♦ The Primanti Brothers restaurant chain is apparently owned and operated by hardcore left-wing activists. [Details on Restaurant Here]
About a month ago, it was reported in the Daily Mail the restaurant chain kicked out all of the regular dining patrons so they could stage actors as a campaign event for Kamals Harris in the Pittsburgh area.
The Harris campaign bussed in the press pool and a group of campaign supporters, essentially actors, to stage a photo shoot meet and greet and manufacture the appearance of support for Kamals Harris.
The August event was presented as “ordinary diners,” but was in fact a group of Harris campaign workers. Essentially this was typical astroturf sold as organic or authentic campaigning; it wasn’t. Everything around Kamala Harris is fake, manufactured and astroturf performance.
Staff at the restaurant told patrons they would have to leave at 4:00pm due to a ‘private event’ which turned out to be a campaign stop for Kamala Harris.
♦ In a remarkable contrast, today the same restaurant chain blocked republican VP nominee JD Vance from entering the building and campaigning.
A video taken by a diner within Primanti Brothers was posted on Twitter and quickly went viral. Apparently, most of the people inside the establishment immediately cancelled their orders as soon as they realized what was happening,
The barred JD Vance was undeterred and remained outside the building to thank people as they left. The video shows JD Vance telling those who were outraged that he paid for cancelled meals, left a tip and reminded the operator of the restaurant of the “no tax on tips” pledge from the campaign.
🚨🚨SHOCKING – YOUR THOUGHTS: JD Vance was barred from entering Primanti Bros (@primantibros) in North Versailles, PA.
As supporters waited for him inside, they were informed and decided to cancel their orders and just pay for their drinks.
When Vance arrived, he was… pic.twitter.com/PAKXCRNaiQ
— 🇺🇸 Larry 🇺🇸 (@LarryDJonesJr) September 28, 2024
Don’t worry about trying to contact Primati Brothers restaurant chain, based on their non-response from the original story of the August event, the owners/operators will just remain silent and wait for the controversy to end.
It’s a private business, and they really don’t care what MAGA patrons have to say about the way they operate it.
JD handed this with CLASS and DIGNITY! This restaurant lost far more today than the customers who walked out. Perhaps much like the far left CNN et al., when their customer base drops…
I am thinking that the only hope for CNN to have any audience is a captive audience, like at an airport where everyone has to sleep on the floors due to flights being cancelled due to a hurricane.
Paying for the cancelled meals was piss weak. I expect a damn sight more off Vance.
WTF? Did you leave off the /s?
What should he have done, gone in and demanded that they bake him a wedding cake? It’s a private business. No need to make a fuss about it. Just take your business down the street, and offer up a little bit of publicity in the process. That restaurant is in the middle of a deep, deep blue city. Not the place to waste your powder on.
1000% disagree with you.
He handled it with grace and class
That is the best “up yours” response there is.
The best “up yours” would be to let them take it in the pocket book.
I agree.
Troll much?
Huh? New here?
In these days of paying ahead, maybe the people who ordered the food and left…may have been on the hook for the bill?
And Busch. The beer peepul. With that “diversity” hire that darn near drove them under.
Kids in my student neighborhood have abandoned Bud Light. When I see them drinking Budweiser or Busch Light I tell them ” That’s just Bud Light I’d a different can!” I also inform them that the biggest American-OWNED beer is Sam Adams (Boston Brewery Inc.) All the big beers are foreign-owned.
Only Sam Adams and Shiner in this Texas house
Revenues will plunge. Will they understand and care about the connection to their discriminatory disparaging behavior towards their customer base. Most of these left wing whackos just aren’t too bright and are extremely arrogant.
Well we won’t be eating there again. My husband and I have been flying back and forth to PGH almost monthly the past year and a half (we both grew up in PGH) Primanti Bros. in Moon Twp. was the one we would stop at, but the food was never as good as the original in the strip district, so it won’t be missed. This is going to hurt them, they have locations at all the sports venues I think.
ha! That’ll be great if boycott extends to Sports Venues!
In Pittsburgh venues they do………meaning PNC Park, Acrisure Stadium and PPG Arena. There is one in as far away as Morgantown, WVA. My daughter went there for school and we went often. I believe the original is downtown Pittsburgh. We have been there also.
Goodness, what a shame. A great sandwich.
The Vance team had permission to be there.
https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-jd-vance-campaign-had-approval-for-pa-primanti-bros-visit-before-it-was-shut-down-by-corporate
Vance took the high road and set the stage for a sequel by encouraging those folks to go back.
When they do and are refused service it will make the news again and mean even more bad publicity for the business.
The fact they already seem to be trying to walk it back with the ‘she just got nervous’ excuse suggests to me they may have already experienced blowback and lost business due to the August stunt with hairass.
They really appear to have blown it, again, and bigger businesses than they are have recently felt the effects of being overtly political and aggressively leftist.
Americans are tired of it.
Hope they go under.
I’ll venture to say you are not alone here and that in the event of such an outcome, there’ll be no tears hitting the ground beneath this tree.
Well….no….I’ll take that back. I have laughed ’till my eyes watered a time or two. It could happen again.
