Another diner chimed in about her experience.
https://twitter.com/rachelmillman/status/883020871220301824 
Posted on 07/07/2017 1:18:18 PM PDT by TigerClaws
MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) - A Memphis restaurant deleted its social media presence after publicly shaming a customer who gave the restaurant a bad review.
After a firestorm ignited on social media over a review left online by a customer, the owner of Imagine Vegan Cafe on Young Avenue in Memphis, TN decided to speak to WMC Action News 5 about what happened.
After the customer gave the restaurant a 2-star review on Google, Kristie Jeffrey used the cafe's official Facebook page to call the customer out. The post received thousands of reactions, many of which Jeffrey replied to, continuing to defend her position.
A couple hours after WMC Action News 5 shared the story, Imagine Vegan Cafe's post was deleted and the page can no longer be found on Facebook. Below is a picture showing the post in question:
In the post, Jeffrey defended her children and said the review "throughly (sic) irritated mama bear."
Jeffrey said her restaurant is very family oriented, and she admitted that her four children are often at the restaurant during business hours.
"It has been a very family oriented restaurant from day one," Jeffrey said. "We've had crayons, kid menus, toys."
However, it was the experience with one of Jeffrey's children that sparked a national debate on social media.
A customer took to Google to write a review about an event she said happened while she was eating at the restaurant. The unedited review can be read below:
"On the real, I eat here all the time. I still probably will bc I like to go out and there are few options available to me BUT y'all listen.
During my visit, a bare butt naked baby was running around, stood up on a table with its black theyre so dirty feet, and bent over to show me it's butthole. I wish I was exaggerating. This is like while I'm eating, and it's the owners kids? An older kid came over and started like yodeling and staring at me during my meal. I was SO uncomfortable. Like I get it's a family establishment and kids do weird things but naked baby was running around for like 15 minutes while all the workers started are just standing to the side talking and laughing over it.
And for my food, I can heat up a tofurky sausage just as well and in under half the time." Jeffrey said some of what the the reviewer said happened is true, but she believes much of the post was exaggerated.
"It was summer and it's hot. She does what a baby does, and she ripped it and she ran," Jeffrey said about her 22-month-old daughter.
Jeffrey said she would have preferred if the customer had came to her with the complaint. She said she'd rather have been able to handle the situation in person instead of online.
But ultimately, Jeffrey is not backing down.
"I would actually rather not have their business, because it states it very clearly on our menus--on our website--this is what we are about," Jeffrey said. "If you can't do vegan, then don't come here. If you can't do children, don't come here."
If that kid would have shat on my ribs, there would have been a REAL problem. WHAT? No ribs? Why would you go there?
Hard to imagine the owner engaged in so many rebuttholes...
I’d rather eat gas station sushi than any vegan food.
Hmm, vegan versus vegan... hard to know who to back but the customer’s grammar is so atrocious I’ll have to come down on the other side. A naked toddler is one thing but the apostrophe abuse is something else.
Funny article.
“As you can imagine, there were ONE MILLION comments and the thing was going viral, with everybody tagging all their friends and loved ones and pastors and their fluffers saying “OMG YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS.” “
Another diner chimed in about her experience.
https://twitter.com/rachelmillman/status/883020871220301824
It’s not just hippies but many people. There have been many places throughout the years that I’ve never gone back to for the filth. One is Sonic where the waitress’ nails were caked with black under them. Another is Whataburger where the burger flipper was digging way down deep in the back of his pants. Chili’s, ok, can’t remember but it was nasty. Another was a mom and pop joint where the baby was changed on tables very much like this vegan joint. The health department needs to be called.
All in all, I’d much rather cook and eat at home than risk some scum’s filthy germs.
Termagant... good word. thanks for improving my vocabulary.
Lol, i’m going to split the blanket on this one. I think the owner is exactly right that IF this is the way she wants to run her “business” she has that right.
On the other hand, the complaining customer has the right to complain AND not to go there anymore!
I’ve walked out of restaurants for a lot less than this.
local coffee shop... used to be great. Roasted their own beans right there in the store, no greater smell.
Then the owner sold it to concentrate on roasting off-site.
Now run by designer hippies. You can’t work there unless you look like you’ve slept in an alley behind the grocery store dumpster for a week without a bath.
I haven’t been in since the change.
But the “showed me the butthole” line... dang, that is some funny stuff and perfect for a Vegan place!
It is scientifically proven that vegetarians are ill-tempered. None of this is any surprise.
“Hippies are the most vile filth.”
I guess you weren’t at Woodstock.
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Years ago I am sure I had this bitch’s mother and father on the plane.
They were mad because we were delayed for baggage to be loaded and the ‘man’ kept ringing his call bell. When I was able to get to them, he glared daggers at me and then pointed at his egg donor partner who was waiting for her cue at which time she inhaled a chestful of air and began screaming at me with her ‘demands’.
“I IKNOW WHAT MY RIGHTS ARE!!!!!”
I just despise this ilk and hope the health department shuts them down.
Customer mentioned tofurky. Ugh. That. especially the italian type. absolutely. resembles. tube-poop.
Unfortunately, most vegans are ultra-liberal pansies who HATE the free market and capitalism... so they just don’t grasp what you are trying to say.
Illegal immigrants...cleaning up the hippie tofu baby poop on the floor that Americans won’t clean.
Good thing the Kid wasn’t Locked and Loaded.
Could have been a messy situation.
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