A Dublin café is again hitting the headlines - this time for banning vegans.
The White Moose Café in Phibsborough got big reactions after it posted CCTV footage of a woman, who wrote negative review on their Facebook page back in October.
Now the owners are taking a stand against vegans, who they say are posting negative reviews about their business.
"I'm loving all the negative reviews we have been receiving over the past hour or two posted by seemingly every vegan who exists on planet earth", the page says.
"The reality of the situation is that 100% of these people have never been in our café, and are writing these reviews because they chose to take offence to one of my posts relating to the sense of over-entitlement that vegans seem to have".
"Given the torrent of abuse and unjustified negative reviews we have been receiving from the vegan population over the past 24 hours, all vegans are now barred from our café. Any vegans attempting to enter the café will be shot dead at point blank range".
Owner Paul Stenson then wrote to thank those people for the publicity the café has received.
"We have received over 2,000 1 star reviews on our café over the past 24 hours. Using some of the screenshots I have on my phone, I could probably have every single one of these reviews removed by Facebook in a matter of minutes. But guess what? I'm not going to".
"I'm not going to do this, as, to put it bluntly, our café has never been busier than it is today. What you're doing is working (for us), so PLEASE, whatever you do, don't stop".
"I would like to thank the hundreds and thousands of vegans across the world for all the hard work they have been doing to promote our café over the past couple of days. Thanks to you guys, our café has gone viral in countries as far as New Zealand, Australia, America and Germany (to name but a few)" - before adding: "P.S. You're still barred".
(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
As World War V comes to an end, and a ceasefire seems imminent, I guess the one thing we have learned over the past few...
Posted by The White Moose Café on Monday, 26 October 2015
He also offered an 'apology' to those he had offended, saying: "It is clear that I have upset quite a large number of you with my recent posts. The negative reviews we are receiving are growing in number, literally by the minute. I have been told that I have brought this on myself and that the only way to stop the flood of negative reviews and abuse is to offer an online apology to all vegans I have offended".
"I am not normally one to back down, but on this occasion I feel compelled to do so. So, to my vegan friends, all over the world, I would like to take this opportunity to apologise most sincerely for what I said in earlier posts. It was completely out of line for me to say that you would be shot dead at point blank range if you attempted to come into our café. A much more fair way of knocking you off would be to put poison in your food".
A shrewd business move, or just plain offensive?
