Papa John's Pizzas Menu & Prices

How Papa John's Pizza Prices Work

Every pizza on the menu is one of three sizes, and the price ladder is easier to read once you know the slice counts. Medium gives you 6 slices, large 8, and extra large 10. The Shaq-a-Roni is the odd one out at 12.

A Medium Cheese starts things at $9.99 and an XL Epic Stuffed Crust Pepperoni tops out at $20.99. Between those two sits almost everything else, and the gap from one size up to the next is usually about three dollars regardless of which pizza you picked.

Which Size Is Actually Better Value

Bigger wins, and the maths is not close. Medium Cheese at $9.99 across 6 slices works out to $1.67 a slice. The large is $12.99 for 8, which is $1.62. The XL is $15.99 for 10, or $1.60 a slice. You pay six dollars more and get four extra slices.

The Shaq-a-Roni beats all of them. At $16.99 for 12 slices it lands at $1.42 a slice, the cheapest per-slice figure anywhere in the lineup, and it is a specialty pizza rather than a plain cheese. If you are feeding more than two people it is the one to look at first.

Where this breaks down is leftovers. A slice you throw away costs the same as one you eat, so the per-slice figure only helps if the pizza actually gets finished.

Classic vs Specialty Pizzas

The classics are Cheese and Pepperoni, and they anchor the bottom of the price list at every size. Specialty pizzas run about three to four dollars more, because they carry more toppings and more of them are meat.

Among the specialties the price barely moves. The Works, All the Meats, Super Papa's, Philly Cheesesteak, BBQ Chicken Bacon, Buffalo Chicken, Hawaiian BBQ Chicken and Zesty Italian Trio all sit within fifty cents of each other at any given size. So the choice between them is entirely about what you feel like eating, not what it costs.

Two sit apart. NY Style comes in large and XL only and runs a dollar over the standard pepperoni. Epic Stuffed Crust is the priciest thing on the menu at $17.99 large and $20.99 XL, and it is the only crust that changes the price rather than being a free swap.

Calories by the Slice

Every calorie figure in the table is per slice, not per pizza, which matters when a large has eight of them. Cheese sits around 210, pepperoni 240, and the loaded meat pizzas climb to 310 for Super Papa's and the stuffed crust.

The lighter end is Garden Fresh at 200 to 220 depending on size, with Spinach Alfredo just behind it. If you are watching the number, the size you order changes it less than the toppings do. An XL Cheese slice is 220 calories; a large Super Papa's slice is 310.