Olive Garden Anti American Flag?

Would you sup­port, a busi­ness that alleged­ly hat­ed the Amer­i­can way of life?

Is it True, because I feel real­ly bad if it is, Imag­ine for a moment you have a restau­rant,
chain that is based in Orlan­do Fl.

Then imag­ine that for the most part its prime cus­tomer base alleged­ly is Old­er Amer­i­cans, aged 40 to 60 among this group most of its mem­bers either have served in the Armed forces or have a fam­i­ly mem­ber that have served in the Armed forces.

Now imag­ine Spit­ting on your food and then say­ing hi, we respect you, real­ly we do.

In fact we actu­al­ly have our employ­ees alleged­ly lie to your face from time to time.

Would you believe them?

If they said, we even give our employ­ees, a minia­ture, ver­sion of the Amer­i­can flag, (alleged­ly so small that you can bare­ly see it)

Would you still eat at that restau­rant?

 The cor­po­rate nose pick­ers, (alleged­ly) claim that they are fine with the Amer­i­can flag, real­ly they say that they are, but it is true?

While think­ing about this ter­ri­ble issue, (I am a reg­u­lar cus­tomer of this loca­tion, in oxford Alaba­ma)

I start­ed think­ing about long years ago when I used to work in Man­age­ment, at then one of the largest Steak hous­es in the nation.

Every morn­ing before we opened, I would remove the Amer­i­can Flag, from its loca­tion inside the restau­rant, and attach it to the flag pole, I would then run it up to the top of that pole, in the morn­ing light it looked like a great day every day.

That would what we did every sin­gle day, at the end of the day, we would low­er the flag and fold it care­ful­ly nev­er allow­ing it to touch the ground, and then that would be the end of the day, those were long days, and often it meant work­ing 17 or more hours every day but those two parts of my day were always there, sol­id, Amer­i­can Val­ues, and that was back in the 1980s.  It seems like a thou­sand years ago and yet I can still see the flag and how it would catch the wind in the morn­ing light.

These days you would be hard pressed to find an Amer­i­can flag any­where out­side an offi­cial loca­tion run by the state or the fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment.

I won­der if it is not time to start show­ing where our real alle­giance stands?

The prob­lem with this sto­ry about the Olive Gar­den and its alleged anti Amer­i­can busi­ness Stance, was that at least accord­ing to the cor­po­rate lap dogs for Olive Gar­den in Flori­da is that it was some kind of mis­un­der­stand­ing, yeah that must be it, just an acci­den­tal
thought that some­how it was wrong to allow the dis­play of the Amer­i­can flag inside the restau­rant. 

So if this is real­ly true then they cer­tain­ly would have no prob­lem erect­ing a flag pole and a Flag out­side this loca­tion right?

Sounds rea­son­able to me, in fact it seems like a great idea to show that a busi­ness is patri­ot­ic.

So I called the cor­po­rate offices for Olive Gar­den and sug­gest­ed that this would be a great solu­tion to the prob­lem, and you know what, they said, “we have no prob­lem with any­one that wants to bring a flag inside one of our restau­rants”  Now, seems like they may in fact have an issue with the flag if they are not inter­est­ed in dis­play­ing a flag out­side the loca­tion in oxford Alaba­ma.

I real­ly want to under­stand what peo­ple find so offen­sive about our flag, because it is what makes Amer­i­ca the land of the free and the home of the Brave…

It real­ly amazes me when a busi­ness is some­how afraid to dis­play the flag of its sov­er­eign nation.

 Over the last 12 months I have eat­en at Olive Gar­den, Long­horn and Red Lob­ster, 17 times, in fact I have spent a great deal of mon­ey tak­ing my fam­i­ly and friends out to eat, at these loca­tions, but you know what, I did not real­ize that I was deal­ing with a com­pa­ny and a busi­ness that (alleged­ly) does not respect the Amer­i­can Flag.

That end­ed as soon as I saw this news sto­ry and I called the Man­ag­er at this loca­tion and was told that no one was allowed to dis­play a flag, so I guess that makes than an equal oppor­tu­ni­ty offend­er, (alleged­ly) You know what there are Amer­i­can Restau­rants, out there that have no prob­lem dis­play­ing the Amer­i­can flag out­side their restau­rants, and I will be eat­ing at those loca­tions in the future.

Most­ly, I think that if you are ashamed of our flag, per­haps you should con­sid­er liv­ing some­where else.

Per­haps you should con­sid­er vis­it­ing some of these oth­er coun­tries that don’t mind hav­ing you in their coun­try but I will give you one bit of advice you should care­ful­ly con­sid­er before you dis­re­spect any oth­er nations flag, make sure you don’t mind spend­ing time in jail.

In fact you might want to learn the lan­guage where ever you plan on going, because if you treat them like you treat us you will soon dis­cov­er a vio­lence that will shock you and will cause you a great deal of con­ster­na­tion.

If you need any help pack­ing just let me know because I would be hap­py to take you to the air port on your way out of town, please turn in your Cit­i­zen­ship to this great nation because where your going you wont need it again.