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It seems bizarre to me how rare market research and actually asking the customers what they want, is so rare amongst huge corporations to where it seems like Popeyes were the first ones to do these very basic, common sense things.
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Corporatism and business aspects aside, Papa John's is literally the worst pizza I've ever had in my life. "It's like a hot circle of garbage." Even Burger King has higher quality "food" than Papa John's.
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@RuRichelieu He's talking about them seemingly being woke/"politically correct." Although I'm not sure that applies here, considering this wasn't necessarily a case of being hyper sensitive and PC.
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@angoraramp Dominos is much cheaper to operate than a Quiznos. Ironically, Subway is the cheapest food chain of all to run, which is why there's so many of them internationally and why their subs are so overpriced, yet Quiznos is another sub chain, but costs much more to operate; possibly due to all those ovens.
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I'm an American living in South Korea. Burger King is only so popular here in Korea because they're everywhere, essentially being the McDonalds of this region, while there's usually only one single McDonalds in every major city besides Seoul. BK greatly outnumbers any other chain, even long-time local Korean chain Lotteria (but Lotteria is super-nasty garbage.) Burger King is also much cheaper here than other places, and the food is actually slightly better (it's still Burger King though, so not "good," but "at least better than at-home.") Back in the US, I'd never go to a Burger King simply because Wendy's tasted better, McDonalds were more abundant and often open 24 hours, and Burger King was the most expensive place out there. The three most important things customers care about with fast food chains is Convenience, Taste, and Price, and I'd say Burger King is dead-last in all three of those, in the US. BK in America is like the Papa John's of burger places: "Only as a last resort if you're really hungry and one is nearby." Yet here in Korea, you can get eight actually-great-tasting, real-chicken nuggets (which taste identical to US McNuggets, despite not being McDonalds) for about $2. I don't even eat fast food too often, but that is a hell of a deal! Simply put, Korea runs Burger King far better than they do in the US.
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I grew up dirt poor and spent three years buying my food at Dollar Tree. I, in fact, hated Family Dollar because it was a "fake dollar store" and its items aren't actually that cheap despite being a discount store and having weird off-brand inventory. Its products are maybe 5% less or the same exact price you'd find at a Walmart and they sell things between $5 to $30; and almost none of it is an actual bargain despite being unheard-of brands and stuff made in China. The problem is, where I grew up (Philadelphia), was that all the Walmarts were all in the suburbs, but Family Dollars were everywhere. As much as I disliked being so poor that I had to eat at Dollar Tree, I absolutely hated Family Dollar for being cheap crap that was still overpriced. At least Walmart had name-brand items that were cheap.
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@samuelsummers4376 That, and their pizza is just horrible. Even Dominos tastes better. Papa John's is also the most expensive, despite all this.
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148 angry baristas downvoted this video, LOL! And I don't even like Starbucks. I think it's the most pretentious, upper-middle-class thing since "FRIENDS." But the union workers and those on strike don't make me sympathetic to them. Especially since unions are usually for high-skilled, hard-to-replace workers like electricians or carpenters, not coffee shop workers.
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@leem9687 It was always terrible. All of the big pizza chains are (although Little Caesar's is pretty good considering how cheap it is; if it costs more than $10, not so much.) Pizza Hut hasn't been good since the 90s, and Dominos has had dry over-seasoned pizzas since their relaunch in the 2000s, but Papa John's has been the worst pizza on the planet my entire life.
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Hard to believe this video was released almost a year ago, as it's more relevant now than ever. Besides the games industry being the only one to charge full price all-digital products that are broken and unusable nowadays, they're also the ONLY industry to charge more money for an unfinished, broken product and the only industry whose customers willingly put up with the "pay more for a broken digital product and hope they'll maybe fix it later" service. Piracy is going to SKYROCKET in the gaming industry if it hasn't already and until they learn their lesson, I'm all for it. How this is even legal in the US and other Western countries, is beyond me. But I am NEVER going to pay $70 for some ones and zeros that don't even properly work as intended. How other people so often willingly do this, baffles me.
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