A well known local enterpruneur in Keene, New Hampshire is stepping up. After running a successful food truck she’s taken her brand and her menu indoors. A full-service restaurant is coming soon that will feature her pho Noodle Soups. But the city isn’t too ‘keen’ on the name. Pho Keene Great.
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Ian at Free Keene has plenty of background.
[Isabelle] Rose says that [City manager Elizabeth] Dragon told her the name of the business is “offensive and not appropriate” and wants to meet to discuss potential changes. Strange timing, considering the city manager was aware of the name back in February of 2018, since the city owns the property that Rose is renting and Rose sent Dragon an email with her business name in February and then signed a lease including the name of the restaurant in April.
Rose intends to fight the city to keep the name. Ian invokes the ACLU as a possible ally in that battle.
Good for her. Keene is a client state of the Global Demorrhoid war on Free Speech. It would be Pho Keene Great to see them get their asses handed to them again.
And I think we’ll make a point of calling the proprietor, Isabelle Rose, and asking if we can hold a GrokMeet at her new restaurant after it opens. We need to do one out that way. Might as well be Pho Keene Great.
