Want a 23-cent pizza? Call Papa John — not Mama Dianna
Cindy Leise | The Chronicle-Telegram
LORAIN — Don’t call Dianna Koepke today looking for a 23-cent pizza. She already gets way too many calls from people in search of a pizza pie.
“I get them all the time, including late at night,” Koepke said.
The Lorain woman has the misfortune of having inherited the phone number that used to belong to Papa John’s restaurant in Lorain, which closed years ago.
As if the late-night calls aren’t bad enough, Koepke is bracing for an onslaught today since the pizza chain is selling 23-cent pizzas to apologize for the No. 23 shirts — with a dig aimed at LeBron James — that turned up at a playoff game in Washington, D.C., on Friday.
The T-shirts had a Papa John’s logo and the word “Crybaby,” alluding to complaints from James about hard fouls from the Wizards.
The Cavaliers went on to win the series, and the pizza chain’s mea culpa was to offer its disgruntled Ohio customers the chance to buy one large, one-topping, takeout pizza for less than a quarter. The company also will donate 23 cents from every pizza sold, plus $10,000, to the Cavaliers Youth Fund.
The cheap pizzas will be available from 10 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Friday.
The closest Papa John’s restaurants are in Westlake and North Olmsted.
Contact Cindy Leise at 329-7245 or cleise@chroniclet.com.
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Filed by Cindy Leise | The Chronicle-Telegram May 8th, 2008 in Top Stories. Popularity: 4% |
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Comment from
johnbear
May 8, 2008, 6:36 am
Wow, this is a first, Papa John’s is selling their pizzas for what they are really worth!!!!
Comment from
DH
May 8, 2008, 7:08 am
Error in the article according to two articles in the Plain Dealer and Fox 8 news:
The sale is today:
23-cent pizza rules
All Papa John’s locations in the Cleveland area, Columbus, Toledo and Youngstown will offer the discount pies today from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Here are the restrictions:
One single-topping pizza per person
Extra toppings are $1.60 apiece
Carry-out only
No Internet orders, though phone calls are fine
Comment from
Jack Miller
May 8, 2008, 2:22 pm
Papa John’s pizza taste like cardboard covered in tomato sauce.
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