'It was exhausting': LA vegan restaurants are putting meat back on the menu
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SF Gate ^
| December 5, 2023 | By Karen Palmer
California has been at the forefront of healthful eating and plant-based cuisine for decades, from restaurants like Chez Panisse in Berkeley to Michael’s in greater Los Angeles. But despite decades of offering meatless this or gluten-free that, some Southern California restaurants have recently decided that going entirely vegan is not a recipe
for long-term financial success. After years of being vegan, some very well-known LA restaurants are adding meat, dairy or both to their menus to appeal to a larger audience. Even in a city like Los Angeles, which has consistently been named one of the most vegan-friendly cities for...
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Why This Celebrity Chef Banned Vegans From His Restaurant: ‘They Can X Off’
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New York Post ^
| June 20, 2023
SNIP Chef John Mountain took to social media on Tuesday to declare that people who don’t eat meat and other animal products won’t be catered to at his restaurant Fyre in Connolly in Perth’s north. “Sadly
all vegans are now banned from Fyre (for mental health reasons),” he shared on social media. SNIP The ban was reportedly sparked over a fight with a customer over vegan options at the restaurant, with Mountain exasperated to the point of banning all plant-based diners. The celebrated chef, who has worked with Marco Pierre White, said the argument started when a young woman reached...
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Australia -- Celeb chef BANS all vegans from his restaurant after a customer complained about her meat-free meal: 'They can f*** off'
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MAILONLINE ^
| 20 June 2023 | DAVID SOUTHWELL
Perth chef bans vegans from restaurant Follows a bad experience and review Move ignited a war of contrasting reviews On the Saturday in question Mr Mountain said he forgot about the women's request because he had been busy catering a private party. His
sous chef was not happy that evening, scolding him for 'not telling them about the vegan customer.' On Sunday the young woman lodged a complaint. 'My only option was the vegetable dish… it was okay but not that filling… and I was shocked to see it was $32,' she wrote in her complaint via a direct Facebook...
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UK restaurant no longer catering to vegans because of ‘holier-than-thou’ attitude
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foxnews.com ^
| Aug. 17, 2022 | Bradford Betz
A restaurant in the U.K. has decided to stop catering to vegans because its owners were apparently fed up with their "holier-than-thou" attitude.The Kitchen at London House on the Isle Wight said it posted its new vegan-less menu for the owners’ new restaurant and received swift backlash.
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Restaurant scraps plant-based dishes after becoming fed up with ‘holier-than-thou’ vegans
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The Telegraph ^
| 12 Aug 2022 | Reporters
Isle of Wight eatery defends itself against ‘nasty’ and ‘bullying’ vegans who were furious that their diet was not catered forAn award-winning cafe has at hit out at “holier-than-thou” vegan customers saying they shouldn’t have to adapt their menu to “suit” customers who don’t eat animal products.The Kitchen at London House on
the Isle of Wight went online to defend itself against “nasty” and “bullying” vegans who were outraged at their decision to refuse to cater to their diets.Addressing its critics, it said: “If you want vegan food, go to a vegan restaurant.”The popular high street restaurant in Ventnor said...
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Notorious vegan activist is tackled by diners as she storms through a restaurant demanding they stop eating meat while playing sounds of pigs squealing
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Daily Mail UK ^
| June 5, 2022 | Aidan Wondracz
A notorious vegan activist stormed into a restaurant and demanded diners stop eating meat while she played sounds of animals being slaughtered. Tash
Peterson, 28, shouted 'their blood is on your hands' at the patrons eating out at Outback Jacks Bar and Grill on James Street, in Perth, on Saturday. She wore a white outfit stained in red paint, to symbolise blood, as she walked up and down the restaurant while holding a speaker above her head. 'The sounds you hear now, are the sounds of animals screaming for their lives inside Australian slaughterhouses,' she bellowed. 'They fought until their...
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Woke 'pay-what-you-feel' vegan restaurant chain allegedly went broke owing staff almost $400,000 - as it's revealed only 1 in 3 customers forked out for their meals
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Daily Mail ^
| 21 April 2022 | Sam Mcphee
A trendy pay-as-you-feel restaurant chain allegedly traded while insolvent for years and underpaid employees by nearly $400,000. Lentil
as Anything, a popular group of eateries in Sydney and Melbourne that lets customers choose what they pay, survived the pandemic thanks to nearly $400k in GoFundMe donations but an accounting firm alleged it went under a year earlier. Worrells sent a recent report to creditors detailing the mismanagement of the company, which alleged Lentil as Anything was 'likely insolvent' as far back as June, 2019, the Syndey Morning Herald reported. 'It is our preliminary position that the company was likely insolvent...
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Vegan burger argument leads to arrest at Cumberland Avenue restaurant (Tennessee)
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WATE-TV ^
| Dec 4, 2021 | staff
Witnesses WATE 6 News spoke to said Beal questioned whether his vegan burger was actually vegan and asked the staff to take the burger to the hospital to have it tested.
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Eggless Eggs? San Francisco Startup Debuts Vegan Eggs at Castro Restaurant
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NBC Bay Area ^
| Dec 5, 2017
Eating eggs — well, not traditional eggs — appears to have just become a bit easier for vegans. Hampton
Creek, a startup focused on finding healthier and more sustainable food options, has found a way to transform legume known as mung bean into a liquid substance that "magically scrambles like an egg," according to the company. Hampton Creek calls its new product "Just Scramble," and the company's website indicates that the new item "tastes like an egg." This first-of-its-kind product is free of antibiotics and cholesterol, utilizing less water in its ingredients and emitting fewer carbon emissions than a conventional...
