COMP NEWS – Popular pizza chain Papa John’s is rolling out the dough for its dough-rollers in the form of $400 bonuses.

About 14,000 staff at company-owned restaurants, and in its supply chain, can get up to $400 paid in increments over the next six months. Papa John’s didn’t say how it would decide how much each staff member gets.

 

It’s also rolling out referral bonuses to recruit more staff. Staff can get $50 for each new hire they refer to the company – and new starters can get a $50 hiring bonus, it announced Thursday.

The organization has also announced that the new staff benefits implemented during the pandemic will now be permanent additions going forward.

The pizza chain said the staff benefits it introduced during the pandemic were now permanent. These include expanded health, wellness, paid time-off, and college-tuition benefits.

 

Papa John’s said that its bonuses, alongside extra investment in full-time staff at its higher-volume company-owned restaurants, would cost it around $2.5 million by the end of 2021.

This comes in addition to the recent compensation increases in its corporate-owned restaurants, totaling an average of a 10% raise.

The United States is currently in the midst of a large labor shortage, with the airline, retail, and hospitality industries being hit especially hard. The US Chamber of Commerce has warned that such a prolonged shortage could have adverse effects on the nation’s economic recovery.

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