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Papa John's

1.5
361 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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Tracy baker

Jun 16, 2022
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On May 24th I ordered 2 Lg pizzas 1 a meats lovers and the OTHER was the WORKS and had them delivered when I got home I had 2 pizzas and the both was MEAT LOVERS I called and talk to a manager and told him the deal and he put down my phone number and said he I put you down for next time a Supreme pizza well today is june 16th I go to put my order in and

what she tells me is that they have me down for a FREE MEATS he did NOT TELL ME THAT ON THE PHONE SO I HAD TO PAY FOR ANOTHER SUPREME PIZZA AGAIN WHEN I DIDN'T EVEN GET IT THE LAST TIME I ORDERED THIS PLACE IS A JOKE.

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Trang Nguyen

Jun 5, 2022
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Papa John’s Store #2532 8501 TYCO RD VIENNA, VA 22182 (703)760-8484 In an age of trying to automate shit, Papa Johns has abused it to prevent them from dealing with the massive amount of issues and complaints. The only reason I keep ordering from them is because for some odd reason my son likes them and he’s a VERY picky eater so I choose my battles. After today I have to say, I can’t anymore with them. We will not be ordering from them ever again.

Their tracker said the pizza was delivered but no one had called to be buzzed into the building, nothing at the front door, and when I called and finally got a live person them they said they could see it was delivered. I called 10 TEN times with no resolution. Many times the call was disconnected. When someone would “transfer” me it was…

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Amy Stevens

Jun 4, 2022
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My problem with this store is there a poor management going on there for night shift and there bulling there employees. My wife works at this store and all they do is go outside and smoke weed and not there jobs .

Even one of the drivers there smokes weed while delivering the food to people houses when they go out on delivery. They even make the food there when there high and have weed on there hands and that goes into there food .

And when it comes to someone delivery to go out the management overrides it and lets the other driver take it which it is not fair for the other driver . They don't treat there employees right . That's why a lot of people don;t go to this place to eat .

My Opinion is I;m calling The health department on this place and i hope it gets shut down . The new night…

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Joby childress

May 30, 2022
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On may29 at 9pm I called to place a order thru the shepherdsville,KY. Store but for some reason the call service sent my order to mt. Washington, KY. So at 9:50 pm I get a call from the Mt Washington store say they don't deliver to where I'm at, I tell the lady that I told the answer ing service that it was suppose to the shepherdsville store and I even told them twice.

So the Mt Washington as tore tells me I have to reorder, so I call and try to place another order, and the answering service put me on hold n didn't return. 59 but now it's costing me $25. And some change n it's going to take longer , a hour to be delivered and it's 10:21 so it going to be 11:30 as lmost midnight n it's supposed to be my lunch hour cause im properlty maintenance.

The other order that I can't get was going…

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Jenny

May 29, 2022
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My parents go to papa johns in garland off broadway nearly every Sunday after church. They asked me to place an order for them.. I did, & when they went to pick it up they said it was 8 dollars more this week from last week.

So I just called back to see why the price difference & the employee Jessica (who knows if she gave me her actual name) answers the phone with such attitude. I’m assuming they have caller id. It’s okay for me to ask why there is a price difference from last week. It’s our money.

” Is 100% unprofessional & showed her annoyance. When I asked her why she answered the phone like that, she stated because she had just answered the question from my mom who picked up the pizza. I used to work in a restaurant & would have never treated someone like that.

I will no longer be…

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Terry Clark

May 21, 2022
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Papa Johns Pizza 6600 Seawall Blvd, Galveston, TX 77551 (409) 741-7272

Case Id: 37-629316/41-584543/41-585168/3BA922F9-544C-4813-9314-A58A53C9B224/

Glee Moore Director of Customer Care Locally Owned and Operated Franchisee Papa Johns Pizza

On 04/29/22 I ordered a pizza online at 7:30 pm. It was not delivered until 11:00 pm that night and it was not only cold it was not my pizza !

I have had several emails with Glee Moore, (who claimed she was in Corporate office), about the incident, and her offer was to send me a code for a replacement large "works" pizza when the one I had ordered that night had 2 gourmet toppings added bringing the price up 5 dollars more than the replacement she offered.

