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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: MaxistheBest
"homosexual staff recognized who she was"

Higher chance at getting some disease a blessing in disguise.

21 posted on 07/22/2018 6:34:28 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: SamAdams76

“Blue Moon Grill in Wakefield”

When I lived up there, breakfast at a diner was the only way to start the day. Sadly good inexpensive diners are a thing of the past.


22 posted on 07/22/2018 6:34:40 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: 2banana

True.

But in the coming physical civil war there will be absolute refusals of big record companies and film studios and major book publishers to have any signings of conservatives. All will be Papa Johned.

We already know World Net Daily has to publish pro Trump books instead of big companies and Michael Savage said he has been blacklisted as a “no go” for all major advertising agencies.

To find the excellent book No Campus For White Men by Scott Greer I was finally told at Barnes & Noble to look under “Education” in back by the jigsaw puzzles and kids’ remedial study guide books. No chance of a bestseller.

They think everyone at their pot parties or cocktail gatherings are all anti-Trump and no one else exists except at some NASCAR race or possibly a church. No place they ever would go.

Trump’s bedrock 39% may be all that boycott the evil ones. Who knows.


23 posted on 07/22/2018 6:34:44 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud , non citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: MaxistheBest

Lunch out is between $8-12 and dinner runs between $14-30. Most food is flash frozen and nuked. That’s a lot of money for frozen food dinners. Now, add in the rest of the people in our family and a tip and you are quickly into three figures. That’s too much for most meals.


24 posted on 07/22/2018 6:35:53 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: MaxistheBest

How do you make a small fortune?

Start with a large fortune and open a restaurant.


25 posted on 07/22/2018 6:37:23 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (I speak hyperbolically)
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To: moovova

I saw the menu for the Red Hen and photos of their offerings. It was hard to get relevant photos because the restaurant changed their menu weekly. Here is what I found:

ENTREES

Pan Seared Arctic Char $25 Sunflower Flats Herb Risotto, Heirloom Tomato Vierge

Blackened Pork Chop $25 Donald’s Meats, Wades Mill Espelette Grits Pipérade, Sula’s Garden Kale

Cardamom Spiced Duck Breast $26 Donald’s Meats Smoked Bacon Lentils, Brandied Peaches, Dijon

Vegetable Risotto $24 Sunflower Flats Snap Peas, Sula’s Garden Kale, 2yr Aged Pecorino

Rosemary Basted Ribeye $28 Buffalo Creek Beef, Horseradish Creme Fraîche, Grana Padano


26 posted on 07/22/2018 6:37:26 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: lee martell

Best scene in Braveheart...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S7QARslq74


27 posted on 07/22/2018 6:41:26 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is ba fraud.)
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To: MaxistheBest

I find almost no restaurants can consistently keep high standards.

Service attitudes and responsibility in society at large are dropping. Good, stable help is very hard to find, especially if an owner is trying to keep prices at mid-range or below.


28 posted on 07/22/2018 6:41:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: lee martell

Oh everyone knows about the defenestration of Prague...don’t they?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague


29 posted on 07/22/2018 6:43:59 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: yarddog

The food at our hospital is outstanding. They even let me order an extra cobbler to take home. lol It was that good. And, no, I looked on my EOB, and it was not charged. :)


30 posted on 07/22/2018 6:45:28 PM PDT by ozaukeemom (9/11/01 Never Forget. Never.)
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To: MV=PY

That’s funny....I’m pretty sure we ate there last year when we went to Ft. Pierce for a wedding. Stopped there on the way home to St Pete Beach. If you are ever in St. Pete Beach, go to Pass-A-Grille, the southernmost part of the beach and try
Genarro’s; family owned for at least 30 years now. The only place around here that makes good gnocci and you can get a great veal parm.


31 posted on 07/22/2018 6:45:53 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: MaxistheBest

I always eat at the locally owned places and avoid the nat’l chains.
Guess I’ll be checking out their politics now too.


32 posted on 07/22/2018 6:46:44 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho) to sun spot6)
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To: entropy12

My favorite way to cook bacon is in a George Forman grill. It leaves just a little of that yummy grease flavor, doesn’t cook quite as evenly as an oven, but far better than a frypan. Foreman’s invention ranks right up there with sliced bread, in my opinion . . . and so many wonderful variations!


33 posted on 07/22/2018 6:46:54 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: M1903A1

Yep. I have been in construction since forever. Went through a phase of remodeling restaurants....


34 posted on 07/22/2018 6:47:22 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Fungi

I think that was the first article in a long time that I read all the way through. Author is a great writer.


35 posted on 07/22/2018 6:51:02 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: jonrick46

“Pan Seared Arctic Char $25 Sunflower Flats Herb Risotto, Heirloom Tomato Vierge

Blackened Pork Chop $25 Donald’s Meats, Wades Mill Espelette Grits Pipérade, Sula’s Garden Kale

Cardamom Spiced Duck Breast $26 Donald’s Meats Smoked Bacon Lentils, Brandied Peaches, Dijon

Vegetable Risotto $24 Sunflower Flats Snap Peas, Sula’s Garden Kale, 2yr Aged Pecorino

Rosemary Basted Ribeye $28 Buffalo Creek Beef, Horseradish Creme Fraîche, Grana Padano”

No thanks Bruce.


36 posted on 07/22/2018 6:51:09 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Vigilanteman

Agreed, it sounds like a good compromise between pan frying and oven cooking.


37 posted on 07/22/2018 6:52:17 PM 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: Vigilanteman

And on another item have you used that grill for fish fillets? Especially salmon fillets. TIA!


38 posted on 07/22/2018 6:53:59 PM 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: lee martell

But the author loses at least 50 points for misusing the word, unless Ms. Sanders was actually thrown out of a window, which was not reported.


39 posted on 07/22/2018 6:54:18 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: MV=PY
Is it older then Archies?
40 posted on 07/22/2018 6:54:32 PM PDT by M-cubed
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