Papa John’s Founder And Ex-Chairman Just Started A ‘Save Papa John Campaign’

Papa John’s founder John Schnatter has not had a great year. After the events of his departure from the pizza empire he built, Schnatter has begun a campaign to restore his reputation and voice his side of the story in the form of SavePapaJohns.com.

In early July, Schnatter resigned as chairman of the pizza company after reportedly using the N-word during a conference call back in May.

At the time, he was speaking with marketing firm Laundry Service about the prevention of future public relation incidents after the events of 2017’s NFL statement where he blamed the league as the reason behind declining pizza sales. This was all during a role-playing exercise, reports Forbes.

According to Time, Schnatter paid for a full-page ad on the Courier Journey (hometown paper to Papa John’s) where he directed readers to his new website.

The site Save Papa John’s states:

I built Papa John’s from the ground up and remain its largest shareholder. I love my Company, its employees, franchisees and customers.

It continues:

The Board wants to silence me. So this is my website, and my way to talk to you.

The website also includes copies of Schnatter’s interactions with the company including requests for legal documents and records of the pizza company. He states that this will be the forum where his voice will be heard moving forward.

It doesn’t look like Schnatter is quite ready to give up his pizza company just yet. I guess we’ll see in the weeks to come what he has to say about recent events.