Papa Johns Pizza — Restaurant in Gilbert

Sodium warning!

Have you ever sat alone and wondered how I am going to pay for my funeral? The embalming process is extremely expensive. I have a solution for you and it's extremely cheap! Long ago before embalming practices were made modern and controlled by corporations they used salt and frankincense to preserve bodies. I feel after eating half of this pizza that I am now on my way to be perfectly preserved due to all of the salt. I understand that I should have read the website and the amount of sodium that is used in the preservation of the supplies that are put on the pizza. Of course this does not include the vegetables. Everything that isn't a vegetable was extremely high in salt.

I consider myself a bit of a pizza snob and I've had pizzas all over the valley and all over the United States. I often make pizza at home from scratch when I have the time. I can, with all honesty, tell you that none of the other pizza shops that I have frequented while living in Arizona have had this high of salt. My feet and my fingers swelled up which was a complete and total shock to me. The medical term for this is called edema. It is retention of water due to the amount of salt that is in your bloodstream. Since last night I have been on a steady diet of fruits, vegetables and water. The swelling has gone down and I am happy about it.

My 15-year-old son who got two orders of wings with Buffalo sauce, said Dad, those are some of the worst wings I've ever had. I never want to eat there again. Now you have to understand that 15-year-old kids will eat anything. They are not at the mercy of time as I am at 52. They're stomachs are lined with steel and teflon they can literally eat anything and they will be fine. My son is not fine and he can eat the worst junk food. Understand that he'll eat anywhere. He's not even picky. This is literally the first time this year that he has given his disapproval of something he ate.

Now if anyone from Papa John's is reading this, please understand that this is my opinion. But seriously, why is the sodium so high in the pizzas it doesn't even make sense. I understand that it is not as expensive as eating at Grimaldi's and maybe that's it. I have to pay more money to eat a higher quality of dough and ingredients with a low sodium balance.

I have decided that I will be buying a pizza oven very soon and it will sit out on my deck because it just seems that since the pandemic everything kind of sucks right now as far as food. There are exceptions such as Gus's famous fried chicken in Mesa, which when I am placed into my casket after eating my last meal of Papa John's, they will place some of the fried chicken from Gus's so I can enjoy this food in the afterlife.

I know people are going to say what did you expect? It's Papa John's? I didn't expect the salt to be so severe that I considered it to be a practical approach to alternative embalming practices.

These are my personal opinions and should not be interpreted as...

Today we moved into our new house and it took us all day since we were moving with friends and children. So I called Papa Johns to order pizza. And so the drama begins...Jake the manager at this location is as arrogant and unapologetic as they come! We ordered our food online, and received the email confirmation at 9:18pm. Jake calls us back less than 5 minutes later and says they are "out of cinnamon pull aparts" so he offered a cookie or brownie. We chose the cookie! Jake calls back at 9:42pm to tell me that we are out of their delivery range! What?! I tell him that's not possible the app would not choose the wrong store would it? So he proceeds to tell me I have to call another store to place my order. He tells me I'm closer to Chandler Heights and Alma School and I tell him he is wrong. I thought to myself I'm going to look at the map sure enough Jake is incorrect. I call back and the person that answered the phone takes my phone # and immediately says I'm out of their delivery range without asking to confirm my address. I asked to speak to the manager- guess who it is - Jake. He gives me the # to the other location and says nothing he can do I'm a real snotty way! I call the other location, Reed answers and he is sooo helpful. I explained the situation and my disdain for the other papa Johns location and he says let me check the map. He comes back and guess what he says - u guessed it - I need to call the other location. So I ask to speak to a manager. By now it's after 10pm! Hungry kids and people! Now, Nick gets on and I explain once again and he apologizes, asks for my order # and says he "will call the other location and figure out what is going on and you will get your pizza tonight!" 10 min later, guess who called - u guessed it Jake! (With egg on his face and still arrogant) He proceeds to tell me that I entered the wrong address and that's why he kept telling me to call the other store! Wrong answer! Why would the app send me to his store if I had input the wrong address??! I stated to him again that I have given him my address 3x and he is not listening. He then asked for my address again! He then says "we are going to get this to you free of charge and it should 35 min." He never apologized for getting things wrong or the time we had to wait thru his incompetence and arrogance! Needless to say I have never experienced this from any other Papa Johns and I hope he gets reprimanded even though he is a so called "manager!" Btw my food was delivered at 10:54pm. I sincerely I hope I have no more brushes with Jake and that he...

A HALLOWEEN NIGHTMARE.

On all Hallows Eve the corporate planners of Papa John’s Gilbert came up with a dubious plan of pure evil!

Their plan was founded on a jack-o’-lantern pizza which would lure in the town folk from far and wide. They would set the stage for a most gruesome affair. With tickets upon tickets upon tickets mounting while Vaughn and Dustin could barely see the end. The monster was lurking.

Burdened with the wrath of guests galore, gazing at them with freakish fright.

Some of the “smart ones”decided to order ahead but hopes and dreams were dashed when Dustin explained that that was an amateur move. This did not help but combined 200 orders into one que. While knowing this could cause a nightmarish scenario as in years past, Papa just chuckled and refilled the register….

Tickets mounted high and long and the fright in the air began to grow! Halloween became the nightmare of kitchens across the world. Papa John’s employees running for their lives, customers hurling dangerous looks, and deep despair at every return.

A kind gentleman who tried to save the day suggested as the printer kept clicking to maybe stop taking orders… but no that’s where the evil begins.

Dustin stood strong in the face of evil, but the monster had let loose and his razor sharp claws will not allow the restaurant or guests to survive.

As guests complained and the shriek of horror filled the lobby there was again a suggestion of shutting off the on demand ordering. But NO!

With a sinister laugh, corporate papa continue in this dangerous path of of-ordering as the team could not make that decision for fear of their futures. And just like that, it all came crashed down. Even orders placed at 10:30am where destroyed with the stoke of a key. The hopes of pumpkin-shaped pizza were gone.

The monster was real, and his plan was clear.

In 20 minutes, I saw 17 customers walk out with in fear annd defeat. They had lost the battle.

I wish I could say this gruesome tale had a happy ending, but it doesn’t.. A baby crying, mother who was in the lobby for 2.5 hours left a shell of her former self. All guests, trapped and in house of horror without Halloween food.

It was a tale like non other but if guy was want a free haunted house experience… go to Papas next Halloween, and be ready for...