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SJW fail: Vegan restaurant to start selling MEAT due to lack of customers

The Mirror
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:45 UTC

Owners of a vegan restaurant in Taunton, Somerset have been branded 'close-minded omnivores' for their decision to turn their plant-based eatery into one that serves meat

The Mango Tree in Taunton, Somerset will be closed until autumn due to rebranding. A former fully vegan restaurant that boasted plant-based food was 'essential for a healthy life' will bizarrely start serving meat dishes.

The Mango Tree located in Taunton, Somerset has failed to rally enough plant-based customers to their restaurant, and have consequently decided to rebrand their eatery entirely.

The shocking decision has left plant-based customers furious, with them branding the bosses "unethical". Horrified clients have also slammed the decision, saying that serving animal products in the eatery would be "worse than closing."

The owners are insisting though that staffing and upkeep costs are as important as the values of being vegan.

A spokesperson for the formerly plant-based bar and restaurant said: "The only other option was to close permanently.

"Ethics extend to the jobs and welfare of our wonderful team, to whom we owe a great deal, and another chance."

The spokesperson also admitted: "Hospitality is increasingly tough and continuing as a purely vegan restaurant has not been sustainable for a considerable amount of time as there are simply not enough customers supporting us in our current format."

The owners have also been accused of writing 'cryptic' posts online, which has further infuriated their vegan following.

While posts on social media appear to tease a 'new vibe' to the restaurant following a refurb, customers have remained confused over what this means.

The Mango Tree - which is expected to re-open in the autumn - has said that once it does, it will no longer be "exclusively vegan".

And while it is understood that the eatery will now be serving meat, it currently remains unclear which animal products could be introduced to the dining options.

Regular customers have been left questioning the executive decision made by the owners.

One person asked: "Surely you'd just go out of business rather than profit from the exploitation of animals?"

Comment: Vegan hypocrisy in a nutshell. Animals over families needing support.

While another blasted: "This is upsetting. I have to say I have been to this restaurant a few times and it was beautiful!

"It's currently going through a renovation, obviously in more ways than one.

"So disappointed having seen this."

And a third fumed: "I think they'll find meat is more expensive, so good luck with that."

While a fourth has accused the restaurant of being 'close-minded omnivores', saying: "Seems like they're likely to lose a lot of their original vegan clientele and probably not gain that many more close-minded omnivores they're targeting as they're so closely associated with plant-based.

"Seems like a lose-lose to me."

And one customer said: "Seems worse than closing, selling meat."

The decision made by The Mango Tree is not the first. A host of trendy vegan restaurants have in recent years been forced to shut - because there just aren't enough vegans.

In July 2019, the Miami Burger - which sold 100 per cent vegan burgers - closed in Reading, Berkshire just six months after opening.

And another vegan restaurant, called 1947, closed in Manchester three months ago, after nine years of business.

Reader Comments

Winternights3 · 2022-09-08T17:29:30Z

Get your sausages out 🥳 Bacon sizzling too, that's what's needed to draw them in.

codis · 2022-09-08T17:58:47Z

Not enough cows and sheeps in the UK !

Winternights3 · 2022-09-08T18:01:25Z

codis Their camouflaged.

codis · 2022-09-08T18:13:47Z

Winternights3 And don't visit vegan restaurants often enough ...

Chicken Farmer · 2022-09-08T18:22:23Z

"Seems like they're likely to lose a lot of their original vegan clientele and probably not gain that many more close-minded omnivores they're targeting as they're so closely associated with plant-based.

"Seems like a lose-lose to me."

And one customer said: "Seems worse than closing, selling meat."

Seems funny that the vegans are pissed off. I mean who cares, there was not enough of you to keep it open. So business can't get any worse if you don't show back up. Also If critics say you should close instead, then maybe they should pay the owners and workers bills.

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-09-08T18:23:09Z

Chicken Farmer - customers want local products is what I think and most of us prefer meat.

