I had the same thought – and Cuba Libre is NOT slow on a Friday night. Ever.
That’s part of what makes this story so odd. Cuba Libre isn’t some hole-in-the-wall restaurant in some out-of-the-way corner of a podunk town. It’s right there in the middle of Downtown DC within an easy stroll of the DC Convention Center and the Verizon center. Unless it’s like 3 in the afternoon on a weekday, you’re going to wait for a table, and it’s a highly-desirable place to work.
“I’ll never eat at a place I’ve never heard of and will never be near.”
That’s what I hear. Then again, I’m fairly sure these people are “boycotting” Amazon and Walmart for various reasons. And by that I mean they’re still buying shit from those places.
That’s the thing about Internet social media warriors. In my experience, most are lying when they claim they’ve taken a stand. When I worked at CCP, occasionally we would do something to make our players mad, and there would always be an avalanche of people who claimed to have cancelled their accounts over it. Almost never happened.