 on a raw pizza, paid for extra pepperchinnis, there was 1 in the box. Mad!!!!!!

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Tara Horning

Sep 13, 2023
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Hello,

On the website, your garlic parmesan chicken wings are listed as gluten-free. However, under sauces your garlic parmesan sauce contains gluten. Thank goodness I did my research before ordering! I would have been epi-penned and sent to the hospital for a severe gluten allergy!

Please make the necessary changes for those of us who depend on the allergy information....even though I know it has a disclaimer.

Thank you for your wonderful gluten-free pizza :) It would even more amazing if you occasionally had specials on gluten-free crust :)

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Fran

Sep 2, 2023
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Ordered 2 Philly Cheesesteak Papadias. They were ok but only had onions, peppers & cheese on them. The meat was so little, you needed a magnifying glass to actually see it! Why do they skimp on the meat? There must have been one or two tiny pieces of meat that looked like it was torn up & just thrown a piece on the sandwich.

This was the Papa Johns on Glensboro Rd in Lawrenceburg, KY I am very disappointed in this.

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Beth

Aug 26, 2023
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I placed a on line order on 8-25-23 at around 7:30pm and it gave me a estimated delivery for the longest of about an hour. I waited almost 2 1/2 hours for our food and it was cold when it arrived.

Cheesestix was hard and all around worst pizza I ever ate and very disappointed cause Papa John's is usually my favorite pizza place. When I called the store about my order at 9:17pm and asked why it was taking so long they told me sorry its taking longer than it had told me online and that the deliverly driver had just left the store.

I still waited another 35mins and its only 10 minutes away from me. Just wanted to bring the situation to you so you are aware of what's going on. Thank you

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Christi Brown

Aug 19, 2023
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I ordered a large pepperoni pizza and it didn't have the garlic butter on the crust it was dry and it was slightly warm not hot all. The delivery driver was not very friendly at all. 00 after paying for it.

00 that was owed to me. She said well gas isn't cheap either and she went into say about wear and tear on her vehicle. I don't know her name but she works for the heath papa johns pizza. So If I can could I please get a replacement pizza etc.

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Thomas Bacho

Aug 18, 2023
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Hello, yes I am a Papa John's customer. Been eating Papa John's for a while now.

However, today I ordered a pizza from 109 vandora springs road in Garner, North Carolina and My pizza is completely wrong. It's edible but I did not order pepperoni. I did not order pineapple. I did not order ham. It's almost as though I got somebody else's pizza my order which is written right on the box Alfredo sauce double black olives which they're not green peppers, Italian sausage, mushrooms, extra onions and tomato.

That's what I ordered and that is not what I got. I got a version I guess of a supreme Pizza. And yeah so either someone wasn't reading what this piece was supposed to be or they just went ahead and did their own thing.

Either way I'm completely disappointed. I did not have time to turn…

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Michael Fox

Aug 15, 2023
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washington ky. And they really disappointed me with a wing and pizza order I notified the manager and I asked for nothing but to be heard she gave me a credit and was really courteous so days went buy made another order online then called to confirm the credit that was offered and a smerky man condinsendingly said no there's no credit sorry what else do you need I said well I was supposed to but

that's ok so I wanted to modify the order and he flat had no time for me so I said we'll ill just cancel the order then he straight hung up the phone. I will no longer eat at papa johns because of this and I have spent thousands of dollars there me and my family love getting pizza and hanging out so now I will be utilizing the local pizza place and

spending my hard earned money with a business…

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K

Aug 14, 2023
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When I went to pick up my Pizza I've ordered with my Papa Rewards, one of you asshole cashiers didn't want to give me my Order. He was very rude and unprofessional and embarrassed in the Store while trying to get my order.

Had to call your CSR in order to get my food which I had to wait and it was cold when I got it. Totally uncalled for, and I will consider legal action.

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RUTHIE YOUNG

Aug 13, 2023
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the female employee ignored me,told me that they didnot sell pizza . i After another customer came in ,she made his sandwich and I waited,for she acted as if she didnot under stand me.I ASKED AGAIN FOR A VEGETARIN PIZZA but TO NO AVAIL. SHE JUST DIDNOT WANT TO SERVE ME I left.IT WAS AFTER 4 IN THE AFTERNOON AND SHE WAS THE ONLY EMPLOYEE THERE AT THAT TIME.

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courtney

Aug 11, 2023
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Position:Delivery Driver (Company Car Provided)

Hello today is 8/11/2023 and my name is Courtney Griffin. I originally applied for this job on 8/9/2023 with a interview date set for 8/10/2023 between 1pm-130pm central time. Today was the day of my rescheduled interview. While checking my email I noticed a notification from Papa’s stating that my interview once again had been rescheduled. Now to my knowledge, I am not aware of the reasons nor have I received a phone call nor email instructing why? I agreed to the first reschedule due to my own tardiness from the first interview. That tardiness was due to misunderstanding the time for my time of arrival. However as stated, I took accountability and still followed the procedures for the next step. A young man of which his name was not…

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Brenna Phillips

Aug 10, 2023
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I was 17pt away from $10 off papa dough. ) Placed an $88 order. I signed back in and find I am all the way DOWN to 40 points. This is the third time. I never seem to make it to the free dough. WTF?

