Papa John’s Adds Tool To Slice The Bill With Friends

U.S. pizza chain Papa John’s recently added a new digital solution that will help customers easily split up their pizza bill on any mobile or online order.

The new product called PayShare, which is powered by Venmo, is reportedly the first of its kind for the pizza industry, and it also may help Papa John’s increase its digital ordering customer base.

“In today’s ‘sharing economy,’ consumers split fares for car services and share their homes on vacation rental sites, so why not share the pizza bill too?” said John Schnatter, founder, president and CEO of Papa John’s. “PayShare is yet another milestone for Papa John’s which has a solid track record of digital ‘firsts’ including the first commercial pizza chain to allow system wide online ordering in our traditional restaurants 15 years ago, and the first pizza brand to account for 50 percent of all sales through digital and mobile channels.“

Papa John’s said at the start of 2015 that more than 50 percent of its transactions (both delivery and carryout) were now digital for the first time.

“PayShare will change the mindset of our customers as they begin to think less of a $20 order and see it more as a $5 meal,” said Bob Kraut, Papa John’s CMO. “The offering is a simple, digital solution that allows our customers to focus on enjoying their favorite pizza with their friends and family, not on how they’re going to get paid back. The group can even post its order on social media channels to let its community know what it ordered.”