Papa John's Wenesdays Just Got Better

In early November 2010, the Papa John's Pizza people generously brought in pizza to our PTO meeting (see you really should come to the meetings just in case something like this happens!)

The Papa John's guy lets us dig into the pizza while he talks about a fundraiser they do with the schools.  Each school picks one day of the week per month (only Mon-Thurs.) and if you mention WHITNEY when you make your order ON THAT DAY of the month 20% of the sale proceeds go to the school.  The rest of the month, if you put WHITNEY in the promo spot on the online ordering form, the school gets $1.00 no matter the day.

Somebody then brightens up and says, "Wait a minute can we have the last Wednesday of every month?"  Papa John's guy looks a little confused and says yes, that day is still up for grabs.  The person who asks about the last Wednesday is getting giddy.  I'm talking WAY too giddy for this conversation.  "Really?"  She turns to the rest of the PTO and then hits them with her best can-I-have-the-puppy-look.

The rest of the PTO looked a lot confused and for what was probably the 12th time that year and a harbinger of things to come, came to the realization that this PTO mom was/is nuts.

Okay, yeah, so the nutty PTO mom was me.  But I quickly explained that the last Wednesday of the month happens to also be the day before Thanksgiving.  Pizza chains report these as their 5 biggest sales days of the year:

1. Super Bowl Sunday
2. New Year's Eve
3. Halloween
4. The night before Thanksgiving
5. New Year's Day


We couldn't have Sunday (by the rules of the fundraiser) and I couldn't predict what day New Year's or Halloween would fall on but Thanksgiving Eve will always be in the 4th week of November (it's possible we get Halloween, and one of the New Year's every once in a while and true that a 5 week November could screw us up but we should do well over time.)


In my giddiness I think I blurted out something like, "I never cook the day before Thanksgiving!  Oh please can we have it??"  The rest of the PTO agreed it might be a good fundraising night and thus we have the last Wednesday of the month.


But do you know how it just got better?  I have yet to try out this coupon but I just found one online for Papa John's.  The site it came from says it only works ONE day of the week.  Guess when: WEDNESDAY!!  Give it a try and let me know.  It's supposed to take 25% off your regular priced items on your online order on Wednesdays.

COUPON CODE:WW25

Here are some pizza fun facts: http://pizza.com/fun-facts

*Note: Grady and I have even been to the single highest grossing independent pizzeria in the nation: the http://www.moosestooth.net/index2.htm in Anchorage, Alaska.  That's a long ways to go just for a blog but I like to keep things authentic.