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Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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tailscaler2026 wrote: post #33
autoexec wrote: post #17

> There are two things Papa Johns doesn’t like to see There are three things. Papa Johns also hates to see well compensated employees. They've been successfully sued several times for wage theft, they were forced to stop their “no-poach” policies which prevented franchise owners from hiring workers at other Papa Johns restaurants in an effort to keep wages down, and they insisted that if they had to provide health in…

Their founder really doesn't like black people either. Do not support Papa Johns. Plenty of other choices for shit pizza. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44803163

Even though their founder and CEO was casually throwing out the slur on a call he had with his marketing agency about the PR fallout of his previous comments complaining about NFL players exercising their right to protest police brutality during the national anthem, the official position of Papa Johns is that they condemn racism in all forms and they want to distance themselves from the endorsements and praise the restaurant has received from white supremacists both before and after the slur came to light.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

rootusrootus wrote: post #16
xmcp123 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not all condiments actually go bad when they expire though. I’m convinced somewhere there’s perfectly edible ketchup from the dinosaurs era somewhere.

Especially when kept in a fridge, since ketchup is shelf stable. In the fridge it should go well past the pull date.

Ketchup is vinegar-based. I don't think it makes much of a difference.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

conartist6 wrote: post #36

I'm just... Confused at how any of this is good for society. YOU FUCKING KNOW when your fridge is empty. So OK maybe some corp can reprogram you to not restock on food. CONVINCE ME THAT'S GOOD. Is it not just an attempt to make people worse? Less self-sufficient? More miserable ?

Trying to teach people to garden.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by autoexec »

charcircuit wrote: post #48
tailscaler2026 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their founder really doesn't like black people either. Do not support Papa Johns. Plenty of other choices for shit pizza. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44803163

Your source does not back up your claim. The founder said he didn't use the slur.

He admitted that he said it (https://www.businessinsider.com/papa-johns-founder-apologize...) and years later he said that not saying it anymore was one the goals he'd been working on (https://www.businessinsider.com/papa-johns-ceo-2-years-remov...)

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by autoexec »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #50
charcircuit wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your source does not back up your claim. The founder said he didn't use the slur.

He doesn't. I think you misread this passage (it's the only thing that comes close): > When discussing how he would distance himself from racist groups, Mr Schnatter said that Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC, had never faced criticism for using the N-word, Forbes reported.

It's worth pointing out that there's no evidence that Colonel Sanders ever did that. It's not as if he was directly quoting someone. Even if he really wanted to bitch about how unfair it is that someone else was able to be racist without being called out for it, he could have phrased that in any number of other ways. Schnatter was just spewing bullshit and threw out that slur without any reason for doing so.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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cramer4next wrote: post #47
autoexec wrote: post #17

> There are two things Papa Johns doesn’t like to see There are three things. Papa Johns also hates to see well compensated employees. They've been successfully sued several times for wage theft, they were forced to stop their “no-poach” policies which prevented franchise owners from hiring workers at other Papa Johns restaurants in an effort to keep wages down, and they insisted that if they had to provide health in…

I love Papa Johns and we get their pizza atleast twice a week. Never once did we have have a bad pizza or bad service. All the people i've meet there while picking up are happy and very customer service orientated. Whatever their formula is, it's working.

> Whatever their formula is, it's working.

It's certainly working on you

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by autoexec »

morkalork wrote: post #37
autoexec wrote: post #24

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> Instacart users should be upset about their data being packaged up and sold. Instacart users should have been upset about that while reading Instacart's privacy policy prior to signing up and refused to use the service in the first place. Having their data being packaged up and sold was something every user already agreed to.

I believe we're at the point where living in modern society and dodging these abusive EULAs is nigh impossible. Your credit card company, every merchant you interact with, even your employer's payroll processor all sell your data. I guess if you work under the table cash-only jobs, only purchase items in-person, again cash only, and don't use any apps on your phone you are safe from corporate snooping?

> I believe we're at the point where living in modern society and dodging these abusive EULAs is nigh impossible.

You're not wrong but I can't help but wonder if we'd be at this at the point in modern society now if we'd been smart enough to avoid signing up for services that promised up front to be abusive long before the practice was so widespread and unavoidable. Instacart started 14 years ago. It wasn't an essential or unavoidable service. Why should corporations treat us any differently if we keep telling them that this abuse is acceptable to us and then reward them for it?

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by charcircuit »

autoexec wrote: post #54
charcircuit wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your source does not back up your claim. The founder said he didn't use the slur.

He admitted that he said it ( https://www.businessinsider.com/papa-johns-founder-apologize... ) and years later he said that not saying it anymore was one the goals he'd been working on ( https://www.businessinsider.com/papa-johns-ceo-2-years-remov... )

The claim trying to be argued here was the he hated black people and your additional sources still do not back that up. The second article seems to instead provide evidence against that claim. In reality this event happened during peak wokenness where saying a slur no matter the context made you a bad person deserving of being cancelled.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by c22 »

charcircuit wrote: post #48
tailscaler2026 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their founder really doesn't like black people either. Do not support Papa Johns. Plenty of other choices for shit pizza. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44803163

Your source does not back up your claim. The founder said he didn't use the slur.

Did we read the same source? The closest thing I saw in there to anything he said was:

> When discussing how he would distance himself from racist groups, Mr Schnatter said that Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC, had never faced criticism for using the N-word, Forbes reported.

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