Timeline for Why does it matter that a group of January 6 rioters went to Olive Garden for dinner after the riot?
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| Nov 4, 2022 at 3:07 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @Darrell it's not even poverty. Small towns have great gourmet places like C.J. Maggie's or Bon Rico, but no one has heard of them. The problem is to get a gang from a variety of places to agree on a spot, they need to have all heard of it, and that means chains. Chains suck in the sticks. Applebees is about as good as it gets. | |
| Nov 3, 2022 at 15:47 | comment | added | adam.baker | (And to be clear, I don't mean to cast shade. I have wonderful memories of going to Olive Garden.) | |
| Nov 3, 2022 at 15:46 | comment | added | adam.baker | I'm sure it would depend on the jurisdiction and the composition of the jury. But that might just mean that the pitch wouldn't be “Look a what a banal restaurant these guys celebrated at” but “Look, these guys aspire to the same brands that you do.” | |
| Nov 3, 2022 at 13:44 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | Though to many people in the poorer parts of the country where a lot of the rioters came from, Olive Garden IS the fancy restaurant. Anything above fast food level could be considered an occasional splurge at best, so it could be seen as celebratory. Also consider that most of them were from out of the region, and the really fancy places tend not to be nationwide chains, so an Olive Garden might just be the fanciest place they'd recognize doing a map search. | |
| Nov 3, 2022 at 8:18 | history | answered | adam.baker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |