Shares of Papa John’s soared 11% on Thursday after founder John Schnatter resigned as chairman of the board late the day before. The increase added $50 million to Schnatter’s net worth.

John Schnatter is angry. As in really, really angry. In the mind of Schnatter, he is a man "done wrong" by executives and the Board of Directors at the company he founded in 1984 and eventually ...

Despite its best efforts to rehabilitate its brand, Papa John's is still paying for offensive remarks made by its founder. John Schnatter admitted last month to using the N-word on a conference call.

Papa John’s is slowly turning things around — and perhaps a new crust will help. The pizza chain is debuting a garlic Parmesan-flavored crust, its first new flavor option for its original ...

Papa John’s executive leadership has been trying to chart a better course for the company, but the pizza chain continues to struggle two years after its founder and namesake, “Papa” John ...

Papa John's new ad campaign makes a clear statement: The pizza chain is moving on without Papa John. On Tuesday, the embattled pizza company released a new commercial featuring a diverse panel of ...

The NFL’s national anthem debate veered slightly into the absurd last autumn when John Schnatter, founder and then-CEO of Papa John’s, blamed the company’s poor quarterly earnings report ...

Papa John's CEO John Schnatter, who overcame the odds to build his home-delivery pizza chain into a national powerhouse against entrenched rivals, is stepping down. Schnatter, who founded the ...

Papa John's Pizza's founder John Schnatter may have resigned as chairman of the restaurant chain's board of directors following news that he used a racial slur in a conference call, but he still ...

The former Papa John's Pizza site on Route 13 north in Smyrna is being combined with the next door property, the former site of the Thomas England House restaurant. Construction is underway to ...