Mississippi restaurant that appeared in Guy Fieri “Dinner, drive-in, dive” It's facing backlash after the owner posted a video offering “free” videos only to straight couples who stopped by to eat at Cajun Joint on Tuesday.
Darwell Yeager and his wife Nettie Mechelle quickly got involved in Darwell's Happiness Café in Long Beach when they created an anti-LGBTQ pitch for their customers on their social media pages.
“If you come in and you become a couple… husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, guy, girl, couple, real couple,” said his spouse before cutting.
“Come over the next hour and a half and when you're a couple, you can produce a couple of kids. We'll give you something free,” concluded Darwell Yeager in a video since it went viral online.
The restaurant special was torched, including fellow local food facilities.
“I've only recently seen a disgusting video where Darwell came up about Tuesday's 'Couple' special. I'm almost speechless.
“His strange antics could stand up to this video at best, but it wasn't.”
The corporate executive chef of a local restaurant group that runs seven restaurants also spoke out. According to nola.com.
“I wasn't going to say anything, but overall, you'll reap what you sow,” Lauren Joffrion of Secret Coast Restaurant Group told Facebook. “Hatement doesn't give you anywhere.”
Gulf Coast Equality, an LGBT nonprofit, called the social media post “disappointment” and proposed a boycott of Darwell.
“If Darwell doesn't welcome us, we won't support them,” the board wrote in a statement. “We have an impact that makes it feel like a place of importance. We call on our community to gather. We act, not just anger.”
A woman who picked up the phone with the number listed on Nettie Yeager declined to comment when the post arrived.
According to nola.com, the couple later apologised on Facebook. Clarion ledger.
“I want to apologise to all my friends. If I write or say something that made you angry… I don't make you angry… I'm not perfect… I (sic) people don't understand, misunderstand, misunderstand, misunderstand, joke.
It is unclear whether an apology remains, as most of the social media posts associated with the couple's accounts went private on Thursday night.
Darwell Yeager posted that before the reported Mea Culpa, he was tired of being bullied to the left and that the restaurant would not fail, Nola.com reported.
The cafe appears in Guy Fieri's “Dinner, Drive-In, Dive.”
