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Do I now need to boycott Wagamama

86 replies

Needmoresleep · 27/09/2022 14:38

I like Wagamama. However I spotted this in a DM article about Mermaids today.

"Meanwhile, Wagamama is currently running a similar fundraiser, according to its website which states 25p from every power juice sold will be donated to Mermaids along with 20 per cent of its profits from their bespoke menu."

Why are firms getting into this agree with our politics if you want to buy our services thing. There is no way I want to buy anything that leads to a donation to Mermaids. Wagamama please reconsider.

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Exhaustedmoose · 27/09/2022 20:38

Ffs wagadicks

userlotsanumbers · 27/09/2022 20:36

FFS. I can barely eat anywhere because of my raging IBS, but yeah, another one bites the dust. Never again, and this was one place I could actually eat at.
Looking like a blessing in disguise that the rising prices make it impossible to eat out over the next few years then, eh? Every cloud and that.

AffronttoBS · 27/09/2022 20:31

But lots of diversity and inclusion managers within companies are just woke and ignorant.

Chillisquid · 27/09/2022 20:30

Inclusion and wellbeing partner [email protected]
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.

MrsMitford3 · 27/09/2022 20:29

Well I'm out too.

it has to be corruption because surely no business is that tone deaf

AffronttoBS · 27/09/2022 20:29

I have stopped going to Wagamama for a few years. We go to Pho instead whenever we are shopp8ng in reading or Oxford.

Chillisquid · 27/09/2022 20:26

The CEO email address is [email protected].

Banana2079 · 27/09/2022 20:23

Terrible food anyway

Chillisquid · 27/09/2022 20:22

I used to work for wagamama.
I can tell you they hired a non binary diversity and inclusion manager about 18 months ago.
They asked all staff if they wanted pronoun badges and pride lanyards about 6months ago.
Then 'proud beyond pride' was when the supporting mermaids started, must have been in July.
They've partnered with gendered intelligence before also.
Thank god I left when I did because I couldn't have worked for them supporting mermaids.
Of all the charities in the world I don't know why any decent brand would touch that toxic mess with a bargepole.

Teamsaction · 27/09/2022 19:57

I also love the noodles but am not going again.

AriettyHomily · 27/09/2022 19:01

I didn't know this, Shane, we liked their food.

Sittingonabench · 27/09/2022 18:54

Very disappointing. I really enjoyed their food and sake.

Squashpocket · 27/09/2022 18:41

The last time we went in they had 3 gender neutral bathrooms (fully enclosed, basin inside the cubicle type things) and 3 women's bathrooms (same set up), which I thought was actually very thoughtful of them. If you identify as non-binary or whatever go gender neutral and the women get double the number of toilets to choose from. Great!

Really confused that they seem to be full gender woo

ImherewithBoudica · 27/09/2022 18:26

Love their food. Not supporting that. Shame.

Gobbolinothekitchencat · 27/09/2022 18:24

That’s a shame, I liked their noodles. We tend to avoid them, mainly for the noise levels, too much for my child with ASD. High ceilings and benches aren’t great.

Easy enough to recreate their noodles at home.

KittenKong · 27/09/2022 18:15

MenopausalMe · 27/09/2022 15:35

It’s personal choice obviously but I’ve been boycotting.

Last time DS went he came home horrified by the Mermaids association as he hadn’t realised and declared he was never going again (and since then he’s been getting friends to rotate around a variety of restaurants when they meet in town whereas before it was Wagamama’s everytime).

Shame I’ve been going since they opened their first restaurant in a basement around the corner from the British Museum.

We’d been going since the one just off museum street opened too, and were then taking the best gen there.

KittenKong · 27/09/2022 18:13

We stopped when they changed the loos along a dark corridor off the back of the one near us into a unisex - oops ‘gender neutral’ - one.

Their food is apparently not very good quality… now all this, my god are they completely tone deaf?

Blackandwhitehorse · 27/09/2022 18:12

Same I’m avoiding, local restaurants are the way forward

FredGarland · 27/09/2022 18:01

I stopped going after a thread about it a while back. I miss having it as a delivery option: it felt much lighter as a meal than curry or Chinese or whatever. Used to have it monthly as a family of 4.

Fluffyfluffflufffluff · 27/09/2022 17:48

"Meanwhile, Wagamama is currently running a similar fundraiser, according to its website which states 25p from every power juice sold will be donated to Mermaids along with 20 per cent of its profits from their bespoke menu."

Imagine doing this in 2022 as the court cases mount.

Corrupt.

MenopausalMe · 27/09/2022 15:35

It’s personal choice obviously but I’ve been boycotting.

Last time DS went he came home horrified by the Mermaids association as he hadn’t realised and declared he was never going again (and since then he’s been getting friends to rotate around a variety of restaurants when they meet in town whereas before it was Wagamama’s everytime).

Shame I’ve been going since they opened their first restaurant in a basement around the corner from the British Museum.

CristinaNov182 · 27/09/2022 15:28

Now with the inflation and everything getting more expensive, I will not afford to go out as much as before and I am definitely paying attention where I go to and places like Starbucks and Wagamama are not on the list.

same for M&S and primark with their mixed sex changing rooms. I rather go to local shops and restaurants.

if they change their policies I’ll be back.

roarfeckingroarr · 27/09/2022 15:28

Oh ffs. I don't care about Starbucks but I quite enjoy a solo Wags with a book and now they'll have to end.

SuperCamp · 27/09/2022 15:27

Thanks for the heads up, OP, I am just arranging a regular mates meet up and we often do Wagamama’s because they are so good on allergies / ingredient knowledge. But none of the 8 of us will support an organisation that supplies binders to young girls.

SuperCamp · 27/09/2022 15:25

OMG: definitely not contributing a penny to Mermaids!