Battling rights
Pushing a viewpoint also brought consequences for a customer of the Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in Minneapolis. A male patron who identified himself as Eric criticized the place in a post on Google. The sum total of his assessment: “Too many gay people.”
The restaurant responded immediately with a post on Facebook: “We ask that you not return to Hell’s Kitchen again.” It went on to say that the restaurant wants to function as a home for everyone, but couldn’t brook his intolerance.
“While you’re certainly free to post any comment you want about us, we’re equally free to say you cannot enter our home again.”
But the matter didn’t end there.
Eric and his family told the media that the anti-gay post had been taken down. That prompted Hell’s Kitchen to update its Facebook post, inviting the young man and his family to stop at the restaurant and learn why management and staff were so incensed by his original post.
At post time, there were no indications of Eric accepting or declining the offer.