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California chef Andrew Gruel refuses to close restaurants, calls Gov. Newsom an ‘a—hole’

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Sign up for our to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.The readers of the New York Post aren’t the only people fed up with .Chef Andrew Gruel said he will keep his LA eateries Slapfish and Big Parm open despite the recent ban on outdoor dining, while slamming California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other hypocritical politicians saying: “I’m not an a–hole –&nbsp;the governor is!”Newsom has been on the defense ever since he &nbsp;with lobbyists at the tony French Laundry restaurant the same week he warned against Thanksgiving gatherings.In a video posted Thursday to , noting “My message for all the haters. Please share the logic. Sorry, haven’t had a haircut since March,” the fed up Gruel said he’d been getting slammed online for keeping his restaurant open and said: “I’ve got everybody blowing up my replies saying I’m a grandmother killer so I’m just gonna address it all right here.”The frustrated small business owner continued, saying: “Here’s the situation – do we take the pandemic seriously? Of course we do! Am I saying we shouldn’t close outdoor dining? Yes, I am. “Gruel, who like other restaurateurs struggling to stay open, has bent over backward trying to keep his customers safe at his own expense.“At every single juncture from the beginning until today we have listened to all of the advice from our government officials only to be shut down over and over and over again and then not compensated for the elements we put in place for our businesses to protect our customers,” Gruel said.“We shut down indoor dining – no problem. I got a warehouse full of plexiglass right now. We went outdoors –&nbsp;now that’s getting shut down. I just put thousands of dollars into outdoor heaters.”Gruel’s gripe stem from the lack of scientific evidence linking COVID-19 to outdoor dining.“There is zero scientific evidence that outdoor dining is contributing to the rise in cases related to this,” he claimed, adding that he was frustrated because people are still allowed to shop or fly on airplanes (in enclosed spaces) but not eat outdoors while socially separating.“I am only saying we can continue to dine outdoors because I can get on an airplane and I can fly and eat and do whatever I want – and don’t tell me it’s the HEPA filters because that’s not the case. You don’t turn those on until you get on to the plane. Until then everybody’s fornicating on top of each other,” Gruel said. “I can go into Walmart — nobody wears a mask at Walmart! I can get a pink cockatoo for my Christmas tree but I can’t go and dine outdoors at a restaurant. I can go to Target, Amazon is making tons of money — all big business is getting rich. OK! Outdoor dining does not lead to (COVID). Therefore, screw that — we’re staying open. Outdoors. It’s that simple. I’m not an a–hole —&nbsp;the governor is!”In a follow up on Friday titled “Another update from the mind of a business owner being shutdown,” Gruel continued — this time slamming not just Newsom, but San Francisco Mayor London Breed, LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl and other politicians for their shameless hypocrisy and “virtue signaling.”— a $450-a-plate restaurant — just one night after Newsom, while Kuehl voted to ban outdoor dining in Los Angeles County yet hours later ate outdoors at a Santa Monica restaurant.“Heres a quick update on my thought process,” Gruel fumed. “We’re being told we cant have people dine outdoors yet … Governor Gavin Newsom is banning dining indoors after he dines indoors with 22 people. He’s banning groups of more than four or five people when once again, he was with 22 people indoors. He’s… virtue signaling tweets out there about eating with a mask on and putting a mask on in between bites when he and those 22 people weren’t even wearing masks. They were basically slobbing (sic) all over each other!“We find that LA Country supervisor Sheila Kuehl bans outdoor dining and then that exact night goes to a restaurant to eat outdoors,” he continued. “San Jose mayor (Sam Liccardo – who ) same situation… What’s happening is we’re being told to do one thing when the people telling us to do that aren’t even following their own rules. There is no science backing up that eating outdoors is leading to a spike in coronavirus cases.”Gruel takes a breath and then says: “You see the hypocrisy. Really think about this here: No one is following their own rules. How serious can those rules be if they’re not following their own rules!?”Gruel ends his rant with two simple words: “Virtue Signaling.”

Sign up for our to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.The readers of the New York Post aren’t the only people fed up with .Chef Andrew Gruel said he will keep his LA eateries Slapfish and Big Parm open despite the recent ban on outdoor dining, while slamming California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other hypocritical politicians saying: “I’m not an a–hole –&nbsp;the governor is!”Newsom has been on the defense ever since he &nbsp;with lobbyists at the tony French Laundry restaurant the same week he warned against Thanksgiving gatherings.In a video posted Thursday to , noting “My message...

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California chef Andrew Gruel refuses to close restaurants, calls Gov. Newsom an ‘a—hole’

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