First HIV Positive Restaurant To Open In Toronto Canada

[RhinoParticipant 3477]

Canada’s first HIV-positive restaurant opens in Toronto to counter stigmas

Here is an excerpt from the article for those who don’t want to click on the link.

Mikiki is one of 14 HIV-positive chefs who developed the menu and cooked the food at June’s HIV+ Eatery, a pop-up restaurant organized by Casey House, a Toronto hospital for people living with HIV and AIDS. The restaurant is named after the late June Callwood, one of the hospital’s founders, who was inspired to provide comfort and empathy to young men dying of AIDS after her 20-year-old son Casey was killed by a drunk driver.

June’s is billed as Canada’s first HIV-positive restaurant and was launched to help dispel outdated myths. The idea came after a recent study found that half of Canadians said they wouldn’t knowingly eat or share food prepared by someone who is HIV-positive. Many incorrectly believed HIV could be transmitted through skin-to-skin touch, saliva, or by sharing glasses or cutlery.

“The numbers are kind of staggering, but it wasn’t overly surprising,” says Joanne Simons, CEO of Casey House. “For the clients that Casey House serves, that stigma is very real on a very daily basis.”

At the restaurant, the chefs wear aprons emblazoned with myth-busting slogans like “Kiss the HIV+ cook,” and “I got HIV from pasta, said no one ever.”

The madness will only continue to grow this place will be out of business although they are doing a pilot run for 2 nights only that have been sold out already. I don’t see this as a sustainable business as you are excluding more then half of the population from going to your business just because your cooks all have HIV.

Also no one can account for human error regardless of how careful they are to prepare the food one cut is all it takes to get infected with their blood. One of the Chef’s may end up being mentally unsound and go all psycho and infect people on purpose you just can’t plan for everything so of course people will not want to go it is common sense.

[Anonymous 6]

Well now you know where NOT to eat.

[MonkeyMindParticipant 5340]

Are we back in the 1980’s?

Unless someone in the advanced/final stages of AIDS, how the f~~~ are people even going to know that some stranger has HIV?

It’s very strange times that we live in.

[Anonymous 42]

If a “NO HIV” tried to open up in Toronto the owner would be arrested and charged criminally!

Toronto, isn’t that C~~~adastan’s Mecca for feminism?

[NerdTunnelerParticipant]

uhm…so now we have disease themes for every restaurant? Where are the STD themed restaurant that I should avoid? What is the connection between the disease and the restaurant?…

I stand with feet apart and let my balls hang free...Manginas dont have balls...See how they stand and sit at the whim of their masters...

[Anonymous 42]

Come to Tower’s Garagestaurant, NO STDs’! Lots of cool s~~~!

[Anonymous 18]

How long before there is corporate retreat to this restaurant for 1 anonymous employee who ‘identifies’ as HIV-positive without being tested?

More importantly, how long before someone is fired for being HIV-o-phobic by refusing to attend such event?

I mean, its not often but a chef with HIV just happens to cut himself while preparing salad? Sure, its ketchup.

Enjoy your meal.

[Joey AlfioParticipant]

Toronto — the femnazi slum of Canada.

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[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

Good for them. I don’t have a problem with any business catering to whatever market they want to target. I won’t eat there because i choose restaurants based on food quality and atmosphere, not causes. I don’t think they would kick out non-hiv people. How would they know? Anyway, i don’t see a problem. Free society and they’re not hurting anyone.

Might have a problem retaining repeat customers, since it’s a terminal illness.

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

[RhinoParticipant 3477]

Great response guys but I would like to say to Uchibenkei that they are not hurting anyone until they make a mistake that causes someone to get infected because as humans that tends to happen and eventually someone will screw up somewhere.

Of course that can be said of any place running a business regardless of being HIV positive or not but the risk factor is greater because people are ingesting food that they create.

[SolidParticipant 7520]

I can’t even react to this s~~~, this is a really big wtf is wrong with these people.

[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

Rhino wrote:

Great response guys but I would like to say to Uchibenkei that they are not hurting anyone until they make a mistake that causes someone to get infected because as humans that tends to happen and eventually someone will screw up somewhere.

Of course that can be said of any place running a business regardless of being HIV positive or not but the risk factor is greater because people are ingesting food that they create.

That screw up would have to involve an exchange of bodily fluids. People going in know what it is. The restaurant isn’t keeping any secrets. If you’re worried about the risks, don’t go there. Canada already has a Nanny state government. It doesn’t need us being nannies and telling people what to do or protecting them. If somebody goes in and one in a billion shot gets infected, sucks to be that person. F~~~ ’em.

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

[anonymousyamParticipant 4605]

Rhino wrote:

The idea came after a recent study found that half of Canadians said they wouldn’t knowingly eat or share food prepared by someone who is HIV-positive

I don’t blame them as getting HIV will ruin your life as it can f~~~ing kill you or at least force your income to be spent on expensive treatment for the disease (if you are alive in 30 years after getting it it is because you have blown millions in medications and treatments).

So even if there was very little chance of getting HIV from eating food made by someone who has it i still would not eat it. I am not at the end of my mission and i cannot die yet.

Rhino wrote:

The madness will only continue to grow this place will be out of business although they are doing a pilot run for 2 nights only that have been sold out already. I don’t see this as a sustainable business as you are excluding more then half of the population from going to your business just because your cooks all have HIV.

My belief is that this is just gonna be a fad which will die out. Everyone in town went to see the HIV restaurant for a night, tried it, did not get sick and never returned.

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