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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001123292-19-001088
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	3
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20190826
FILED AS OF DATE:		20190828
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20190828

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Lynch Robert
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001786642

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		3
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-21660
		FILM NUMBER:		191062685

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		P. O. BOX 99900
		CITY:			LOUISVILLE
		STATE:			KY
		ZIP:			40269

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			PAPA JOHNS INTERNATIONAL INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000901491
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	RETAIL-EATING PLACES [5812]
		IRS NUMBER:				611203323
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1229

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2002 PAPA JOHNS BOULEVARD
		CITY:			LOUISVILLE
		STATE:			KY
		ZIP:			40299-2334
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5022617272

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		P O BOX 99900
		CITY:			LOUISVILLE
		STATE:			KY
		ZIP:			40269-9990
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    <remarks>Exhibit 24 - Limited Power of Attorney</remarks>

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        <signatureName>/s/ Debra Tate Johnson, by Power of Attorney</signatureName>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;">LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;">For Executing SEC Forms ID, 3, 4, 5 and 144</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 45.8pt; font-size: 12pt;">The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Clara M. Passafiume, Kenneth M. Cox and Debra Tate Johnson, and each of them signing
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      <div style="text-indent: 45.8pt; font-size: 12pt;">The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
        whatsoever requisite, necessary and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as such attorney in-fact might or could do if personally present, with full power of
        substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
        granted.&#160; This Limited Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, 5 or 144 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
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      <div style="text-indent: 45.8pt; font-size: 12pt;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Limited Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 28th day of August, 2019.</div>
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