The Fall of Papa Johns Pizza | Corporate Casket
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Blair Zoń
4.4 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated, |
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| 0:21.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the corporate casket, a bi-weekly series where bad businesses |
| 0:27.5 | go to die. |
| 0:29.5 | We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm the aluminati and today we're going to be talking about the rise and fall of Papa Johns and honestly a lot of this is just about their founder and more of a video about |
| 0:45.8 | he self-destructed more than anything else but I hope you still find it |
| 0:49.6 | entertaining nonetheless anyway let's start with how Papa Johns was founded and what the hell happened in recent years. Let's get into it. When I was growing up as a boy, my mentor was my papa, Louis Ackerson, and he had a fanaticism of doing things in a high-class manner. |
| 1:22.0 | When I found in Papa John's, |
| 1:24.0 | the whole premise in the Genesis was, |
| 1:26.0 | let's make the best pizza possible. |
| 1:28.0 | Let's be the best in our class. |
| 1:30.0 | Let's be the highest quality. |
| 1:31.0 | All the bigger competitors at one time started out with quality and they all lost their way. |
| 1:36.7 | Papa Johns was founded by John H. Schnatter. According to the Courier Journal, |
| 1:41.5 | he grew up in what he describes as an upper middle-class family. |
| 1:45.4 | His mother, Mary Beth Ackerson, is a retired real estate agent. |
| 1:49.9 | Growing up, he said she was demanding, she wouldn't accept a bee on his report card. |
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