In 2017, John Schnatter was the then-CEO of Papa John’s Pizza. Papa John’s was the official pizza of the NFL. Only pizza sales were dropping steadily. Instead of blaming his sub-par product, Schnatter blamed the NFL anthem protests for the drop in sales. Basically, he said people weren’t eating his pizzas because African-American athletes were protesting police brutality. Because LOGIC. Then in 2018, Schnatter said the n-word in a conference call with the crisis management firm Papa John’s hired to make Schnatter seem less racist. I’m not even joking!!! Schnatter would go on to resign as CEO, a resignation he still feels was a mistake.
So, what’s Schnatter up to these days? Oh, just eating forty Papa John’s pizzas in 30 days and complaining to a local media outlet about how the quality has gone down, as sweaty cheese oil drips down his face:
The Papa John interview is lovely pic.twitter.com/bpDMDm9t9G
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 26, 2019
If you need a creepier version of this, here you go:
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 26, 2019
I mean… honestly though, “a day of reckoning” ABOUT PIZZA is somehow more disturbing to me than forty pizzas in thirty days. Forty pizzas in thirty days I can sort of understand for this man who clearly has breadsticks for a brain. But a DAY OF RECKONING for the dude who replaced him as CEO after Schnatter said a bunch of racist sh-t… that’s bad. That makes me think Schnatter is plotting something awful.
I woke up too early and made the mistake of looking at twitter instead of meditating or reading something useful and now I’m just sad about a dead koala and grossed out by papa john.😞😞😞
— Busy Philipps (@BusyPhilipps) November 26, 2019
Every day Papa John wakes up and goes to Disneyland by himself. He only wants to go one one ride. The wet. He rides Grizzly River Run without a pancho so he can “feel again”. After riding the wet ride, he returns home, still dripping with wet, and screams at a garlic knot. pic.twitter.com/Uzl9RWci0K
— Disneyland (@Disneyland2go) November 26, 2019
May he suffer a lifetime of constipation.
LMAO, I just died! Best comment of the year.
This man is about to snap. All Papa John’s stores need security ! LOL my God dude.
that is some next-level EW right there.
*SHUDDERS*
He cray.
He looks like he consumed 40 pizzas in 30 days too. I cannot imagine what that man’s innards look like.
IKR? He’s starting to look like latter day Elvis.
Naw, Elvis’s plastic surgeon would never do work like that.
If he thinks the quality has gone down, why does he keep eating the pizza?!?
He thinks that they are crappy because he was pushed out, not because they were always crappy.
They were always crappy – we ordered one long before this ever happened and would never consider ordering one ever again. Yuck!
Help me out, is the interviewer a black man. I cannot tell from my screen at work. And also, WTH but also genius of the news station to do asked him to do it.
I thought this was an onion article. Is this guy for real??
Is he having to sell his Kentucky castle or something? Why the sweaty panic?
This guy is getting ready to blow! He paid millions for the naming rights of Cardinal Stadium in Louisville, changing it to Papa John’s Stadium. However, after his racist incident, he was not only removed as president of the company, the stadium name was changed back to Cardinal Stadium. There’s a big game Saturday, and I sure hope that he’s not planning his “day of reckoning” for then. I hope security is on high alert because he is scary!
So sad this is news.
Even sadder, I clicked and read it.
How does he manage to look so GREASY?’
Pizza? LOL
Meanwhile, slow clap for PJ’s damage control moves – Shaq heals many wounds.
Ugh. He is so repulsive.
I learned from a consumer law class that Papa John’s won the right LEGALLY to say better pizza, better ingredients. He previously worked for pizza hut, then went on to start PJ. When he started using that slogan, Pizza Hut sued, claiming false advertisement. Initially, a jury sided with Pizza Hut, but an appeals court then ruled he actually did have better ingredients and better pizza, and could use that slogan (in a nutshell). And just look at him and his quality pizzas now! What a time to be alive.
I know nothing about this guy but it looks like he brought a pic of Sylvester Stallone (in his not so good days either) to his surgeon and asked for the same looks.
Isn’t this guy a trump supporter? I guess he also eats like trump.
Aah, the rage of a man who faced consequences for his actions for the first time ever.
^^^^ Ha ha! This is so true!
Is he on cocaine?
This is highly likely. No pun intended.
I’m not sure why, but that picture makes me laugh uncontrollably.
to call Papa John’s “pizza” is an abomination.
…and he looks it.
I’m with you. Also, papa johns pizza is disgusting – sugary tomato sauce that could only have been born in USA
I wouldn’t eat Papa John’s crap if I was staving. In 2012 he was a big Romney supporter and a very vocal anti-ACA critic. He said if he had to offer healthcare to his employees he’d have to raise the price of each pizza by about twelve cents and he said he might just cut everyone’s hours so they wouldn’t be eligible for employee healthcare. Then he hosted a get together for Romney at his mansion which was the size of a junior college. What a sweetheart! He can choke on his pizzas.
And you know what set him off, people (coughcoughcoughwhitepeople) were willing to pay the increase in his crappy product so employees can have insurance and be healthy and therefore work at that place that serves the crappy product.
It was when he showed his backside was when sales were effected. But yeah, blame it on the black guy who was tired of seeing his fellow skinfolk being murdered for living while black.
I’m not American so I don’t really know this man but I saw the headline, and boy, everything about this article is like a scene out of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
I can just hear Andy Samberg’s giggles in the background.
I don’t eat at chain pizza places and I imagine most here don’t either, but if you do and want a recommendation, I say Little Caesar’s and here’s why, Rosa Parks left Alabama and moved to Detroit in the 1950s. In 1994 her house was robbed and she was assaulted. A friend helped her find an apartment in a safe area. Mike Ilitch, founder of Little Caesar’s read about it and arranged to pay Mrs. Parks’ rent, which he did until her death in 2005. Mr. Ilitch died in 2017. He is the type of businessman I could support, rather than greedhead Schnatter.
Yes, Little Caesar’s FTW!! Mike Ilitch was great guy and Rosa Parks a great woman… both legendary figures around Detroit.
Pizza makes me break out, not to mention dairy is incredibly cruel, so I’m trying to cut it out (have it about five time a year, max) and make my own from vegan cheeses (higher quality ones like Miyoko’s, not the plastic-like vegan brands the chain pizzerias currently offer).
He probably means he’s tried one slice from 40 pizzas in the last 30 days. But yeah, he does look greasy.