Earlier this year, Schnatter blamed slowing sales growth at Papa John’s — an NFL sponsor and advertiser — on the outcry surrounding players kneeling during the national anthem.
Yeah, it couldn’t possibly be because their product is a disgusting excuse for pizza. Nah, must be the fault of those uppity ni-CLANGs.
I take a knee before biting into one of his “delicacies”, praying I survive the encounter.
As a pizza shop, it’s an excellent broom closet.
“The world is evolving and changing,”
Yes, we know. That’s what has racist white nationalists like Plasticface McPizzabrows so freaked out.
Sha na na nana na nana na…sha na nana na…
His pizzas suck and he treats his employees badly – a world class prick. We can only hope most of his money is in PJ’s stock.
So if saying shitty things about people can get your stockholders to run you off, then why are we having so much trouble running Fat Donny off?
Just wondering if I vote my ‘shares’ in Democracy I can find some relief.
#kneetoo ?I shall partake of a different chain’s pizza to celebrate
Sure it is not Krylon RattleCan Color for Men?
meh
crappiest chain pizza out there…the only free pizza (work lunches, etc) I won’t eat
b/c the flavor of their pies is indistinguishable from the cardboard box they arrive in
Well he’s no billionaire, so he doesn’t get to move in the top circles - no parties at Mar a Lago for him!
Schnatter, 56, founded Papa John’s more than three decades ago, when he turned a broom at his father’s bar into a pizza
Edited for realism.
It is sort of warped that even in the land of immense wealth, there are distinctions.
I have tried to imagine having the money some of the people do. What I wish for in life is pretty simple and practical. How they elevate their tastes and needs to the level they do befuddles me.
My feeling for a long time has been that I have no problem with millionaires. However, I think billionaires are a direct drain on everyone else’s resources and shouldn’t be allowed.
There should be a penalty once you get into the billions.
As if.
We tried it with a deal they gave after a Giants win in 2016 (certainly not this year since the Giants stink) and the pizza was horrible. We were happy to go back to our local joint from then on.
I don’t know, I think people who have truly earned their wealth are fine. I just wish some of them would remember those roots and the people who didn’t catch that brass ring the same way. It seems now, that simply being in those atmospherics allows the wealthy to deem the common man a failure. Heck, they cannot even conceive of what real middle class is. Our culture reeks of it now.
Money changes people I guess, some stay right and proper citizens and others turn into Scrooge McDuck. It takes a lot of backs to make a millionaire or billionaire. A bit of humility in recognizing the universe worked out for them would go a long way.
Maybe that is one thing some of the “good” wealthy can do, turn the wheel back a bit, honoring the common man or woman who goes to work everyday, raise a good family, pay their taxes and are good folks. Those are heroes when they do it every single work day, slogging to the desk, field, factory and pull it off with far less resources than the wealthy do.
There used to be a belief among very wealthy people and families that they should give back to the communities and the country that made it possible. The Kennedys gave the country an entire generation of their sons.
And even when most of it is just a tax dodge, billionaires do fund research in hospitals and so forth and so on.
The culture has evolved away from that sense of civic pride and national duty. I don’t know how to turn it back to that. Most new fortunes are made off of money, not off of making things.
This guy is a tremendously arrogant jerk who sells really crappy pizza. He’s not only a smug jerk, his food contributes enormously to the obesity rate in the US. When these mega-wealthy snowflakes “retire” or “resign” they do it with the knowledge that they never have to work another day in their lives; so what’s the harm? He’ll just go start some other horrible food company and laugh his ass off all the way to the bank. Eat less pizza and more plants.
To be fair, I will say I love the garlic butter sauce, because butter. Also because garlic. I have been known to order extras and save it for pizza that is worth using it on. Using it on PJ’s pizza may help it go down, but it’s sort of like spreading deliciousness on turds.
Is it still called Mar-a-Lago or should we go with the Southern Kremlin?
Communion wafers.