They will go under. They were probably in the market for a bankruptcy. Inflation is eating up their profits.
You know zero about Primanti’s. Best sandwich in Pennsylvania.
This may come as quite the shock to you, but there exist people who elevate principles over their gut.
Having for many years been self employed in customer service businesses, the idea that one would reject someone’s good business on grounds of their political beliefs would have been unthinkable.
One does not inquire as to customer beliefs unless one wishes to alienate one’s customers and lose one’s business.
Who cares about some stupid sandwich which shortly turns to feces, when the First Amendment is at stake?
Yeah what a time to disparage their customers and then to promote the one, Harris, responsible for our declining economy, and diss the one, Trump, who gave US one of the best economies ever. Liberals are so stupid and arrogant.
not in Pennsylvania they won’t.
Nervous about *what* exactly???!
Unhinged MAGA supporters?
Eff these stupid people.
Egg Zakkly.
Nervous isn’t the word they’re looking for.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I saw a grimy, falling-apart pickup truck in the safeway parking lot today with a crudely written sign taped to the door that read kamala is MAGA!
make abortion great again!
Saw that and four yard signs for that person as compared to dozens of Trump/Vance signs.
The ones for miss thang are all small. Most for Trump are large and larger. In some places they’re up year round and have been for years. This is a bellweather county, stolen in 20.
The Primati Bros have an absolute right to pull both the original stunt and to keep out an ‘undesirable’ person. Of course, potential customers have a right to dine somewhere else.
Exactly. And no harm in giving them some publicity. If the people agree, they will prosper. If the people disagree, they will fail. It’s the power of the purse, and voting with your feet, on full display. An excellent example of what make this country so great.
Liberals have never made this country great. They hate US.
Liberals do stupid things all the time. They’ll get payback. Got to say not too bright supporting Harris who is responsible for our lousy economy and dissing Trump who gave US one of the best economies ever. Stupid arrogant liberal idiots.
Efffff Primati Bros. ands the ugly a z z horse they rode in on … Urge all right thinking Pennsylvanians to boycott this POS so called restaurant.
There’s two in Ft Lauderdale, Florida. One on the beach and one in the part of town where most of the pedophile drag show performers live (Wilton Manors).
They should be taunted, customers highly, personally discouraged from going in by nice ‘ambassadors’ right outside.
Or you could do what the Left do to you – harass them and their customers, and tell them they’re not welcome.
Demand they support your agenda like they do about BLM.
No, this is why the left will lose.
True patriots just know better. Shut them down economically.
Works every time.
Oh good. Spread word around FL. too, then if they’re here.
Why did it take so long for this to come out and why hasn’t JD mentioned this ?
I wish someone would ask him why he has changed his name 3 times.
👋 🚫
Do a simple search. Mom remarried and she changed his name whilst JD was a child. Then they divorced and he changed it to his maternal grandmothers surname of Vance. 2 name changes and not 3
Makes it easier in school … duh
It happened less than a week ago.
He may have mentioned it.
I don’t hang on Vance’s every word.
WTH?
Boycott this business.
Here’s their locations.
They’re in 5 States.
https://restaurants.primantibros.com/
Ok, it has been a month, are they still open?
Definitely looks like a classic loud noisy corporate type restaurant, the kind I don’t go to.
Vance happened on Sunday.
Kams was a month ago.
BREAKING: Senator JD Vance was refused service and threatened with arrest at Primanti Bros., a restaurant owned by Garnett Station Partners, a New York-based private equity firm managing over $2.3 billion, led by partner Jordan Garay.
@GeneralMCNews
https://t.me/GeneralMCNews/10614
Garnett. That explains it.
Aren’t they the ones who’ve bought up nearly every local newspaper in the US and trashed every single one of ’em?
They especially hated the papers with a more conservative bent.
Pretty sure that would be “Gannett”. Different co but huge publisher of dailies.
Thank You, reed!
Yes! It’s Gannett, not Garnett.
Phew! Glad you caught that!
I remember being exposed to the “bias” back in the ’80s with the mullet wrapper {Florida Today/Al Neuhart//Gannett}.
Times change, media bias doesn’t.
Trust God. Fear not.
I did enjoy some of the guest columns,
Mike Royko from the Chicago Tribune was hilarious.
I’d love to hear Slats Grobnik’s take on our current state of affairs.
Ahh, Private equity ruins everything.
Their profits will tank. And no it won’t die down.
LOL 😆 🤣 😂!
watch.
More video. The Bros are denying it. Bud Light them.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/primanti-bros-posts-statement-denying-jd-vance-was/
Note JD’s SS, I really wish some real security would be present. I did see Heel’s Up security at the border looked pretty lame too.
Primanti Brothers is a Pittsburgh institution. They never waded into politics prior to this year, even during the previous two Trump elections, so this is quite the shock.
Class act JD!
Bud Lite anyone?
Report of what happened from a Lawyer who was there.
Wow. Dems acting like thugs. What a surprise.
The lunatic left will make an issue out of POTUS and Vance paying or giving money to people. It already happened with the former.
