An open letter to the CEOs of Applebee's, Papa John's, Olive Garden, Dead Lobster, and all the other ptomaine palaces that have decided to make sour grapes their #1 house special...

Gentlemen:

Since a skosh over half the citizens of the U.S. voted to re-elect President Obama, it's probably safe to assume that your constituency has a similar political construct. So if that's true, and if the blowback from half of your customer base is not related to the gas your fare is known to produce, how do you explain the *cough* wisdom of alienating slightly more than one of every two patrons? Is that also based on Romney/Ryan math?

I'd love to know in which chapter of "In Search of Excellence" you read the plan to halve your revenue by acting like half an ass.

But if my assumption is wrong and in fact the majority of your customers are Republicans, I can take some consolation in gleaning from your statements empirical evidence that poor nutrition is causally linked to delayed intellectual development.

Guys, my compliments to the chef who just cooked your collective goose!

Sincerely,
An ex-diner of yours.

Nice!

I must have been asleep. What exactly did these folks do to get you so upset?

Just Google the names.
They made "threats" during the final weeks of the campaign that if Obama won then they would be laying off people. Most of them did this by way of a letter to their employees. Vote for my guy or the highway.
Now that Obama is re-elected, some of them are firing employees.
So... fine. You want to use your employees as ammo...
We, the paying consumers, will take our business elsewhere.

"You want to use your employees as ammo..."

Well put.
They must know they are making themselves look like heartless elitists by doing this.

Good for you.These bosses deserve what they get.

Yep, business attitudes like this make me want to go elsewhere.

In a bit of retrospect, not sure this is best for the employees. If these places lose business, with what will they attribute it? The poor economy or their insane statements ?

Dave

Awww.. poor Papa Johns... John Schnatter lives in a 40,000 sq ft home with private golf course blah blah blah.. and can donate 2 million pizzas:
http://www.papajohns.com/twomillionpizza/
and can pay $250,000 dollars +$25,000 fnder fee to get his old Camaro back...http://jalopnik.com/5344739/how-jalopnik-reunited-papa-john-with-his-camaro

Host dinner/fundraisers for GOP candidates...etc.

... but doesn't want to raise his pizza price 14 cents in order to let his employees have heath care.

F.U. John.

http://freakoutnation.com/2012/08/09/pap...-his-employees/



I will not be buying his pizza anymore. And I liked his pizza!

Aerial view.

Don't get me wrong.. I applaud him for being successful and rich. But not at the expense of your employees who do all the work....

Keep it up guys. It is good to see a running tally of all those who insist Obama's plan is going to ruin them and will use their employees livelihoods as pawns.