Its going to be hard to avoid them all

[mikey2much]

I felt from the start that I would stop buying from Poppa John's when I wanted pizza.
I had no problem because there was other choices, but now, with so many other following suit, it is beginning to get sticky.

It begins to look like I will be eating at home a lot more in the future. I hope that Poppa John enjoys saving that fourteen cents on every pizza he doesn't have to make for me. I hope that people let all the other food chains, that followed his lead in laying off workers to make a statement, enjoy the savings on the food they don't have to make for us.

Fourteen cents, that is what he said it would cost him to provide health care for all his workers. Fourteen cents above the price that he is charging now. On a ten dollar pizza that seems pretty cheap to me. If it only cost that much, why haven't they already gave health benefits to their workers. They're all rich, why should they be that stingy with the people that helped them get rich?

 

[gagginforit]

I suffer from similar pizza-related quandaries.

 

[blobfish]

Too bad home-cooked meals don't increase intelligence.

 

[jomar]

Didn't you get it during the election? Fuck the poor.

 

[XdOu™]

i never tried there pizza before.

 

[DooleyDarter]

I can't understand how even a liberal could eat Poppa Johns Pizza, its pretty bad.

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/papa-johns-obamacare-ians-pizza_n_2133050.html

Papa John's CEO John Schnatter’s recent statement that the Affordable Care Act will force the pizza chain to raise prices came as good news to Nick Martin.

Martin, a part owner of Ian’s Pizza, a pizza shop with four locations in Wisconsin, said his business has offered full heath care coverage to its 50 full-time employees for years, making it all the more difficult to compete with national chains like Papa John's that pay workers low wages without health benefits.

"This may level the playing field for us,” Martin said of the Papa John's price hike. “If they have to pay for benefits, and that pushes their prices up closer to ours, it will justify what we’ve been paying for and what we’ve been fighting to do the past few years.” (Ian's knows a bit about fighting, having fed demonstrators free slices during last year's protests in Madison.)

Like many of the 60 percent of small businesses that pay employees health benefits, Ian's Pizza has struggled to compete with national chains that enter local markets and undercut existing prices. But Obamacare may give local businesses some breathing room as national chains lose the advantage they once wielded through not providing health insurance, according to Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Schnatter, a Romney supporter who held a fundraiser for the former Republican nominee, said in August that Obamacare would cost the company between 11 and 14 cents per pizza. Subsequent analysis by Caleb Melby of Forbes found that the price increase would actually be closer 3.4 to 3.6 cents per pie.

“It’s not going to have much of an effect on the gap in prices between Papa John's and smaller competitors,” Gruber said. “That gap is much more about the efficiencies that come from being a large operator, being able to buy in bulk and things like that.”

Still, small business owners who already offer employees health insurance reported feeling a sense of vindication upon hearing that large restaurant chains are now being forced to consider a cost that they’ve shouldered for years.

“I’d tell Papa John's' CEO, ‘Welcome to the club,’” Martin said. “We’ve battled the whole way giving health insurance to employees ever since we could afford to do it 9 years ago, as a two-year-old business.”

 

[rosco rathbone]

I feel sorry for all you non city people.

 

[TonyClifton]

I felt from the start that I would stop buying from Poppa John's when I wanted pizza.
I had no problem because there was other choices, but now, with so many other following suit, it is beginning to get sticky.

It begins to look like I will be eating at home a lot more in the future. I hope that Poppa John enjoys saving that fourteen cents on every pizza he doesn't have to make for me. I hope that people let all the other food chains, that followed his lead in laying off workers to make a statement, enjoy the savings on the food they don't have to make for us.

Fourteen cents, that is what he said it would cost him to provide health care for all his workers. Fourteen cents above the price that he is charging now. On a ten dollar pizza that seems pretty cheap to me. If it only cost that much, why haven't they already gave health benefits to their workers. They're all rich, why should they be that stingy with the people that helped them get rich?

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

I felt from the start that I would stop buying from Poppa John's when I wanted pizza.
I had no problem because there was other choices, but now, with so many other following suit, it is beginning to get sticky.

It begins to look like I will be eating at home a lot more in the future. I hope that Poppa John enjoys saving that fourteen cents on every pizza he doesn't have to make for me. I hope that people let all the other food chains, that followed his lead in laying off workers to make a statement, enjoy the savings on the food they don't have to make for us.

Fourteen cents, that is what he said it would cost him to provide health care for all his workers. Fourteen cents above the price that he is charging now. On a ten dollar pizza that seems pretty cheap to me. If it only cost that much, why haven't they already gave health benefits to their workers. They're all rich, why should they be that stingy with the people that helped them get rich?

According to Forbes, the 14 cents is closer to less than a nickel per pie. But I don't buy from national chain pizza places anymore anyway. I can get real honest to goodness NY pizza whenever I want.

My favorite right now is Pizza Suprema near Penn Station.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Those racist bastards at Dennys did the same thing...but I haven't eaten at Dennys since (thinks) 1995? I guess everyone thought that business was just going to suck it up. But it can't. Duh.

 

[Squibbs]

Never get anything from big franchise restaurants.

 

[blobfish]

I hope the OP doesn't buy anything that's made in China.

 

[killallhippies]

make the economy scream.

 

[lovecraft68]

I hope the OP doesn't buy anything that's made in China.

That's a good point. Just go see the puppy skinning thread someone started today.

 

[Image]

Total assholish behaviour Wtf is with these idiots this year?

Personally, I've never been to a Papa Johns but it's on my 'just in case I'm ever starving' list now...

 

[Angeline]

It's what I think of as American pizza. The crust tastes like the box it came in. That being said, it's really easy to make your own pizza that is both cheaper and exponentially tastier than Papa John's, Pizza Hut, Domino's etc.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

1. It's pointless to boycott a business you don't buy from anyway.
2. Boycotting them will only put more people out of work.
3. I hated Dennys before it was popular.

 

[blobfish]

1. It's pointless to boycott a business you don't buy from anyway.
2. Boycotting them will only put more people out of work.
3. I hated Dennys before it was popular.

Yeah, that business lays people off, so let's all boycott them so they lay off more people! Yay for idiocy!

 

[Disgustipated]

1. It's pointless to boycott a business you don't buy from anyway.
2. Boycotting them will only put more people out of work.
3. I hated Dennys before it was popular.

Damn Ken, I knew you were old but before Denny's got popular old?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Yeah, that business lays people off, so let's all boycott them so they lay off more people! Yay for idiocy!

It's hating for a good cause.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Damn Ken, I knew you were old but before Denny's got popular old?

Brilliant logic! Are you an academic?

 

[KRCummings]

I couldn't find anything about Papa Johns or any other pizza chain laying people off.
The OP wouldn't have just made that up would he? That would be dishonest.

 

[islandman]

I feel sorry for all you non city people.

Amen, brother.

 

[blobfish]

I couldn't find anything about Papa Johns or any other pizza chain laying people off.
The OP wouldn't have just made that up would he? That would be dishonest.

That's because the OP is boycotting "Poppa John's".