She finally quit responding to my emails and had a customer service representative email me…

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Tina Ap’e

May 21, 2022
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I called Papa John’s in Cameron North Carolina and placed an order for delivery after after I placed my order then they told me the GPS didn’t allow them to go to my house but it did allow them to go down the main road that goes my miles Buffalo Lakes Road but then they gave me another person and that person said they can only deliver to the people on the right side not the left side what kind of stupid shit is that Papa Johns you were off my list forever

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Cathy

May 20, 2022
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Someone else used my debit card information without my knowledge or permission on the 18th to place an order with Papa John's Pizza. I've tried to call and get help with finding out more information about the purchase like location of delivery so I can press charges against them.

But I haven't heard one thing from Papa John's. 40 isn't a lot to them but live on a small disability income and see what a difference it makes. And I don't like a thief. And I am really beginning to dislike Papa John's quite a lot too. Poor business ethics.

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Hoda

May 12, 2022
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m. I called twice the day before and asked about the procedure. I made sure to place the order about two hours in advance. Surprisingly, the restaurant called me at 1:18 asking me to pick up the order myself as the driver hasn't reached there yet!

The school event had to be canceled which was extremely disappointing.

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Charles Timothy Couch

Apr 23, 2022
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My order Number is#951752949 i order 4 cheese sause an didnt get any what should i do about this ...this is why i dont order from them anymore ...please call me about this thanks (859)338-2718

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Angela Erhardt

Apr 18, 2022
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A while back i ordered pizza for my family. My son went to pick it up and was told the order was cancelled because it was not prepaid online. I was told that $25 and over had to be prepaid. Please note that the TAX made it over $25. I was not happy but whatever.

So, recently, because i like papa johns pizza, i tried again. Took some time to get the order completed and i tried multiple times to pay online for the order as it was over $35. When i could not get the online payment system to accept the payment, i called the store — the phone repeatedly was hung up.

What kind of business etiquette is this!!?? Both times i attempted to order from the Newberry SC Papa Johns.

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Scott gray

Apr 15, 2022
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I ordered 4 extra garlic butters and 4 extra ranch and only got 1 of each. I paid for them I’m sure.

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William McIntosh

Apr 13, 2022
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All the Pizza tastes the same, expensive for a pizza that isn't that good i paid 41.00 dollars for a pizza on special and a six piece wings thats just crazy

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Carla Turpin

Mar 26, 2022
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I ordered a pizza from Papa John's store number 385 in Roanoke Virginia on Williamson Road and they used doordash to deliver my pizza where door dash didn't deliver because we never received a pizza I talked to the manager then he was supposed to replace a medium pizza pepperoni for free so when I called today they talking about I have to call door dash because the were supposed to deliver the pizza but didn't.

in the first place I did not ask door dash to bring my pizza, they did. and so now there not honoring what they said they were supposed to replace my pizza but now another man's name Jeffries on duty n said he's not going to honor my free pizza so I want to complain about them not honoring my free pizza.

when they finally hung the phone up on me that was very rude of them

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Travon Hutchins

Mar 25, 2022
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Ordered from you guys online today with my address on the order and when the driver arrived at the wrong address he said that the order was outside his district and i would have to cancel and reorder. When speaking to the manager she told me the order was sent to them eventhough they dont deliver here and couldn't give a good reason how this happened.

So i don't know whose to blame the papa johns app or the store but now im out damn near 50 bucks with no pizza and now have to wait 5 to 7 bussiness days for a refund as it stands never ordering here again.

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Attilio T Merino

Mar 24, 2022
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Ordered a pizza on line paid with credit card on phone went to pick it up and once they found it they wanted to charge me again they would not give it to me and wanted to charge me cash he said ,lorenzo was his name he said i never paid for it i showed him where I was charged for it he told me i was lying he was very unprofessional and

rude then he kept waiting on other people and told me he was done with me he wouldn't give me credit back on my card or nothing. It was the papa John's on 73 rd state ave. Kansas city Kansas. 913 -299-1000.

My name is Attilio Merino. 913-217-8060

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Attilio Merino

Mar 21, 2022
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ks 913-299-1000. so i never got it and was treated very poorly my # is 913-217-8060

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Gary Kliment

Mar 17, 2022
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I am in Lincoln Nebraska and had used your south 56th location, but as of today I will no longer clientele Papa Johns anywhere, because you haven’t shut down the Papa Johns locations in Russia. Pull the franchise’s from the damn Russians Gary Kliment

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Emily Marshall

Mar 15, 2022
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I placed a order for delivery from Papa John's Monroeville Alabama. The delivery guy was extremely nice and I didn't want to be a pain but I checked my cheesticks and he apologized because I found a light colored hair in the crust and it broke off when I went to pull it out.

