Re: politicized pizzas
In the days before social media we had a time- honored pizzeria in our town ... actually the first pizza place in my town. It was so old my dad delivered pizzas for them in the late 1960s. (One time my dad delivered a pizza to Eric Burdon of The Animals who gave him a $20 tip - but that's off topic in this already off topic thread.)
Anyways, new management came and the pizza place got very political. Since we're not supposed to discuss politics on this board, I'll just say that the owner thought all pizzas should be sausage, and if you wanted pepperoni on your pizza you were an idiot.
So he put that on the marquee, yard signs, menus, and take out menus. He would pass out pamphlets telling you that sausage was the only way. I kid you not, he would come in while you were having a meal, sit at your table and tell you about why sausage was the best topping on pizzas. It was clear he was a member of the ... sausage party (maybe I didn't think this analogy all the way through before I started).
But the point is, when you're running a business for the public, doing things that might alienate customers is a very bad business move. About two years later, this pizza place that had been around since the early 1960s had been replaced by a Dunkin' Donuts.