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What would make you stop going to your favorite restaurant?

What would make you stop going to your favorite restaurant?

  • A transgender person advertises your favorite restaurant

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • They go "woke" on you, trying to make it more friendly to minorities and LGBTQI individuals

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • They change their company logo to something generic

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • Bad food, bad service. The quality of the restaurant degenerates.

    Votes: 54 96.4%

  • You find out that the owner of the restaurant doesn't share your political, moral, or cultural views

    Votes: 2 3.6%

  • A politician you dislike politically highly praises your restaurant.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • A politician / celebrity / influencer you dislike advertises for your restaurant.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • The Media tells you that your favorite restaurant is woke / MAGA / DEI / LGBTQI / Neo-Nazi friendly

    Votes: 2 3.6%

  • Your friends / family / life partner decide to they want to go someplace else

    Votes: 11 19.6%

  • Other - please explain

    Votes: 7 12.5%
  • Total voters
    56

BrotherFease

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This post is inspired by the recent controversy over Cracker Barrel removing the barrel and a staring, cross-legged man in overalls from its logo.

Lets say Cracker Barrel is your favorite restaurant of all-time. You go there every Thursday night with your parents or grandparents. Would any sane, reasonable person stop going there, just because the logo decided to become more generic? Don't you go there for the food and service?

In this scenario, it doesn't have to be Cracker Barrel, but your favorite restaurant or at least the one you go to regularly -- at least once a month or so. What would change your mind about the place?
 
There you have it. Sane, reasonable person which does not fit the average trump supporter. Remember the stink over stem cell research?
 
I hate chains
We love mom & pop places...

1. It puts money back into the local economy
2. There is none of this bullshit....it is hard working people trying to earn a living in one of, if not the most difficult businesses out there, so they do everything they can to make your visit as good as they can make it
3. Love seeing the same faces and people every time we go....same staff, same management....which tells you they take care of their people, and their people like working there
 
My favorite places tend to be small businesses. When it comes to restaurants, the quality of the food and atmosphere is what I find most appealing and what will make/break a place.

Chain restaurants are a dime a dozen and don’t tend to impress me at all.

They’re somewhere to eat when there aren’t better options available
 
No disagreement there. My favorite restaurant is a local Thai food place. I mean, when you go on vacation to a new location, you don't go to chain restaurants.

But your point seems correct: You go there to support the local economy, the service, and the food. The politics of the joint doesn't really matter.
 

I voted bad food but if I found out the owner was MAGA Id be gone.

We can't support these guys. Period.

I have been refusing to do business with Red Hat scum for years.
 
BrotherFease said:
My favorite restaurant is a local Thai food place. I mean, when you go on vacation to a new location, you don't go to chain restaurants
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I have not been to a chain in decades.

As a New Yorker you pretty much never go to a chain.
 
I DO understand why the choices were listed the way they were. Since we can view who voted which way, those who would have voted for some of the options (such as #1) won't now to avoid looking childish and bigoted.
If the poll was posted WITHOUT the ability to see who voted for which option, many more of the options offered (such as #2) would receive votes, though it wouldn't be hard to guess which demographic would have voted for those options.

Let me be clear, I have NEVER avoided or honored a restaurant depending on the political leaning, the sexual orientation of the staff or the color of the staff, or which one served which politician. Good food is good food. Bad food is bad food.

THE ONLY EXCEPTION I would make is if an establishment deliberately went out of its way to make others feel unwelcome. And that applies to both sides.
If you have to pass a smell test to get into a restaurant, forgettaboutit. Adversely if a restaurant goes out of its way to advertise it's politics, say "MAGA faithful welcome here" or "We serve people of color only", they would never get my business.

Those who have prejudices towards what they consider woke, or the orientation of the staff won't expose themselves by voting for those options because we can see how they voted. An anonymous poll might have been more revealing.
 
I don't eat out much, but when I do it's a local diner for the same reasons.

In fact, during covid they were desperately trying to avoid going under with all the restrictions. They were allowed by Colorado health officials to take phone orders and customers had to come and pick up the food. They couldn't leave their cars. The staff had to bring the food out to them. I made it a point to order once a week just to help them stay in business.
 
If the restaurant went obnoxiously far right and the CEO started getting high and bouncing around onstage with Trump, I'd probably find another place to eat.



"People can get a cheeseburger anywhere."
 
bongsaway said:
There you have it. Sane, reasonable person which does not fit the average trump supporter. Remember the stink over stem cell research?
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Definitely. Pretty much every single popular restaurant chain has updated their logo within the last 10-20 years. CB updating somehow, someway made MAGA mad. My only explanation is that MAGA media wanted to throw in more distractions, and decided to pick CB's logo.
 
I traveled cross country many times by car, so I was forced to stop at chain restaurants. But home in NJ, no, never. We have Italians, for Italian food and pizza. We have gourmet Chinese and Japanese. We have people from Mexico and all over South America making authentic cuisine. We're by an ocean so we have great seafood. Chain restaurants? Why? No way.
 
I wouldn't go to Cracker-barrel for the same reason I voted. The food quality wasn't very good when I visited while traveling in the past. I can't imagine it's improved much. It was a cute place though but not enough to make me want to eat there again.
 
I don't do chain restaurants, so unless an unpopular celebrity were to visit a small locally owned place there would be no reason to boycott. Can't imagine that happening. Current most unpopular celebrity only eats food from his own kitchens or McDonalds, so no worries.
 
When else would you have visited? What was wrong with the food?
 
I used to go regularly to a family restaurant near Poole in Dorset. The local paper ran a big splash about Telly Savalas visiting , who was popular at the time (he was some kind of distant relative) He was never around when we were there, but I don't think it made a noticeable difference to their trade either way.
 
I think I've only allowed politics to affect my food purchases one time. For a time, I was pissed off at Papa John's and Whole Foods for their outspoken opposition to Obamacare, and I stopped going to both for a while.

In the time since, I've tried Papa John's maybe once and determined that I like other pizza chains' pizza better than theirs. When I was living out in California, they had Round Table, which I thought was pretty good and better than PJ's. When I was in the Pittsburgh area, they had local places that I'd occasionally order from, and it's the same here in the DC area.

I've gradually returned to Whole Foods, but my preference is Trader Joe's. Better price point. Happier, more professional staff. Their stores are laid out better, IMO. But I will still go to WF for the occasional odd item I can't find at my local ethnic grocery store or TJ's.
 
reflechissez said:
When else would you have visited?
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I'm not sure I understand your question. I answered the poll question, and looks like others voted the same way. Did you vote? Have you ever visited one? I visited once while traveling. There are no Cracker Barrel restaurants in my neighborhood or for that matter in my state. Are they in your state?
reflechissez said:
What was wrong with the food?
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It wasn't anything special. Did you like it? Why do you ask? I know you don't care what I think.
 
The only thing that would influence me is price, service and quality of the food.
 
noonereal said:
Then you are a MAGA enabler.
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Sure I am, in Canada, where I live even. Sure sure

Besides, unless advertised as such, how would I know a restaurant is a MAGA restaurant? I already stated..........
SNOWFLAKE said:
If you have to pass a smell test to get into a restaurant, forgettaboutit. Adversely if a restaurant goes out of its way to advertise it's politics, say "MAGA faithful welcome here"
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Maybe in your haste to yell at me you missed my entire comment and just focused on the parts that ruffled your feathers.
 
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