Your expirations are a flat RIP OFF and a lie to people thinking they are going to save money. I'm going back to making my own pizza. They're better and cost less to make. Your drivers and employees get stiffed because your people at the top are greedy. Shameful

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Abdiel Perez

Aug 9, 2023
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Doing Uber Eat, a pickup, the worker on duty told me to take a photo of the pizza, I told him that the Uber app did not require it, he just told me, there is no pizza for you, bay bay, I lost my order because of costumer cancellation, 12:15PM 9/8/2023, 4885 Golden Gate PKWY,Naples fl,34116

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Shelly

Aug 8, 2023
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Credit card charged and no pizza was ever delivered due to technical error with on line order. Sent to the wrong town. Despite the situation being totally PJ's negligence the store manager was very rude and didn't seem to want to help.

Corporate office nobody speaks English very well and couldn't help me directing me back to the local store again where I was screamed at once again.

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Alexex Rodriguez

Aug 7, 2023
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Papa John deliver service is horrific their partnership with the 3 party vendors like door dash has ruined the fun American past time of staying in and “ordering a pizza. What has an approximate of 30 minute delivery has gone to 3hrs.

I can’t call the store due to “high” voulume and then had to then spend even more money to do the job Papa johns is in business for … feeding people. It’s bad enough AI is taking over and now what was one I’ve the EASIEST family dinner ideas has now become a nightmare.

Please don’t say well you should just pickup because if that’s the case I’ll just make the pizza my darn self.

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Bridget

Jul 26, 2023
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If I could remove that single star, I would do so. My husband and I normally order our pizzas through Papa Johns because our grandchildren love their pizzas, but after the horrible service we received on the 16th, due to their delivery driver dropping our first order off at the wrong address when the correct address is clearly displayed in my online account.

Additionally, a second driver was sent out, yet we never received the remade order. I had to call the store several times to find out what was going wrong with my delivery. I agreed. He further stated, the charges would fall off my bank account within 3-5 business days depending on my financial institution, okay I was fine with that.

Well, hours passed and our grandchildren were getting annoyed because our pizza still had not been…

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Mihai Eduard feraru

Jul 24, 2023
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good evening, I work at this company as a delivery driver. I was hired with a part-time contract, today I went to work, I asked the misa to tell me why I was not paid for the work done, the misa simply said you don't work here anymore and you haven't paid a penny for what you worked for. I'm desperate, I'm a parent of 2 children, I don't have a penny, help me to pay for what I've worked for, thank you very much.

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Lesa

Jul 20, 2023
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Worse pizza ever. Ordered an XL Works. Must be a cheese shortage. There were no veggies. Never again.

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Jessica Foster

Jul 16, 2023
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Papa John's in Clarksville, VA. Every time I go to this location, I have an issue. A few weeks ago, I ordered a pizza and large breadsticks, paid for extra sauce. I didn't get the extra sauce and there was only 7 breadsticks.

Called to get the order fixed and when I arrived to get my "fixed" order, they hadn't even made it. I go today and ordered a papadia and wanted a cup of pizza sauce but it wouldn't let me add that to my order so I asked the employee for a cup when I arrived.

The person caught an attitude and said they didn't have any containers to put the sauce in. There have been several times when I've ordered breadsticks and they r overcooked, or super skinny. I try to be understanding but there is an issue almost EVERY TIME I order from this location.

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Anna Garza

Jul 13, 2023
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I placed an online order this afternoon at the Rigsby location for pickup. When I arrived and waiting for my pizza the person preparing it had gloves on but the delivery guy walked in sweaty, hot and was asked to bring out trays (refills) but

immediately started helping make the pizzas with bare hands and I never saw him even wash his hands. So I called the 1st guy over and said your helper is touching the food and didn't wash his hands and all he said was yes he did and brushed me off totally!

Guess what I don't that contaminated pizza and walked out .

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Shane MacDonald

Jul 13, 2023
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I ordered a Grilled Buffalo Chicken Papadia. The ingredients listed on the website are Three Cheese Blend, Grilled Chicken, Onions (ingredients on the website). I made sure that the Papadia I ordered DID NOT have any pork/beef, at about 3-4bites in it tasted weird.

I don’t eat beef or pork and haven’t ate if in nearly 9years. I opened it up only to see these little pink things that looked like it would be bacon/ham. Upon breaking it open & smelling it more I could tell it was not chicken.

I can even send a picture (it’s in my fridge as I didn’t eat it & want to show you what they did). The store kept saying that she didn’t know who made my pizza. I understand that but the fact there’s beef or pork on my Papadia is just outrageous.

