Papa John’s Former CEO Calls N-Phrase Incident ‘Fabricated’

The founder and former CEO of Papa John’s stated the pizza chain’s new leaders have “destroyed the corporate” and “fabricated” the N-word controversy.

In an interview with WDRB Information, a Fox affiliate in Louisville, Kentucky, John Schnatter claimed he’s had “over 40 pizzas within the final 30 days.” 

“It’s not the identical pizza,” he stated. “It’s not the identical product. It simply doesn’t style nearly as good.” 

He additionally ridiculed the corporate’s new management, together with the present CEO, Steve Ritchie, and board members Olivia Kirtley and Mark Shapiro, who he stated “must be in jail” for stealing the corporate, WDRB reviews. 

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After first stepping down from his position as CEO in 2017 when he blamed gradual pizza gross sales on NFL gamers protesting in the course of the nationwide anthem, Schnatter then resigned as board chairman in 2018 after utilizing the N-word throughout an organization convention name. 

Now, he’s saying the brand new leaders “stole the corporate, and now they’ve destroyed the corporate,” WDRB reviews.

“The day of reckoning will come,” Schnatter stated to WDRB in regards to the reality popping out regarding his ousting. 

“I by no means dreamed that the those that I cared about, that I liked, that I made multimillionaires, would do what they did,” Schnatter additionally informed WDRB. 

He claimed that the N-word controversy was “fabricated” by insiders on the firm, WDRB reviews. 

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“Disgrace on them,” he stated within the WDRB interview, including, “That is all a farce. Nothing sells like the reality, and the reality, in the end, all comes out.”

Schnatter additionally informed WDRB how the brand new CEO and the board of administrators “all used the Black neighborhood and race as a strategy to steal the corporate.” 

So far as a attainable return to the corporate, which he stated he doesn’t wish to do, Schnatter informed WDRB, “If the administration staff was out, and I went again in, they’d be cheering. They’d be going again flips. They’d be bouncing off the wall.”