Restaurant removing billboards referencing US-Mexico wall

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Restaurant removing billboards referencing US-Mexico wall

Aug. 17, 2016 5:38 PM EDT

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana restaurant chain is removing billboards referencing a proposed border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

Referring to a campaign promise by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Hacienda Mexican Restaurant's signs proclaimed it has "The Best Mexican Food This Side Of The Wall."

Hacienda executive vice president Jeff Leslie says he didn't expect the backlash from the Hispanic community.

Sam Centellas is executive director of La Casa de Amistad community center in South Bend. He says the billboards are offensive because "wall" has taken on a political connotation.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f368273900054f6886cfef6cba34c799/restaurant-removing-billboards-referencing-us-mexico-wall

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Hacienda Restaurant, Evansville, Indiana

[tonyt53]

1. I never cared for their tacos anyway.

[tanyev]

2. "He didn't expect the backlash from the Hispanic community"

Seriously?

[Angry Dragon]

3. I had the same thought

[spud_demon]

4. In a way, it's a compliment to Mexico

meaning "If you actually go there, you can get better Mexican food than in this restaurant."

Didn't openly take a stance on whether the wall is good or bad. They simply didn't realize people opposed to the wall don't want to hear about it as if it already exists.

[displacedtexan]

5. I have to disagree with your logic there, spud_demon.

Only those who approve of the wall would think it would be good for business... You know, attract the "right" people.

He's lying.

[Hortensis]

9. Well, whatever he hoped it'd accomlish, he's definitely

lying when he says the wall "has taken on political connotations." When was it not intensely political? He obviously got a lot more backlash than he expected. So...good!

[spud_demon]

11. Learning is good, and this guy learned something.

[Hortensis]

13. Yes. Have no idea just what he was thinking,

but whether more cluelessness from empathy deficit or whatever, it's presumably a learning experience.

Just what lesson was taken, though? That's always the trick with learning by experience.

[LanternWaste]

14. Commercial branding is about perception only

Commercial branding is about perception only. It does not allow for grammatical deconstruction or rationalization of a sentence or phrase-- which would then be anything other than advertising.

This is merely bone-head idiocy by dude-bro's working at Omnicon, Ogilvy and Mather, or some other agency thinking they're much more clever than reality dictates, much like the "Spike your girlfriend's eggnog" ad campaign by Bloomingdale's, or the "Up for whatever" campaign by Budweiser.

[Mosby]

6. I looked at their menu

They shouldn't be allowed to call themselves a Mexican restaurant.

Fettuccine Fernando?

WTF?

[Judi Lynn]

7. Super creepy. Sounds awful.

[jpak]

8. I'm going out on a limb here

but I'm pretty sure their food sucks and Hispanics don't eat there.

[whistler162]

10. Must have taken the Trump U Marketing course

"How to drive customers away and offend as many as possible."

Hispanics and people who remember the Jonestown Massacre!

[PaddyIrishman]

12. Tasteless but funny

There's a mexican restaurant close to me that had a sign that read "Our food is so authentic Donald Trump would build a will around it"

Anything that mocks Trump and reminds Hispanic voters of what he has in mind for them is a good thing.