Like I said, he apologized and said he was going to bring me a fresh one and I said it was okay. I called the store back to see if they were going make me pay for two orders of cheesticks when I wasn't even going to eat one of them and they told me I was getting a fresh one and

the whole reason I called back was to see if I had to pay for both. I told them I wasn't calling to be a butt but I just needed to see. Another one, the manager, called me back and was extremely rude and sarcastic and said "sweetie...

and…

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Sara

Feb 24, 2022
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Temple Terrace is the worst store... 2 hours later and manager does bot care.

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Mel Jimenez

Feb 14, 2022
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Papa John's location Haines City Florida tried my first New York style pizza it was the worst thing I've ever seen Prices range from 2 inches wide 24in wide to maybe six inches wide it was nothing like advertised I was extremely disappointed there was no such this to fold it was too thick I'm from New York and that is nothing I've ever seen before

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Daniel Beard

Jan 29, 2022
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D usley the pizza here is really good but today papa John's on Edgewood and when I got there my pizza was already oredered and payed for online on the app and when I got there my pizza was sitting out of the oven unboxed and it was already paid for I waited there for over 7 minuts until someone came out said it done thin 2 min after a guy came out to cut it and

put it in the Box when you finally did i left walked home opend it there was a big thumbprint on it and cold I'm not gonna refer anyone to a nasty lazy environment place So I microwave the slice and I ate it and I got heartburn I'm never gonna eat there again and people are lazy there need to get people that no how cook and

take oreders not just walk around not noing nothing

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Xavior Ervin

Jan 20, 2022
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I had a 64$ order on the app and when it was delivered I did not receive my drinks

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Phil steven Jarvis

Jan 13, 2022
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Hello there this is something i should of complained about 2 weeks ago when i went to Pappa Johns in Largo FLA to pick up my 3 large pizzas with stuffed crust. When i arrived i waited and waited then they finally acknowledged me saying they never rung my order through so they finally did while i was there charging me 56$ then

they said they made a mistake in the price and had to take my order again and charged me 46$. just after that while i was waiting they said they had to ring me through again because they forgot to charge me for the stuffed crust.

I was there for almost an hour and over charged me for 3 large pizzas with 4 topping and there weas barley any toppings on the pizza for 75$. I should of only been charged half that price because of the shitty service waiting for 1 hour.

i…

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KENNY CLARK

Jan 6, 2022
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my wife called papa john's on cely ln. in piedmont to place an order. after my wife placed the order she told them we would be paying with cash they told her that they can't take cash only credit cards.

we have ordered from they before and payed with cash. we won't be ordering from any papa john's ever again, we have been ordering from there at least three or four times a month. no more

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Kait

Dec 24, 2021
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STAY FAR FAR FAR AWAY FROM THIS RESTAURANT LOCATION. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND ODER LITERALLY ANYWHERE ELSE. They will start to pick up and handle your calls and then hang up half way through because they don’t feel like making them.

) I called again for update and they made the fake kschkschksh sound. I called easily 30 times. The sad excuse for employee’s laugh in the background and then hang up. Even when I called on friend’s numbers, they were faking a static sound and laughing in the back ground. FIND EMPLOYEES THAT CARE. DO BETTER. If not, shut down.

This will be on every service that considers you as a ‘ restaurant’. I’ve ordered from you guys since nearly 2 decades ago and clearly you’ve dropped the ball on hiring. I’m appalled. Do better. Cooperate can call me ASAP at 6304181805…

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Dustin Hinz

Dec 12, 2021
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So I go in and order pizza that's supposed to have pepperoni on it the kid comes to me and says oh they accidentally made you a cheese pizza by mistake can you take that car

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Paul Paxton

Dec 5, 2021
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To whom it may concern, A pizza maker at Papa John’s in Dubuque, Iowa threatened a Grubhub driver with aggression after inquiring about the timing of a pizza. The driver was abruptly asked to leave the store without the pizza after waiting for 30 minutes.

Customer abuse from any food establishment is unacceptable. I will be contacting the Better Business Bureau if this isn’t resolved satisfactorily. Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.

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Kathleen Conneway

Dec 4, 2021
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I have sent several complaints regarding my Nov 28th horrible experience. No response. Papa Johns won’t ever get my business again. They ruined my son’s birthday pizza dinner. My phone call to my regular Papa Johns was routed to India.

Could not understand the guy. Went online to order. Checked for delivery. Gave 15 % for driver. Never got it. Was changed to carry out which I knew nothing about. I finally went down there. Food waiting for me to pick up.

Lady screamed at me not to complain and that I had no idea what they were going through. Turned to next customer. A guy handed me my food. Cold. Time I got home no one wanted it. Wings were awe full.

