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California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« on: January 31, 2019, 11:11:17 pm »
California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
by Naomi Lim
 | January 31, 2019 05:53 PM



A California restaurateur will refuse service to any prospective patron donning a red "Make America Great Again" hat, according to reports.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, the award-winning chef, cookbook author, and owner of a couple of restaurants south of San Francisco, claimed on social media over the weekend that the hats sold by President Trump's campaign were linked with racial animus.

“It hasn’t happened yet, but if you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served, same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate,” Lopez-Alt wrote in a now-deleted string of Twitter posts, multiple outlets reported. “MAGA hats are like white hoods except stupider because you can see exactly who is wearing them."

Lopez-Alt declined to comment to the San Francisco Chronicle late Wednesday, citing safety concerns, but did acknowledge his businesses had been sent threatening emails over his tweets.

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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2019, 11:36:26 pm »
Well, how about I come in with another guy in a MAGA hat and claim he's my gay partner?
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2019, 08:11:51 am »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on January 31, 2019, 11:36:26 pm
Well, how about I come in with another guy in a MAGA hat and claim he's my gay partner?

I guess he will have to bake you a cake... :shrug:
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2019, 08:44:22 am »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on January 31, 2019, 11:36:26 pm
Well, how about I come in with another guy in a MAGA hat and claim he's my gay partner?
Bring all your friends. He might not serve any of you, but that won't keep the lights on or the ovens hot, either.
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2019, 12:21:30 pm »
If this was a case of a restaurant owner saying that he wouldn't let in anybody wearing a female-genitalia hat, you can be rest assured about one thousand leftist lunatics would show up wearing those hats demanding service.
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2019, 01:38:23 pm »
Must resist urge to buy MAGA hat...

Heck with it; I think I'll see if I can get one and shirt the Battle Flag of Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia on it.

You didn't see conservatives pulling this kind of crud. 
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2019, 01:42:51 pm »
Yawn. Here is another guy no one ever heard of in an ultra Lib town, San Mateo, where no one even owns a MAGA hat stirring up shit to raise their profile.
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2019, 01:44:28 pm »
Quote from: Amb. Frank Cannon on February 01, 2019, 01:42:51 pm
Yawn. Here is another guy no one ever heard of in an ultra Lib town, San Mateo, where no one even owns a MAGA hat stirring up shit to raise their profile.

Yup.  Virtue signaling to help sell whatever hash he's slinging.   
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2019, 01:46:34 pm »
I thought the ADA made it illegal to discriminate against the disabled.

(It is a joke; lighten up Francis)
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2019, 01:50:34 pm »
Quote from: ABX on February 01, 2019, 01:46:34 pm
I thought the ADA made it illegal to discriminate against the disabled.

(It is a joke; lighten up Francis)

Yeah. Maybe you can drop a few Negro Jokes too for Black History Month since they are only jokes.
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2019, 02:03:34 pm »
Quote from: Amb. Frank Cannon on February 01, 2019, 01:50:34 pm
Yeah. Maybe you can drop a few Negro Jokes too for Black History Month since they are only jokes.

Awwww... Somebody got triggered.
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2019, 02:03:38 pm »
"Bake the Damn Cake!"
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2019, 02:07:49 pm »
Quote from: ABX on February 01, 2019, 02:03:34 pm
Awwww... Somebody got triggered.

Yes and someone exposed themselves as a Commie troll.....which isn't a surprise to anyone.
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2019, 02:14:59 pm »
Quote from: Amb. Frank Cannon on February 01, 2019, 02:07:49 pm
Yes and someone exposed themselves as a Commie troll.....which isn't a surprise to anyone.

Lol. Commie troll for making a joke. Allrighty then. And yet you are the one getting triggered by a joke (even tagged as a joke) the same way a blue haired feminist screams about a joke that offends her.

At least the blue hair was born with a ... Oh never mind...  Too easy...
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2019, 02:18:23 pm »
I wonder if he'd change his mind if 250 people showed up in MAGA caps or shirts.....
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2019, 02:28:43 pm »
Tolerance of the left on display.
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2019, 03:13:48 pm »
Celebrity chef-owned restaurants probably cater to only a certain well-off crowd which likely would be dressed in suits and ties or dresses, or maybe even more formal attire.  A MAGA hat with those clothes would be a fashion faux pas and highly unlikely. 

Nevertheless, I would apply the same principles I would to  a Christian baker.  It is the guy's business and he has the right to exclude as customers whoever he wants.  If he excludes you, go elsewhere.  And if his business suffers as a result of this exclusion, well, it's his problem, not yours.
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #17 on: February 01, 2019, 03:30:15 pm »
I'm fine with this.  If he doesn't want my business and announces so, I can chose to patronize his establishment or not. 
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #18 on: February 01, 2019, 03:31:45 pm »
Quote from: ABX on February 01, 2019, 02:14:59 pm
Lol. Commie troll for making a joke. Allrighty then. And yet you are the one getting triggered by a joke (even tagged as a joke) the same way a blue haired feminist screams about a joke that offends her.

At least the blue hair was born with a ... Oh never mind...  Too easy...
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #19 on: February 01, 2019, 03:45:33 pm »
Quote from: Texas Yellow Rose on February 01, 2019, 02:18:23 pm
I wonder if he'd change his mind if 250 people showed up in MAGA caps or shirts.....
Probably get cottonmouth from spitting in the food, though...
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #20 on: February 01, 2019, 03:58:19 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on February 01, 2019, 03:30:15 pm
I'm fine with this.  If he doesn't want my business and announces so, I can chose to patronize his establishment or not.

Just don't go where your business isn't wanted? What a novel reaction.

This is 2019. You're supposed to march into his establishment, sit in the middle of the dining area & hold your breath till you pass out.
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #21 on: February 01, 2019, 03:58:53 pm »
Quote from: Applewood on February 01, 2019, 03:13:48 pm
Celebrity chef-owned restaurants probably cater to only a certain well-off crowd which likely would be dressed in suits and ties or dresses, or maybe even more formal attire.  A MAGA hat with those clothes would be a fashion faux pas and highly unlikely. 

Nevertheless, I would apply the same principles I would to  a Christian baker.  It is the guy's business and he has the right to exclude as customers whoever he wants.  If he excludes you, go elsewhere.  And if his business suffers as a result of this exclusion, well, it's his problem, not yours.

We don't do formal dinners at my house, but I am old-fashioned enough to insist that my boys take their hats off before they come to the table.  It's just good manners.
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #23 on: February 01, 2019, 04:14:19 pm »
Quote from: XenaLee on February 01, 2019, 04:11:23 pm
Chef's statement attempting to walk it back....

https://medium.com/@KenjiLopezAlt/i-want-to-start-by-apologizing-to-my-staff-and-partners-at-wursthall-6e658fb4acca

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Wursthall will continue, as it always has, to serve all customer regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual preference, gender orientation, disability, or political opinion — so long as they leave hate, anger, and violence outside of the doors of our restaurant.

Sounds to me like all the anger and hate is coming from inside your doors, sir.

What a bleep.
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Re: California chef: 'If you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served'
« Reply #24 on: February 01, 2019, 04:17:17 pm »
Quote from: XenaLee on February 01, 2019, 04:11:23 pm
Chef's statement attempting to walk it back....

https://medium.com/@KenjiLopezAlt/i-want-to-start-by-apologizing-to-my-staff-and-partners-at-wursthall-6e658fb4acca

At least this guy is intelligent enough to recognize his own hypocrisy. Unusual these days.
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