"Papa John’s CEO Threatens To Make His Pizza Taste Worse Than It Already Does If Obamacare Not Repealed"

by FlyingHighNow 43 Replies latest social humour

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  besty

  reminds me of the Whole Foods CEO being a climate change denier

  Starbucks and Amazon are under scrutiny here in the UK for not paying very much in the way of corporation tax - people understand companies have a duty to their shareholders to be as tax efficient as possible but when it looks like they are taking the piss then people may chose to vote with their feet.

  the starbucks UK CEO claims that the UK business runs at a loss... with a 1000 stores selling hot milk at £3 a cup - really? I will do my bit to help end his pain by never darkening their door again....
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  ziddina

  Oh, please...

  Dominos Pizza ALREADY has him beat for terrible-tasting pizza...
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  NewChapter

  He can make the pizza taste worse? I didn't know it was possible. Denny's sucks too. That was the restaurant you went to at 3am and were too drunk to taste anymore---the morning after you always had deep regrets---it looked so good through beer goggles.

  There is nothing worse than a public tantrum and punishing customers and employees cuz you mad! You so mad! LOL

  So he's threatening his employees, telling his customers he's going to make shit taste worse, and when he takes a financial hit, it will be Obama's fault. Funny.

  Shop local. I do that as much as I can. Papa Johns was just always an answer to my brother preferring quantity over quality---but there will be no more Papa Johns in my home, and he has agreed.

  I hope conservatives eat more pizza than liberals.
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  DavePerez

  As Jon Stewart pointed out, it's a crying shame that Papa Johns CEO is in a pizza-delivery business where they can't simply export their manufacturing jobs to China (and change the name to "Papa Sans Pizza"). Oh, wait: maybe they DID, that's why their pizza tastes like it's been shipped from overseas in a freight container?

  I think Jon Stewart hit the nail on the head when he said that CEOs should just stand up and take the blame for why they don't want to offer their employees competitive compensation packages, rather than relying on the scapegoat de jour as an excuse to why they don't. In this case, it may become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as this kind of politicization is likely to make their business lose customers (as above).
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  designs

  PJPs joins Chick-fil-A on the haven't eatin there don't plan to list.
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  wha happened?

  well given the fact that this article is fabricated it shouldn't alarm anyone. But other statementsa have been made that back up this thinking. If people want to raise their product price, (18 cents a pizza in the case of Papa Johns), I wouldn't have any problem paying it because I now know that this corp, is taking the expense to the consumer, not labor. Nor are they making everyone, part time.
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  botchtowersociety

  Lots of reality denial on display here.
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  designs

  Denny's CEO says he will raise menu prices 5% to cover ACA. Don't want to pay that extra 5% Denny's CEO says- 'tip the waitress less'.
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  DavePerez

  Is Denny's really calling it an "Obamacare Tax", lol? And taking it out on the waitresses? Is this his idea of reverse-psychology?

  Don't you love it when CEOs decide to make ill-conceived marketing decisions for their businesses? Does he think this approach will appeal to sore-loser Mitt voters, hoping they'll come in to pay the "Obamacare Tax" and whine about it? Or is he trying to appeal to those who voted for Obama, thinking they'll not be offended? No matter how you cut it, it's just dumb marketing, bad PR (self-inflicted, shooting themselves in the foot).

  Some in business would rather quibble over politics than run their businesses, and fortunately the capitalist system will hold them accountable for their dumb decisions (that is, unless they're "too big to fail": those guys are Teflon).
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  ziddina

  "reminds me of the Whole Foods CEO being a climate change denier

  Starbucks and Amazon are under scrutiny here in the UK for not paying very much in the way of corporation tax - people understand companies have a duty to their shareholders to be as tax efficient as possible but when it looks like they are taking the piss then people may chose to vote with their feet.

  the starbucks UK CEO claims that the UK business runs at a loss... with a 1000 stores selling hot milk at £3 a cup - really? I will do my bit to help end his pain by never darkening their door again...." besty

  I hate Whole Foods... And Starbucks - some of the WORST coffee I've EVER tasted in my life!!

  I actually worked for Whole Foods headquarters for a while - nothing spectacular; they weren't specifically focused on providing the "best" foods for their customers. When I shopped their stores, they looked like glorified, over-priced grocery stores - LOTS of so-called "healthy" JUNK food and impulse purchase items.

  For my money, Natural Grocers/Vitamin Cottage is VASTLY better - they seem truly dedicated to the health of their customers and the ecology.