Papa John's CEO Says Company Will Reduce Workers' Hours In Response To Obamacar

[Misty Allen]

Papa John's CEO John Schnatter Says Company Will Reduce Workers' Hours In Response To Obamacare

By Harry Bradford Posted: 11/09/2012 5:59 pm EST Updated: 11/09/2012

In the wake of President Obama's reelection, one CEO is doubling down on his criticisms of Obamacare.

Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter said he plans on passing the costs of health care reform to his business onto his workers. Schnatter said he will likely reduce workers’ hours, as a result of President Obama's reelection, the Naples News reports. Schnatter made headlines over the summer when he told shareholders that the cost of a Papa John’s pizza will increase by between 11 and 14 cents due to Obamacare.

"I got in a bunch of trouble for this," he said, referring to the comments he made in August, according to Naples News. "That's what you do, is you pass on costs. Unfortunately, I don't think people know what they're going to pay for this."

Schnatter went on to say he's neither in support of, nor against the Affordable Care Act, even admitting that "the good news is 100 percent of the population is going to have health insurance.” But he’s not the only one in the chain restaurant industry to admit that workers hours may be reduced, since Obamacare mandates that only employees that work more than 30 hours per week are covered under their employers health insurance plan. For example, Darden restaurants, the parent company of Olive Garden and Red Lobster, has already experimented with reducing workers hours in anticipation of the legislation.

Others have responded to the added costs of Obamacare more harshly, including Applebee's which has said it won’t hire new workers because of the law. Just this week, a Georgia business owner also claimed he cut employees due to Obamacare and in fact had specifically laid off those who he thought had voted for President Obama.

[Misty Allen]

What a bunch of whiny little betches. His pizza sucks, Applebees has declined in the past few years and these guys want to blame health care. As Romney would say let them fail there's others who will take there places. We don't need all these chain restaurants that serve crap food and treat their employees like dirt.

[Misty Allen]

And in response to John Schnatter, I will reduce my Papa John's pizza intake to 0.

[Misty Allen]

Don't worry about it John,

When you alienate every Obama supporter, the class action lawsuit by your franchisees will cost you a hell of a lot more than Obamacare. Can you survive 60,193,076 lost customers? I don't think you can.

[Misty Allen]

This is coming from a guy whose home is a 40,000 square foot castle with a moat, drawbridge and golf course on the grounds.

[Misty Allen]

Remember when Mittens visited this guys plush home and said "everyone should live like this"
boycott this guys Pizza business, maybe once his revenue drops he'll get the message, the American people won't be blackmailed by the wealthy.

[Misty Allen]

Republican's love cheap labor almost as much as they hate collective bargaining.

[Volitzer]

Obamacare isn't even Constitutional.  1.  The Fed CANNOT make some purchase anything under the commerce clause.  2.  Obama has yet to prove his citizenship ergo no xenocrat laws are acceptable or binding.  They should fight this in court.  Preferably a state court that still understands the natural-born clause in the US Constitution works.  It's assinine he got elected again but that's what happens when Globalists run the voting machines.

[Misty Allen]

Obamacare isn't even Constitutional.  1.  The Fed CANNOT make some purchase anything under the commerce clause.

Funny, here the Supreme Court just ruled that it WAS constitutional and that it was covered by the commerce clause, where you been?

2.  Obama has yet to prove his citizenship ergo no xenocrat laws are acceptable or binding.

Why should he have to prove his citizenship? No court has ever said that.

has yet to prove his citizenship ergo no xenocrat laws are acceptable or binding.  They should fight this in court.  Preferably a state court that still understands the natural-born clause in the US Constitution works.

You do know that the Federal court overrules the states, right?

[Volitzer]

The Supreme Court still has to be Constitutionally compliant in its rulings.  They wrong on both the commerce clause and the natural-born clause in these cases.  So no the rest of America does not have to comply with the un-constitutional rulings by them.