UK chain Pho Restaurant has publicly responded to backlash after TikTok users discovered that the white-founded business has trademarked the common Vietnamese word "pho."
Pho Restaurant's parent company Pho Holdings Ltd. has threatened legal action against small, family-owned Vietnamese businesses in the past.
Smh. White folks ...
https://mashable.com/article/pho-restaurant-trademark-response-vietnamese-food
@thewebrecluse Reminds me of that chef that tries to copyright a type of sauce's name... when it was a common name...
Whomever was in charge of the approval likely knew nothing about vietnamese food.
@sentientdessert They tried and failed many years ago to force a bunch of restaurants to change their names. The issue with this place has been going on since the early 2000s. They keep ending up in the news every time they pull some new bullshit.
@thewebrecluse
Shitty of them to try it. Worse of the government for allowing it.