Papa John's Obamacare Price Hike Cheered By Ian's Pizza In Wisconsin

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Papa John's CEO John Schnatter’s recent statement that the Affordable Care Act will force the pizza chain to raise prices came as good news to Nick Martin.

Martin, a part owner of Ian’s Pizza, a pizza shop with four locations in Wisconsin, said his business has offered full heath care coverage to its 50 full-time employees for years, making it all the more difficult to compete with national chains like Papa John's that pay workers low wages without health benefits.

"This may level the playing field for us,” Martin said of the Papa John's price hike. “If they have to pay for benefits, and that pushes their prices up closer to ours, it will justify what we’ve been paying for and what we’ve been fighting to do the past few years.” (Ian's knows a bit about fighting, having fed demonstrators free slices during last year's protests in Madison.)
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1. Support your local activists, Badgers!

If I lived in Wisconsin, I would go to Ian's for a pizza tonight.

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2. Where does the ACA say employers must buy insurance? n/t

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3. 2 in Milwaukee, 2 in Madison. support a small business owner who treats his employees like humans:

http://www.ianspizza.com/

Pizza Business Breaks the Mold with Daring Concept
Ian's Pizza has a close-knit team of employees
who work and play together.
It’s never business as usual at Ian’s Pizza.

This innovative pizza concept features an offbeat menu; employees who are groomed for ownership; open-book financial management; a commitment to green initiatives; a knack for generating buzz; and a SpeedLine POS to handle a thriving delivery operation.

We are definitely an outside-the-box pizza business,” says franchise owner Lexy Frautschy. “So we needed a pizza POS that was versatile and could handle our needs. Of all the systems we reviewed, SpeedLine was best able to work with us on that.”

OFF the Beaten Path
After friends introduced Ian Gurfield to the pizza business in Amherst, Massachusetts, he set his sight on opening his own pizza shop in a mid-size town with a college community. Ian targeted students on the prowl for a late-bite snack as the perfect demographic. After his graduation in 2000, the young entrepreneur crisscrossed the USA, visiting 50 college towns before he found the perfect spot to open the restaurant that now bears his name.

Students in Madison, Wisconsin, embraced Ian’s eclectic selection of slices, featuring far-out topping combinations such as BBQ steak and fries, guacamole burrito, chicken penne Alfredo, or black bean feta avocado.

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