Vegan Restaurant Workers Confess: "99 Percent Of Vegans Are Morons"

Media outlet Vice has interviewed people working in Australian vegan restaurants in a bid to find out what they think about serving vegans.

In a piece titled We Asked Vegan Restaurant Workers What They Think of Vegans, hospitality workers – who are all vegans themselves – were questioned about plant-based customers.

According to one plant-based cafe worker, vegans ‘want to out-vegan each other’ – and are ‘really anoying’.

‘Morons’

According to Sarah*, people treat veganism ‘like a religion, and tell the whole world ‘I’m a vegan, and I follow the rules strictly’.

She goes on to say: “I’d agree that 99 percent of vegans are morons.

“Most of them are really annoying. I hang out with them and have to listen to them yabber on, so I know.”

‘Finicky’

Brendan*, who also works at a vegan cafe, doesn’t like to call himself vegan.

“I personally don’t tell people I’m vegan,” he says. “I think it’s boring to tell people you’re vegan. Nobody gives a sh*t, to be honest.”

He also discusses the vegan archetype: “[A vegan cafe] attracts a different archetype of person. “Finicky” is probably the best way to describe them.

“A typical customer asks a lot of questions regarding veganism. There’s a certain level of assurance they want. Even down to the sprinkles we use on the cupcakes.”

“Once people are comfortable it’s vegan, then it becomes a big thing about sourcing and where the products come from.”

‘Self-entitiled’

28-year-old Janet*, who recently quit her job at a vegan cafe, has dealt with many ‘self-entitled’ customers.

She says: “I found a lot of the difficult customers were just fussy. Obviously we were a vegan cafe, so we were already ticking that box for them.

“But when they came in, they were very self-entitled– they almost demanded the stuff they wanted. It wasn’t a friendly ask, it was ‘I deserve this latte more than the next person. And I deserve it first’.”

Janet also mentioned that plant-based eaters do not have tolerance for those who aren’t vegan.

“There was just no tolerance for people who weren’t vegan. They would think, ‘You’re a terrible person for not being vegan’.”