W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:39 pm Actual owner is now claiming no firings happened, other than the guy in the video (his buddy and possibly a manager).
The stupid Tik Tok was bad enough, but the owner has provided a whole new reason to boycott his restaurants.Michael Brown owns four restaurants around Lexington county. His businesses included three Paparoni’s Pizzeria & Grills in Swansea, Pelion, and Gaston and a barbeque restaurant.
He says his now-former district manager, Jody, made the video as satire in response to businesses imposing vaccine mandates and firing unvaccinated workers.
“It was a completely fabricated story, he had, I’m not going to say good intentions because it was a bad idea, but he wanted to trigger people based on this vaccination hot topic and he wanted to flip that to say this is how we feel about people being terminated for not being vaccinated,” Brown said.
Brown says since the video gained traction Tuesday night, he has received thousands of threats. He says he made attempts to respond to criticism online and didn’t mean to come off as harsh to those he replied to.
ETA: I forgot to post the link.A lot of the comments center around Brown being on the National Mall in Washington, DC on the day of the riots on Capitol Hill. Brown says he was there, as was Jody, but he never entered the Capitol and has already given a statement to the FBI.
https://www.wistv.com/2021/10/06/owner- ... -is-false/