Since you take issue with my claim that the CEO of Papa John’s is a greedy soulless expletive, by all means, you can have the first and last word on the matter.
In your opening post, demonstrate clearly why Papa John had no choice but to raise prices or reduce employee hours below 30. Alternatively, and I strongly suspect this is the track you’ll take, demonstrate that mister Schnatter has every right to make whatever business decision he wants, to generate the most profits for himself, at the expense of his employee’s health and ability to make ends meet. To which, I have no argument, he has every right to be a greedy soulless expletive, but that means my characterization of him as such is entirely justified, ergo, you concede the debate immediately. And finally another alternative, you can spray-paint the word liberal on my chest and run away.
I will further note that this is not an SDMB sanctioned event. While Askthepizzaguy may ask that other posters not participate, they will refrain from such contributions or submit such contributions at their own pleasure. The SDMB staff is not about to sit on this thread 24 hours a day to enforce rules created unilaterally by Askthepizzaguy.
In addition, I also note that I see no agreement from Bricker regarding the “rules” of this discussion and, without his explicit agreement, those rules and the conditions for proclaiming a “victory” are nothing more than the wishes of Askthepizzaguy that have as much weight as any other private opinion expressed on this board.
I would also like to declare that I am not allowed to post in this thread, and that, furthermore, if I do, I be forced to accept forty million dollars from Askthepizzaguy on the premise that wealth will ruin my life.
I can’t figure out exactly what the challenge is here. I see two options:
Resolved, Papa John’s owner is a “greedy fuck”
Resolved, our liberal biases have prevented us from seeing clearly the issues at hand.
Further, you are demanding that Bricker, in his first post, “demonstrate clearly why Papa John had no choice but to raise prices or reduce employee hours below 30”. But since that is a statement he never made, you are demanding he defend a strawman.
At any rate, I’m having trouble with option number 1, I can’t see how anyone is going to define what a “greedy fucK” is in except in a subjective way. In which case, it is just a matter of opinion. As for option, number 2… that is clearly just another strawman since all Bricker said in that thread was that you will find plenty of support here for your opinion. No reason that must prevent you from seeing “the issue at hand”, whatever that is, anyway.
ETA: Sausage and mushroom, please. None of that pineapple or BBQ chicken crap!!
In my neck of the metaphorical woods (New Haven CT area) there are so many excellent small pizza places that I wonder how the national chains ever got a foothold. Even conceding that the quality of the individual pizza parlours vary greatly, any random one of them is likely to be better and cheaper than any of the national chains.
But that could be tying back to the concept that people don’t really want “good,” they want “consistent.”
It’s just easier to remember, too. Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Little Caesar’s. They get burned into your brain. Then you move somewhere new, especially, it’s easier to get a reliably OK pizza than take the risk on a new place.