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Title: Lexington Area Tourism Impacted By Red Hen Controversy
Source:
Hot Air
URL Source: https://hotair.com/archives/2018/09 ... -impacted-red-hen-controversy/
Published: Sep 8, 2018
Author: John Sexton
Post Date: 2018-09-08 07:57:47 by IbJensen
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Views: 420
Comments: 6
Sunday, the Roanoke Times reported that a Lexington, Virginia regional tourism council had decided to dip into its emergency fund. Why, you ask, is that necessary? Because the area is struggling in the wake of the Red Hen controversy. The regional tourism board, with members from Lexington, Buena Vista and Rockbridge County, met with the Lexington City Council on Thursday for an update on tourism initiatives and numbers. The board had initially approved the recovery plan soon after news of The Red Hen controversy was spreading across the country… Director of Marketing Patty Williams said the area is still feeling effects from the controversy — the tourism office received a letter Thursday from a family in Georgia who said they would never come back to the area because of what happened. And during the immediate aftermath of the incident, the tourism office received thousands of phone calls and emails. “For a town our size, it was a significant impact,” Williams said. The tourism office also decided to conduct a perceptions survey in its top four markets — Roanoke, Richmond, Norfolk and Washington, D.C. The office is working with a survey company to find frequent travelers living in those areas to answer questions about whether they recall the incident, where it took place and whether it would affect their decision to travel there. A total of 400 people will be surveyed. Stephanie Wilkinson, the owner of the Red Hen restaurant, asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders to leave back in June. At the time, Wilkinson herself was the director of a local tourism group called Main Street Lexington trying to increase tourism to the city. In the wake of all of the negative press from her actions, Wilkinson resigned from that position. But you have to wonder how someone who was looking to boost tourism to the area wound up doing something so, shall we say, counter-productive. I support Wilkinson’s freedom to run her restaurant however she wants to run it, but as I said at the time, “You can’t start a political firestorm in your own place of business and then complain when your business was burned down by the same political firestorm.” This is very much a mess of her own making but it has the potential to harm a lot of other people who also have businesses in the area. Instead of digging into the emergency fund to deal with this, maybe the tourism board should be asking Stephanie Wilkinson for the money to undo the damage. The one thing I’m most curious about, and the Roanoke Times doesn’t really mention it, is how the Red Hen itself is doing. If tourism is still hurting because of the controversy, you would think the Red Hen would be the focus of that decline. The county is a pro-Trump area but maybe there are enough resistance-minded tourists to keep the tables full. It’ll be interesting to see if this is all forgotten in six months or whether the Red Hen takes a more permanent hit because of it.
Poster Comment: Perhaps the owner will be forced to lay off her homosexual staff. The Red Hen will be relegated to ignominy and quite deservedly so. She owned a business and she was the director of the local tourism agency and she still didn't understand that being rude and obnoxious to paying customers minding their own business was going to end badly. The woman was a hopeless fool, she didn't have enough sense to keep her mouth shut and leave people alone.
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#1. To: IbJensen (#0)
You wonder if these people will ever realize their thoughts/beliefs/ideas are not popular/mainstream and that things will only end up badly for them? How many times does this has to happen before their light bulb pops on and they grow up and finally become adults, Nike is the latest to suffer the wrath for their stupidity...
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
And who in the hell wants to eat in a restaurant where the owner employs homosexuals to prepare and handle your food?
Liberals are like Slinkys. They're good for nothing, but somehow they bring a smile to your face as you shove them down the stairs.
She'd alienate at least 50% of potential customers with that move. Maybe more now that everyone knows their food is being prepared by possibly AIDS-infected gays. Intolerant gays, I might add. And now we find out her decision is affecting other businesses. I'd be pissed at her making such a unilateral move.
No one should !! And in fact, that should be a concern at any restaurant !!! Have seen in the news that there are places in the country where it has been discovered that workers in a lot of restaurants have been diagnosed with Hepatitis. Many things to be concerned about. My family & I no longer eat out .
Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers) "No one ever rescues an old dog. They lay in a cage until they die. PLEASE save one. None of us wants to die cold and alone... --Dennis Olson " AMERICA! Designed by geniuses. Now run by idiots.
I don't like to go out mainly because I cook better than they do. :)
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
LOL, yeah I hear ya. My wife is a better cook than they are. But, at our age, we have enough ailments. We do not need to go out and gather up new ones to add to our problems.;) These days, eating out is playing Russian roulette .
Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers) "No one ever rescues an old dog. They lay in a cage until they die. PLEASE save one. None of us wants to die cold and alone... --Dennis Olson " AMERICA! Designed by geniuses. Now run by idiots.
She owned a business and she was the director of the local tourism agency and she still didn't understand that being rude and obnoxious to paying customers minding their own business was going to end badly. The woman was a hopeless fool, she didn't have enough sense to keep her mouth shut and leave people alone.
#2. To: CZ82 (#1)
#3. To: IbJensen (#0)
She owned a business and she was the director of the local tourism agency and she still didn't understand that being rude and obnoxious to paying customers minding their own business was going to end badly.
#4. To: IbJensen (#2)
" And who in the hell wants to eat in a restaurant where the owner employs homosexuals to prepare and handle your food? "
#5. To: Stoner (#4)
My family & I no longer eat out .
#6. To: CZ82 (#5)
" I don't like to go out mainly because I cook better than they do. :) "
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