“We have been very pleased with the lines since opening Oct. 10 and are grateful for customer response to our food and our approach to customer service,” the company said in an email Saturday, including photos of customers waiting in line. “We mutually agreed to a six-month lease with the Oracle Mall in Reading as part of a longer term strategy for us as we look to expand our international presence.”ADADReading Pride, a U.K.-based LGBTQ advocacy group, announced its stance against the restaurant’s opening Oct. 14. “These kids are important to us,” Rodney Bullard, the company’s vice president of corporate social responsibility, told Business Insider. “We develop relationships with them over the years to where there is a crisis, they actually come to people, in part to people in our staff.”Protests of the U.K. location continued Saturday even as news spread that the location would close. “You will not be opening anywhere else in the U.K. And if we do see you on our soil, we will stand up and we will challenge you again.”Read more:AD

Source: Washington Post October 19, 2019 20:15 UTC