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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