
Papa John’s Trademarks
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September 20, 2023
Papa John’s International, Inc. is an American based corporation with headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. It is the world’s third largest pizza delivery company with more than 5,300 restaurants in 48 countries as of Summer 2020. The brand’s registered trademark slogan is also its main goal: Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. Papa John’s. The company’s philosophy is that high quality ingredients make superior quality pizzas. The pizza dough is fresh, never frozen and it is made of only six ingredients. Toppings include real cheese made from mozzarella, vine-ripened tomato pizza sauce, and meat free of fillers.
The first Papa John’s Pizza was founded in 1984 when “Papa” John Schnatter turned a storage closet in the back of Mick’s Lounge, his dad’s bar, in Jeffersonville, Indiana into a tiny pizza kitchen. He sold his beloved 1971 Camaro ZS8 in order to afford the right equipment. After a year of selling pizzas to the patrons of his dad’s bar, his pizza became popular enough for him to move into a building next door. Schnatter also invented the garlic dipping sauce for pizza crust that has been one of their trademarks ever since. A container of it comes with each pizza as well as 2 pepperoncinis.
By 1986 Schnatter incorporated Papa John’s as it was doing well enough to stand on its own. The following year, Schnatter and his father sold the bar so they could spend all their time on Papa John’s. They wanted to perfect the Perfect Pizza, which eventually became a registered trademark slogan for the brand. Making the best pizza at a great price and delivering it quickly was the goal and it worked to great success.
One of the keys to the brand’s success was the commissary that Schnatter built near corporate headquarters in Louisville to provide each of the Papa John’s locations with fresh pizza dough and spices. This was where they made all of the dough for their signature pizza and breadsticks – it was chilled and shipped fresh twice a week. It was also pre-measured to reduce waste and it ensured consistency across the Papa John’s brand because it was made by experts. As the number of Papa John’s locations grew, so did the capacity of the commissary system and by the end of the 1980’s there were 23 Papa John’s stores and 4 additions to the first commissary.
At the start of the 1990’s Papa John’s started to grow quickly. This was due to several factors – the first being that the overall pizza sector was the fastest growing part of the restaurant industry at that time. However, there were some unique to Papa John’s factors that helped them grow the fastest. They were able to keep the cost for starting a new franchise under $100,000 as opposed to over $1 million for many other restaurant groups. This led to some well-known restaurant owners opening up Papa John’s locations. They were growing so fast that the brand was doubling in size every year from 1986. In 1992 they had over 200 restaurants.
Schnatter took Papa John’s public in 1993; by the next year, the company had over 500 locations. They reached 1,500 stores by 1997. A well-known story is that Schnattner was able to buy back his Camaro ZS8 that he sold to start the company after offering a quarter of a million dollars as incentive.
In January 2002, Papa John’s became the first national pizza chain to make online ordering available to all of its U.S. customers.
In 2016, Papa John’s became the third-largest take-out and pizza delivery pizza chain in the U.S. In 2017 Schnatter stepped down as CEO but stayed on as chairman. However, that changed in 2018 after Schnatter make some racial slurs during a conference call with Papa John’s marketing agency. Due to the controversy, he left the company completely. In the time since, Papa John’s has done their best to disassociate the brand from John Schnatter. In recent years they have filed new registered trademark logos with the brand reading Papa Johns without the apostrophe. They also redid the Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. Papa Johns registered trademark slogan to reflect the change.
A new registered trademark program created after Schnatter’s departure are Papa Dough – a new rewards program which lets customers earn free pizzas and other rewards 5 times faster than before. Another new registered trademark program is Papa Priority, which allows customers in a hurry to jump their order to the front of the line for an extra fee.
After the scandal with Schnatter, Papa John’s growth slumped, but the brand started gaining momentum again in 2020 with the announcement of a 49 restaurant deal in Philadelphia and New Jersey.
Papa John’s is working very hard to show that the brand is inclusive and to rid the company of the stigma attached to Schnatter’s scandal. This year, Papa John’s scored 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index, “the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality”. Papa John’s is the only pizza company to earn a perfect score this year. “This score is just another example of how we are truly making Papa John’s a welcoming and inclusive place to work, where our team members feel supported to be their authentic selves. One of our core corporate values is ‘everyone belongs’. We are proud to live that value daily and continue the transformation of our company culture,” Chief People & Diversity Officer Marvin Boakye said.
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