D.C. restaurant hires guards after anti-Kavanaugh crowd harasses Ted Cruz and wife

dallasnews.com ^ | Matthew Adams

[RoosterRedux]

The upscale Italian restaurant Fiola will hire security guards after protesters confronted Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife while dining at the restaurant last week.

“We are now living in the aftermath of this PR disaster," the owner said in an email to customers.

Last Monday, the senator and Heidi Cruz were chased out by about a dozen protesters regarding Ted Cruz's support of embattled Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

In the email sent last weekend, owner and chef Fabio Trabocchi said the restaurant had to temporarily take down social media accounts because of hateful comments, and reservation lines were inundated with callers taunting staff and threatening to destroy the restaurant. The email said Trabocchi and his wife, Maria Font Trabocchi, have personally received death threats.

“We would have never thought such a thing was possible in the restaurant business,” the email said.

In addition to extra security, staff will be retrained to avoid similar instances and encouraged customers to keep coming to Fiola’s because it “will emerge from this challenge quickly.”

[SkyPilot]

In the email sent last weekend, owner and chef Fabio Trabocchi said the restaurant had to temporarily take down social media accounts because of hateful comments, and reservation lines were inundated with callers taunting staff and threatening to destroy the restaurant. The email said Trabocchi and his wife, Maria Font Trabocchi, have personally received death threats.

Fabio - time to call in some "friends of ours." You know what I mean?

[Paladin2]

So, did any of the staff alert the Commie-fa’s to show up?

[Paladin2]

"Members of the group told The Washington Post that they had been tipped off to the Cruzes’ reservation that evening and sat at Fiola’s bar for more than an hour awaiting his arrival."

Whu B dat?

[dp0622]

American of Italian descent here.

If I wasn’t all the way in NYC I’d stand out front with a ####ing baseball bat and beg these mother ####ers to chase me.

Cause two of them would die before they got me.

That’s one less Conservative vote but TWO less piece of sh.t votes.

But that’s just me.

Thought the temper would mellow at 50. Hasn’t yet.

[dp0622]

This POS Delbasio here was talking about taking down the Columbus statue

He got a LOT of emails from Americans of Italian descent telling him that would be a BAD idea.

Funny how that whole uproar went away.

[RoosterRedux]

It could have been anyone in the restaurant who saw Cruz and Heidi sitting at the bar. It seems the Left is well organized in its effort to make trouble for conservatives. There might be a well-known hot line for such spottings.

Someone sees a well-known conservative and makes a phone call.

Done deal.

Just like when Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens were seen having breakfast at a bagel shop. Well organized trouble makers appeared in just a matter of minutes.

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“We would have never thought such a thing was possible in the restaurant business,” the email said.

Welcome to the New Democratic Party. It’s not your father’s.

[RoosterRedux]

Sheesh. I am still on first cup of joe. As you pointed out, trouble makers had advance notice.

You're right, it might have come from someone inside the restaurant that had access to the reservation log.

[dinodino]

No. The article says that the protestors waited an hour at the bar for the Cruzes to arrive at the restaurant.

[OrangeHoof]

If I’m a truly upscale restaurant, I’d have a website but nothing on “social media”. Why should I? I’m upscale. I’m exclusive. I shouldn’t be a place for those grimy hoi poli that spend all dinner smearing the glass on their phones. I wouldn’t even have wi-fi. My meals would be an experience unto themselves. My customers would not want to sully their dining pleasure with texters and twits.

[SkyPilot]

Hey buddy! Hope you didn’t think I was disparaging Italians. I wasn’t, and I am not serious about calling in...you know. But I’ll say this - I remember the Italian neighborhoods where I grew up. If people committed crimes against widows in the neighborhood, well, they knew how to deal with things.

[RoosterRedux]

See post #9.

[Alberta's Child]

We do things a little differently here in New Jersey. No need to be so blatant about it. We just take notice, and we take names.

"A friend is someone who will help you move. A TRUE friend is someone who will help you move a body."

[Paladin2]

Well, Good Early Morning! [I’m staying up late and hope to yet get 1 or 2 REM sleep cycles before I kick off the day’s activities...]

There is is much missing info re this “intervention”.

[Paladin2]

Does DeCommieo know who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?

[jiggyboy]

It’s a new tax, really.

[dp0622]

Disparaging? What is this, Kos?

We don’t give a #### about non PC stuff here :)

I have deceased uncles who had illustrious careers in the mafia (which of course doesn’t exist!)

All the other Italian men in my family got civilized and moved to South Jersey.

I forget to get civilized and still live on Staten Island

[dp0622]

I’ve always been too blatant and hair trigger.

A bad thing :(

#### it.

I guess we’re born one way or another :)

[Truth29]

The Left wants to turn the US into a Latin American banana republic. One of the characteristics of such countries is a high level of violence and death squads. As a step short of this outcome, maybe the organizers and leaders of these antifa type groups need to be tracked down and harassed, themselves.