Papa Johns CEO wants to raise Pizza prices in order to offset Obamacare costs

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notworksafe said:
Yeah I'm willing to pay 10 to 15 cents more whenever I order a pizza from them, which isn't very often. What's the big deal?
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I think more people are pissed that the CEO is touting it as "poor us, look what Obummer is doing to us" rather than paying the cost and shutting up. Services and costs go up. I'm pretty sure they are going to feel the West Coast refinery fire gas hike a lot more than this.
 
codhand said:
Basically, if you're gonna shift the costs, then just do it and shut up about it. Don't try to rabble rouse.
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Just giving credit where credit is due isn't really rabble rousing. Unless health insurance premiums actually drop he isn't lying or anything.
 
Maybe they should raise pizza prices so they can start using real cheese instead of the bile they use now.

Papa John's is disgusting.
 
Clint Beastwood said:
I'm not sure what's worse.

The Papa Johns guy or people in this thread saying they actually like Little Caesars..
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little caesar's is perfectly acceptable considering the price... also keeps really well so you can eat it the next day and it'll taste just about the same.

admittedly that doesn't say good things about its initial taste, but eh.
 
Fenderputty said:
That's like the worst ultimatum ever.

"REPEAL OBAMACARE OR WE'RE GOING TO RAISE OUR PIZZA PRICES $0.15 PER PIZZA!"
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I think it really puts things into perspective. This whole health care overhaul seemed like a grand thing to wacky liberals like me, but the republicans warned us about this. They told us that it was going to cost us, that we couldn't just pay for everything via increased debt. But did we care? No.

And now, our chickens have come home to roost. 15 cent per pie increase? What have we done?
 
LegendofJoe said:
We should start a campaign to get people to donate 15 cents to Papa John. He clearly needs the help.
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I don't know about you but I think he should solve this problem: Whenever I eat Papa John's about ten minutes later I feel like absolute ass. This continues unabated until I sit on the toilet for exactly an hour.

Derrick01 said:
And I'm sure a sizable number of people will blame Obama for this as planned by this douche nugget.
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He didn't ask for this.
 
Just means that when it comes to large chain pizza places, I'll be going to Dominoes, Pizza Hunt, or Little Caesars instead of Papa John's.
 
Here's a thought, don't blame obamacare for the disregard of your own employees health and well being. Punishing the customers for your irresponsible business practices is not the way to make a point. The only one who will learn from that point is you, mr papa John.

-1 family of customers
 
underkanter said:
Here's a thought, don't blame obamacare for the disregard of your own employees health and well being. Punishing the customers for your irresponsible business practices is not the way to make a point. The only one who will learn from that point is you, mr papa John.

-1 family of customers
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Which irresponsible business practices?
 
Branduil said:
What? Did Little Caesar's improve ten times when I wasn't looking?
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Quality varies highly from location to location. It can either be good pizza and amazing bread for a great price, or it can be cardboard.


hey_it's_that_dog said:
I don't really see how this is an outrageous notion. All employee pay and benefits come from the employer who gets money from selling goods and services. I don't know how you can distinguish between "shifting costs onto consumers" and just running a business in a typical profitable way.
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Businesses should suck it up and take the loss because that's just the cost of doing business. If new taxes/fees make it so they can't make a profit at their current prices that's their problem, not mine. Raising prices in response is just screwing over their customers and they know it.
 
I love how he went this direction with it instead of making it a selling point.

Papa John's in a Better World said:
At Papa John's we've always believed that every employee is important to us, and so we found out that, by only adding fifteen cents to the cost of every pizza, we could give all of our employees free health coverage. We didn't have to do it but we did it anyway because at Papa John's, "People Come First."
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Dragonzord said:
That's not the issue, but the idea of less people eating stuff like Papa John's isn't exactly upsetting to me.
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Yeah but the idea that the government mandated it at some level, or put some company out of business is something to be concerned with.

But that is not really what is going on here. If it was though, I would be pissed off. I want to eat shitty overpriced pizza without any outside influences opposing such inclinations.
 
So how would a Chik-Fil-A Appreciation day supposedly work with this company?

edit: GODDAMN YOU, MAKOTO! >:(
 
I haven't ordered from them in years and it looks like that trend will continue. Even if I was a Romney supporter, the fact that he thinks he can leverage his business into political action is absurd. Why anyone in that type of position would make their politics public is beyond me.
 
Some people seriously need to think before they open their mouths.

What a stupid statement to go public with.
 
Mudkips said:
Businesses should suck it up and take the loss because that's just the cost of doing business. If new taxes/fees make it so they can't make a profit at their current prices that's their problem, not mine. Raising prices in response is just screwing over their customers and they know it.

Why I can't use gif?
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Yeah, it would be better to have them lay people off instead of passing their costs along in their prices. Maybe Obama could just give him a waiver.
 
Their pizza is truly awful. I don't say that as a bandwagon jumper, I say that as pure truth.

I'm honestly surprised they have lasted this long. Someone elsewhere mentioned their main source of income are broke college students, which means they probably just lost that with this ridiculous statement.
 
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