After Zomato, Tamil Nadu Restaurant Sign Board Now Reads, 'We Don't Provide Food For People Who See Religion'

Zomato¡¯s tweet ¡®Food doesn't have a religion. It is a religion,¡¯ in response to a customer¡¯s bigoted demand of having a non-Muslim person deliver him food in the month of saavan, has been lauded. But it has also brought to the forefront the bigotry and Islamophobia of thousands of others who started a #boycottzomato and #uninstallzomato campaign on Twitter and even went on the Play Store to give one star to the application.

However, there are those who completely agree and approve of Zomato¡¯s stand are backing it in their own away.

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A few days after the incident, now a restaurant owner in Tamil Nadu has decided to go the Zomato way and is calling out religious bigotry in this message to this customers.

Right after Arun Mozhi, the owner of Pudukkottai's Ayngaran Coffee, read Zomato¡¯s tweet, "Food doesn't have a religion. It is a religion," he put up a board in his restaurant that says, ¡®We don't provide food for people who see religion¡¯. Naturally his message got immediate attention from the people in Pudukkottai who had nothing but praises for him.

He had an interaction with Puthiyathalaimurai TV on which he said, "If we start seeing religion in everything, we won't even be able to fill our vehicles with petrol, we can't wear any dress and can't do any of our day to day activities like brushing our teeth and even taking shower. If we start to look at religion/caste, humans can't live at all."

The customers seem on board with this message and reportedly they asked other restaurants in the area to follow the same and thus spread positivity and message of harmony.

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Uber Eats also publicly came out in support of Zomato¡¯s statement and unsurprisingly they also found themselves on the receiving end of hate and #uninstallubereats also started trending on Twitter.

And there have been thousands and thousands of tweets with these hashtags.

Some of these bigots tried to 'highlight' the 'selective secularism' of Zomato and started tweeting about how it takes special care of the Muslim community's food choices.

But, here's the thing. What you eat is your choice. There's no bigotry in that. The bigotry lies in the fact that we're discriminating against someone on the basis of their religion.

I would say that the trend surprises me, but I knowing how people jump on the 'hindutva is in danger' bandwagon without even a single thought, the moment this news came out that these reactions were only a matter of time. What a rider has to do with packaged food I will not be able to understand.

But exactly how bigoted, narrow-minded and brainwashed do you have to be for something like this to matter to you. Why would anyone support anything that discriminated against people, their religion, the food they eat, and the job they do.

Nevertheless, we are glad that people like Arun Mozhi exist, who realise the importance of not discriminating on the basis of religion, especially when it comes to food.