billryan
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November 16th, 2021 at 10:46:46 AM permalink
Papa John's announced a name change today. They are dropping the apostrophe and becoming Papa Johns.
They need to change every sign, every menu, and a gazillion other things that include the apostrophe.
PJs has bit hit with bad press based on its founders actions and a perception it is involved in extreme politics so it is attempting to rebrand itself.
The company has thousands of franchises which mean each owner now has to replace their signs, uniforms,etc, etc.
This reminds me of AC in the early 90s when Trump decided to start using the J in his name and spent millions to change the signage and discard millions of pieces of stationary and menus that lacked the J. A friend that worked for the Taj was given tens of thousands of matchbooks and coasters that were now obsolete.
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November 16th, 2021 at 11:25:56 AM permalink
Interesting. I doubt most people would notice such details.

CVS/Pharmacy finally dropped the /. The reason they had the / in the first place is because CVS merged with Caremark, so they were CVS/Caremark for awhile, then all that was left of Caremark was the / in CVS/Pharmacy.

It's something that amuses me, but I assume 99.9% of America doesn't know the significance.
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November 16th, 2021 at 11:33:26 AM permalink
Quote: billryan

Papa John's announced a name change today. They are dropping the apostrophe and becoming Papa Johns.
They need to change every sign, every menu, and a gazillion other things that include the apostrophe.
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I'm guessing they spend around $35,000,000 and don't get much for it.

Deciding that a business name is negative equity is expensive.
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November 16th, 2021 at 11:43:59 AM permalink
Reminds me how they agonized a bit in sin city years ago while trying to decide whether to be called "Caesar's Palace" or "Caesars Palace."
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November 16th, 2021 at 1:41:03 PM permalink
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Quote: billryan

Papa John's announced a name change today. They are dropping the apostrophe and becoming Papa Johns.
They need to change every sign, every menu, and a gazillion other things that include the apostrophe.
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I'm guessing they spend around $35,000,000 and don't get much for it.

Deciding that a business name is negative equity is expensive.
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The franchise or the franchisees? Papa Johns (depending on how many stores are corporate owned) will probably make a killing on it as all of the individual locations have to buy crap from them related to the rebrand. That's why hotel logos are changed every few years.
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November 16th, 2021 at 1:51:59 PM permalink
KFC used to be Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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November 16th, 2021 at 3:41:53 PM permalink
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Reminds me how they agonized a bit in sin city years ago while trying to decide whether to be called "Caesar's Palace" or "Caesars Palace."
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???

That was a decision that Jay Sarno made when he was still building it.

Every customer is treated like a Caesar, therefore it’s a palace for multiple Caesars to congregate rather that a place owned by Caesar.



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KFC used to be Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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That’s because they’re trying to separate themselves from Kentucky since they are international and the Kentucky part is meaningless in too many places,

and they offer healthy(?) non-fried foods too,

and, um …
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November 16th, 2021 at 5:11:27 PM permalink
Quote: Mission146

Quote: Dieter

Quote: billryan

Papa John's announced a name change today. They are dropping the apostrophe and becoming Papa Johns.
They need to change every sign, every menu, and a gazillion other things that include the apostrophe.
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I'm guessing they spend around $35,000,000 and don't get much for it.

Deciding that a business name is negative equity is expensive.
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The franchise or the franchisees? Papa Johns (depending on how many stores are corporate owned) will probably make a killing on it as all of the individual locations have to buy crap from them related to the rebrand. That's why hotel logos are changed every few years.
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Organization. I'm not sure which buckets are gazintas and gazottas, but I figure around $10,000 at each of the roughly 3500 stores.
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November 16th, 2021 at 5:57:37 PM permalink
this is funny that you say this

the other week i went to wind creek and sometimes for the hell of it i pick up flyers

there responsible gaming brochure was just butchered by the graphic artist in the sense that the entire text was repeated on the front and back

i went to the desk and mentioned it to them and it was changed the next week or so
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November 16th, 2021 at 6:14:29 PM permalink
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That was a decision that Jay Sarno made when he was still building it. Every customer is treated like a Caesar, therefore it’s a palace for multiple Caesars to congregate rather that a place owned by Caesar.



Yes, that is how Sarno decided to do it, but it was contrary to what you'd expect he'd name it.

I erred sayng "agonized over."
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November 16th, 2021 at 7:02:43 PM permalink
Quote: DJTeddyBear

Quote: SOOPOO

KFC used to be Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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That’s because they’re trying to separate themselves from Kentucky since they are international and the Kentucky part is meaningless in too many places,

and they offer healthy(?) non-fried foods too,

and, um …


The version I heard about Kentucky was, the state had trademarked the name "Kentucky" (it lets only the Kentucky Derby use it for free) and KFC didn't want to pay any royalties.
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November 16th, 2021 at 8:26:10 PM permalink
In the 1980s there was a huge increase in chicken joints in Queens named Kennedy Fried Chicken that also used KFC. I don't think they were a chain. Just a bunch of Afgan immigrants living the American dream.
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November 16th, 2021 at 10:38:15 PM permalink
This is just the latest step in the company’s move to distance itself from founder and former CEO John Schnatter who stepped down years ago. More noticeable than the dropped apostrophe to the public is modernizing the logo color scheme, brightening its green and red hues. The logo change and other changes will be rolled out gradually, so existing stock with the old logo will be used rather than relegated to dumpsters.
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November 17th, 2021 at 6:39:08 AM permalink
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and, um …

Too Funny, thanks for sharing.
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November 19th, 2021 at 7:37:12 AM permalink
It will cost quite a bit, since re-registration has always been expensive. That's how many employees you need to hire, to make it work successfully.
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November 24th, 2021 at 2:36:50 PM permalink
I think a lot of people won't notice such details.
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November 29th, 2021 at 11:37:52 AM permalink
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