{"id":5709,"date":"2017-11-08T23:34:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T06:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2017-11-09T20:23:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T03:23:13","slug":"maybe-the-problem-is-the-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5709","title":{"rendered":"Maybe The Problem Is The Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Schnatter, the founder and owner of Papa John&#8217;s pizza, recently came under fire for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/papa-johns-ceo-blames-nfl-protests-for-poor-pizza-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\">complaining that his pizza sales were down because of the NFL protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This from a man who complained back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/moneybox\/2012\/11\/papa_john_s_raising_prices_for_obamacare_denny_s_applebee_s_and_the_pizza.html\" target=\"_blank\">2012 that Obamacare would force him to raise the price of his pizza a measly fourteen cents to cover healthcare for his own employees<\/a>. Let&#8217;s repeat that&#8230;<strong>his own employees<\/strong>. So Papa John is such a cheapskate, he doesn&#8217;t even want to protect the very people who made it possible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delish.com\/food-news\/a52079\/papa-johns-ceo-mansion\/\" target=\"_blank\">for him to build a 40,000 square foot mansion<\/a>. Boy, we thought we were misers\u00a0here at the Bucket, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madmagazine.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/papa-john-schnatter-stingiest-man-alive\" target=\"_blank\">Papa John is definitely the World&#8217;s Stingiest Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the stance against the players protesting, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/papa-john-alt-right-nazis-white-supremacists-nfl-pizza-701648\" target=\"_blank\">Papa John&#8217;s has become the &#8216;official\u00a0pizza&#8217; of the alt-right<\/a>. To John Schnatter&#8217;s credit, he doesn&#8217;t want to be associated with Nazis so <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/11\/07\/papa-johns-white-nationalists-daily-stormer-pizza\/\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s\u00a0had to come out and beg white supremacists\u00a0not to buy his pizza<\/a>. Too late Papa John&#8230;you&#8217;re one of them.<\/p>\n<p>We here at the Bucket think that maybe Papa John&#8217;s pizza sales are down because the cardboard box the pizza comes in tastes better than the pizza.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5712\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5712 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/papajohnpizzanflprotests.jpg\" alt=\"A consumer suggests to Papa John that his sales suck not because of the NFL player protests but because the pizza box tastes better than the pizza and that he's a stingiest man alive.\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/papajohnpizzanflprotests.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/papajohnpizzanflprotests-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A savvy consumer enlightens Papa John about the true reasons his pizza sales are lagging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Schnatter, the founder and owner of Papa John&#8217;s pizza, recently came under fire for complaining that his pizza sales were down because of the NFL protests. 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