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Papa John's founder and former CEO John Schnatter is claiming he was pressured to resign as chairman of the company and that leaving was "a mistake." Papa John's founder and former CEO John ...
John Hampton "Papa John" Schnatter (born November 22 or 23, 1961) [1] [3] is an American entrepreneur who founded the Papa John's pizza restaurant chain in 1984. [4] Schnatter started the business in the back of his father's tavern after selling his car and using the proceeds to purchase used restaurant equipment.
The Papa John's restaurant was founded in 1984 when "Papa" John Schnatter installed an oven inside a broom closet in the back of his father's tavern, Mick's Lounge, in Jeffersonville, Indiana. [8] He sold his 1971 Camaro Z28 to purchase US$1,600 worth of used pizza equipment and began selling pizzas to the tavern's customers out of the ...
Schnatter later found himself in the midst of a major scandal in 2018 when he resigned as chairman of the company after he was exposed for using the n-word during a conference call.
July 13 – Following reports that Papa John's Pizza founder John Schnatter had said the "n-word" in an internal conference call, which led to his resignation both as company chairman and member of the University of Louisville board of trustees, university president Neeli Bendapudi announced that the company's name would be removed from the ...
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Editor's note: John Schnatter stated that pizza costs would rise as a result of the Affordable Care Act, but did not implicitly state that rising costs would result in more expensive pizzas. Chief ...
October 1967 and again in 1985 – Announcer and DJ William "Rosko" Mercer resigned on-air twice: first from WOR-FM in New York City in October 1967 over the station's employment of radio consultants; and then again in 1985, when he left WKTU-FM in Lake Success, New York, while on the air, again over a dispute with the station management.