Papa John’s Pizza

I only ever do deliveries for this location, so I can’t vouch for the actual place. The delivery is super quick, not even half an hour. Every person that does the deliveries is friendly, sweet, and professional. The orders are never messed up, it’s always fresh and the quality is always consistent. I love this location and have been coming here for years, and will continue to do so.

I love Papa John’s pizza. This place was small, restroom was okay. Needs a little taken care of or upgrade. But over all service was great and pizza was very good as usual.

It’s a shame because I use to love papa johns but something isn’t right about the ingredients that they use for the pizza.

It’s papa john’s pizza. What do all these people expect writing such awful reviews! It’s fast food pizza, and compared to dominos and pizza hut, I think they do a much better job. I ask for my pizza to be well done so I can ensure it is baked properly and you can order online or call in. They were courteous when I spoke with them. Although I only get papa john’s very infrequently, I think they do a decent job. The place is right on wilshire so you can’t park in front, but I believe you can park in the back. I would guess most people get delivery though. If you are craving pizza and don’t have a frozen one in your freezer, this isn’t a bad option if you live close by.

Called for a takeout order and I still had to wait another 20 mins. Timing needs a little work. Other than that it’s alright pizza.

Cheese sticks were cold. Chicken poppers were undercooked. Only thing that was any good was the cinnamon knots.

If only there was 0 stars… And if only I have checked their Unilocal before ordering.
Two words:
Grease Pool
Any place is better, local Pizza Hut, dominos, frozen pizza, ANYTHING.
Run.
Run far away.

i called to order delivery and the guy answers and says
«i recognized your voice! did you just call my store and say something?»
already an awkward question to be asking a customer i replied:
«no sir, called you about what? im calling you now…»
he says «you sure it wasn’t you i recognize your voice, dont play with me»
so at this point i already have «Beef» with the guy about to make my pizza and i didn’t even order yet. i told him i didn’t want my food tampered with on account of his grudge i assume hes holding against some kids that probably prank called his store with their moms cellphone. i definitely felt like he was going to put some mustache hairs in my pizza so i ordered from a local spot instead of this shit hole. he was totally OK when i told him this too.
PAPA JOHN, you just lost out on feeding an entire post production crew upwards towards 400 $ worth of pizza. GFY.

Because the papa john’s advertisements always touted their high quality ingredients, i expected at the very least that the quality of the pie would be better than dominos or pizza hut, but that was not the case. I ordered a large ground beef, green pepper and onion pizza. The amount of beef on the pizza was embarrassingly chintzy/​skimpy. The sauce tasted okay, but could have cooked a few minutes more. There are plenty of pizza places on wilshire, and they all taste better than this place!

So so pizza and service. Personally prefer pizza hut out of all the pizza chains. Ordered a large pepperoni pizza. This particular time I feel that it lacked flavor like they didn’t apply enough sauce to it. Pepperoni topping seemed to be lacking as well. Not sure if it was just an off day. Prices are pretty reasonable though.

Terrible. Pizza took over 1hr, was cold and the garlic sauce had broken and spilled all over the pizza. Terrible.

Serves me right for ordering a pizza from a chain started by a meathead who proudly displays his IROC Z28 on every box cover… We used to laugh at those jokers in high school. Now he’s a right wing neo-​con. Sounds about right. Anyway, I digress. The pizza is terrible. It’s not even as good as a frozen pizza from Trader Joes. I just felt lazy with a large group of undiscriminating eaters coming over, but I’ll never make that mistake again. Papa John’s is actually lower on the delivery pizza food chain than Dominos and Little Caesar’s. Didn’t think that was possible…

Good pizza, fast delivery, convenient online ordering, nice pricing. Never had problems with them.

That «better ingredients, better pizza» mantra might work in the boonies, but when there’s actual pizza nearby, you’re exposed. And it’s not like they have to compete with NYC pizza here. Garbage ingredients, garbage pizza. Service with a smile? No dice! Requests for extra sauce results in nearly no sauce. The crust has more flavor than the cheese. The condiments… BEST ingredients? Are you out of your mind? Bland and processed, at best. If you’re in the area and need pizza, try Dagwood’s or Earth, Wind & Flour, or nearly anything else (except Dominoes and Pizza Hut).
(As a side note, why are all of the national garbage chains (Papa Johns, Pizza Hut, Dominoes) run by hard line right wingers? I’m not attacking their politics, I just want to know what conservative mindsets and crap pizza have in common…)

Stopped by yesterday after finding a coupon online. ½ off a large for Memorial day. What better way to celebrate my American freedom than eat a large by myself?! Service was fast and friendly, and the pizza was hot and scrumptious. The delivery fee was $ 3, so I drove the half of a mile and picked it up. Parking wasn’t the best, but it’s West LA. I can’t complain

