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  • 2017-09-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Buffalo Wild Wings Worker Turn Down the National Anthem Because It Is 'Divisive'? (en)
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  • An employee at a California location of the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant chain muted the national anthem before a football game on 11 September 2017, the 16th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, saying the anthem was divisive and citing company policy, according to several news reports. Los Angeles television station KCAL reported that: Later, the company appeared to confirm an incident had occurred involving the national anthem at the Eastvale location and issued an apology: According to San Francisco Bay Area news channel KRON 4, World Wide Wings -- a Washington state-based company that operates the restaurant location in question -- also confirmed the incident in an apology sent to the channel: World Wide Wings, a Buffalo Wild Wings franchise, apologizes for what happened at a restaurant before the Monday Night Football game. We do not have a policy regarding this matter. Joe Janaszek, Chief Marketing Officer for World Wide Wings, told us that the employee concerned no longer works for World Wide Wings and emphasized that it was not company policy to turn down the volume during the playing of the national anthem: Janaszek pointed out that World Wide Wings CEO Tom Cook is a military veteran, and could not be more disappointed about this incident. The controversy surrounding this episode came in the midst of an ongoing public debate about the decision by some NFL players -- in particular African-American players -- to kneel during the National Anthem as a protest against police killings of unarmed African Americans. (en)
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