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one minute in and now we're going to get to the read part three continued shatner says his attention

to detail at home mirrors his quest for for the sublime at Papa John's which he started in 1984

in the back of mix lounge just across the state line in Jeffersonville Indiana within two years

he'd open four stores and soon after he'd signed up his first franchisee Malcolm nap a veteran

New York restaurant consultant attributes the company's early success to shatner's charisma

John was kind of a folk here on app says he started all from a broom closet he came up with the

marketing slogan better ingredients better pizza he hammered that idea home shatner would often

pop into stores high five team members and checking to see if the pies were up to his standards whether

the ingredients and pizza were really better or not Papa John's group until in 1993

and went public with 254 stores the bigger the company became the more its namesake found

himself under attack shatner traces the shift to a late 90s incident in which the Louisville

courier journal reported on a woman's sexual harassment suit against it including claims he'd

groped her shatner denied the allegations and filed his own suit accusing the woman of

extorting him they later reached a confidential settlement i was a hometown hero then somewhere

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