Do I now need to boycott Wagamama

FYI they are owned by The Restaurant Group. Assuming Wagamama are captured by the gender ideologists, it’s probably best to direct complaints to the parent company.

I'm glad I read this because I haven't been for a while. I won't be returning either. It's made me think I should look into where my money is going. I will never support mermaids!

Tone deaf. No more Wagamama for us.
All the lols at Wagabirthingperson…at least until next pride month when they actually run with that!

They were supporting gendered intelligence years ago.
They've done pride well in the past, making restaurants safe spaces for people to meet before parades, that was along side doing a month raising money for mental health charities, this support for mermaids seems to be going on for longer than other campaigns.
Emails to complain above.
Or Twitter.
I'm gutted a brand I really loved and put a lot in to has fallen for this toxic mess for no reason at all.

Do I now need to boycott Wagamama?

Yes.

And fuck them, how could they have put such little thought into this
Mermaids encourage children onto the path to transition
with balloons and fireworks and hazzahs
and Wagamama are up with that??
Have they thought this through AT ALL?

It does seem bizarre @Kentgirl2525
Like there's no other causes or charities to support. And 20% of profits is a LOT!
Why don't they support something local (to individual branches) or food bank or something environmental FFS.
Let's hope they find their profits plummet. Our family are partial to the occasional Wagamama but won't be going again.

No more Wagamama for us either. I'm not emailing them because I'll probably get a 'We don't want your bigoted business anyway, you evil TERF' type response. But I will not spend my money there.

Please email them or tweet them to let them know how bad this looks, there is plenty of evidence.
More annoying that there are so many decent charities out there desperate for cash right now.
India Willoughby on twitter today telling wagamama and mermaids to sue someone who's accused them if child abuse.
I would absolutely love to see that come to court.
I'm sure wagamamas lawyers have got more sense than the diversity lead.

HR, not sure if this is allowed?
[email protected]

They might do due diligence, they might not, looks like not; but they are paying a non binary inclusion and wellbeing partner what £30/£40k a year, if he's advising to do this, how much pushback would that really get?
I'm so disappointed, I used to love the brand and it's values and it was a good place to work for a long time.
I'm not sure how long this 'proud beyond pride' is going on for, seems to be at least two months already which is unusual, is it permanent?
So glad I got out at exactly the right moment.
CEO email: [email protected]
Inclusion: [email protected].

'Imagine doing this in 2022 as the court cases mount.'

Exactly! FFS, do they not do any due diligence about which charities they support?

Yup the forget that the people walking are those older (mostly) women taking their kids and their kids pals…

Exactly, I was going to say the same thing. Slightly hypocritical of me because some of the places I'm currently boycotting have been on my to-do list to write to for a VERY long time 😳but realistically, unless we write/email/tweet and TELL them all that we are boycotting them and why (and if possible, how MUCH custom/money they are losing from us), they might not even notice we've stopped using them at all (unless there was a VERY big drop in overall sales), or if they do, they may have absolutely no idea WHY their sales have dropped, and mistakenly attribute it to all sorts of wrong reasons. So every time, we should be getting a clear message out there that we're unhappy with them, and why! (Promise I will try to do some of mine later!).

DS and his mates stopped using them because of this. I'd really like to be able to just buy food without any politics attached to it.

Good idea we do need to do this. I was unaware of this as been avoiding the news for a while now due to it making me thoroughly depressed! But I too will not use Wagamamas anymore after hearing this. My money my choice where to spend it. Why is trans rights absolutely everywhere now? Why is nothing else supported? Why does it seem like the only important issue that even businesses seem to be involved in? I’m genuinely confused as to how all this has become so rammed down our throats suddenly. They seem to be the only people who matter nowadays but surely they are such a minority?!?

An acquaintance of mine knows the CEO and this doesn't surprise me, he's fully on-board with gender ideology and the manchester restaurant has a massive rainbow flag with the trans triangles.

Think this is the non binary man who had to do the obligatory making womens day all about trans women on the company Facebook group

Ffs only a man (binary/non binary/has a penis person) could possibly think this is a good idea and a decent thing to do.

Will they be changing their name to Wagaperson?
😂😂

We enjoy food at Wagamamas but will give it a miss now. Can anyone engage with them on Twitter and challenge?

They are hiring LGBT inclusion mangers everywhere. Diversity and inclusion is high on the agenda of every organisation and large business in this country. Recruitment is currently not merit based, it's ideology driven.

We used to go to Wagamama monthly but haven't been for some time because my family care about the safety of children.

I think we need to TELL businesses this sort of thing: an email saying "I used to spend £100 a month regularly at your restaurant in X [town]. Since your policy to supply binders to underage girls, my family will be spending our money elsewhere."

Wagadick for male customers, I expect.

Wagabirthingperson

Will they be changing their name to Wagaperson?