BROWNS in Coventry.

Browns is an interesting place to go and eat. Its central to the City. Its architecture and style is worthy of appreciation. Its food, as I may have said in the past, it really quite good. You can do coffee as well as cocktails, and a decent pint. It can be a wonderful and perhaps even chic place to have assignations. However, there is a singular problem with BROWNS, in that it has an extraordinary and almost bizarre philosophy about whom it choses to admit to its establishment, and has done so now for twenty odd years. I was not allowed in for example one evening to celebrate 'Emma's 21st, "she's over there I exclaimed, its my daughters birthday!", I didn't get in. Their argument to Emma was that its to protect the girls from Un-wanted male predators etc. If only it were that simple. Very recently a gallant young man from Kerseley in Coventry lost his life in Afghanistan. His funeral was carried out with the utmost of pride and emotion among the spires of our great Cathedral. Prior to the service the military pall bearers decided to enter BROWNS for coffee, they were refused service. You can imagine the response, one individual set up a page on Facebook 'Boycott BROWNS in Coventry' within a day or so it had gathered over sixty thousand people. Hurriedly the following day its owner spewed out a apologetic statement, not an apology in my opinion, and then didn't change his policy on serving people in uniform!. It's a bit like watching a train wreck about to happen. All of a sudden, a lot of people in Coventry are not surprisingly coming to the fore about their discrimination by BROWNS over the many years, disabled people, parents feeding their children formula on the pavement outside, Councilors and business types walking out in disgust.. the list goes on. Without doubt its an interesting study in how NOT to conduct Public Relations, this Saturday the boycott proper will apparently begin on this tragic establishment,(Armed Services Day), so we will have to see how this sad saga ends. The moral of this story?, never mess with our men and women in the Armed Forces. They may as well have thrown a few Kitties into a wheelie bin, it would have been a lot less damaging?.