A spokesman for Wakefield Council said they were 'obviously concerned' by the issue, which they had not been made aware of before.
The spokesman added: 'I would urge the business involved to get in touch with us as soon as possible.'
Why? What do you plan to
do about it, lie in wait until someone pokes their head in, decides they’d rather have a pizza instead, and backs out, then grab them by the scruff of the neck and
force them to buy something?
She said a lot of people in Ossett had supported her, but if business did not improve she would have to close by autumn.
'They just open the door of my cafe and once they take a look at me they walk out,' she said.
Aha! I see a ‘Oh oh, my business plan isn't working out, and I don’t want the blame for it’ here.
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This being my neck of the woods, Ossett is a village that is pretty much all white. There's a few "Asian" (There's that word again) takeaways/fried chicken places, but she'll be the only black in the place.
She'd have been better opening a place in either Bradford or Huddersfield with a reasonably sized Afro-Caribbean/student population.
I doubt race has anything to do with it, but more that people who go to a cafe want a bacon sarnie and a pot of tea, and not pig tails, akee, rice and peas (Not only that, the peas are not the green ones we all know, but things like lentils/chick peas/beans).
I would also suspect that her "Chippy" attitude has much to do with it too.
I might add that after a night on the lash and I've had many of those in Ossett, I or anyone else I've been with has never piped up "You know, I could murder a plate of rice'n'peas, washed down with a glass of Guinness punch".
Guinness punch, it's Guinness with condensed milk in it. Never tried it, but I doubt it's to my particular taste.
Local but excessively gratifying 'black pudding at £50 a head' takes a bit of swallowing, Julia.
I'm with the (non) customers.
There's no way in hell I'd set foot in a place that branded me a racist before I'd even actually set foot in the door, either.
That goes for a day out on the set of Coronation Street, too !!
I believe that people holding their own opinions and making their own decisions is now known as 'insidious racism'.
"She'd have been better opening a place in either Bradford or Huddersfield with a reasonably sized Afro-Caribbean/student population."
Well, quite! There might be a niche for the exotic, and there might not. What business plan doesn't test the waters first?
"Guinness punch, it's Guinness with condensed milk in it."
*heaves*
"There's no way in hell I'd set foot in a place that branded me a racist before I'd even actually set foot in the door, either."
Indeed! The reaction seems to be designed to drive away even more potential customers.
"I believe that people holding their own opinions and making their own decisions is now known as 'insidious racism'."
That's the progressive narrative, certainly. I can't stand doner kebabs - am I racist towards Turks?
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