yay for Red Lobster creator and Black History Month

[butters]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddr...-to-jim-crow/ar-AATpgjF?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

"The Green Frog was opened in a state that enforced Jim Crow laws," Crim says in the TikTok. "But Bill refused to comply. He allowed his Black and white customers to sit where they wanted. So technically, as an outspoken public ally, he risked being lynched. But he survived and his business was profitable and lucrative."

In 1968, Darden, who used his profits from the Green Frog to invest in Florida-based chain restaurants and Howard Johnson properties, eventually opened the first Red Lobster restaurant in Lakeland, Florida. Rare reported that the location "was so popular that one month later he had to open another one to keep up with the demand."

 

[twister947]

Thanks for that.

 

[talynn]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddr...-to-jim-crow/ar-AATpgjF?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

That is very interesting.