Papa John's

After all that 3:00 pm ramen, our Happy Friday dinner came a bit late at around 9:30 pm, as soon as Monique & I had walked all around the Makati Commerical Center to generate appetite anew (we made our way past Landmark all the way to Glorietta 5 and back).  We found ourselves at Papa John's Pizza in Greenbelt 3, and since we had not yet tried their pizza, we decided to pop in for one family size all-meat pizza and some seafood spaghetti--

As in a lot of good pizza places, the restaurant has a glass partition so one can watch how the pizza is made.  As advertised, the pizza dough was noticeably fresh and delicious to the bite.  The toppings were flavorful and the pizza came in hot off the oven.  However, the spaghetti was good but wasn't exactly outstanding.  As we were still full, we had half of the pizza wrapped for take-home.  Our bill came to around P450 per head.

Upon our analysis, we realized that price was the competitive disadvantage of Papa John over the other pizza chains, as their family pizzas still hover at the P500+ price range.  For example, both Shakey's and Pizza Hut had promotional offers that will enable a customer to purchase a family size pizza for around P300 each.  Overall, though, the dining experience was a good one.