[lumpster]

Reading what has been written about statements I made on the effect of the Affordable Care Act on our franchisees reminds me of a quote from Lewis H. Lapham, former editor of Harper's magazine: "People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true."

Many in the media reported that I said Papa John's is going to close stores and cut jobs because of Obamacare. I never said that. The fact is we are going to open over hundreds of stores this year and next and increase employment by over 5,000 jobs worldwide. And, we have no plans to cut team hours as a result of the Affordable Care Act.

Clearly there was some misunderstanding somewhere. The remarks that generated the headlines were made during an entrepreneur class I was asked to speak to at a Florida college. I was asked to share my experience as an entrepreneur and to provide the students with real-life small business situations. Unbeknownst to me, until she identified herself, a reporter was there.

Here is the part of the interchange that was the genesis of the news:

Reporter: "Do you think your -- you know -- franchise owners... are going to cut people hours back to make them part time instead of full time?"

Me: "Well, in Hawaii there is a form of the same kind of health insurance and that's what you do, you find loopholes to get around it. That's what they're going to do."

Reporter: "My understanding is that if you're a full time employee, which is 35 hours or over, you'd be covered. Or if you're part time then you wouldn't be. So wouldn't some business owners just cut people down like 34 hours a week so they wouldn't have to pay for health insurance?"

Me: "It's common sense. It's what I call lose-lose."

The reporter asked what I believed Papa John's franchisees would do in response to Obamacare, not what Papa John's would do. In fact, her question was "wouldn't some business owners just cut people down like 34 hours a week so they wouldn't have to pay for health insurance?"

My answer: "It's common sense."

Companies like Papa John's are largely a collection of small independent businesses. The average Papa John's franchisee owns three to four stores. Since our franchisees own the restaurants they operate, who they hire, how many hours they give each employee and what they pay each employee is up to them, not me or Papa John's. Like any small business in these economic times, our franchisees are under a tremendous amount of pressure on costs.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-h...b_2166209.html


So now that the election are over and Romney didn't win Obamacare doesn't seem like a bad idea.. LOL That sucka drank the G.O.P Kool-Aid and now he's eating crow.. Truth is he's not closing any stores and he's not letting any empolyee go or working them part time..

[Leroy]

In case you missed it, he just, again, said that it makes sense to cut hours to avoid the cost of Obamacare - while he's opening more stores this year, which automatically increases total employment, he clearly states that it's common sense to work the loopholes - and that means ensuring that some people are not considered full time, to keep the impact of Obamacare at a minimum.

So, you can claim he didn't say it, but the fact is, your post/quote shows that he did and still believes that Franchisees will cut hours to get around the cost of Obamacare.

Try a reading for comprehension class.

[Leroy]

Maybe you were blinded by the blogs misdirection - read this, it clearly refutes what you are claiming - that PaPa Johns isn't going to cut hours - they are:

"
Schnatter estimated that these rising costs could adversely affect his workers. Since only full-time employees working 30 hours or more must be covered under the new law, he said he expects franchise owners will be forced to cut employees' hours because they can't afford the costs of health insurance plans.
"

[lumpster]

lol.... Leroy nope it's clear he's folded just like the rest of the G.O.P...

[RealJustme]

Schnatter estimated that these rising costs could adversely affect his workers. Since only full-time employees working 30 hours or more must be covered under the new law, he said he expects franchise owners will be forced to cut employees' hours because they can't afford the costs of health insurance plans.

Exactly what we're doing. We're replacing 6 "full" time employee slots with 9 "part time" employees to avoid costly benefit packages that would put us in the red. To the Obamabots that means more people getting hired, to those with half a brain it means Obama screwed the 6 full time employees with benefits who are now getting paid less with no benefits. Instead of 6 people getting paid good wages and benefits paying taxes we now have 9 part time workers who need social assistance. Obama is forcing thousands of businesses across the Country to do the same thing and the Obamabots applaud. :lol:

[Leroy]

lol.... Leroy nope it's clear he's folded just like the rest of the G.O.P...

Read his actual statement again Lumpy, he didn't cave at all, he didn't change his position.