What Happens When the Anti-Vax Online Mob Finds Your Restaurant

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What happens when the online anti-vax mob finds your restaurant?

Before Richard Gusler announced that his Raleigh, North Carolina, sports bar, the Players Retreat, would be requiring proof of vaccination for indoor dining, he asked Yelp and Tripadvisor how he could prepare for an onslaught of one-star reviews. “They were pretty well aware of what was going to happen and had set up teams that were monitoring things like that,” Gusler says.

Carlo Lamagna, the owner of Magna Kusina and Kantina in Portland, Oregon, says he’s been accused of supporting “segregation” and “apartheid” after announcing on August 6 that his Filipino restaurant would require all customers age 12 and up to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test taken within the last two days. “They’re calling me, a brown person, a Nazi!” Lamagna says of the commenters.

The anti-vax backlash has spilled over into real life, too. Kraig Rovensky, the local president of the United States Bartenders’ Guild in Seattle, says he received several threats after the bar where he works began requiring customers to be fully vaccinated. “Now, I think we’re at a week since we [implemented] the vaccine, and I’m at nine death threats,” he says.

Although restaurant owners have come to expect negative reviews and comments from people who oppose their vaccination policy, everyone I spoke with said the support they’re getting from actual customers and members of their community outweighs the backlash.

 

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Yelp First, not all unvaccinated individuals are anti-vaccine. Secondly, there's an 'anti-vax online mob'? That's not in the 'better together' trend that helped so many communities survive the Covid event. Are you encouraging division at a time when economic trust/healing is needed?

Any resto depending on, or worried about, Yelp reviews might as well put a bankruptcy attorney on speed dial.

Austin I would think that normal people would love to eat somewhere that anti-vaxers are refusing to go...

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