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The seemingly healthy dishes on new vegan menus at high street restaurants that contain a THOUSAND…
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Daily Mail (UK) ^
| 07:23 EDT, 18 October 2017 | Imogen Blake
There are more than half a million vegans in Britain, and that number is rising everyday — making a plant-based diet one of the nation’s fastest growing lifestyle choices. It’s
why this month several of the country’s biggest chain restaurants have launched or expanded vegan menus, so that those who eschew all animal products have more choice when they dine out. Many assume that a vegan lifestyle is much healthier than being a meat eater or even than being simply vegetarian — but some of the new menu items prove that vegan dishes are not always good for you. Some...
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Mother’s Scathing Takedown of Son for Taking Her to a Vegan Restaurant Goes Viral
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The Telegraph ^
| 22 AUGUST 2017 | Mike Wright
A mother’s brutal Facebook post about her vegetarian son after he took her to a vegan restaurant has been shared thousands of times. Dan
Nicholson’s mum was far from impressed with his choice of venue to celebrate getting his A-Level results last week. The teenager chose The Egg Cafe in Liverpool, which describes itself as the city’s “premier vegetarian/vegan restaurant”. Following the meal Dan’s mum took to Facebook to express her displeasure complaining: “Why can't I have a normal teenage son who enjoys burgers, pizzas n God forbid chicken kebab hey ho, vegetarian restaurant n spicey [sic] lentils it is...
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Marxist Vegan Restaurant in Michigan Closes for Predictably Marxist Reasons
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Munchies ^
| 12/12/16 | CHARLEY LANYON
After five years of business, Grand Rapids, Michigan’s famously Marxist vegan sandwich shop is closing its doors due to bumps in the road toward what it hoped would be an egalitarian, worker-run business model. The
Garden Diner and Café put Grand Rapids on the alternative diet map thanks to its widely acclaimed vegan, vegetarian, and raw food offerings. Unfortunately, the restaurant also proved the old adage that it doesn’t matter how tasty your black bean patty is if you can’t afford to pay your workers and it takes 45 minutes for you to put a sandwich together. During its tenure...
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MARXIST VEGAN RESTAURANT SHUTS DOWN
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milo.yiannopoulos.net ^
| DECEMBER 10, 2016
A group of vegan Marxists learned firsthand why Communism sucks after their reportedly poorly run, inefficient restaurant went out of business. “With
deep gratitude to all of our customers,” read the Facebook post by Garden Diner & Cafe, “we regret to announce that the end of this month will be the final days of The Garden/Bartertown Diner.” Described as a “Marxist” “collectivist” “worker-run” restaurant, the social experiment in communism failed miserably because of irregular business hours, lack of structured management, and minimal profits. In fact, the business model even forbade bosses or managers, a staple of Marxist ideology where the...
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Marxist Vegan Restaurant Closes After Customers No Longer Willing to Wait 40 Minutes for a Sandwich
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HeatStreet ^
| 12/8/16 | By Emily Zanotti
A “Marxist” “collectivist” “worker-run” restaurant in Grand Rapids, Michigan, closed its doors this week after customers complained that they could no longer tolerate the bizarre hours, high prices and long lines.
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Vegan ‘Pay What You Want’ Restaurant Faces Closure as Diners Fork Out Less Than $3 A Meal
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Breitbart ^
| August 25, 2016 | Donna Rachel Edmunds
A vegan restaurant with a “pay what you can” policy is facing closure after receiving an average of $3 per meal from customers. For
the last two years, Lentil As Anything in Sydney’s trendy inner-city Newtown has prided itself both on serving restaurant quality vegan food while retaining it’s not for profit, community organisation philosophy.
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Vegan restaurant owners receive death threats after being discovered eating meat
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Hot Air.com ^
| May 8, 2016 | JAZZ SHAW
Let’s finish out the weekend with a story about Californians being Californians, because… California. Terces and Matthew Engelhart have made quite the life for themselves out on the left coast over the past decade, having established a small chain of “organic, plant-based” restaurants which specialize in completely vegan food. They
apparently attract Hollywood celebrities who are impressed not only by the business ethic of their eateries, but the “Love Farm†where they raise much of their produce, presumably in a Gaia approved fashion. They’ve published a book which explains the tenets of their “sacred enterprise†which is a must read...
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Top L.A. Vegan Restaurant Owners Receiving Death Threats for Slaughtering Animals
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Hollywood Reporter ^
| April 28, 2016 | Gary Baum
L.A.'s vegan vortex has angrily turned on the most prominent vegan restaurant group in town this week as word has spread that its owners are not just eating meat but raising and slaughtering animals at the working farm where they live in Northern California. Matthew and Terces Engelhart, the husband-and-wife proprietors of
favored entertainment industry haunt Cafe Gratitude, tell The Hollywood Reporter they've been receiving death threats as part of a quickly growing, internet-bred campaign against them. It has also spawned a deluge of one-star reviews on their local outposts' respective Yelp pages, a boycott group on Facebook that tallies...
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Trapped! Vegan restaurants struggle with humane pest control
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WTOP News (Washington DC) ^
| 25 April 2016 | KELLI KENNEDY
MIAMI (AP) — Even the wellbeing of rats, roaches and spiders are a concern for animal activists. But
they also pose ethical dilemmas for owners of vegan restaurants who need to keep those pests out of their kitchens while trying to abide by no-kill values. Melanie Cochran, owner of The Wild Cow Vegetarian Restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, was adamant about not using traditional pest control services when it first opened. For a few years she was able to keep pests at bay, but when the restaurant developed a problem, she called an exterminator even though she said it went against...
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One Restaurant Owner Has Been Waging An Online War With Vegans For Two Months Now
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Kitchenette ^
| 10/28/15 8:45pm | C.A. Pinkham
http://kitchenette.jezebel.com ---Warning--- Spicy language at link
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