Chef Puts Pro-immigrant Message On Restaurant Bills

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Instead of indicating how much tip to leave or just thanking the sponsorship, each bill of the Kiwiana restaurant, in Brooklyn, NY, contains a legend very for these times. "Immigrants make America wonderful (they made your food and served you today too)," says this one, a tribute the establishment's owner, Chef Mark Simmons, is paying to immigrants working in this country's food industry.

As reported by CNN, the first to publicize the chef's initiative was journalist Mary Emily O'Hara, who this weekend visited the restaurant that specializes in New Zealand food and decided to share her receipt with the message pro -immigrant on your Twitter account.

The answer was immediate. In less than 48 hours, the tweet posted by O'Hara has already received more than 250,000 likes and has been shared more than 93,000 times.

The chef, who emigrated from New Zealand to the United States a decade ago and participated in the fourth season of the Bravo Top Chef cooking show, told CNN that he decided to put that message on his bills after Donald Trump signed a controversial decree. presidential. That order - whose legality is currently being aired in federal courts - blocks the entry to the United States of refugees for 120 days, blocks the entry of people from seven countries whose citizens are predominantly Muslim for 90 days, and that of refugees from Syria indefinitely.

Simmons added that the only thing he intends to do with his initiative is to exercise his right to freedom of expression - and that the response to it has been very positive.