Californian Chef Won’t Serve Customers Wearing MAGA Hats at His Restaurant

In this Aug. 23, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump hands a signed "Make America Great Again," hat back to a supporter in Reno, Nev. An award-winning cookbook author and California restaurant owner says anyone wearing a red "Make America Great Again" baseball cap will be refused service at his restaurant. J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is a chef-partner of the Wursthall restaurant in San Mateo and says in a tweet Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019, that he views the hats as symbols of intolerance and hate. AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File

A Californian restaurant owner has created a social media storm after he declared on Twitter that he won’t serve customers wearing a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat.

“It hasn’t happened yet, but if you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served, same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate,” J. Kenji Lopez-Alt wrote in a post on Jan. 25, reported San Fransico Chronicle. Lopez-Alt, an award-winning cookbook author, is one of the owners of the Wursthall Restaurant in San Mateo.