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There’s a reason restaurants everywhere are failing: Red Hen Syndrome
The Spectator ^ | 07/22/2018 | Rod Liddle

Posted on 07/22/2018 6:15:31 PM PDT by MaxistheBest

It may be that we’ve had all we can take, especially when these outlets are suffused with such self-importance. --------------------------------------------------------

The Red Hen is where the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, took her family for a bite to eat, and from which she was evicted when the homosexual staff recognised who she was. Her rude defenestration was supported by the restaurant’s owner, citing Donald Trump’s reluctance to allow transgender people to serve in the US military. It is, clearly, a liberals-only restaurant. They should write that on the front door, so that everything is clear, but as a sop maybe have a water fountain out front labelled ‘for conservatives’.

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But support for the horrible Red Hen was outweighed by about five to one by enraged conservatives, one of whom advised immigrants that the restaurant was offering free meals to illegal aliens and all they had to do was ring the number, which they quoted in full. My favourite, though, came from a local bloke who said that people in the area were disgusted with the Red Hen and that the owner was ‘a New York transplant’ and related to Meryl Streep. Enough said!

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Cooking is not terribly difficult. Nor is it an art. It is at best what Orwell referred to as a ‘half art’, like photography. We have undoubtedly benefited from the increased prestige conferred upon people who can put stuff in a frying pan and stir it quite adeptly, these past 40 years. But latterly it has also bred within the restaurateurs a distance from and even a contempt towards the people they are serving. So that they are now agreed that the feedback they receive from their customers is utterly worthless: they know what they are doing and nobody can tell them otherwise.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bloggers; business; failing; redhen; restaurants; trump
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To: Fungi

Great vocabulary and its use is a lost art.

It is yet another metric denoting the increasing crudity and dullardry of our culture.


141 posted on 07/23/2018 7:14:59 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Get off my lawn and GTFO of my country.)
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To: rightwingcrazy
I've laughed about the original Windows logo for decades because it looks like a shattered window flying through the air. Apropos, I suppose. Windows is broken frequently. Microsoft have never been marketing geniuses.

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142 posted on 07/23/2018 7:19:59 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: IamConservative
Stop, stop. You had me at

"...spray painting the inside of an airplane with explosive diarrhea ...".

143 posted on 07/23/2018 7:31:19 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Get off my lawn and GTFO of my country.)
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To: RightGeek

Everything is a lie, it’s really amazing.


144 posted on 07/23/2018 7:51:32 AM PDT by Cowgirl
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To: rightwingcrazy
Defenestration - Ridding yourself of Microsoft products.

I like your definition.

145 posted on 07/23/2018 9:46:14 AM PDT by ELS
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To: Getready

I should have made it clear, we are retired, and have lots of spare time. Actually we will linger over coffee and conversation after eating the food in restaurants.

OTOH if one works 40+ hours with a long commute as I had during my job in Chicago for 25 years, it was 1 hour drive each way, time is limited! We seldom went to restaurants on week days.

This another reason why I love cruises of 7+ days. No need to drive, no need to park, no need to cook, no need to clean, order any food on the menu without a bill because all you can eat is included in the cruise ticket.


146 posted on 07/23/2018 11:36:58 AM PDT by entropy12 (1 Mil Daca is the shining object to hide 30 mil low quality LEGAL immigrants in last 25 years)
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To: MaxistheBest

I’m visualizing Sarah Sanders, ass-over-tea kettle, somersaulting from a second-story window. Really, she was defenestrated? Someone wasn’t paying attention in Latin class.


147 posted on 07/23/2018 11:43:00 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: yarddog

Me, too, also...

38 years a firefighter doing routine annual fire inspections to businesses including local eateries...IMHO the public would be appalled by the filthy conditions in the kitchens/food prep areas, and the slovenly personal appearance and apparent (lack of) personal hygiene of the help in too many of the chic high end establishments...

I found in general the Mom and Pop places had the cleanest kitchens, the best food and the reasonable prices...But gradually lost my enthusiasm for dining out...I got exposed to more than enough just doing my job without paying for the exposure...


148 posted on 07/23/2018 11:59:24 AM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: Hugin

Yup, but the one where the DIL gloats to his face about who really sired the heir to his Kingdom as he lay virtually paralyzed was pretty good too.


149 posted on 07/23/2018 5:52:51 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: Bonemaker

In certain places in Washington State, The outdoor eats are an tempting place to take a few tokes of weed as an appetizer. I smell it all the time. However such an offense in public can have the law cite you with a class 3 civil infraction. The penalty would be $50 plus court costs. Usually it requires the restaurant to call the police. If it was a place like the Red Hen, there would be no action. The restaurant staff would be getting high on their breaks and customers would be smelling it. In that liberal state, the smell of weed would be the smell of progress.

As for cigarette smoking out on the deck, I would suppose it would be permitted as long as it is done 20 feet from the nearest door. At the Red Hen, I suppose no one would notice the smell of tobacco smoke because their stoned cooks would be broiling their steaks to a crisp and the smoke would mask the scent of the tobacco. LOL!

This Lefty state is getting big money from the pot tax which is 37% on the sales price. A pack of cigarettes costs $8.00 a pack with $3.00 for taxes—37.5. A pack-a day-habit would cost you $56/week. That’s money up in smoke.


150 posted on 07/23/2018 7:52:44 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: jonrick46

” A pack of cigarettes costs $8.00 a pack with $3.00 for taxes—37.5.”

That’s confiscatory and evil.. We fought a war for a helluva lot less than that.


151 posted on 07/23/2018 8:59:42 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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