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Applebee’s CEO Announces Hiring Freeze And Layoffs Over Obamacare, Boycott Threatened
The Inquisitr ^ | November 11, 2012 | H. Scott English

Posted on 11/11/2012 1:41:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The CEO of a huge New York Applebees franchise decided to join fellow fast food CEO John Shattner of Papa John’s in saying that he will layoff workers and stop hiring new ones if the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is implemented. Applebees franchise owner Zane Tankel, announced his plans almost immediately after President Obama’s reelection.

The Twitterverse immediately went crazy with plans for boycotts.

One tweet read:

“So far I’ve seen Papa John’s and Applebees threatening to fire people since their choice didn’t win the election. Disgusting on either side.”

Others said:

“BOYCOTT APPLEBEES NOW.”

“Add @Applebees to the list of unpatriotic businesses who are firing people because Barack Obama won.”

Zanr Tankel announced his plans on Fox News. Tankel is CEO of Apple-Metro which owns 40 New York Area Applebees. Each restaurant employs between 80 and 300 people. Under the Affordable Care Act any employer with more than 50 employees has to offer a federally approved insurance plan to their employees or face a fine of $2,000.

Zane said on Fox:

“We’ve calculated it will [cost] some millions of dollars across our system. So what does that say — that says we won’t build more restaurants. We won’t hire more people. If you have 40 or 50 employees at a restaurant, and the penalty is $2,000, and you’re going to pay $80,000 or $100,000 penalty, there goes the profit in your restaurant. I want to simply say we are looking at it, we are evaluating. If it’s possible to do without cutting people back, I am delighted to do it, but that also rolls back expansion, it rolls back hiring more people, and in a best-case scenario, we only shrink the labor force minimally. Best case.”

Papa John’s CEO John Shattner told shareholders this week he was going to have to add eleven to fourteen cents per pie to the final cost to the consumer.

Shattner was subjected to a whipping on Twitter for his comments as well.

Schnatter defended his plan saying:

“That’s what you do, is you pass on the costs. Unfortunately, I don’t think people know what they’re going to pay for [Obamacare].”

Because Obamacare’s insurance mandates only apply to workers working more than 30 hours per week, chains like Red Lobster and the Olive Garden have said they will look into cutting worker’s hours also.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: economy; fascism; food; layoffs; obama; obamacare; obamacarelayoffs; pizza; unemployment
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Boycotts because they're facing reality?
1 posted on 11/11/2012 1:42:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wouldn,t a boycott encourage more layoffs?


2 posted on 11/11/2012 1:45:04 PM PST by meyer (Proud member of the 53%.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

leftists think that hurting business is the solution to everything.


3 posted on 11/11/2012 1:45:37 PM PST by RC one (Akin/Mourdock-2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Much like they treat the government, liberals expect business to have an unlimited supply of money and owners to give it all to whatever the cause celebre may happen to be and be thankful to do such.

We had our window, but methinks we will begin seeing in the next few years the adverse consequences to amassing so much debt.


4 posted on 11/11/2012 1:46:09 PM PST by CaspersGh0sts
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To: meyer

You expect liberals to think logically?


5 posted on 11/11/2012 1:46:13 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is now war between we producers and liberals.

Go ahead, make our day.

We can cut you idiots off in your cities with little effort, and wait patiently for you to venture into out territory.

May all your sons and daughters turn out to be rap artists and journalists.

Oh, forgot....they already are.


6 posted on 11/11/2012 1:46:18 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

I am beginning to think that Ayn Rand was indeed a prophet.


7 posted on 11/11/2012 1:46:56 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yes.

I just posted satire about this. We know its coming.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2958350/posts


8 posted on 11/11/2012 1:47:01 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just take over Applebesand be done with it. You saddle the business with Obamacare, now you won’t let them adjust to survive.

Just pass the law now requiring business to hire, and change the name to United Socialist States.


9 posted on 11/11/2012 1:47:18 PM PST by Williams (No Obama)
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To: meyer

Most of these Lefties and anarchists are anti-capitalism and Fabian socialist or communist, so that’s a plus in their book. Let them eat food stamps.


10 posted on 11/11/2012 1:47:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: meyer

Of course, but that’s how stupid leftists are...


11 posted on 11/11/2012 1:48:05 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: dfwgator

Ayn’s good guys were insane but she had the bad guys pegged!!


12 posted on 11/11/2012 1:48:42 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL

Maybe it takes a little bit of insanity to be successful.


13 posted on 11/11/2012 1:49:35 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

It’s amazing. People were laughing at me for saying that Obama’s 30hrs/job was going to cut back hours.


14 posted on 11/11/2012 1:52:41 PM PST by JCBreckenridge (They may take our lives... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Papa John’s CEO John Shattner told shareholders this week he was going to have to add eleven to fourteen cents per pie to the final cost to the consumer.

The ignorant (m)asses calling for boycotting Papa John's obviously never took an Economics course. Basic Economics 101: all costs of creating, distributing and selling a product are included in the product's sale price. That price also includes profit for the product creator.

So Schnatter (not Shattner) says he's increasing the price of his (crappy) pizza by eleven to fourteen cents? I don't know what that tells anyone else but it tells me he's making his profit on volume sales of his crappy pizza, not quality.

While I support Schnatter's position on this issue, I've had Papa John's pizza once. That was enough for me.

15 posted on 11/11/2012 1:54:23 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: dfwgator

Absolutely. read “Atlas” again after the 2008 election. A re-read may be in order.


16 posted on 11/11/2012 1:56:51 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: usconservative
His sauce makes me violently ill, but that's not the point, is it?
17 posted on 11/11/2012 1:57:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Did the same to me, so I think that was the point!
18 posted on 11/11/2012 1:59:05 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

cut the workers hours to 15 per week until they stop with the boycotts, if that doesn’t work, then lay off half of them.


19 posted on 11/11/2012 2:00:12 PM PST by Qwackertoo (Going into Politic Free Zone Momma Grizzly hibernation for a while after this week, maybe forever.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let me fix this:

Add @Applebees to the list of unpatrioticracist businesses who are firing people because Barack Obama wonran on raising taxes on job creators and won. All we cared about was Big Big and vaginas.

20 posted on 11/11/2012 2:00:39 PM PST by matt04
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