The pizza drama continued over the weekend as Papa John’s founder John Schnatter doubled and even tripled down on his claims that former AOR Laundry Service bears a major share of the responsibility for a May call in which he uttered the N-word and made comments about lynching, according to a report in Forbes that he later confirmed.
In a Friday interview with a local radio host, Schnatter said that Laundry Service staffers had “pressured” him to engage in the conversation that led to him using that word while referencing Colonel Sanders.
And in a second interview with an ABC affiliate, he went so far as to claim that the agency “extorted” his company and demanded $6 million “to make [the story] go away.”
Read more at Agency Spy: https://www.adweek.com/agencyspy/papa-johns-founder-schnatter-claims-laundry-service-tried-to-extort-the-company-for-6-million/147989
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