Arizona restaurant forced to close its doors permanently after pro-Annoying Orange FB post

[Tactical Nuke]

http://www.abc15.com/news/national/cup-it-up-restaurant-closed-indefinitely-after-political-fb-post-backfires

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/10/14/arizona-restaurant-closes-following-backlash-from-its-pro-Annoying Orange-facebook-post.html

http://tucson.com/lifestyles/food-and-cooking/tucson-s-cup-it-up-closes-after-weekend-of-backlash/article_e23aaa8c-2250-577c-adcd-488b6749fe6b.html

An Arizona restaurant was forced to close its doors indefinitely this week after a politically charged Facebook post the eatery’s owners wrote prompted mass criticism from social media users.

Christopher Smith and Jay Warren, the owners of Cup it Up American Grill in Tucson, posted a statement on the restaurant’s social media page last week with a list of things the two support and resent, including the president kneeling for the anthem and late night hosts, Vice News reported.

The post stated: "We believe in and support 100% in the following: OUR President, Always Standing for the National Anthem, repealing Obama Care…”
 
The post also listed, God, the Bill of Rights, drug screening for welfare recipients and the U.S. Armed Forces among others they praised.

Their list of things they don’t believe in or support included: “Those that DON’T respect our President, Armed Forces and First Responders, kneeling for the national anthem, Antifa, fake news, global warming and late night hosts getting political…”

The post concluded with: “If you like this post, please share it with 5 friends and we look forward to your next visit! If you disagree with this post, please share it with 100 friends and we won’t be expecting you anytime soon!”

The restaurant’s post also mentioned the eatery would not broadcast NFL games until “the organization got it together.”

The post, which went viral, was met with widespread backlash and criticism, forcing the restaurant to delete it and all its social media accounts.

The restaurant received “so many angry phone calls” that several employees chose to quit, reports say.

"People threatened to burn down the restaurant with the owners in it. It's a crazy world we're in," Ron Sanchez, whose daughter worked at the eatery, told ABC15.

The restaurant apologized for the post but social media users flooded the eatery’s Yelp page with negative reviews.

Last Monday, the restaurant posted a statement on its door, announcing it would be closing indefinitely.

 “We have made a decision to close our doors indefinitely as of today, Monday, October 9, 2017. The safety of our employees, and our families is of great concern and is our #1 priority at this time,” the statement said. “We would also like to extend a special thanks to our Military and First responders. Thank you all and God Bless."

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forgetin' /discuss

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[Insert Name Here²]

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[Tactical Nuke]

ah yes, the free market™ at work

if you consider death threats freedom of speech then yes

[IkeTheGeneric]

So lemme get this straight, the restaurant purposely posted something divisive on the internet, and then is surprised that the post invited controversy to their doorstep?

Nothing that happened here isn't without previous precedent, what did they think was going to happen, a bunch of yes-men customers show up to pat them on the back?

Even in an inverse scenario of a restaurant posting an anti-Annoying Orange rant on facebook and then telling customers who voted republican to forget off indefinitely, it'd probably invoke the same reaction. Why does everyone suddenly pretend they have some god given stake in the political scene?

[DrenDran]

So lemme get this straight, the restaurant purposely posted something divisive on the internet, and then is surprised that the post invited controversy to their doorstep?

Nothing that happened here isn't without previous precedent, what did they think was going to happen, a bunch of yes-men customers show up to pat them on the back?

Even in an inverse scenario of a restaurant posting an anti-Annoying Orange rant on facebook and then telling customers who voted republican to forget off indefinitely, it'd probably invoke the same reaction. Why does everyone suddenly pretend they have some god given stake in the political scene?

I mean threatening to burn a place down is wrong.
And lying on a review site is also pretty wrong.
Both of these things are certainly worse than making a facebook post, which is not wrong.

[IkeTheGeneric]

I mean threatening to burn a place down is wrong.
And lying on a review site is also pretty wrong.
Both of these things are certainly worse than making a facebook post, which is not wrong.

Threats of arson and lying in reviews because of your political slant are irredeemable, but both are in reaction to the post. It's not like this reaction came from the left field, or is the first case of this ever happening.

I don't have sympathy for people who poke a bees nest expecting a negative response and then double down on victimhood when the reaction went too hard for them. Everyone loving knows the political climate in north america right now is extremely volatile, the hell did they expect to happen?

[DrenDran]

Threats of arson and lying in reviews because of your political slant are irredeemable, but both are in reaction to the post. It's not like this reaction came from the left field, or is the first case of this ever happening.

I don't have sympathy for people who poke a bees nest expecting a negative response and then double down on victimhood when the reaction went too hard for them. Everyone loving knows the political climate in north america right now is extremely volatile, the hell did they expect to happen?

I mean I can't exactly say them doing it was a smart move, but it's probably worth noting plenty of companies have vaguely liberal positions and conservatives don't do this stuff to them on nearly the same scale.

[Deus Ex]

Threats of arson and lying in reviews because of your political slant are irredeemable, but both are in reaction to the post. It's not like this reaction came from the left field, or is the first case of this ever happening.

"Charlie Hebdo really shouldn't have put those cartoons out if they didn't want to get gunned the forget down by muzzies"

[IkeTheGeneric]

"Charlie Hebdo really shouldn't have put those cartoons out if they didn't want to get gunned the forget down by muzzies"

So what, do you propose we as a society forget that responsibility for what you publicly state is a lost cause now, and how we conduct ourselves shall never be scrutinized, lest it be a slippery slope to this horsestuff?

Look really loving carefully at my post. This isn't an unprecedented event. We both know this happens every now and then, forget, it even happened to a pizza place in my home town, with the owners being family friends. Fact of the matter is that that rant posted on facebook was clearly inviting outrage and controversy, they just didn't expect it to be this inflammatory.

[Darryl McKoy]

They don't deserve death threats but how stupid do you have to be as a business owner to do something like that lol

[Blockomaniac]

they were probably hoping it would give them publicity, good and bad

[IkeTheGeneric]

Controversy sells, after all!

The real outrage is the fact that people are sending death threats yeah, best outcome is arrests for whatever party is doing that. Can't have a good ol' controversy these days without some unhinged nitwit phoning in to get his rocks off by threatening the owners who pretty obviously didn't mean much by their post beyond what's obviously there.

[Blockomaniac]

Controversy sells, after all!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"no such thing as bad publicity" i guess

[Vigil]

They don't deserve death threats but how stupid do you have to be as a business owner to do something like that lol

Basically. The people who actually ended up forcing the restaurant to close are pieces of stuff. But you'd think its simple practice to keep your politics out of your business (unless your business is politics). If he wanted to say this stuff, maybe shoulda kept it to his personal Facebook and not the loving business page.

I mean threatening to burn a place down is wrong.
And lying on a review site is also pretty wrong.