When we first tried Papa John’s pizza over a meal with the in-​laws, we quickly associated the food with family and the holidays, and became enduring fans for quite some time. We met a new pizza maker we decided to trust and like because our in-​laws did, and that’s how we rolled.
Since then, we have ordered countless pizzas and deliveries from Papa John’s in various locations across SoCal, including this store on Wilshire Blvd. The more we got to know Papa John’s, the less we liked. We couldn’t help but notice the image of CEO John Schnatter popping up everywhere, from Papa John’s website, posters, and commercials to the delivery food packaging itself (extreme self-​love ensures it will never go unrequited?). And when last year’s media stories about John’s «he said what?!» responses to pending Obamacare legislation hit the fan, we decided to reevaluate for ourselves what it is we’ve been trusting and liking all this time. While the prices of pizzas have remained the same since election time, Papa John’s sides, desserts, and wings have visibly crept up between $ 1-​$ 2 per item, former little extras like parmesan and red pepper flake packets now cost $ 0.10 each, and napkins have long since become a freebie of the past. Nails, hammer, coffin.
«The machine rolls on!» Unilocal’s Jeff H. (
) recently wrote in a comment, and he’s right, there’s not much we can do, really. Chain restaurant franchisees and employees could be hurt by local boycott action or a reduction in sales, while Papa John’s emperor and his court remain untouched and unaffected in their Kentucky palace.
We can, however, choose to not buy Papa John’s pizza simply because it isn’t good enough to trade our dollars for anymore. After all, with so many great local pizza places in L. A’s Westside offering tasty and authentic pies, there really is no reason to continue any further relationship with Papa John’s!
Up until the recent past, we’ve appreciated Papa John’s free pizza promotions (⁵⁄₅), 25 point rewards program (⁴⁄₅), affordably priced pizzas (⁴⁄₅), chewy crust (³⁄₅), sugary sauce (¹⁄₅), greasy cheese (²⁄₅), generous toppings (⁴⁄₅), fast delivery (⁵⁄₅), and even those few extra pounds we gained (3÷5… just more of us to love). All good enough reasons to build an ongoing relationship with PJ’s over a certain period of time in our lives, but we’re more than ready to move on.
So we’re not comfortable mixing our meals with someone else’s politics. Well, we don’t have to! We’d prefer to put our money towards genuinely «better ingredients, better pizza» in the area, because we know better now, so we’ll go ahead and do that. More importantly, if we truly want to make good on better health resolutions, slashing another junk food giant off our go-​to list is definitely a no-​brainer.

I’ll make this brief:
I found a dead (cooked) spider in my pizza. I called to complain. They prepared to send me a new pizza.
«No, I don’t want a new pizza. I’m trying not to throw up here. I just want to tell you this so you clean up your ovens and your kitchen.»
I will never order from here again. I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to eat Papa John’s pizza again.

Place is super wack
Super duper wackness compared the Pizza hut and Dominoes two blocks down on Santa Monica.
My Fave fast food Pizza goes: Pizza Hut #1 (for child hood nostalgia reasons) and then Dominoes #2 (for college $ 5/​$ 5/​$ 5 special reasons)… But I decided to give this particular PJ’s location the benefit of the doubt about year ago as I waltzed out of Q’s on NFL Sunday about 2 PM and realized there was a pizza place literally next door.
Walked in and the dude said they were out of jalapenos before I even was able to spit out a word and order… What made u think I wanted Jalapenos bro? You were right I like Jalapenos a lot but don’t tell me your out of them before I even order damn it! *One star* for reading my mind though…
Anyway, I ordered just a basic large special to eat on the drunk walk home with my friend and figured to just go with the standard pepperoni since I wasn’t a regular here…
Opened the box up about 75 yds out the door down Wilshire to grub my first slice while in motion, and noticed the cheese on half the pizza was missing! F*ck…
The sh*tty cheese was stuck to the lid on the other side of the damn box! This pissed me off but I said f*ck it Ill just eat it anyway… But sure enough, the first slice I grab has god damn cardboard stuck to it!
Was this pizza baked while inside the box? Or WTF happened here? I could not for the life of me figure out how my pizza was fused into the box… It looked warm and fresh still so it was mind boggling and will always be a mystery to me…
I left the box with the disheveled pizza next to a sleeping bum by Bar Food and peaced out.
Ridiculousness, luckily I had some frozen taquitos at home to make up for this BS.

Ok,
So the mear thought of the idea of pizza is something that never ever pops into this head of mind in fact it’s a rear thing if I even eat it within the year. But someone one night was telling me to have it and luckly it’s right around the corner for me and after a late night I figured what the Heck, PIZZA it is…
I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at this place the staff was very friendly given the time of night and it was a good deal plus because I am one if those people who is perticuarl about her food I have to say it was rather delious and not just because it was late at night but because it was actually good.
So I say if I’m feeling in the mood for a Pizza next year or the year after that I know where to come. Lol

I gotta take a star off as two orders back my pizza was poorly made and seemed undercooked or something. I placed the order after carry out (which ends at 9:40) so maybe they were getting tired???
I ordered double toppings (like always) and instead got a few scattered sprinkles of each ingredient.
Also, they try to get you to sign the credit card receipt and put a tip down before thye give you the pizza which is a big no-​no. Ask to see the pizza and make sure it’s right before signing!