Sambo's, once a chain with more than 1,100 restaurants that traded in racist iconography, will change the name of its last remaining site amid the national protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.
The restaurant said it would temporarily cover its sign"with a message of peace and love as soon as possible and we are looking to work with the community to determine how we go forward."
The owners decided to go quite literal with this intent, putting a peace symbol with the words"& LOVE" over the"Sambo's" sign, though they hadn't quite completely covered it by Friday evening and said they would have to start over again after failing to secure the new letters to the sign's structure.
"We are starting over and will try again until we get it done," the restaurant said in a statement."In the meantime out of respect, we have covered the SAMBO’S sign."on Friday that they inherited the restaurant from Chad’s grandfather, Sam Battistone, and his partner, Newell Bohnett. The two founded the restaurant more than 60 years ago and claimed the name came from combining the two founders' names.
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