Restaurant has perfect response to homophobic Yelp reviewer
Hell’s Kitchen, a restaurant located in Minneapolis, had the perfect response to a Yelp reviewer after they claimed the restaurant had too many gay customers.
A reviewer left a very short one star review that simply read, “Too many gay people.”
Gay Star News reports that the staff of Hell’s Kitchen took matters into their own hands and gave the homophobe an important lesson of equality. They responded to the review by writing:
“We’re writing in response to a review you posted on Yelp a few minutes ago. It simply said ‘too many gay people.'”
“We ask that you not return to Hell’s Kitchen again. All of us who work here, whether straight or gay, view Hell’s Kitchen as our home; we open our doors each morning and do our best to make every person kind enough to dine with us feel as if it is their home, too.”
“We do our best to make every guest feel welcome, we do our best to create an environment that gives them a chance to enjoy the company of their friends, we do our best to create an environment that is blind to any form of prejudice and we do our best to create an environment that is safe.”
“These aren’t ‘business goals’ they’re just naturally in the DNA of every one of the 166 members of our Hell’s Kitchen family. 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.”
According to Hell’s Kitchen, the man decided to take down his review after the scathing response, but it didn’t stop there as the staff celebrated the victory in a Facebook post and hoped the reviewer would learn from this experience.
“We’ve just learned from a member of the media that this young man and his family have taken down his post and he understands how hurtful his words were.”
“Here at Hell’s Kitchen, some of us have said things we later wished we had not, and some of us had made mistakes that have hurt others… we’re very big believers in redemption here and always respect people who acknowledge that their words and actions have hurt others.”
They ended the post by saying, “We appreciate the steps this young man took today and would welcome an opportunity to have meet us so that he can learn a bit more about why we felt strongly about his words.”
Now THAT was perfect.
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