While working at a local pizza place, John Schnatter, founder of Papa John's realized there was something missing from pizza chains across the country: a superior-quality traditional pizza that was delivered to customer's door. His dream was to one day open a pizza restaurant that would fill those criteria. In 1984, "Papa" John Schnatter knocked out a broom closet located in the back of his father's tavern, Mick's Lounge, and sold his prized 1972 Z28 Camaro. He …showed first 75 words of 455 total…

…showed last 75 words of 455 total…charities without the public's knowledge. Papa John's Pizza continues to do well and do work to make his community area a better place to live. Founder and now Chief Exectuive Officer Schnatter says: "We have a simple philosophy. We believe that if you do a great job, if you are serving great products, and if you take great care of your people and they take great care of the customer, then good things will happen.