Whole Foods’ Yellow Fever restaurant slammed as 'unappetizing and racist'

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/04/28/whole-foods-yellow-fever-restaurant-slammed-as-unappetizing-and-racist.html ^

[BenLurkin]

The grocery chain does not own the restaurant, which is operated by an independent franchise with two other locations in California, SF Gate reports.

... “Super cool that no one in your company, from concept to construction to this tweet, saw nothing wrong with this,” another detractor agreed.

“I love associating the word "fever" with my lunch. Give me the shrimp pneumonia with extra sriracha,” another quipped.

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“When we finally came up with the concept, all the names we thought of just plain sucked. Buzzwords like ‘traditional’, ‘bamboo’, ‘lotus’, and ‘golden’ weren’t memorable,” the restaurant's co-founder Kelly Kim told Next Shark in 2017. “One night, we just said ‘Yellow Fever!’ and it worked. It’s tongue-in-cheek, kind of shocking, and it’s not exclusive — you can fit all Asian cultures under one roof with a name like this.”

[PIF]

Ebola Plague has a more diverse, inclusive, non-racist ring to it.

[Lazamataz]

Effin Slope Zipperhead Chink Restaurant.

[conservative98]

Yellow Fever: A viral infection spread by a particular species of mosquito.

I know its hard to come up with a business name but what the hec!?

[Gay State Conservative]

Racist? Give me a motherbleepin’ break! Unwise to use the word “fever”? Yah,OK...I'll agree.

[Billthedrill]

... it’s not exclusive — you can fit all Asian cultures under one roof with a name like this.

Um...whoa. "I'll have the Dysentery Bowl, please!" Well, at at least it's inclusive.

[Gay State Conservative]

Slope Zipperhead Chink Restaurant.

Hey.c'mon....I'm offended (and I ain't easy to offend).

[PAR35]

Yellow Fever - slang for white guys going after Asian women.
Corollary to
Jungle Fever - white guys going after Black Women.

I always thought the terms were a bit racist - I thought that’s where the guy complaining was headed.

Then, of course, there is the term for Black guys who go after white women.

[snarkpup]

Instant Leprosy

[Mears]

Most stupid idea for a restaurant name———EVER !!!!!!!!!!

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[Gay State Conservative]

Ebola Plague has a more diverse, inclusive, non-racist ring to it.

Perhaps...given that the recent outbreaks seem to have occurred in Africa.I've made two trips to Africa in the last 3-4 years and both times I had to certify that I hadn't traveled to any affected areas.On one of the trips I had my temperature taken at the airport (Nairobi).

[dfwgator]

Then, of course, there is the term for Black guys who go after white women.

"I resemble that remark."

[Lazamataz]

Hey.c'mon....I'm offended (and I ain't easy to offend).

Snowflake buttercup wussyboy pajama-wearin' tea-sipper.

[dainbramaged]

There’s a place in Olympia called “Dirty Dave’s Pizza”. I’ve never met Dave nor do I plan to.

[Tax-chick]

*sigh*

Not “racist,” but unutterably stupid.

[Gay State Conservative]

Snowflake buttercup wussyboy pajama-wearin' tea-sipper.

I know you have a reputation for being "out there" but if you were trying to use sarcasm to respond to the story at least put a smiley face at the end.

[FatherofFive]

I sort of like humor and irony.

But I never shop at 'whole paycheck' - try Sprouts if you have one nearby

[null and void]

Perhaps he just has a different slant on it than you do?

[lee martell]

All the time and money that it took to produce and display this restaurant name, and nobody stopped to think maybe it’s not such a good idea? They had to have invested thousands of dollars to get it up there in lights. I’m surprised the local business bureau didn’t say something. Of course some people under 40 may have never been taught anything about the disease of Yellow Fever or the racist implications of that term to the average American adult.

[null and void]

"The chain's two locations in Torrance and Venice (not the one in Long Beach?) tout themselves on serving “Asian bowls for your soul,"

They could have called it "Bowl Movement"...