Papa John's Obamacare Stance Spurs Social Media Attack
A couple of weeks after the brouhaha over Chick-fil-A's CEO's comments about same-sex marriage prompted a national debate reflected in social media, another fast-food chain, Papa John's, has dipped its toe in the red state/blue state divide.
During a conference call with analysts last week, Papa John's CEO John Schnatter (pictured) said that Obamacare would raise the price of a pizza somewhere between $0.11 to $0.14. "We're not supportive of Obamacare, like most businesses in our industry," Schnatter said, according to Politico. "But our business model and unit economics are about as ideal as you can get for a food company to absorb Obamacare...If Obamacare is in fact not repealed, we will find tactics to shallow out any Obamacare costs and core strategies to pass that cost onto consumers in order to protect our shareholders' best interests."
Reports of Schnatter's comments led to the now-predictable outcry on Twitter and Facebook. On Twitter, while some are calling for a boycott, others took the opportunity to trash the chain. "Ok then, raise the price of your garbage pizza," tweeted Bob del Grosso. "Anything that creates an economic disincentive to buy Papa John's 'pizza' is a good thing. Yay Obamacare!" tweeted another critic, author Baratunde Thurston. Meanwhile, as was the case with Chick-fil-A, conservative-leaning Twitter users showed their support. For instance, the Young America Foundation called Schnatter's comments "delicious free speech."
By Todd Wasserman |
As I saw the mountains of new rules/regulations come out, the mountains of forms etc. the conflicting rules and reg I just fired everyone, offer thier jobs back as private contractors, 1099ers should have done it years ago. Government makes it too hard to hire anyone.
NOBAMA2012
Oh well. MUSHROOM/ PEPPERONI for me! C'YA.!
I'VE TRIED to rationalize this "thing" with Obamacare......and you hit it spot on....THEY actaully think that it's FREE to them.....They know, however, that SOMEONE has to pay for it....but not THEM...They think we are going to pay for their contraceptives...while they stop in to STARBUCKS 5 times a week and get a latte?????I don't think so...And they will continue with their cell phone bills....with texting of course.....unlimited probably......I don't think so.....and then cry poor mouth when it comes to being personally responsible for their
sex lives.....I don't think so.........Get a life Libturds....This BS is not gonna last too much longer.! VOTE NOBAMA in November.! thank you Fashionable....for the "billboard time"
P.S.
The Libs already on the attack mode on Paul Ryan's stand on Medicare. In the meantime, their Great Leader had already robbed Medicare to the tune of $700B (more than we all thought) to fund Obamacare. Anything to take the spot light away from their thieving way. All the baby boomers compatriots who are on the fence better wake up. If they've been reading their quarterly Medicare statements, they would have seen that their doctors have been paid less than last year.