The 7-foot-1 NBA Hall-of-Famer O’Neal owns nine Papa John's restaurants as a franchisee. He also serves as a brand ambassador for the restaurant and is on the company’s board of directors.

Shares of Papa John’s closed 7.5% higher on news of the interest from Apollo and Irth, which was reported earlier on Wednesday by Semafor, giving the pizza chain a market value of $1.7 billion.

—Officials of Papa John’s Pizza, based here, say a text message ordering application launched late last year is delivering “sales lift” to the chain’s approximately 2,700 U.S. stores.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Papa John’s Pizza said it will share up to $10,000 in sales with whoever creates and names the next specialty combination of toppings adopted for use by the nation’s third ...

Papa John's recently opened its first Stockton location under the company's 2021 rebranding. The American pizza restaurant chain's newest address is at College Square at 1211 W. March Ln., in ...

A fan-favorite Papa John’s pizza is now available year-round, the restaurant said. Google Street View image from Feb. 2022 ©2025 Google A Papa Johns fan favorite is back — and it’s here to ...

Papa John's International Inc. signage is displayed on top of a delivery vehicle outside of the company's restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017.