Silicon Valley eatery bans Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ hats for being ‘symbol of hate’
- The owner of the eatery, Kenji Lopez-Alt, said his business received threatening emails after he posted the tweet
- The red hats, which are sold on the president’s campaign website, have become polarising, causing recent confrontations
Patrons will not be served at a Silicon Valley restaurant if they wear a “Make America Great Again” baseball cap.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, a chef-partner of the Wursthall restaurant in San Mateo, California, said in a tweet last weekend that he views the hats as symbols of intolerance and hate.
“It hasn’t happened yet, but if you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served, same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate,” The San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday.
The tweet was no longer available Thursday. But the newspaper reported it had more than 2,100 likes and more than 200 retweets as of Wednesday afternoon.
Lopez-Alt wrote the 2015 book The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science. He declined further comment to the newspaper, saying that his restaurant has received threatening emails following the tweet.
