Who the hell brands hamburger buns?
“They poisoned the whole town,” a cook who formerly worked there says.
It was an accident.
Boebert’s business was catering a local rodeo, and “the county health department determined the cause to be food poisoning from pork sliders sold at an unlicensed mobile stand and likely stored at an improper temperature,” Mother Jones reported in a story here.
But there was nothing inadvertent about her run-ins with health regulations when the pandemic hit. She refused to close her dining room, which led to “a cease-and-desist order.” When she defied it, she was served a restraining order. So she set up tables outside and tweeted, “I decided to open on the city street because my employees still need paychecks.” (An employee caustically replied, “Never cared about her employees getting paid before.”) The county suspended her restaurant license.
Lauren’s restaurant, Shooters Grille in Rifle, Colorado, had few customers and lost money hand over fist, $143,000 in 2019 and $226,000 in 2020. Staff were irregularly paid, and many of them quit. The gunslinging waitresses are a gimmick that hasn’t boosted her flailing business, but it did raise her profile and help her get elected to Congress.
I could go on about Boebert, a high school dropout who lets pit bulls run loose, gets speeding tickets and doesn’t wear a seatbelt, and lied about her mother being a “Democrat” (voter registration records say otherwise). But I’ll just say, “too much information,” and stop.
Being in Congress, at least she isn’t in the Shooters Grille kitchen cooking. You probably shouldn’t eat anything she prepares.
Update: Shooters Grille went out of business on Sunday, July 10, 2022 (see story here).