Calls to boycott Applebee's after CEO threatens hiring freeze and layoffs over Obamacare
By JOHN CLARKE
PUBLISHED: 15:23, 11 November 2012 | UPDATED: 16:27, 11
Move over Chick-fil-A, fast food is getting political again.
Papa John's came under fire this week when CEO John Schnatter floated a plan to cut worker hours to reduce spiking employee health care costs under the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.
Now, Applebee's is being boycotted after a major New York area Applebee's franchise owner Zane Tankel threatened a hiring freeze and possible layoffs as a result of the president's healthcare plan.
The Twitter uproar is in response to a Fox News interview Thursday with Zane Tankel, chairman and CEO of Apple-Metro, which owns 40 New York-area Applebee's restaurants.
"We've calculated it will [cost] some millions of dollars across our system. So what does that say -- that says we won't build more restaurants. We won't hire more people," Tankel said.
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Applesbees announce hiring freeze and possible layoffs.......Mess with the free market and all kinds of unintended consequences ensue.