Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada · Helping entrepreneurs worldwide
Logo Man
A college dorm-mate designed a pizza chain's name and logo in three days and was promised a free pizza a week for life. Nobody knows who he is.
Coming soon
Papa John's Logo
The right name and right logo can make all the difference.
Transcript
Mystery guy did.
Mystery guy ... is exactly that .. a mystery guy … all we know is he’s from Chicago and a marketing major who lived in a dorm at Ball State University in Muncie Indiana in the early 1980s.
Mystery guy was in his dorm when another student called John asked him for some help. You see John was a business major at the university … and he had an idea to start his own restaurant after he graduated .. he had the plans, the concept and just about everything else … the only things he didn’t have were a name and a logo. So, Mystery guy spent 3 days on it and came up with both .. John loved them. He loved them so much he promised the Mystery Guy a free pizza a week for rest of his life.. Well, it took John a few more years before he started his restaurant chain … and by then they had lost touch … but John used both the name and logo that Mystery Guy created.
Today, over 35 years later, John’s 5,000 restaurants worldwide still use the very same name and the logo that Mystery guy came up with .. so, if you happen to be a 1980’s Ball State marketing major who came from Chicago .. you may have like $17,000 in pizza coming your way any time you want it claim from Papa Johns
The Papa John’s name and logo is a great idea because the right name and right logo can make all the difference.
Your idea could be the next story
Book a free call