Boycott Papa John's Over Corporate Greed

As a business owner, I can tell you that you are full of it. Businesses only thrive with productive employees. Resentful underpaid employees either do a bad job or simply leave, and turnover in most businesses is very expensive.

You know what the impact of the ACA is on my business? NOTHING! We have employer paid health insurance for the employees. We don't have to change a thing except allowing kids to stay on the policy until they are 26, which is no different than a college rider. Also, we had the smallest increase in premiums in years because of the 80/20 ratio of premiums to claims (80% or more of premiums must be paid to claims).

Papa John's wouldn't exist without the employees. Of course this man deserves to be wealthy. That is not the issue. However, squawking about reducing profits to provide benefits - I say welcome to the real world where valuable employees receive benefits.

Okay Helga - Who gets to decide what kind of work is descent, and who sets the pay grade. If people are competing for the jobs then the work sounds descent enough to me. If the guy signing the paychecks is the same guy that you agreed to contract your designated responsibilities to, then the descent wage issue is moot. Explain workers rights, and be specific. I hear that bantered around as if it were a Constitutional Amendment or something but articulate the list of do's and don't's for the rest of us, will you please? Thank you. Something you should also understand when you people hastily put one of these silly boycotts together is that they don't work unless there's something substantiative to your efforts. This is because people really like Papa Johns, and Applebee's, Chick-filet and on and on and on. The majority of us also recognize that restaurant work doesn't pay big wages. What is it that you don't understand about that, because it's not a secret to anyone else! And finally, you'll never convince anyone under threat of boycott to agree to support the purchase the Obummercare Abortive Care Act which has been mandated by an out of control administration who hasn't got the least inkling of how a dollar is earned in our free markets. You need to find a life Helga. There's a whole lot more to life then what you've been wasting your time on thus far. Maybe working as a waitress at Applebee's? Find out what people in the real world are really talking about. The blogosphere is only make-believe!

The man speaks the truth folks. Ideological entrepreneurs make for very poor success stories in Forbes Magazine. Build the business, make some dough and then get politically stupid... when you can most afford to!

Single payer programs may be the cheapest way to go but they certainly aren't the best way! Healthcare in the US is expensive for a two major reasons. The health Care system here is the finest in the world, hands down! That's why people all over the world come here for their expert medical care. Not very many of us can afford such a luxury! Secondly and probably more important in terms of it's underlying significance on costs is a tort system that virtually requires primary care providers to back-up their test results with more tests, at significant costs, which have to be passed along to the patient in the form of higher co-pays and more expensive coverage. It doesn't stop there either. Doctors who specialize in practices which carry a higher degree of risk to patient injury are absolutely deluged with insurance premiums of up to $1.2 million for a "Park Ave." plastic surgeon, to a "reasonable" $650 thousand dollars for a busy surgical practice. These premiums vary significantly depending on the geographic location of such practices. And of course we haven't even discussed the hospital fees yet. In Great Britain these tort fees are scheduled under tight governmental controls. Doctors of course earn much less by comparison to those here in the states but the difference in overhead costs is exponentially less as well. Single payer health insurance programs may cost less up front, but you always get what you pay for, and as it is with most things, buying on the cheap isn't always the bargain you had hoped for.

Did you even read about this situation Holysmokes? No, he is a "Greedy Jerk" because he can afford a 40k square foot mansion for himself, and 22 luxury vehicles, but not healthcare for the people making that excess luxury possible. Also, with that healthcare you have less sick people coming to work, sneezing on your pizza and whatnot. John Schnatter is the one who said it would cost $0.14 per pizza to provide health care to his employees so... yeah, there's that.

Forbes ran the numbers on this, and here’s what they found: Last year Papa John’s took in $1.2 billion in revenue. Schattner has said he expects providing healthcare to raise his operating expenses $5-8 million. Based on last year’s operating expenses that’s an increase of 0.4% to 0.7%—a cost that could be met by raising the price of pizza 3.4 to 4.6 cents per pie.

I know, I know, math is hard for the repubs (just look at what Nick Silver had to put up with before it was shown that math and statistics work, and the idiot Republicans were "shell shocked" by Obamas win).

This is purely political, are you delusional? He is trying to cash in on Chik-Fil-A level controversy, by shamelessly hurting his employees, and pandering to blind repubs like you, who will have knee-jerk reactions and push his crap along with his bottom line. This is mistreatment of employees at its worst. So regardless of whether or not it is purely about profit, he said HIMSELF it would only be 14 cents (That would be after Lights rent, etc.). And it would actually be LESS THAN A NICKEL PER PIZZA. That is why he deserves be boycotted.

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=8431

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/190955/idiots-line-up-to-thank-papa-johns-for-screwing-them-out-of-healthcare/

No, the people supporting the Affordable Care Act were 'warned' in the same way a Mafia Boss 'warns' you about protection money. This has NOTHING to do with the ACA you idiot. This is corporate greed at its worst. He doesn't 'have' to reduce anything, he is choosing to in order to pander to kneejerk repubs like you. He said HIMSELF that it would only be an increase of $0.14 per pizza, but you choose to ignore that. Also, have you even read the ACA you moron? It just makes it so companies HAVE to make some form of healthcare available, it doesn't just provide it. The employees still have to pay part of it. THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.

They wanted their pizz-a pie & to eat it, both. It has to be paid for somehow, & voting for freebies isn't always free.

These workers aren't slaves, they can come and go as they wish. Don't like your job go find another one that suits your needs. IF you wanna go the jesus route, he would probabary have the biggest corporation in the world.

Jesus would say, "The world is going to end in a few years, and thinking about any of this is superfluous." He wouldn't stand with the workers. He never mentioned "the workers." He didn't believe there was such a thing as exploitation or exploited workers.

You're confusing Jesus and Marx.

As for the compassion of the liberals, that is the biggest crock I have ever heard! Conservatives are the compassionate ones by trying to better the world by allowing those less fortunate the opportunity to better themselves. I grew up with nothing, I am still struggling but I have never asked the government for a hand out. It is called PRIDE! How can you can you call yourself compassionate liberal when all you want is to perpetuate the problem of wellfare by giving them more? You are not helping them. Give them a JOB! Thats helping them! Also, by all means if you think America is the greedy self serving country that it is, please move. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!

cat777, I have noticed that people like you always resort to calling people names. Can you not express yourself without resorting to that kind of attack. That is really, really sad and you are a very sad person as well.