1. John Hampton "Papa John" Schnatter was born on November 22 or 23,1961 and is an American entrepreneur who founded the Papa John's pizza restaurant chain in 1984.
40 Facts About John Schnatter
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John Schnatter resigned when the comment became public, but has since maintained that the board conspired against him and unfairly forced him out of his position.
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John Schnatter was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1961, to Mary and Robert John Schnatter.
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John Schnatter's mother was a real estate agent and his father was a judge in Jeffersonville.
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John Schnatter graduated from Jeffersonville High School in 1980 and received a business degree from Ball State University in 1983.
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John Schnatter sold his 1971 Z28 Camaro to purchase $1,600 worth of used pizza equipment and began selling pizzas to the tavern's customers.
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John Schnatter's pizzas proved sufficiently popular that a year later he moved into an adjoining space.
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In 2009, John Schnatter reacquired the Camaro after offering a reward of $250,000 for it.
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John Schnatter moved his company headquarters from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Louisville, Kentucky, in the late 1990s.
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In early 2005, Schnatter stepped down as president and CEO of Papa John's, but remained chairman of the board.
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John Schnatter returned as CEO in 2008 and briefly had a co-CEO in 2010.
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Papa John's Pizza had a marketing agreement to be the NFL's "official pizza company" and had marketing deals with 23 of its 32 teams, and Schnatter said the protests were hurting the company's sales.
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Later that day, Papa John Schnatter's announced that the NFL shield or "official sponsor" designation on Papa John Schnatter's commercials and advertising would be removed.
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On December 21,2017, Schnatter announced that he would step down as CEO of Papa John's amid controversy over his comments.
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John Schnatter was replaced as Chief Executive Officer by Chief Operating Officer Steve Richie, effective January 1,2018.
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John Schnatter said Schnatter would still appear in the chain's commercials and on its pizza boxes, and was the company's biggest shareholder with approximately 9.5 million shares.
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John Schnatter remained chairman of the company's board of directors at the time.
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In July 2018, John Schnatter participated in an internal training conference call with marketing consultants in which there was a role-playing exercise to help John Schnatter avoid making remarks that could cause public controversy and damage the company's reputation.
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John Schnatter resigned as chairman of the board the same day the incident was reported.
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On July 26,2018, Schnatter filed a lawsuit in Delaware against Papa John's Pizza to give him access to the company's books and records; the company did not allow him to access its business records after he resigned in the wake of the teleconference call scandal.
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John Schnatter described the company's procedures as an "unexplained and heavy-handed way" to cut ties between him and the company.
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John Schnatter filed a lawsuit against the company in Kentucky in a dispute over property ownership.
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John Schnatter retained the right to sue if the records show wrongdoing by the company.
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In November 2019, Schnatter made his first public comments after leaving Papa John's to Louisville Fox affiliate WDRB.
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John Schnatter criticized the way the company had been run immediately after his departure by Steve Ritchie, who was described as his former protege.
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Ritchie had replaced him as CEO, but had been dismissed after less than a year, and John Schnatter said he saw more common ground with Jeff Smith, who became chairman of the board in February 2019.
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In 1996, John Schnatter started a Louisville-based real estate company called Evergreen Real Estate.
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John Schnatter owns a number of historic properties in Schnatter's home community of Anchorage, Kentucky.
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John Schnatter launched a business called Calistoga Artisan Sandwiches in 2007.
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In 1983, John Schnatter sold his 1971 Chevrolet Camaro to help his father's struggling business.
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John Schnatter used the leftover funds to start Papa John's.
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In celebration, Papa John Schnatter's offered a free pizza to anyone who owned a Camaro.
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John Schnatter owns several replicas that are used on tours and for public and TV appearances.
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In 1999, John Schnatter was accused of stalking and groping a woman.
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John Schnatter claimed the woman was trying to extort him for $5 million.
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In 2012, Papa John's and Schnatter received media attention after he made critical comments about the Affordable Care Act to a class on entrepreneurship.
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John Schnatter hosted a fundraiser at his home for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in May 2012.
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John Schnatter contributed to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and made supportive comments about his administration in January 2017.
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John Schnatter spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2022, attacking cancel culture and President Joe Biden's small business policies.
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On September 4,2019, John Schnatter's foundation donated $1 million to Simmons College, a historically black college in Kentucky.