that's less than it was when I was there six years ago.
Over 40% of the stores are losing money.
We we won A.
S. C. I.
The highest quality in the pizza category 18 out of 19 years.
There now are down with little caesars.
So the thing is really got away from him.
Hey little caesars that's really tough.
There is a former Ceo and founder of papa john's.
Apparently I'll send his name wrong john Schnatter Schnatter.
Yeah it's john Schneider you have to remember Jr that it's a hard and
just like the word he used that got himself into a lot of trouble.
We're definitely gonna go to that.
That's for that's for damn sure.
There he is again at Cpac texas.
He's complaining that his pizzas ever since he left have now been downgraded to
that little caesars status and he just can't take it.
First of all let's pause there for a second.
Ain't nothing wrong with little caesars john first of all.
But we'll get to that later.
He also revealed that there's a secret ingredient that was in his papa john's
pizza that apparently made it so damn good.
Let's get in before we get into that though.
Here's what he did say that dan was mentioning there.
Chairman of papa john's resigns is in 2018 resigns
after report that he used a racial slur john Shatner.
I think he admitted that he used the slur in a conference call in May of that year.
Let's go to some more details from that.
He used the n.
Word in a call between papa john's executives and marketing agency laundry
services, what Forbes reported Schnatter acknowledged using the slur and
apologized, but that was not enough for him to keep his position.
But besides all that, his secret sauce, he's talking about the success that came
around papa john's, which actually that secret sauce was the garlic butter because
that's one of the first places that was regularly using that and
giving it to everyone in their pizzas.
That was actually the thing.
But he's revealing more about his resignation and
the things that happened around that he's talking more seat back.
Let's watch a little more.
I guess so many people, I love that our franchisees and they really did welder and
Covid, but they've lost their way.
And you know, if you don't have that quality, you don't have that service and
you don't have that culture, you're asking for, you know, a bad day at the office.
That's rough.
I wanted to be successful.
So you can continue to get those checks.
But at the same time, I mean, if they're losing the policies that you stated,
Did you experience, as a businessman, conservative policies financially,
did they, did they help you?
Is that kind of how you reach success?
We built the whole company on the conservative values.
That's what I'm saying.
The conservative ideology has two of the most critical attributes.
Truth in God, truth in you.
If you run your life on principles and your truth.
Foreign faction, you have win, win mutual respect and you're thoughtful and
considerate.
You're gonna win.
If you run your life on truth values God conservative principles and
values customer service.
He went through multiple things, then you're gonna win,
says the guy who's complaining that he lost his company because he followed
through on conservative values, truth God, customer service inward,
maybe those types of things.
Some more from what that happened from the Huffington post.
A sweat laden Schnatter told Kentucky Kentucky's W.
D.
R. B. T.
V.
That a day of reckoning would arrive after ward members stole the company from him.
Schneider also suggested that he had 40 pizzas in 30 days.
During this bizarre interview, he later weighed in on the potential food feet and
said that he wasn't referring to eating the pizzas.
He's just talking about taking a bite of a pizza.
I think that was the whole thing with that.
He's tested them ever since and all that.
I don't know.
First off I guess on the quality of the pizza,
which I think is the smallest point here and maybe I need to take a general poll.
People have been complaining about papa john's since before he left.
People who didn't like papa john's didn't like papa john's.
I'm not sure why the narrative is around, it was the number one pizza place ever and
yeah many people liked it again for that garlic butter, but
it was number one ever and everybody hates it.
I've had papa john's before and after he was involved and
it tastes absolutely the same.
I'm not sure if those conservative eyes is the taste that he's talking about or
only conservatives bought his pizzas.
That's the thought process.
But definitely he wants his company back despite what he was talking about now,
details of the N.
Word thing.
He was mad and he was talking with with that marketing company and
he was complaining about KFC and that's when he mentioned the N word and
he was attributing that to them in some kind of way and then later apologized and
said in no way should this be a part of our general discourse and racism?
You said it, but it shouldn't be part of our general discourse, but
it's still conservative values and trust in God and customer service.
I don't know, I get he misses his his company and his work,
but at least makes some sense by the way, he's doing fine.
Dudes not broke.
What are your thoughts on this?
Yeah, I mean, I think if you put your life into a brand that has and
continues to have your name and it completely, you know,
in his opinion, it is now completely like terrible.
The pizza is awful.
The franchises are all failing like that really just speaks to
how terrible of a business person you were that like the second that you leave
a national company that it like can't survive.
Obviously there's probably no difference now between the flavor of the pizza.
It's just such a shallow defense like it's basically he's back he's
insulting himself by saying that this you know I I used to be the best and
then I left and now it's terrible.
It doesn't really speak well to your business practices and
yeah it's interesting when he's asked about conservative policies.
You can kind of see the reporters sort of I think she means like yeah what like
hard work pulling like whatever those B.
S.
Conservative values but he just says what does he just God and
it's like okay why don't we actually talk about the fact how I was looking this up
a little earlier like I think his dad owned a restaurant when he was young and
he was able to sell pizzas out of it.
So you know you start with a little leg up it's it's a lot easier to become
a successful business owner and I'm sure we all know that had he been
ceo during the pandemic he would have taken you know all the P.
P.
P. Loans he possibly could.
So it's like these vague conservative values but
you know what it really comes down for it.
I'm sure he's taking it, he took advantage of every corporate deal that he possibly
could but of course he's not, he's never gonna mention those types of things.
Yeah, the, I think maybe the tell their with the accidental mask off moments when
he said we run our business off conservative values because for
my entire lifetime, both the major moment of my lifetime before, john Schneider
said the N word and afterwards that these two major moment before after No, but
like this entire time, conservative conservatism as like a value has been
nothing but branding, its whatever, whoever is talking about that or
invoking conservative values in any given situation, it's whatever they mean.
And that's cool as a branding.
That's cool.
Like your pizza, your marketing guy.
But in reality I think you need to practice what you preach when it comes to
values in any kind of context.
What john Shadow was preaching wasn't just the N word in that context, it was like
a number of different times where he had shown that his true values were big.
Like separating himself away from the poor class.
I want to say that john Schneider is the guy who had the moat in front of
his house, like the papa, john's like castle and everything with the drawbridge.
Like this is a very special kind of guy, totally normal ceo type guy.
Like many of these like larger execs are and ultimately I like that point Caroline
because if you are a good sign of running a good business is when you're gone and
the people you've hired and worked through there are able to keep things running as
well, if not better than when you leave it.
And so if you're saying that, wow, look at how poor things are running the second
I'm gone, that is once again an accidental tell.
I'm not sure if john Schneider knows about this, It's telling more about you than
telling about the employees you're trying to Trash.
Yeah, there's an outside chance that you left a race sustain on the company
when you left and it wasn't your conservatism and
your values that poisoned one I left it was you being a racist.
And then people said, yeah, I remember that guy from papa john's was a racist and
then they think I don't really want to eat papa john's even after he's gone,
that's possibly as well.
And also that he poisoned that bottom line when he was fighting with the NFL
because he was mad about his bottom line when players were protesting around
the time that Kaepernick was doing it and a few others joined him,
he was mad about how the NFL was allowing that to happen.
So they cut ties with him as well, a couple of bad business decisions, but
he's gonna blame everyone else, you know, personal responsibility and all that stuff