I have no idea. I guess really sugary stuff is my one sore spot with food in general. I'm pretty sensitive to things being overly sweet. It's pretty rare I'll drink a beverage with sugar at all, it just really seems to hit my taste buds hard. I like apple cider and that's about it.
This one gets me HARD. When I used to drink Kool-Aid (the sugar free kind, again with that idiosyncrasy), I had to dilute it like 3:1 out of the jug it was kept in. I don't understand how people drink it straight.
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Don't be silly, Americans don't eat American dark chocolate
There's quite a few options I like. I'm pretty biased towards Belgium and German though.
Nah, even the stuff I make at home now (I think I've been out of my parent's for ~6 years), or Crystal Light is the same for me. All of it just tastes insanely sweet to me. I guess that's odd. It might be a sweetness thing, since I usually don't like non-diet sodas either.
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I don't think I've ever had Russian chocolate. I'm sure there's some shops I could find it at, but I haven't seen it around much. The place I used to go to had a lot of German, Belgian, and French stuff that was quite nice. I think I'm pretty ignorant about types though, they just mostly taste good to me. Not my area of expertise!
John Schnatter doesn't know when to STFU.
Another little 1%-er temper tantrum that will end up costing them more in the devalue their shares and lost business than Obamacare does by a long shot.
Well honestly, what do you expect? They're not exactly going to blame layoffs and reduced hours on their own profit-driven, social-conscience-absent, sociopathic bastardry, are they?
Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.
John Schnatter is worth 600 million dollars. ~4000 businesses with a base average of 6 employees (only 4 at the location where I'm at) so 24,000 employees and he can't cover .14 cents? That's only 3360.00 a month, he probably pays that in an electric bill for that big ass house of his. Don't pity the 1% for the taxes that are coming for them.
Its 14cents per pizza sold.
Regardless of his net worth, that is an increase in business expenditure. I have massive doubts anyone ordering from Papa Johns is going to care about a 14c increase in the cost of each pizza. It is clearly a ploy to move to a more walmart-ish model where you employ a larger number of people but all of them part time so you don't have to pay for vacation or sick days or offer benefits, and blaming a political party he disagrees with for doing it.
You're right, not every single Papa John's is a franchise. But the vast majority of them are. Outside of the area where the company was founded (Indiana), almost all of the stores are franchises. I don't think there's a single corporate-owned Papa John's in my state (Louisiana), Texas, or Arkansas (and I only list them because those are places where I have gone to the restaurant). The Papa John's I ordered from while in Washington, D.C.? A Franchise.
It's the same for many other companies, as well. Blockbuster, Dominos, McDonalds, Taco Bell...you don't actually think those locations are owned by the respective companies, do you?
Most Pizza companies (including Papa John's, Dominos, and Little Ceaser's) already have very few full-time workers. Franchisees not only pay the corporate company part of their profits for the privilege of using the brand name, they also are responsible for paying for their own workers. Your checks, when you work for one of these, do not come from the corporate office. They come from whoever owns the physical location you work at. These guys have to make ends meet, so what they'll do is reduce anyone not "necessary" at full-time down to part time, and avoid having to pay the health insurance on them.
Which isn't that much different from the way it is now, true. But what should concern people isn't the owner of Papa John's pointing out what franchise owners will do. What should concern you is that an entire class of workers is being created who have 2-3 part time jobs, no health insurance provided by their employers (because they don't qualify under the current system, and they won't qualify under the one coming into play in the next few months), and no money to buy separate health insurance, as the premiums have risen sharply in the last 6 months and are still rising.
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This is how pizza franchises already work.
You really don´t know much about the world outside the US do you?
Try looking at most other "western" countries where taxes, regulation of corporations and expenses are higher. Guess what, our wages are a lot higher as well. Do you honestly believe that giving cooporations free reigns and just believing in their good nature will make things better? yeah turned out real well giving the banks and insurance industry a free pass to rape the world economy, thank you for starting the global economic crisis.
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Pizza companies do not compete in a vacuum. They compete directly against every other fast food food chain with homedelivery, and indirectly against every other source of food. Those competitors who will not have their costs negatively affected by ACA will gain while those who do will lose.
And yes, people will notice a $0.14 increase in pizzas. If they didn't, he would already have raised the price by so much.
Ignore the argument that he needs do nothing because he already does not allow employees to have enough hours to qualify for full time status, and instead you start whining about prices in a Vacuum? I assume you are fine with Corporations attempting to create some sort of 2-3 job class that works 15-25 hours a week at each job so they can avoid paying any kind of benefits and sick time, right?
I just want to say to all the corporations out there that: IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT YOUR BOTTOM LINE. YOU CAN BE SUCCESSFUL WITHOUT SHITTING ALL OVER THE PEOPLE WHO MADE YOU SUCCESSFUL IN THE FIRST PLACE.
GROW THE FUCK UP, ALREADY!
No, I was just expanding on your comment which in general is correct. For example if a VAT tax is introduced then everything will increase in price by the same %, which will have limited effects on competition (but it will change consumption habits). The ACA however doesn't affect everyone the same.
Well I do not support the legislation that forces them to try and work around it in the first place. People in general do not seem to understand that benefits equal a certain cash wage increase. Removing benefits means you will have to increase the cash wage to attract the same number/quality of employees. Similarly, increasing benefits means you can lower your cash wage to attract the same employees.Originally Posted by obdigore
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Wow... i'm once again impressed by the stupidity of some people. Its not the fact that you are stupid in general, but the fact that you just talk about things you dont nearly understand and believe in everything you get told by a single newspaper or blogger or what ever. Its okay if you dont understand how things work, no question. But then you should inform yourself if you want to talk about it. Go ahead and read multiple opinions and then form your own.
Im glad that Obama got re-elected and yes, maybe he isnt the best choice. But at least the majority of the us people did unterstand the whole picture behind Romney. Its sad that the republican didnt have a better candidate tho for the sake of variety.
Just please open your eyes. Take a look abroad. Healthcare works there just fine and its a gigantic gain, i can tell you that. Question everything what anybody says you and form your own opinion - always. And if you then dont agree with me, i'm okay with that. But i can't stand someone with a opinion, that is not his own, it's plain dumb.
And i almost fogot about the maintopic. Companies are there for the people. Not the opposite. Sadly some greedy guys ignore that fact. Ofc there will be employees that get fired, but then it should be for the companie as a whole to stay alive. Not to solely increase the stockholders return or even give your frustration some room...
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So how does the free market prevent people from being crushed under the heels of large corporations, to where they can't take a day off because they are barely scraping by working three part time jobs? You are claiming that in a system where we have high unemployment somehow corporations are going to increase the wages or offer better benefits for low level positions? I'm not sure why you think that?