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It is really good!  The lines are usually insane!

And anyone that was threatening them is a total dork.

Why would they name a dish of sausage patties, biscuits, and gravy "Robert E Lee?"

Because it's southern?

But of all the things that are southern, they chose a confederate general?

I mean...until about 3 weeks ago...no one cared...it was a breakfast order...not a statement about racism.  

I never did order it when I went there.  But I did LOVE their Martin Luther King Crab Legs.  Man...

Maybe it was after the car?

Only ate there a couple of times. Great food, huge portions, nice people.

IDK, I may be naive, but I don’t think many people really connect names like that to racism. Maybe the confederate flag and maybe down south but when I see the Robert E Lee breakfast all that conveys to me is that it’s probably much larger than the normal person really needs for a breakfast....so I’d prob order it .  I sincerely doubt it was the owners making any kind of personal or political statement. So that leaves me wondering why they didn’t just change the name, I mean everything else on their menu was extremely generic. I’m guessing they were just ready to get out of a business that is hard to make money at even when there aren’t pandemics and crap to deal with. I’ve seen tons of very good restaurants go belly up over the slightest hiccup. It really doesn’t matter how good the food is if the owners aren’t extremely business savvy and motivated to keep doing it.  Guessing they either had already put enough away to say screw it or they were on the verge of losing it and this was just the last straw. It happens.

I am officially in morning. This is very sad, but I bet this is the first of many to fall.  Say goodbye to all your downtown  favorites in Lincoln and Omaha. 

I get protesting something you oppose, but threatening their family and incidents at their homes is terrible. Hopefully the people that did those things get exposed.

General Lee was the definition of a statesman. He was committed to fighting for whichever side his state of Virginia chose to align with, which was decided by a vote that he had nothing to do with. Unless informed of specific examples of racism, most evidence (from letters) would show he disagreed with slavery 

But he fought for slavery, sooo...

And biscuits and gravy! 

If you believe the civil war was only about slavery, I got some Russell Wilson concussion prevention water to sell ya

It was still about slavery, sooo...

Make this easy...do you think everyone that fights in a war is fighting for just one thing.  No.  Not even close.  In fact, I would argue that most people fighting in wars are not even fighting for what the main "cause" is...They are fighting because they have to, or because they want to, or because they have nothing else, or because they are mad or pissed.  s#!t, you know how many soldiers (if you can call them that by the 3rd month of the civil war) just up and ran away, on both sides.  They have (low) numbers set at like 300,000!

Apparently his son posted some pretty racist stuff on Facebook and that played a part in the protests. 

Would it really have been that hard to rename the dish and move forward? It does kind of smell like there's more to the story than we're getting.

Great critical thinking

People still use facebook?  How old are you guys???

I can about guarantee you that the name of that dish had zero to do with their decision to close. That is WAY too easy of a fix if that’s all it was...which it wasn’t.