MSFA…make shopping/dining free/safe again… go ahead idiots tells which establishments to avoid.
Well Primanti Brothers you just lost my business the next time I return to my Pittsburgh roots in Washington County.
This kind of thing needs to be known far and wide. All across the USA.
They’ve issued a response.
As I recall, back in 2018 while working at the White House for DJT Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family were asked to leave a local Virginia restaurant – The Red Hen because the owners hated Trump. Typical for liberals….they disagree with you politically, they can’t argue persuasively or intelligently against conservative political positions so in order to make themselves feel like they are better than us they attempt to “dehumanize” us by doing things like denying us entry into a business…..
my prediction….thos will only serve to destroy these liberal business owners
They closed.
They sure alienated a lot of customers!
Primanti Bros Posts Statement Denying JD Vance Was Blocked From Entering Pittsburgh Area Restaurant–Then Blocks Comments
Excerpt:
Pittsburgh-based reporter Salena Zito observed, “Going to @primantibros in Pittsburgh is the cultural touchstone equivalent of getting a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. Problem for Primanti instead of welcoming to both sides they welcomed Kamala Harris here & not Vance.Cannot be understated the grace @JDVance handled this with.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/primanti-bros-posts-statement-denying-jd-vance-was
Liars.
Maybe they will care when all the MAGA people boycott their crappy business!
One must imagine how Tampon Tim and his supporters would have responded if they were treated this way…
I would encourage all Trump supporters to find someplace else to eat.
I was surprised to find out that they were back on that restaurant ‘canceling’ business again.
Nothing but POS ass holes…..send their restaurant to china or north korea…..or just antifa/BLM it.
These myopic business owners are going to be taught a harsh lesson. When you turn against customers, they turn against you. There are a lot of other places to get greasy food.
Hopefully, that place will have a “Closed Forever” sign in its window very soon.
Don’t go crying about the employees who will suffer because of it. The business owner is solely to blame.
Bankruptcy is the best revenge.
Boycott inbound.
We all now know where not to do business. No business for you, Primanti Bros.
Well, then maybe the brothers should just go home for good.
As usual, The left churns out classless individuals. Difficult to have integrity when you have a demonic soul.
These outfits should heed the words of that sage, Michael Jordan. “Republicans buy sneakers, too.”
They are going to get the “Bud Light” treatment from Conservatives. I hope for their sakes that they take payment in liberal tears!
Oh I’m sure she paid the restaurant big money to do this..along with the bus load of actors. But…the restaurant will reap the consequences.
Didn’t a restaurant treat Sarah Huckabee Sanders poorly and they eventually went out of business. Maybe the same will happen to this place.
Yes.
That restaurant won’t be in business too much longer. Even less time if the cackling hyena wins because the Dems manage to cheat.
Stopped there a few years ago while visiting the area. Maybe at one time it was “The Place To Go” in Pittsburgh, but it’s over-hyped now. The restaurant wasn’t very clean, and we waited over 30 minutes for a sandwich order. They put greasy fries on the sandwiches whether you want them or not. The prices were as obnoxious as the waiter. There are other delis and restaurants in the city that are far better for food quality, service, and price.
If I’m not mistaken there was a Little Red Hen eatery that tried this stunt and soon found out they had mad a huge mistake. they are now gone!
Yep.
…and they blamed the failure of the business not on their ridiculous stunt but on the mean, racist, red MAGA hat wearing “Trump” supporters.
Notice the use of the words “seemingly” and “initially” in the headline below from one of the local fake media TV stations. As always they must provide as much cover as possible for the Dem creeps that run things in Allegheny County.
Primanti Bros. customers left disappointed after JD Vance seemingly was initially denied entry
https://www.wpxi.com/news/politics/primanti-brothers-says-vice-president-nominee-jd-vance-was-not-turned-away-visit/R4PQ5JPSJVDSTDPPXT6QO3SMXQ/
What conservative would trust the contents of a meal served in this restaurant?
So much respect for their loyal patrons! Why anyone would still go there after so much disrespect is beyond me. It would have even been a great business opportunity for them to say that they welcome everyone to their establishment. Looks like they blew that opportunity.
Liberals lack sense because they’re congenitally stupid.
The brown shirts of the Democratic Party. Little fast-food restaurant manager probably got a little piece of “flare” to wear to her awful job everyday…gee I hope she’s not expecting to pay off her college debt on her hourly wage! But somewhere in her woke head she feels patriotic for yelling at a sitting Senator of the United States and restricting his movements.
The Manager will end up getting fired for “making the wrong decision,” Even though the edict came down from above.
Can’t cure stupid.
The controversy will end when they see their revenues drop and one after another of their lousy restaurants/bars close.
Sounds like a Dylan Mulvaney moment to me.
The Primanti Brother may yet discover that their noxious, commie rat ‘cancel culture’ works two ways.
To quote the great General Jack Ripper, ‘two can play at this game, soldier.’
We can vote with our feet and our checkbooks. Think of where that would leave these intolerant, fascist little brats?
Who cares about some stupid sandwich which shortly after consumption turns to feces, when The First Amendment is at stake?