Papa Murphy's is a take-and-bake pizza company based in Vancouver, Washington. It began in 1995 as the merger of two local take-and-bake pizza companies: Papa Aldo's Pizza (founded in 1981) and Murphy's Pizza (founded in 1984). The company and its franchisees operate more than 1,300 outlets in the United States, Canada and the United Arab Emirates. Papa Murphy's is the fifth-largest pizza chain in the United States. On April 2019, it was announced that the company would be acquired by MTY Food Group for $190 million.