So the store my 15% tip for nothing. Unbelievable. I’ve done business with this same Papa Johns since it opened. Always called gave my…

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Russell

Dec 3, 2021
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Place an order at 9:50 to never received it

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Marina Rodriguez

Dec 1, 2021
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I ordered 2 large pizzas on November 29th around 2pm, I walked in to pay for the pizzas & the manage was the only one working at the time, so he sets the pizza on the counter with his filthy hands covered in flour, obviously he didn't was his hands, I consider this cross contamination, I ate 2 slices of pizza last night about 7:30 pm & I woke up with severe stomach pain & diarrhea, of course I had to miss work today November 30th & the Dr told me that I have food poisoning, I will never eat papa John's pizza again, the location of papa John's is in Fort Smith Arkansas, thank you for your time

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Kathleen Conneway

Nov 29, 2021
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Papa John’s ruined my son’s birthday dinner!!! I called to order pizza and wings. My call was sent to India!! Could not understand “Daniel”!! I asked if there were any specials he said “large two topping $20, large two topping $24.

I asked the difference he said Specialty. I asked about wings he said none. I asked what he said no special. I asked regular price for wings he HUNG UP on me!!!!! I finally after repeated calls connected with my Papa John’s.

Nice lady told me better to order online. And they only had two delivery guys. So I ordered online. I checked “delivery” put in 15% tip for delivery person. Selected what I wanted. 2 pizzas and 32 wings. Got email confirmation. Told me 120 mins.

After 2 1/2 hours nothing. So I took off to store. I got there and gave name I was handed my…

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Kathleen Conneway

Nov 29, 2021
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I will never order from you again. Your new system sucks. Calls go to India!!!!! Could not understand “Daniel”!!!! What the hell????? Unbelievable. I got hung up on when I asked how much wings were!!! I ordered online for delivery but it got changed to carry out unbeknownst to me!!!

I gave 15% tip to a driver that never happened. Can’t call local store. By the time I realized what happened it was over 3 1/2 hours!!! Went to pick up lady was hateful and rude. Food was ruined and it was for a birthday supper!!

I used to call and order. It would be delivered in a good time. This was a HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE!!!! I am done with Papa Johns. Never again!!!!!!!

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Jeff Glover

Nov 27, 2021
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I ordered 3 pizzas pepperoni with extra pepperoni, light sauce, extra baked/ Pepperoni with extra pepperoni And a cheese pizza with extra cheese. The pizza arrived hot and fast. The pizza labels all had extra cheese written on them. The box marked light sauce was actually the one with regular sauce meaning the one I sent with my son and his girlfriend was mine.

The pizza was hardly sliced and we had to pull it causing it to tear. The order was messed up and for the price of your pizzas I feel like I deserve some kind of refund.

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Carri Degidio

Nov 27, 2021
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I was trying to order a free 2 topping pizza 4 damn times called twice to hear random b.s and never was able to order this damn pizza and breadsticks and I'm seriously p.o and asking for my cc number why when it's free i'm so angry want to go up there but I'm too pissed off with the lack of LISTENING to me cause the website does not need my cc information for a damn free pizza in the first place ...so angry ...

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Jennifer

Nov 22, 2021
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I order and used my papa John dough to my order. When I checked my order it said carry out In which it was for delivery I called the store to change it to delivery he said I would have to pay regular price and

I couldn’t use my dough reward, he said cancel the order and do it over for delivery , I did it didn’t have my reward so I called he said I lost the dough and they couldn’t give it back.

What’s the purpose of the dough then? I want my dough replaced

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JOSEPH DRISCOLL

Nov 21, 2021
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You need to show estimated delivery BEFORE payment is made so the consumer can decide if they want to wait.

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Crystal Jackson

Nov 19, 2021
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I loved Papa John’s Pizza since it opened until recently. I ordered the meats.

There was barely any meat on it at all. The dough was gummy.

I will probably never order from them again

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Robert Holloman

Nov 13, 2021
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I experienced the worse customer service by a store supervisor and driver ever. The store is located in Stedman, NC and I got the assumption that the store supervisor was racist, unprofessional, and extremely rude. I am a loyal papa johns customer and I have very been so insulted at any rest food restaurant ever.

This manager will cause people to stop ordering from Papa Johns. The driver left my pizza on the cold porch where snails and frogs appear. He didn't ring on the doorbell or knock on the door. The pizza was not good on top of everything and cold.

