Prices at Papa John's move store by store most weeks. Once in a while a price moves everywhere at once — and in the November 4-5, 2026 collection round, the $12.99 14-inch Ultimate Pepperoni Pizza did exactly that.
+$7.00
The 14-inch Ultimate Pepperoni Pizza at Papa John's went up from $12.99 to $19.99 — 54% — at 997 stores, with every store in the event now charging $18.99 to $22.00, with $19.99 the most common endpoint. Three of the Papa John's stores:
2840 7Th Avenue, Marion, IA — $19.99
1608 University Ave, Waterloo, IA — $19.99
181 E Main St, Newark, DE — $19.99
One price, everywhere, at once
Papa John's sells the 14-inch Ultimate Pepperoni Pizza under several listings — sizes and styles of the same item. In this round every one of those listings left $12.99. A change that size, landing on the same days across 997 stores, is a menu decision, not franchisees drifting: it is the old price disappearing as a tier.
The shape of the move
The 14-inch Ultimate Pepperoni Pizza is sold in several size and style listings; every one of them left the old price in the same round. Grouped by where the price landed:
Was
Now
Change
Store-listings
$12.99
$19.99
+$7.00
869
$12.99
$20.99
+$8.00
519
$12.99
$21.99
+$9.00
321
$12.99
$21.49
+$8.50
291
Also in this round
Chain
Item
Was
Now
Change
Stores
Domino's
33 items, e.g. Large (14") Hand Tossed ExtravaganZZa
How this was computed, and what we did not publish. Each store's price is read from the chain's own ordering system on a weekly rotation; a change is a store whose price for the same item differs from its previous recorded price. This story only counts events that clear a strict gate: the same item moving from the same old price to the same new price, by at least $1.00, at 40 or more stores, with both prices plausible against the item's national typical. Variants of one item — the sizes and styles above — are reported as the single event they are. This caution is not hypothetical this week: McDonald's prices were re-collected through a new route on November 3-4, and its recorded prices shifted — thousands of small rises of 10 to 30 cents that belong to the collection change, not to McDonald's menus. A raw count would have published the rewiring as a price rise. Raw counts of stores raising or cutting prices are not published: when a chain's recorded prices shift in bulk for reasons that may sit in collection rather than in the restaurants, a count would measure the shift, not the chains.
Citing this data: Source: Fast Food Index, prices checked November 5, 2026. You are welcome to quote any figure on this page.