But but but, they have free sandwiches on Friday if you buy a Shake. Well the one near UCF does.
“Unwashed hippie crowd”?
My experience of The Loving Hut is that the majority of their customers seem to be college students, some early-30s hipsters, and middle-class, middle-aged liberals in Civics and Priuses. I don’t think i’ve ever seen an “unwashed hippie” in my visits there. Of course, you sound like the sort of person who views everyone not wearing Abercrombie & Fitch as an “unwashed hippie.”
And how dare they make their vegetarian roots clear? Why on earth would they think that people who come to a vegetarian restaurant might be interested in issues like the treatment of farm animals? :rolleyes:
I went to Chik-fil-A the other day and they were demonstrating the evils of teh gay by showing gay porn flicks. I got the hell outa there I tells ya.
My mother is a vegetarian, and she can’t even stand to see episodes of How It’s Made that show meat processing…I can’t imagine her trying to eat a salad in a restaurant that’s showing videos of animal slaughter.
And I’m not sure if they were hippies, but I attended college with a lot of people who appeared to believe that bathing was optional (especially in the summer). 
They have never, in my experience, shown videos of animal slaughter. They show videos talking about the benefits of a vegetarian diet, and about ethical vegetarianism more generally, as well as about the restaurant’s history and philosophy.
Because not everybody who becomes a vegetarian does so because they don’t like the taste of meat. Thinking it is unethical to eat animals and enjoying the taste of meat are two totally different things, like being a Democrat and preferring chocolate ice cream to vanilla. You can think it is unethical to eat animals and like meat. You can not like meat and be morally OK with killing animals.
I keep kosher. I love the imitation shrimp at Loving Hut. Making something that is kosher into something that looks and tastes like shrimp is entirely OK under the kosher rules. Eating real shrimp is not.
I’ve never seen videos of animal slaughter at our local Loving Hut.
I suppose I’m one of the middle-class, middle-aged liberals driving a Honda Civic who goes there. I do shower every day. I wear tie-dye, but not usually when I go to Loving Hut, since I usually go there from lunch at work.
I’m not sure that McDonald’s counts as a favorite, but I did have a fondness for their crispy fries since childhood, and once I went vegetarian, those were one of the few things I could still eat there besides dessert.
Or, so I thought. McDonalds had been promoting their fries to querying vegetarians as being an available option. When it was discovered they’d been dipping their potato products in beef broth for flavor (and still are, if you check the online ingredient lists), people were pissed. Vegetarians and Hindus successfully sued, and McD’s stopped representing them as being veg.
I was mad. They’d lied about their food, and so I stopped going there. I don’t eat fast food much these days, but when my husband and I drive cross country on our annual trip to visit a friend, I’ll eat just about any other fast food place’s food.
I will admit I’m glad they stopped using that egg supplier (last year, I think) who was shown to be treating their chickens worse than even the average factory-farmed chickens get treated.
Was that Jack DeCoster? If so, they probably stopped using him because he went out of business after the last salmonella outbreak and subsequent egg recall.
No idea, so I searched and turned up an article mentioning Sparboe Farms.
I boycotted Outback for years.
Back in the mid-90’s and Outbacks were just opening in our area and were always ridiculously crowded. Well, I’m not one to wait over an hour for something I’ve never tried before. If I’d been there and know it’s great, fine, but not something new.
Well, one day, the ex and I were near the mall in Winston-Salem and were finishing up a day of shopping in the early afternoon. We’d eaten a late breakfast, but no lunch, so we’re driving around the mall loop and there’s Outback. I said why not… Parking lot was really light - we can FINALLY try this place!
Go in and there are 2 other tables in the entire place taken. Someone is vacuuming the floor. Really vacant, but it’s around 4pm, so too early for even early birds.
Hostess finally comes and we say table for 2. Hands me a beeper. Wait, what? “How long til we get our table?”. “Oh, it’s about a 45 minute wait”.
WTF???
I never even attempted to go back to Outback until the early 2000’s, so about 5-7 years later.
That’s one of the damnedest things I’ve ever heard. did they give you any kind of explanation at all?
Not really… When I said “well there’s only 2 tables here”, she essentially just said “sorry, but it’s 45 minutes”.
We walked out while I said “I’m not sitting here for 45 minutes smelling your food so that I’ll just buy more of it” or something like that… What else COULD I really say? 
I would have asked to speak to the manager; the young lady very obviously had a screw loose.
Perhaps they needed to start their dinner preparations and so needed to have some time when they weren’t seating anyone. But in that instance they should have posted signs like “Lunch seating: 11:00-2:30, Dinner Seating: 5:00-9:00.” Of course the hostess should have explain that if that was the case.
Are you my doppelganger? This is my story, too. Though by the time the news broke I’d pretty much lost my taste for fast food and went to McD’s maybe once a year for a shake (or fries, so I was pretty revolted to learn the truth).
I can’t think of any other place I actively made a decision to never patronize again. There are probably several which I gradually lost my taste for, but there was never a moment where I decided I’d never go back. It just turned out that way.
A good sub place near us has Fox News blaring in the dining room. Oh, well, there are other places.
Good to know…thank you! Maybe the poster who originally posted that info can come back with more details…maybe it was a different restaurant?