During a speech at the University of Louisville College of Business, John Schnatter, CEO of Papa John’s Pizza, stated that he doesn’t believe the technology of Domino’s Chevrolet Spark-based DXP will do anything to preserve freshness upon delivery of the pizza chain’s precious pies.
The statement came after he was asked by a student whether or not his company would have a Chevrolet Camaro equipped with an oven, similar to the DXP.
“The car will dry that pizza out,” said Schnatter. “I think their PR work is brilliant, frankly. The things they’re doing with technology — they don’t particularly work, but people seem to like it.”
He went on to say that the company wants to avoid having its drivers out on longer runs with multiple orders, which the DXP is capable of, as its on-board oven can store up to 80 pizzas.
Schnatter says Domino’s can have its Spark DXP, as he’ll  stick with his 1972 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 — which is a bit of a mascot for Papa John’s. The Z/28 he’s referring to is the same one that was stolen (and recovered) following the Woodward Dream Cruise.
So, we guess you could say things are heating up in the kitchen. As Louisville Business First reports, Michigan-based Domino’s is currently ranked second-best pizza chain the nation, while Papa John’s follows in fourth place.
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Most pizza places just have employees drive their own cars rather then provide a company vehicle. I imagine most domino franchisors won’t be bothering with it at all. Why would they buy a vehicle when they can get employees to use their own cars at low cost to the business?
Who cares what Papa Douche says. The Guy is a right wing nut job! Both Dominos and Papa John’s Pizza suck!
I’m with Glenn, I’m not a fan of either Pizza Chain, and Papa John seems pretty full of himself in his commercials
Real pizza eaters will order and support a neighborhood pizza parlor within 5 minutes of their home, not some cardboard crap franchise owned by some guy who wears too much eyeliner AKA papa john.
The question I have is, why would you need to ‘store’ 80 pizzas? I’m sure they’ll never get to the point where they actually have 80 pies, which kinda makes it seem like overkill. The gist of the idea seems cool, but (giant but) what does this do for the wait time after an order? Having multiple orders handled by the minimum amount of vehicles works great for the company, but people usually order when they’re hungry. From the time one orders, and depending on where they are on the delivery chain (1 vs 10, for example), that could be a long wait for that pizza. Sure, you’re keeping it warm for me, but how soon am I going to be tasting pizza, as I go from hungry to starving.
With multiple drivers, the wait time per order is cut down, which works for the customers. Again, cool vehicle, but, I don’t want to wait an hour/hour 20 while one driver makes the rounds, while I’m 7th, 8th or 10th in the delivery order chain.
Then again, maybe they’ve solved this potential dilemma.