So here’s the deal: Everyone who was in attendance at Louisville on Dec. 16 who saw Papa John’s Pizza founder John Schnatter sink a halfcourt shot is entitled to a free pizza. Smart marketing or foolish promise? You be the judge: There were 18,868 fans at the game between the Cardinals and Oral Roberts, so that’s $174,000 in pizza if everyone claims one.
Schnatter got at least two tries before he banked in the shot during halftime at Freedom Hall last week; not surprising that he’d get more than one shot, seeing that he helped finance Louisville’s football stadium.
Papa John’s says the free pizza offer is good through Dec. 27. Fans must call the store, order carryout and surrender their game ticket when they pick up the pizza.
Video here.
The free publicity is probably worth it; just as John Keiley, owner of Johnny’s New York Pizza & Pasta in Lakewood, Colo. He turns up every year with some sort of sports related pizza giveaway; in June of 2007 he offered free pizza if the Rockies swept the Yankees. That cost him 2,500 pizzas — or about $12,000. Then he made the same offer if any NFL team went 16-0 … and that was the year the New England Patriots did. That set him back 1,500 pizzas. He’s still in business, as far as I know.
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Louisville Pizza Giveaway: Papa John’s Offering Nearly 19,000 Free Pizzas [Huffington Post]
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- THE VILLAGE IDIOT - Dec 22, 2009 at 10:01 AM
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SCHNATTER’S PIZZA, IN A NATION WIDE SURVEY, WAS DEEMED TO BE THE BEST TASTING, FRANCHISE, PIZZA IN THIS COUNTRY!
I HAVE NO IDEA, I HAVE YET TO ORDER ONE OF THEM, IN THE NEAR FUTURE I INTEND TO DO SO!
RESULT WILL BE POSTED, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING CONSUMPTION …
CAVEAT EMPTOR!!
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- THE VILLAGE IDIOT - Dec 22, 2009 at 5:29 PM
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IF THEY ARE HIRING, YOU WOULD BE THE LAST PERSON THAT THEY WOULD CONSIDER! YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF WRITING ANYTHING OTHER THAN SIMPLISTIC DIATRIBE; HARDLY THE MATERIAL THE READERS OF THIS BLOG WOULD SUFFER THROUGH!!
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