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Shakita

Nov 5, 2021
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The other day I ordered a pizza and some BBQ poppers and when I got the order both was burnt and I called them they said I can get a free pizza I been calling them for almost a week now and someone keeps hanging up on me when I call I still have not gotten my free pizza please DO SOMETHING A.S.A.P

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Deb Kreutzer

Nov 3, 2021
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I pre-ordered 4 pizzas and requested a 5:45 pm delivery time. The pizzas were finally delivered 40 minutes late. According to the receipt, they did not even leave Papa John's until 5:51 pm! All 4 pizzas arrived cold. The sausage pizza was very skimpy on sausage.

This was the first time I ordered from Papa John's, and I was very disappointed. Our guests were hungry and disappointed. When I called the store to inquire why we did not have our pizzas, the employee was rude. We ordered from Restaurant #969 in Lawrence, KS.

Our order # was 0020.

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Katie Legg

Oct 28, 2021
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I placed an order online for a delayed order. Shortly after I realized I had made a mistake in ordering. I immediately called the Store to make changes. I was on hold for 15 minutes with call on hold then ringing then back on hold.

I gave up and tried again on hold for almost a half hour again switching between on hold music then ringing and back to music on hold. Unfortunately I was never able to speak to a live employee. Although my order arrived on time it was not correct.

I requested square cut but got slices. Slices were not cut through and through. It is a shame the employees failed to answer the phone. I understand employees are busy but how can you efficiently run a business when no on answers a business phone.

Judging by what happened on this order I see no reason to place any…

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Mary Ann Cook

Oct 10, 2021
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Called in for a large shaqaroni at7800 E Harry Store in Wichita Kansas. Lady on the phone said the pizza would be ready in 20 to 30 min. I arrived within 25 min, the man said my pizza wouldn't be ready for another 30 min or so and pretty much he was discouraging me to not wait.

Apparently he did not want my business! Sure would have loved to try the shaqaroni but I will never go back. Plus the floor in that place was filthy!

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Blaire

Oct 1, 2021
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Store 1536 uses a pizza box instead of a register that is a total risk and can easily be robbed putting several employees at risk. I also want to add how rude the manager is and choose her employees out in front of everyone in the store making the whole experience uncomfortable and I would never want to go back there because of that.

I also want to add how rude the manager is and choose her employees out in front of everyone in the store making the whole experience uncomfortable and I would never want to go back there because of that. This is a serious problem!!!!!!!

If I worked there I would not want to be an employee because of the way they get treated by the manager Belva. This is totally disrespectful and uncalled for I would have walked out if I were an employee there.

Obviously…

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Daniel J Laughlin

Sep 25, 2021
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Walked into Papa John's in Charles Town WV to order a pizza and was told they were not taking any more orders today? It was 7:00 PM and they close at 12:00. How can that possibly be? Does that mean the last order they took before we walked in will not be delivered until 12:00??

How can that be possible? All I can say is that location would be nice place for a Pizza Shop.

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Kenneth turley

Sep 20, 2021
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Well i ordered my pizza at around 8:45 and they said it be a hour n 45 mins wait and i said ok.. Well the pizza never came and im so hungry

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Judy Camp

Sep 5, 2021
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Calling to place order I have a very hard time understanding the person on the line I had to ask him sever times what he said he sounded to me he was in India that to me is very up setting I will not order fro papa Johns again this is America not Indian know you can do better please get some one to answer the phone that speak English

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RICHARD DEREK HOLLAND

Aug 31, 2021
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I ordered a pizza Saturday night and was delivered the wrong pizza in the correct box. I called the store and told them to just credit my card the difference and I would be ok, since I know they were busy, was told they could not do that , but could give me a free pizza next time I ordered from that location. I live 4 hours away. I was highly un satisfied with service

Richard Holland

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Deborah Spader

Aug 29, 2021
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Would not answer their phone for take out order. Online ordering not working.

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Bonnie Craig

Aug 28, 2021
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First I had to order at a call center, Spelled my name for her, Repeated my order to her, then she ask me if I wanted To order cheese sticks and I had already ordered and repeated my order. Then I went to pick it up at papa johns on Montgomery NE, Albuquerque, they said they didn’t have any order for me, I tried to tell them I spoke to a call center, they said they don’t understand English very well, so

she finally looked at the tickets, it was there, but my name was not even close to being spelled right. Come on Really, Bull Crap. Wait and waited for my order to be made , even when it was done pizza was the wrong size, my family was waiting over 1&1/2 hours, Bull ——-.

Never Again, going to Dion’s from now on.

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