Papa John’s pizza cuts employees’ hours supposedly due to Obamacare

Right.As the CEO of Papa Johns, John Schnatter can do what he wants to do with the company. He created it, and built it into a massive enterprise across the US. He’s reportedly worth around $260 million and lives in a mansion with its own golf course.
Yet, despite living luxuriously, he claims that charging 11 to 14 cents more per pizza (his estimate of what Obamacare will cost his company) is simply too much — so he’s going to cut his employees’ hours, and pay, instead, so the law won’t apply to him.
At the same time, nobody is forcing anyone to buy his pizza. I always found Papa Johns to be a pretty bad pizza [NOTE FROM JOHN: I'm from Chicago, we are pizza. Papa John's sucks], but next to Dominos Pizza (based in Ann Arbor, Michigan…enough said) it was a mild improvement. Either way, I always avoided the national brands and opted for something local. Now, there’s an even better reason to find better pizza.

Executives like Schnatter somehow miss the point (much like Romney did during the campaign) that he alone did not create the business. Thousands of employees made his dream house a reality. Yes, it’s fair to give Schnatter credit for building the business, growing it, but nobody builds something like that on their own. He’s typical of the narcissistic CEOs who believe that nobody else was there to help them, and nobody is helping them keep the business afloat.
While alternative choices for pizza are obviously out there, and certainly tastier, Schnatter should have the full opportunity to see just how well his business does with fewer customers and even more important, fewer employees. If he thinks the company can still keep up with the competition while stretching low wage employees, go for it. Sounds like a stupid business move to me, but Schnatter owns the business and can accept responsibility for it.
If only we had fewer CEOs like this and more that cared about the “we” instead of “me.”
The next time you want a pizza, just keep this in mind. CEOs can make choices, but so can consumers.
Huffington Post:

Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter said he plans on passing the costs of health care reform to his business onto his workers. Schnatter said he will likely reduce workers’ hours, as a result of President Obama’s reelection, the Naples News reports. Schnatter made headlines over the summer when he told shareholders that the cost of a Papa John’s pizza will increase by between 11 and 14 cents due to Obamacare.
“I got in a bunch of trouble for this,” he said, referring to the comments he made in August, according to Naples News. “That’s what you do, is you pass on costs. Unfortunately, I don’t think people know what they’re going to pay for this.”