Despite furor beforehand, BBQ joint’s ‘White Appreciation Day’ goes off without a hitch
*”It was fantastic, we quadrupled our sales from what we do on a normal day.” – Direct quote from Edgar Antillon, Latino owner of Rubbin’ Buttz BBQ and Country Café in Milliken, Colorado, in reference in reference to his “White appreciation day” on June 11, when he gave white people a 10 percent discount. VL
By Andrew O’Reilly, Fox News Latino
Despite the furor beforehand and the bomb-sniffing dog supplied by the local police the morning of, “White Appreciation Day” at a suburban Denver restaurant went off without a hitch.
[pullquote]”It was fantastic, we quadrupled our sales from what we do on a normal day.”[/pullquote]Edgar Antillon, the owner of Rubbin’ Buttz BBQ and Country Café in Milliken, Colorado, made national headlines last month when he announced that his restaurant would be offering a 10 percent discount to white Americans on June 11. The announcement quickly caused a furor among civil rights activists – with Ricardo Romero, an activist in northern Colorado, calling the plan “a perpetuation of racism – and Antillon ended up forced to say that the “White Appreciation Day” discount would apply to everyone regardless of their skin color.
And that discount appeared to appeal to a lot of people on Thursday.
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