E155 - Hospitality Insiders: Nadeem Bajwa’s Journey From Pizza Delivery to Franchise Empire

This episode of Hospitality Hangout introduces Hospitality Insiders, a special segment built for deeper operator-to-operator conversations about ownership, capital, structure, people, and what it really costs to own the thing.

For this Hospitality Insiders conversation, Jimmy Frischling sits down with Nadeem Bajwa, co-founder and CEO of Bajco Group, one of the largest Papa Johns franchise operators in North America.

Nadeem’s story is often told as an American dream story: he came to the United States from Pakistan in 1991, washed dishes, delivered pizzas, and eventually grew into one of the largest Papa Johns franchisees in th...