Do I now need to boycott Wagamama

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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.

Yep, Wagamama has been binned by us too.
It’s a shame, I liked it.

Yes we boycott for this reason.

I have been avoiding it, despite my love for their Ramen.

Same. They are all about the rainbow now, staff ID lanyards and everything.

Yes, we stopped going because of this and the unisex loos, which are VILE in our local branch.

Oh yes the unisex loos are horrible and my 10yo DD was really uncomfortable having to queue by herself next to a 6ft man.

Yes, I will not support a charity that causes such harm and acts so recklessly.

I never liked the fact they were unable to bring out meals at the same time - incompetent or what. Now of course, there are more serious reasons to not go again.

Another one bites the dust.

I’m not going to go there anymore. I really liked some of their dishes, but im sure I can find elsewhere.

I live near a Wagamama so it's somewhere I've visited regularly but not anymore.

OMG: definitely not contributing a penny to Mermaids!

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

Love their food. Not supporting that. Shame.

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

Very disappointing. I really enjoyed their food and sake.