On Tuesday October 21, Mayor Jerry Abramson helped John and Annette Schnatter cut the ribbon of a new business venture at 4000 Dutchmans Lane. Among other dignataries present was Mark Bates, the founder of Calistoga Artisan Sandwiches, who has partnered with the Schnatters to open two upscale sandwich shops in the Derby City  The second [...]

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Culinary entrepreneurs John Schnatter and Mark Bates have signed a lease to open a Calistoga Artisan Sandwiches restaurant this fall in UofL’s Health Care Outpatient Center at 401 East Chestnut Street. “We’re thrilled to have a Louisville-based business in our signature building,” said Larry N. Cook, UofL’s Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, who sees [...]

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Hitch the Wagon: John Schnatter’s Calistoga Bakery Cafe will open its first Louisville location this year in Dupont Circle.  The building it’s remodeling has hosted several restaurant concepts, beginning with Bennigan’s and most recently a Chinese buffet restaurant. I seem to remember a Mexican stage, too. We’re hopful for Schnatter’s enterprise, which has been compared [...]

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Despite truly staggering flour prices and a swelling number of fast-casual sandwich-centered concepts opening in the U.S., it appears there’s room for more. Last week’s opening of Bountiful Bread (in Westport Village) and the future opening of Calistoga Bakery Café (first in Lexington and later in Louisville) signal well-heeled investors’ belief that companies like Panera [...]

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Despite John Schnatter’s crazy talk yesterday about eschewing the very technologies that helped make Papa John’s Pizza what it is today, he made a lot of sense when WDRB reporter Elizabeth Woolsey got him talking about restaurant plans for the heart of Anchorage, that lovely and currently sleepy suburb of Louisville. Schnatter, Papa John’s board [...]

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Oh yes he did, and in more ways than one. Countless foreheads surely were slapped at Papa John’s headquarters when Fox-41’s report on founder John Schnatter ran yesterday and today. Why? Because Schnatter, also the chain’s board chairman, declared he uses no technology in his office such as computers or the Internet. Said he’s never [...]

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John and Annette Schnatter just donated a million bucks to the Glacier Run project at the Louisville Zoo. Nice going, really. The couple’s Papa John’s Pizza fortune is being well spent around town and locals have a lot to be thankful for—especially ungrateful U of L football fans. With the gift, however, comes a favor, [...]

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John Schnatter may have turned over the reins to Papa John’s two years ago to Nigel Travis, but anyone who knows the Jeffersonville native knew it wouldn’t be long before he’d be involved in another restaurant concept. Several months ago, Schnatter bought a minority slice of Calistoga Bakery Café, a fast-casual concept based in Naples, [...]

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