Papa Murphy’s launches customer experience management partnership with SMG

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Service Management Group (SMG), a global customer, patient and employee experience management partner to more than 500 brands, has announced a new customer experience management program with the nation’s largest take-and-bake pizza franchise Papa Murphy’s. The brand is working with SMG to capture feedback across multiple channels and analyze it in the smg360® platform alongside digital feedback data via an Olo integration.

Papa Murphy’s is dedicated to enriching the everyday with unconventional moments of happiness with their convenient, fresh, made-to-order pizzas and exceptional service. With more than 1,250 locations across 38 states, Canada and the United Arab Emirates, Papa Murphy’s is the fifth-largest pizza company in the U.S.

“As the customer experience leader in the restaurant industry, SMG is a great fit for our brand,” said Papa Murphy’s Senior Manager of Customer Experience Marni Van Siclen. “From its consultative approach to its intuitive platform, SMG offers the professional services and technology solutions we need to serve our guests—enhancing their experience and earning their loyalty.”

Papa Murphy’s is capturing location-level customer feedback at the point of sale and using SMG’s smart survey technology to deliver a short, targeted survey following online orders. Alongside real-time data from these feedback channels, SMG is integrating digital feedback from Olo to give Papa Murphy’s a holistic view of the customer experience in the smg360® platform, while tools like the mobile app and role-based dashboards help the field team prioritize key drivers to improve the customer experience.

“We’re honored Papa Murphy’s selected SMG following its extensive review of customer experience management providers,” said SMG Chief Client Officer Todd Leach. “With in-depth industry experience and a unique ability to deliver actionable insights through software and services, we look forward to helping Papa Murphy’s find opportunities to provide a differentiated customer experience and take actions that drive outcomes.”

About PAPA MURPHY’S

Papa Murphy’s Holdings, Inc. (“Papa Murphy’s”) is a franchisor and operator of the largest Take ‘n’ Bake pizza brand in the United States, with a mission to “Change The Way You Pizza.” Papa Murphy’s exists to enrich the everyday with unconventional moments of happiness not only because our take ‘n’ bake pizzas are made-to-order daily using only the freshest ingredients but by providing exceptional service at over 1,250 franchised and corporate-owned locations across the U.S.—plus locations in Canada and the UAE. With the core values of Quality, Service, Integrity, Teamwork as our guide, Papa Murphy’s offers guests a convenient, unparalleled experience for creating the best at-home meal experience. Along with fresh pizzas, Papa Murphy’s offers hand-crafted salads, sides, and desserts to complete your meal and please your palate. Order online at papamurphys.com or from our official Papa Murphy’s app everywhere, and find us on your favorite delivery apps in select markets. For franchise opportunities, please call +1(866)-955-6736 or email [email protected]

About Service Management Group

SMG inspires experiences that improve people’s lives. We are a catalyst for change—helping organizations generate new revenue, grow existing revenue, reduce churn and detractors, and drive operational efficiencies. Our unique software with a service (SwaS) model puts a dual focus on platform technology and professional services, making it easy for brands to activate insights based on customer, patient, and employee feedback. To learn more about our customer, employee, and brand experience management (XM) solutions, visit www.smg.com.

Author Information

As a detail-oriented researcher, Sherril is expert at discovering, gathering and compiling industry and market data to create clear, actionable market and competitive intelligence. With deep experience in market analysis and segmentation she is a consummate collaborator with strong communication skills adept at supporting and forming relationships with cross-functional teams in all levels of organizations.

Sherril holds a Master of Business Administration in Marketing from University of Colorado, Boulder and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Rutgers University.

Latest Insights:
Citizen Engagement
July 28, 2026

Bridging the Gap: Why Citizen Engagement Needs a Technology Overhaul

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines the critical gap between government self-assessment and citizen perception of engagement efforts, revealing why technology solutions are essential...
Microsoft's Project Perception Bets on Agents That Act, Not Just Alert
July 28, 2026
Article
Article

Microsoft’s Project Perception Bets on Agents That Act, Not Just Alert

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Microsoft's Project Perception and MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, and why the company's enterprise entrenchment, not its agents, is the real differentiator in agentic security....
AMD Advancing AI 2026: Does AMD Now Build the World’s Best CPUs and GPUs?
July 28, 2026
Article
Article

AMD Advancing AI 2026: Does AMD Now Build the World’s Best CPUs and GPUs?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on AMD Advancing AI 2026, where Lisa Su declared Helios the world’s best AI rack and best data center CPU and raised AMD’s...
NVIDIA's Open Secure AI Alliance Bets Open Models Beat Closed Ones on Defense
July 28, 2026
Article
Article

NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance Bets Open Models Beat Closed Ones on Defense

Futurum’s Nick Patience, Fernando Montenegro, and Mitch Ashley unpack NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance and why the labs missing from it may matter more than the 35 that joined....
Latest Research:
IBM as Client Zero How IBM Built an Enterprise AI Orchestration Model at Global Scale
July 28, 2026

IBM as Client Zero: How IBM Built an Enterprise AI Orchestration Model at Global Scale

In our latest case study, IBM as Client Zero: How IBM built an enterprise AI orchestration model at global scale, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines how IBM...
Orchestrating IT at Global Scale How IBM Consulting Enabled Nestlé’s AI-Driven Delivery Model
July 28, 2026

Orchestrating IT at Global Scale How IBM Consulting Enabled Nestlé’s AI-Driven Delivery Model

In our latest case study, Orchestrating IT at global scale: How IBM Consulting enabled Nestlé's AI-driven delivery model, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines how Nestlé consolidated a...
Building a digital-native airline How IBM powered Riyadh Air's launch
July 28, 2026

Building A Digital-Native Airline: How IBM Powered Riyadh Air’s Launch

In our latest case study, Building a digital-native airline: How IBM powered Riyadh Air's launch, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines how orchestration and integration discipline helped a...

Book a Demo

Welcome

The vision behind everything in Futurum’s Custom Research practice is this: research should show you what is happening, what comes next, and what to do about it. It should be personal to each audience, easy for people to grasp, and structured so LLMs can reason over it accurately. And it should be fast and turnkey; you want answers now, not another project to carry for quarters.

Whether you are defining business, channel, or go-to-market strategy; evaluating vendors or justifying ROI; or commissioning research to fill an emerging market need, we have your back, with a program that answers your questions with the objectivity and credibility to drive real decisions.

To do it, we bring unmatched data to bear: Futurum research, surveys, and market projections; validated market feeds; ETR’s 15 years of insight from 10,000 technology decision-makers; G2’s buyer and user data; and what our analysts hear every day. Add leading primary collection, from AI-moderated voice interviews to surveys and analyst-led interviews, all turnkey, and every project comes out credible, nuanced, and actionable.

And we don’t just drop the results in your lap. For internal work, we provide analyst-led sessions, interactive dashboards, and a range of formats. For market-facing work, Futurum delivers turnkey activation and amplification that actually gets seen, by people and by LLMs, through our media and share of voice. This is research that moves decisions and markets.

We will meet you wherever you are, from a fast-turn brief to a multi-year program, and shape the work to your goals, timeline, and budget. The right program for your moment.

If any of this is useful, I would love to talk.

Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

Newsletter Sign-up Form

Get important insights straight to your inbox, receive first looks at eBooks, exclusive event invitations, custom content, and more. We promise not to spam you or sell your name to anyone. You can always unsubscribe at any time.

All fields are required






Thank you, we received your request, a member of our team will be in contact with you.