Restaurant and entertainment business Dave & Buster’s apologized on Tuesday for posting an offensive joke about tacos to its Twitter account.
The tweet involved a play on the Hispanic name “Juan.” It was captured by the Washington Post’s Tim Herrera, who predicted an apology would follow any minute.
today’s twitter apology tour starts in ~45 minutes, care of @DaveandBusters pic.twitter.com/Ytm9xLNLf4
— Internet Person (@TimHerrera) November 18, 2014
About 90 minutes after the initial tweet, Dave & Buster’s apologized. The original tweet was also deleted.
We sincerely apologize for the tweet that went out today our intention was never to offend anyone please accept our apology
— Dave & Buster’s (@DaveandBusters) November 18, 2014
Photo by Dustin M. Ramsey via Wikimedia
I’m offended the joke was so bad.
“We will be reviewing our Twitter filter settings,” the restaurant also added.
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I’m so tired of this. Honestly, I think that, so long as there are never any bad consequences, people will do racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic crap like this just to get publicity and then not actually apologize.
Dave & Buster’s should show that they really are apologetic…but they won’t.
They had better hope they didn’t piss off Anonymous as did the KKK.