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I can’t see the problem, if you want vegan go to a vegan restaurant. You wouldn’t go to vegan or vegetarian restaurant and complain there’s no steak.
Whats the problem. Just go elsewhere. Not like they are the only establishment in the area.
I understand the argument of just go somewhere else, but it’s not like vegans are that rare and only socialise with other vegans. I have some vegan friends, that restaurant would now be out as a place the whole group would go for dinner. That’s a loss, but I guess it’s their loss to make.
When I worked in a kitchen we just treated it like any other dietary restriction. If someone was gluten free, we had options, if they were allergic to something we didn’t use it, and if they were vegan we did our best to accommodate them.
> Ms Cooper, 60, said her growing irritation with the “militant minority” led to her decision not to provide a vegan option on the bistro menu.
> “It’s a small kitchen,” she said. “We produce tasty, home-cooked food. We don’t want to cook plant burgers, pulses and beans. It’s not our food.”
This is the crux of the matter, IMO. The owner fully admits that they are punishing people because of a minority — pretty nasty bigotry, that. They then imply that they think common staple foods like pulses and beans aren’t “tasty” or “home-cooked”. Sounds like some pretty deep-seated prejudices there.
I mean presumably they know what dishes sell best. If they’ve decided to cut the vegan dishes then obviously they weren’t popular. I doubt they’d have just decided to drop big sellers just because of a “militant minority”.
I’m confused. They weren’t catering for Vegans, which some people complained about….and so they have decided not to cater for Vegans?
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This article seems doesn’t seem to be pay walled, so no archive link
I can’t see the problem, if you want vegan go to a vegan restaurant. You wouldn’t go to vegan or vegetarian restaurant and complain there’s no steak.
Whats the problem. Just go elsewhere. Not like they are the only establishment in the area.
I understand the argument of just go somewhere else, but it’s not like vegans are that rare and only socialise with other vegans. I have some vegan friends, that restaurant would now be out as a place the whole group would go for dinner. That’s a loss, but I guess it’s their loss to make.
When I worked in a kitchen we just treated it like any other dietary restriction. If someone was gluten free, we had options, if they were allergic to something we didn’t use it, and if they were vegan we did our best to accommodate them.
> Ms Cooper, 60, said her growing irritation with the “militant minority” led to her decision not to provide a vegan option on the bistro menu.
> “It’s a small kitchen,” she said. “We produce tasty, home-cooked food. We don’t want to cook plant burgers, pulses and beans. It’s not our food.”
This is the crux of the matter, IMO. The owner fully admits that they are punishing people because of a minority — pretty nasty bigotry, that. They then imply that they think common staple foods like pulses and beans aren’t “tasty” or “home-cooked”. Sounds like some pretty deep-seated prejudices there.
I mean presumably they know what dishes sell best. If they’ve decided to cut the vegan dishes then obviously they weren’t popular. I doubt they’d have just decided to drop big sellers just because of a “militant minority”.
I’m confused. They weren’t catering for Vegans, which some people complained about….and so they have decided not to cater for Vegans?
What they are saying makes no sense.