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Furious activists hound popular California vegan restaurant chain as owner announces closure of all locations after making shock change
DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 5 January 2025 | JOE HUTCHISON

Posted on 01/05/2025 5:09:38 AM PST by dennisw

'One year ago, we faced tremendous challenges and they made the difficult decision to sell their home in hopes of breathing new life into Sage.

'We all poured our passion into shifting the concept to regenerative agriculture, but despite our efforts, we find ourselves in the same predicament today.

'Sunday, January 5th will be our final day of service. We invite you to visit us during our last week. Please share your favorite memories with us; they mean the world.

'Thank you for 14 incredible years of support. With love from the Sage family, Mollie & Elias, we say goodbye.'

Outraged activists have taken aim at a famed vegan restaurant chain which has announced it will close all locations after adding meat to the menu one year ago.

Sage Regenerative Kitchen & Brewery boasts restaurants across California and was once a leader in the plant-based casual dining experience.

Originally known as Sage Vegan Bistro, chef and owner Mollie Engelhart then rebranded last year whilst outlining a change in operations.

Engelhart renamed the chain and added a range of animal products to the menu.

The decision to do so was widely criticized and met with protests from vegan activists who even formed an angry mob outside one of the restaurants.

An announcement earlier this week that the restaurants are set to close has come much to the delight of former clientele who continued to blast the move.

In a statement to Instagram, the company said: 'As we reflect on the journey that began back in 2011, we remember Mollie and Elias at the farmers market, gathering the freshest farm-to-table produce (long before they were a couple).

'Over the past 14 years, their unwavering commitment to quality food and supporting local farmers has been the heartbeat of our restaurant.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: california; restaurant; vegan
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To: dennisw

Outraged activists. Furious activists.

Is there any other kind? Why don’t the outraged and furious activists create and run their own restaurant? Why didn’t they buy Sage if they are so good at running a business?

In fact, they could have committed to running the restaurant for decades at a loss because of “justice.”


21 posted on 01/05/2025 5:26:18 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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To: TimSkalaBim

You forgot to add that other annoying term, “resilient.”


22 posted on 01/05/2025 5:27:28 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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To: dennisw

Yea, they closed down our restaurant. Now we can be even more unhappy, yea!


23 posted on 01/05/2025 5:28:20 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Gen.Blather

Sound like a description of a bicycle zealot, too.


24 posted on 01/05/2025 5:28:43 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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To: dennisw

Many will close after the minimum wage increase in that State to $20 per hour.

Businesses can’t afford to stay in business. Price goes up from farm to table and all the way to the customer.


25 posted on 01/05/2025 5:31:29 AM PST by dforest
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To: Gen.Blather

Yup—there is nothing more irritating than homo sapiens who insist on proclaiming their virtue.

They are dangerous to children and other living things.


26 posted on 01/05/2025 5:32:22 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: dennisw

I suspect that most of their customers became too sick (due to vitamin deficiencies) to continue to frequent the place.


27 posted on 01/05/2025 5:37:54 AM PST by BobL
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To: TimSkalaBim
I mean, after several millennia, hasn’t agriculture pretty much established that it is “regenerative” and “sustainable” (to use that other annoying term)??

It's been 7,000 years since the dawn of agriculture in Fayum, Egypt and the answer is no. We really are depleting our soils of minerals, worldwide. Humans really haven't made an industry of rebuilding soils in detail, although it is happening in bits and pieces within competitive limits, but there are constraining limits to how we are going about it. You should see the scale of phosphate mining in North Africa (yes, the source is infested with globalist -think, but I don't have time right now to find a better one for you).

When one considers a farming community as operating within a chemical control boundary looking only at inputs and outputs, unless those minerals stay there feeding only that local community (recycling everything in poop), OR unless those minerals are mined somewhere and imported to restore them to soils, pretending that we can "regenerate" soils within a particular site is plainly silly. This is to say nothing of microbial organic matter, which IS regenerable, particularly with the proper use of animals.

Eventually, the minerals wind up washed out to sea. Underwater mining isn't cheap and does have its drawbacks we'll need to figure out how to mitigate. That's just reality.

28 posted on 01/05/2025 5:38:48 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: V_TWIN

all I can figure is lack of good nutrition leads to a pronounced increase in stupidity.


29 posted on 01/05/2025 5:39:15 AM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )
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To: Gen.Blather

There’s a ‘joke’ that goes something like:

How do you know if the person you just met at the bar is a vegan? ANSWER: He’ll tell you within 5 minutes.


30 posted on 01/05/2025 5:39:53 AM PST by BobL
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To: Gen.Blather
But if you meet a vegan, you’ll likely know he’s a vegan with just five minutes exposure. Being vegan is an essential part of their identity. But it’s not an obvious part, like a beard or breasts, so they have to tell you, lest you should “identify” them as just some ordinary person. They’re special and they want you to know about it. Kind of like the early adopters of the electric car. THEY were saving the planet.

Sometimes it's just a FYI in case you two become friends and go out to eat somewhere. My ex is one of them. He's a gun-owning truck-driving Trump supporter but he wants some tasty vegan options when going out to eat. Sometimes it's simply that.

31 posted on 01/05/2025 5:43:18 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: ncalburt
“ Vote socialism and you get poverty .“

Now that is a bumper sticker.

32 posted on 01/05/2025 5:45:27 AM PST by Jumpmaster (U.S. Army Paratrooper. I am the 0.001%.)
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To: Gen.Blather
I just tell them that they are what they eat, a vegetable.
33 posted on 01/05/2025 5:49:54 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Qwapisking

Ever seen a healthy looking non meat eater?......me either.

God didn’t give us canine teeth and put us at the top of the food chain to just eat root vegetables.

After all, people ate meat all through the Bible and I suspect those folks aren’t really familiar with that book.


34 posted on 01/05/2025 5:54:29 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: dennisw

nothing to do with$20 min wage?


35 posted on 01/05/2025 5:54:56 AM PST by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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To: jimfree

It is impossible to run a small business in Commiefornia.


36 posted on 01/05/2025 5:55:43 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Gen.Blather

I have found that Vegans mirror gays in this. Always feel the need to tell people that their proclivities define them. False pride or secret desire for acceptance? I suppose it doesn’t really matter, it’s just annoying, to me.


37 posted on 01/05/2025 5:56:50 AM PST by Kudsman (Hey,, Democrat,,leave them kids alone!)
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To: TimSkalaBim

With the left word defns are never really certain but I think ‘sustainable’ means organic in a broad sense….no fossil fuels or other additives based on them.


38 posted on 01/05/2025 6:02:35 AM PST by 556x45
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To: Jumpmaster

lol


39 posted on 01/05/2025 6:03:01 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: Mashood

I don’t suppose they all went to McDonalds to celebrate another small business closing…


40 posted on 01/05/2025 6:03:51 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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