$10k GoFundMe launched to help restaurant accused of serving dead rat in soup
It’s been just over one week since Crab Park Chowdery, the Vancouver restaurant accused of serving a dead rat in a bowl of chowder, released a statement saying after an investigation conducted by owners the “incident did not happen.”
Now, the Gastown restaurant is drawing people’s attention to a GoFundMe Page titled the “Crab Park Chowdery Relief Fund.”
The team is asking the public for financial support “for the people affected by what’s happened to the Crab Park Chowdery over the past week.”
See also
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- Dead rat allegedly found in Canadian restaurant’s chowder (VIDEO)
- Health authorities close Mamie Taylor’s in wake of dead rat video
- Emotional Vancouver restaurant owner responds to dead rat in chowder
The page states that while the owner recognizes it is “more than likely that the business and brand are not surviving this,” he would like to ask for financial donations “to support the hospitality community members who are being affected.”
“Basically, I’m going to chip in whatever I can spare – despite not being able to spare much – because,” the page states, “closing down a business is expensive in this sort of circumstance.”
The restaurant says its sales have plummeted from $1,500 to $2,000 daily to just $200 to $400 per day in wake of the now-viral video.
The description continues to defend the business and question the plausibility of the incident on the GoFundMe Page.
“Could it have been staged? Given the statistic likelihood of that rat making it into that soup that day – extremely low – this Chef thinks so, and he’s not alone. So, like many people online – I think this is a concoction, and I feel for those that it’s affected,” read the page.
As of Wednesday morning, the page had raised $1,165 of its $10,000 goal.
Crab Park Chowdery says more than 1,700 comments were made on its Instagram page about the alleged rat recording.