(KMDL-FM) Another popular pizza provider with hundreds of locations across Louisiana and thousands across the country has announced plans to shutter hundreds of those locations. Just last week, we learned that Pizza Hut had also announced plans to rethink its corporate strategy after it was announced that hundreds of locations of that brand would be closing in the near future.
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If you’re wondering why all of a sudden pizza has become an endangered species, all you have to do is look at your phone for the answer. Do you see those apps on your phone for DoorDash and UberEats? Granted, you can get pizza delivered from those apps, but you also have so many other choices.
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Back in the pizza heyday, it was the only food you could really get delivered. Okay, many Asian restaurants offered delivery, but it wasn’t that long ago that if you wanted food brought to your home, you either had to go pick it up or order a pizza.
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Now, with all the options of just about any food at any price point via DoorDash and UberEats the decision to “get a pizza” has lost a bit of its luster. That one change in consumer behavior is making a huge difference in how much pizza gets a slice of the dining-out pie.
Papa John’s Pizza Reveals Plans to Close Hundreds of Locations.
During a recent earnings call, the corporate leadership of Papa John’s Pizza announced plans to shutter some 300 locations in North America. The stores that will be earmarked for closing are those stores that have been determined to be “underperforming.”
According to statistics online, Papa John’s operates several stores across Louisiana. Many of the state’s larger communities have many different locations. It is unclear at this time how many, if any, Louisiana locations might be closed during this corporate revitalization.
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The store closings will also come with a reduction in workforce. The company has also announced that the job actions won’t just happen at the “store level”. The company plans to layoff about 7% or 700 staffers in its corporate offices and other corporate positions.
The store closings will begin this year. The company suggested, through comments in its earnings call, that about 200 stores could be shuttered by the end of this year. With the remaining stores closing the following year.
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