General Food & Dining Thread

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Power to the People... our choices as a political force can change minds.

 

[scyeg]

Need a name! I'm pretty strong on not letting a business's politics define my choices, but some things are too far.

Rig Hand.

 

[bodsbods9090]

Rig Hand.

I thought Rig Hand came out and denounced allowing the separatist group to have an event at their place. Or am I wrong?

 

[policyenthusiast]

I thought Rig Hand came out and denounced allowing the separatist group to have an event at their place. Or am I wrong?

Here's what they said:

I'm not sure who told you that Rig Hand was hosting this event but that is not the case. A group has rented our space and there is a big difference between the two.

Every political party has rented our facility and hosted their own events here, and we welcome them all - NDP, LIB, CPC, PP and now ABRep. Premiers Hon. Rachel Notley, Hon. Jason Kenny, Hon. Danielle Smith and Mr. Nahid Nenshi have all had meetings here. Our aim is to be a place that welcomes all members of our community regardless of their views and, like it or not, there is a lot of diversity in our community.

As a business, we have to stay neutral with no political affiliation.

We try to offer a place to build connections, where civil open discussions and debates can happen between people that don't agree with or understand each other. Hopefully in this environment learning can happen and some common ground can be found to help bring our society closer together rather than increasing the gap between polarized views.

When events are held here, people treat each other respectfully. We rent to a very diverse portfolio of customers including Pride Leduc, religious groups, social service clubs like Kinsmen, Rotary & Masonic Lodges, cub scouts, seniors lodges, oilfield companies, EIA, wedding groups, yoga instructors, bands, Dentists without Borders, accounting firms, Indigenous elders, police officers, and the list goes on and on. Some of these groups have polar opposite political views but when they are here, they leave any ignorance at the door or they get asked to leave. If they are disrespectful, abusive or dangerous we ask them to leave and don't let them come back but that has only happened once in 11 years.

We are a small family run business who source all of our inputs locally, hire over 40 people in the community and donate to every charity that comes knocking. We treat everyone the same. We give to every single group that comes in asking for a donation regardless of their individual cause.

We are community builders.

Unfortunately, small companies like ours are under attack in today's fragile business environment because we are an easy target. Someone like you deciding that you don't support us over a social media post made by a third party can literally kill our business and put 44 people out of work. If we reacted to every email calling for us to ban a group because someone found them distasteful, we wouldn't have Pride Bingo here or the Shriners or police motorcycle events because there are people who have emailed calling each of those groups distasteful. Our business needs traffic through the door to survive so we can't pick sides.

I'm happy to sit down and buy you a drink anytime to see if I can convince you to change your mind about boycotting us by seeing things from the perspective of trying to survive this economy.

Respectfully, Geoff Stewart President / Distiller

This is why I think it's wrong to target businesses for political reasons. Bandwagon boycotts are more common than research, and it really impacts people.

 

[IanO]

The Marc still hits.

 

[ADob]

Here's what they said:

I'm not sure who told you that Rig Hand was hosting this event but that is not the case. A group has rented our space and there is a big difference between the two.

Every political party has rented our facility and hosted their own events here, and we welcome them all - NDP, LIB, CPC, PP and now ABRep. Premiers Hon. Rachel Notley, Hon. Jason Kenny, Hon. Danielle Smith and Mr. Nahid Nenshi have all had meetings here. Our aim is to be a place that welcomes all members of our community regardless of their views and, like it or not, there is a lot of diversity in our community.

As a business, we have to stay neutral with no political affiliation.

We try to offer a place to build connections, where civil open discussions and debates can happen between people that don't agree with or understand each other. Hopefully in this environment learning can happen and some common ground can be found to help bring our society closer together rather than increasing the gap between polarized views.

When events are held here, people treat each other respectfully. We rent to a very diverse portfolio of customers including Pride Leduc, religious groups, social service clubs like Kinsmen, Rotary & Masonic Lodges, cub scouts, seniors lodges, oilfield companies, EIA, wedding groups, yoga instructors, bands, Dentists without Borders, accounting firms, Indigenous elders, police officers, and the list goes on and on. Some of these groups have polar opposite political views but when they are here, they leave any ignorance at the door or they get asked to leave. If they are disrespectful, abusive or dangerous we ask them to leave and don't let them come back but that has only happened once in 11 years.

We are a small family run business who source all of our inputs locally, hire over 40 people in the community and donate to every charity that comes knocking. We treat everyone the same. We give to every single group that comes in asking for a donation regardless of their individual cause.

We are community builders.

Unfortunately, small companies like ours are under attack in today's fragile business environment because we are an easy target. Someone like you deciding that you don't support us over a social media post made by a third party can literally kill our business and put 44 people out of work. If we reacted to every email calling for us to ban a group because someone found them distasteful, we wouldn't have Pride Bingo here or the Shriners or police motorcycle events because there are people who have emailed calling each of those groups distasteful. Our business needs traffic through the door to survive so we can't pick sides.

I'm happy to sit down and buy you a drink anytime to see if I can convince you to change your mind about boycotting us by seeing things from the perspective of trying to survive this economy.

Respectfully, Geoff Stewart President / Distiller

This is why I think it's wrong to target businesses for political reasons. Bandwagon boycotts are more common than research, and it really impacts people.

Sure, nuance and context is everything BUT this topic began with a business owner publicly stating he was in favour of separation. That's different IMO.