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CG: Can Papa John’s New CEO Turn the Company Around?

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🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Last week, Papa John’s hired Arby’s President Rob Lynch as its new CEO. This continues an ongoing evolution of the company as it moves on from its relationship with founder John Schnatter. Motley Fool Contributor Dan Kline joins the show to discuss the hire and how it fits into the company’s turnaround plans.

Stocks Mentioned: PZZA, DPZ, DRI

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0:00.0

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0:13.2

Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the

0:18.7

stock market every day.

0:20.1

Today is Tuesday, September 3rd and we're talking Papa Johns.

0:23.0

I'm your host Nick Saipoll and the day I'm joined by Motley Fool contributor Dan Kline by Skype.

0:26.4

How's it going Dan?

0:27.4

Hey there, Nick, I was supposed to be sitting there next to you.

0:30.4

Yeah, you were supposed to be here as a lot of our folks know Dan is based down in West Palm Beach, Florida,

0:36.0

and there's a little bit of a storm coming through there.

0:38.0

What does the weather look like down in your neck of the woods, Dan?

0:41.0

So, Nick, most people have someone in their family that they're going to show up at a holiday and you know something bad is going to happen.

0:48.0

But that's something bad could be like he tells an insensitive joke and falls asleep at the table, or it could end up with the police

0:53.7

being called. That's kind of what a hurricane is like. You know something terrible

0:58.4

is going to happen but you don't know exactly what or exactly where. So for the past four days we've been preparing, getting water,

1:05.6

charging batteries, downloading things to our phone, doing everything you can do to

1:09.1

get ready for a storm, while watching endless weather reports that show the storm could hit us directly, it could

1:15.0

vary from us, it could hit us partially, and for the most part, and I say this knowing I'm tempting

1:20.5

fate, here in West Palm Beach Beach the storm has mostly missed us. So we're

1:25.0

gonna get maybe even tropical storms tonight, but it's a lot of rain, it's a lot of

1:29.9

wind, but unlike our friends in the Bahamas, it seems like we're going to be spared a direct hit.

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