She said they might have gotten it mixed up with another…

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Jimmy Gibbs

Jul 10, 2023
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Ordered pizza on 6/20/2023 on Papa Johns App, and order sent to a store an hour from my house. I immediately called the store after Uber Eats delivery driver called about not being able to find my home. The Manager on duty was absolutely ZERO help and said there was nothing he could do. 03.

I was given empty promises from Customer Service that a District Manager would be in touch. Still no call and still no refund! I'm completely astonished at the lack of consideration & egregious display of so called customer service. I WILL NEVER PATRONIZE WITH PAPA JOHNS AGAIN! COMPLETELY DISGUSTED!

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Bryan D BURLEIGH

Jul 5, 2023
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I paid over $30 for a pizza and once home most of the pizza was just cheese. No toppings on more than half. Won’t be back. Guess it’s time to find another pizza go to

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Lupita

Jun 29, 2023
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com. When they took to long to deliver she called and the im assuming manager on duty @litchfield and waddle in El Mirage told her they did not receive her order and to call her bank to get a refund.

He said they get these “glitches” at least once a week. So we ordered through Grub Hub when we record the order $12 extra later we received the wrong order nothing what we ordered. We went down in person to get the right order and the man behind the register said it wasn’t his problem and and to leave and call Grub Hub told him about my daughter and said he told her what to do..

and to basically kicked us out. When I asked if they actually saw our order and read it he told us again to leave his store because I was “disrespecting” him. Asked why he said because I told him he couldn’t read.…

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Marv

Jun 26, 2023
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Papa John's in Rogersville tn, the pizza made about 5 people sick. Got it about 2 weeks ago and same thing just figured let some people know

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Bobbie Mcanelly

Jun 21, 2023
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My husband and I are both retired. is it cos I'm an older lady and they are just lazy and don't want to take the extra step for me well they Papa John's lost my business for good never will I have a good word to say .

And my neighbor just got a pizza from the same location. the location is Johnathan Moore pike Columbus in my phone number is 8123793287 .

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Tara McDavid

Jun 19, 2023
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The mountaineer 304 deal is a rip off. 30 dollars for one large 4 topping pizza, then get the other one topping medium for 3.04, when if I order it by itself not on special for a large 4 topping it's 20 bucks. So if the large 4 topping is supposed to be regular menu price and the other pizza 3.04 it should actually only cost about 25 dollars for that special before Tax!

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Karen Thomas

Jun 17, 2023
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First of all you guys went with that damn automated s*** like Pizza Hut where you call it in and you got to talk to a f****** idiot to order anything I don't appreciate that and

second of all I have been going to Papa John's for over 20 some years I am a cancer patient I had throat cancer Papa John's has always double cut the breadsticks for me because I cannot eat them thick I choke and I was informed tonight that they are no longer allowed to do that so when Papa John's can't help a Cancer Victim then I can't support you either I will no longer be ever going back to Papa John's again I'm sorry

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Candace Pacheco

Jun 13, 2023
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So two nights ago around 10pm hst. I had put in a delivery order to our company at MB Service and we were outside waiting for our delivery for an hour in a half and there was no one that came to deliver but we remained outaide of our warehouse till about after 1am hst.

I had called the local store and they didn't answer at all. Then I sent a text message and there was a message reply to me stating too late they are close and to order the next buisness day. You know that we were looking forwarf to our order and food but from the beginning of making my order the person who answered was very rude and then while placing my order he had made his little side remarks and

comments towards me making my order with very bad attitude. Then them not even delivering my order was very wrong. I find…

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Justin Dickerson

Jun 10, 2023
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Pizza was thin crust I ordered regular and cheese sticks were tasted burnt and hard to eat

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Leslie Ayres

Jun 10, 2023
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At a loss for words

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Tabitha Baker-Dominique

Jun 6, 2023
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I placed an order at approximately 8:47pm at Store #555 20312 NW 2nd Avenue Miami, FL 33169 (305)770-3411 #1050776628

According to tracking the order was to be received between 9:23 - 9:33 pm. Up until now I haven't received my order and it 10:09pm, so I call the store to get updated, when I called to speak with a manager I was hung up on not once, but several times. This is not the first time such behavior was experienced. This is one of the most unprofessional location, and the Manager here seems to promote the unprofessionalism instead of a more Customer Service friendly environment. Customer's are paying employees salary, and in return getting terrible service, which is not appreciated.

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Vickie M Brown

Jun 5, 2023
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not pleased at all wasted time and late for wk thus was suppise to be my dinner fir wk

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Jaime Hurley

Jun 4, 2023
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Ordered Papa John's chicken poppers, cool ranch papadia and a medium pizza for delivery. Delivery went good, opened the cool ranch papadia and no dipping sauce. Called Papa John's, was told it would be be delivered shortly, after a hour called them back to see why it hadn't been delivered yet and told them I would either like a refund or refire my food since I was sitting on the couch waiting for them while the food was ice cold.

Guy told me they'd deliver 2 dipping sauces and a bag of chips, if that would make up for it and I told him no. I've filled out the customer service form and still haven't been contacted by Papa John's.

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