Chicago bar ditches tiki drinks to avoid appropriation claims
Berry, who is also an activist raising money for various social causes, spoke with Eater on Thursday, saying that several people told Allison about their concerns about how a white woman opening a tiki bar was harmful to BIPOC in the community. Allison elected to ignore them for six years, Berry says.
“This wasn’t the first time it’s been brought up about the myth making of tiki, which is white supremacy at the expense of Polynesian and Pacific Islander traditions,” Berry says. Rum is the entire engine that tiki is built upon, and Berry points out that without slavery, the spiritWhile she didn’t speak to Chicago media, in Kennedy’s 2019 article, Allison attempted to reconcile the contradictions of being a white person who owns a tiki bar.
Now the menu describes Lost Lake as “a portal to your favorite warm-weather memory... an antidote to the long Chicago winter” and provides a link toAdditionally, the bar has a new no-tipping policy., a note on the menu explains, was “shown to reflect and amplify racial inequities, contribute to racial profiling, and encourage sexual harassment.” Management attributes the higher costs for paying increase worker salaries and health care.
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