Interesting.
You view a one time marketing giveaway of free pizza as somehow comparable to an ongoing, year after year, uncontrollable, government mandated cost to a company that is certainly in the future going to end up costing the company far more than the government says it will?
I presume you accept that the government did its math correctly and has accounted for everything down to the last penny? Heck, for all we know, Obamacare might even cost LESS than they say it will, and that is a a valid outlook, right?
From your comments, I have to assume you think the government has the right to over-regulate and micromanage what an owner can and cannot do with his own property that he has earned and accrued.
I view Papa John as being disingenuous when he complains about costs rising $5 - $8 million dollars a year causing his company all this potential financial hardship. According to the Forbes column I linked earlier Obamacare will cause PJ costs to increase by between 3 and 4 cents per pizza pie. And what does PJ do? Uses that to justify an almost 12 cent increase, nearly 3x the expected Obamacare impact, in pizza pie prices and cut back on labor costs.
I presume you accept that the government did its math correctly and has accounted for everything down to the last penny? Heck, for all we know, Obamacare might even cost LESS than they say it will, and that is a a valid outlook, right?
I presume that Forbes knows what it is writing about when it comes to business items.
From your comments, I have to assume you think the government has the right to over-regulate and micromanage what an owner can and cannot do with his own property that he has earned and accrued.
You "have to" assume that? :unsure:
And Schnatter didn't earn and accrue what he has in a vacuum. Where would his empire be without 10's of thousands of people willing to work at subpar wages and little to no benefits? I don't begrudge him becoming wealthy. What I don't like is the cavalier attitude shown in stories like this by owners towards those that do the actual work that causes companies like Papa John's to grow as successfully as Papa John's has.