Papa John's founder gives away hundreds of free pizzas

Thursday 14th May

Pizza lovers in London are being given the chance to meet one of the world’s most successful self-made businessmen and enjoy free pizza while they do so. To celebrate the opening of the company’s 50th store in London, Papa John’s Pizza founder John Schnatter will be giving away 100 free pizzas at each of the four stores he visits on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th May. John founded Papa John’s Pizza in the USA in 1984. He sold his beloved Camaro car to buy his first oven and soon began selling pizzas from a broom cupboard in Kentucky.  25 years later and Papa John’s is the third largest pizza company in the world, with more than 3400 stores in 30 countries.

Papa John’s Pizza UK fully lives up to its ‘Better Ingredients. Better Pizza’ promise and the company was named Pizza Delivery Chain of the Year 2008 by the Pizza, Pasta and Italian Food Association.

John said: “Papa John’s UK is a key international growth area for our company, and is setting the benchmark in terms of quality and expansion for other countries across the world. The company is performing extremely well in the recession, with like-for-like sales up 8.5 per cent in Quarter 1 2009.”

John will be giving away 100 free pizzas at each of the following stores:

Tuesday 12th May	Wednesday 13th May
Papa John’s East Ham  - 1100 146 Barking Road Greater London E6 3BD	Papa John’s Farringdon - 1100 65 Farringdon Road London EC1M 3JB
Papa John’s Wanstead – 1300 35 High Street Greater London E11 2AA	Papa John’s Docklands – 1330 257 East India Dock Road London Docklands E1 4 0EG