Chicken Farmer · 2022-09-08T18:25:21Z

Buffalo_Ken Agreed, local products are a huge thing, and 99% of people I know want to eat meat as well!

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-09-08T18:29:07Z

Chicken Farmer - So, if most of us want to go local, why not make it happen....the Queen came from the 20th century and the 20th century is over, so how about for the sake of the queen we find better times for all who just desire peace. Why not for eff sake - why not?

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God Bless the Queen and may she rest in peace and God Bless the rest of us still here just trying to achieve peace in a better way and the better way begins, the Queen may or may not agree, with local commerce.

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Rest is Peace Queen - and God Bless the 20th century ideas, but for eff sake how about we get on to something better - is it possible? I think so.

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God Bless the Queen - and with her death perhaps the UK will wake up and realize - times are changing.

BK

Baybars · 2022-09-08T22:58:41Z

Chicken Farmer Excellent way to look at it. It is a business after all the vegan crap is put aside and they need customers.

It is a wise decision in my opinion. Vegans have never appeared healthy to me and I suspect they die young leaving a big tab at the vegan food shop.

Winternights3 · 2022-09-08T19:04:34Z

" and with her death perhaps the UK will wake up and realize - times are changing " that's rich coming from someone who should have learnt from his own mistakes.

Show some respect.

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-09-08T19:07:23Z

Winternights3 - I'll show respect for the Queen who was a women strong during WWII, but I have no respect for you. Not at all. Zilch. And for you to use this moment when the Queen has passed to present your personal qualms seems trife at best.

May the Queen rest in peace and if you respond to this, that is disrespectful for the Queen just passed so really get a clue why don't ya.

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-09-08T19:10:58Z

Winternights3 - moreover, with the passing of the Queen the UK would be advised to realize how small it has become. Nobody cares anymore now that the Queen is gone. She was the glue holding things together but she just died today out of nowhere, so if I was you, I would get a clue and really the Buffalo never forget.

Winternights3 · 2022-09-08T19:12:45Z

Buffalo_Ken I don't give a damn what you think of me.

You are doing what you do best, messing things in that chaotic mind of yours.

I will continue to post.

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-09-08T19:13:26Z

Winternights3 - of course you will.

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-09-08T19:13:40Z

Winternights3 - you need a hug before the cold winter commences.

agni · 2022-09-08T20:05:05Z

Are they going to try to make meat taste like vegetables (aka Beyond Vegetables or something) ?

Taarna · 2022-09-08T22:57:27Z

They'll do better now that meat is involved. Most places that I know offer a vegan option, even if it's limited. No reason why that shouldn't be an option for a "vegan" place b/c like the gender confused, it's a very small portion of the world.

Also... it's a very small portion that gives 2 shits the queen is dead. She's another person - one of many - that may have lived an extraordinary life but that just puts her on par w/ the Kardashitans.

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-09-08T23:11:35Z

Taarna - the Queen will meet her maker I reckon and then they will decide whether the Queen lived a life of humble dignity or not....it is none of my business, but I do know many left behind associate many things with the Queen and this is not trivial or anything to ridicule. I've got my own opinions with respect to any Queen, but what matters most is what happens next and could be the death of the Queen offers an opportunity that clever ones will recognize....and I suspect the Queen in her spirit will support the clever ones who only want things to get better for the peasants - the Queen will realize the peasants at the end of the day are really the ones who run the show. If she could communicate this after the fact with all the deluded ones she used to associate with who really are clueless in my humble earthly experience that might be helpful, but unless one has a conduit to express sentiment after entering the spiritual world, then the message is unlikely to be sent and really spirits gone for more than just a few hours hold power reminiscent much stronger, and I suspect these spirits might not be so fond of the Queen recently passed....tis complicated I reckon, but God Bless the Queen and may she rest in peace and may the other spirits get recognition just as much as the queen who ain't nothing special I'm guessing in the spirit land after awhile.....but now, just now her spirit could still make a difference and she ought do it because.........

The rest of us are ready for better times.

BK