Kid Rock's Detroit eatery closing after his anti-Oprah rant

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

A Kid Rock-owned restaurant in Detroit's Little Caesars Arena will close once its licensing agreement expires this spring, the singer and arena operator announced separately Wednesday.

The severing of ties between the suburban Detroit-born musician and Ilitch Holdings came days after video surfaced showing Kid Rock ranting against Oprah Winfrey, though neither party tied the parting to the video or the backlash that followed. The split also points to a widening estrangement between Kid Rock and the city he calls home.

“I appreciate all who have patronized our place and still have much love for the city of Detroit and the people/organizations that I have helped there for years, black, white, whatever, but learned long ago, go where you're celebrated, not tolerated," he wrote Wednesday on Facebook.

Kid Rock's Made in Detroit opened in 2017 in Little Caesars Arena, which is home to the NHL's Red Wings and the NBA's Detroit Pistons.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/kid-rocks-detroit-eatery-closing-profane-comments-67492216?cid=clicksource_4380645_null_sq_hed

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And of course he goes on to deny being racist... blah blah blah.

[Harker]

1. Is he celebrated anyplace?

I find him intolerable.

[Gore1FL]

14. There is a Pam Anderson joke in here somewhere.

But I'm not gonna make it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. tRump's WH. Was there with Nugent & bare-shoulders-Palin.

I won't post the picture this time.

[DownriverDem]

18. The south

is the place for him.

[Anon-C]

27. Apparently he the Grand Marshall of the Leiper's Fork Christmas parade

...alongside Bo Duke from the Duke's of Hazard.

[Harker]

28. Too bad he couldn't make it down

for the turkey shoot in November.

[AncientGeezer]

2. I'm not sure it's about the Ophra deal...the article doesn't say it's so

..it tries but doesn't connect the 2 issues.

[DownriverDem]

19. He is an embarrassment

to the City of Detroit and Michigan.

[Harker]

23. And to musicality.

Awful.

[obamanut2012]

26. Her name is Oprah, not "Ophra"

[TheDemsshouldhireme]

3. Kid Rock is authentic as Vanilla Ice

Born in a rich Michigan suburb and now he's some good old boy? I would think southerners could spot a fraud.

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. People down here think

Larry the Cable Guy was a “good ol’ boy”.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. Larry's real name is Dan Whitney. And his accent is fake, too.

I can't fathom where on earth "Kid" Rock would be celebrated. He's almost 50. How long does he think he can "rock" that look ?

[DownriverDem]

20. They do

Kid Rock has a restaurant in Nashville.

[Aristus]

24. I think George W. Bush's popularity with the Duck Dynasty crowd refuted that.

His Texas accent was as authentic as a $3 bill.

I am Texan, born and raised, but have lived in the Pacific Northwest for nearly forty years. And I can still slip into a better Texas accent than GWB could attempt even with years of practice.

[AtheistCrusader]

30. George W Bush is from Connecticut.

[Dr Vegas]

6. I'm confused

So is this place feeding the poor or just a business licensing his name?
I mean that will be a big deal if it was like Bon Jovi's Soul Kitchen that actually feeds poor people.
But if it was just a business and money is going into his own pocket it's No big deal

[DownriverDem]

22. Getting rid of him

is a big deal to the City of Detroit and Michigan.

[rocktivity]

33. I think you're right -- most likely he was a licensee

or possibly a franchisee (since something needed to be renewed), but definitely not an actual owner like Bon Jovi. Coincidentally, Kid Rock was Bon Jovi's opening act a while back.


rocktivity

[RandySF]

7. I've been to Little Caesars Arena

It's out of the way for an afternoon lunch crowd and people like to grab a hot dog and take their seats at games. Most likely a combination of location and mediocre food.

[DownriverDem]

21. Not to mention

his mouth that insults the City of Detroit and Michigan.

[BannonsLiver]

8. The MAGAT default position is that of perpetually playing the victim like the snowflakes they are.

[BlueIdaho]

10. Nailed It! nt.

[RockRaven]

9. Right... not a racist... Non-racist white dudes from MI always adopt "Confederate flag" iconography

for years and years. For totes-not-racist but totes-woke-and-well-informed reasons which don't require explanation when pressed by reporters.

Of course then also jettisoning it when the headwinds start to blow, with accompanying refusal to explain it to reporters. Strange how that works.

[Blue Owl]

11. Skid Crock

n/t

[SunSeeker]

12. Him and Roseanne will always have Mar-a-lago.

[MrScorpio]

13. Most excellent

Nobody needs his BS.

He already sold his house on the river this last summer.

He might as well leave Detroit and never come back.

No one will miss him.

[Orrex]

15. Never forget

[underpants]

29. Hilarious

[Scurrilous]

34. Kid 'n Play Rock!

[tonekat]

35. Major Burn! n/t

[Bob Loblaw]

16. Losers gotta lose

Not a kid, and doesn't rock.

[catbyte]

25. Makes sense. This isn't well known, but Mike Ilitch paid the rent on Rosa Parks' apartment in a

downtown Detroit high rise for more than a decade. He was a staunch Democrat and philanthropist. I'm sure his corporation is carrying on his legacy so I'm not surprised they cut ties with that creep. I'm so ashamed that he & nugent are from Michigan. I just wish I liked Little Caesar's pizza better, lol.

[Submariner]

31. Kudos to him for "quietly" paying her rent all those years

and you need to try the new thin-crust pepperoni pizza.

Instead of a mouthful of thick pizza dough, it is mostly pepperoni and cheese, and the thin crust was slightly crispy burnt. So the perfect ordering phone resulted in my perfect pizza.

[Crowman2009]

32. Apparently Kid Cock doesn't know shit about Michigan's history in the civil war.

The state was vehemently anti-slavery. Even the legislature went as far to say in a pre-war resolution "concessions and compromise are not to be entertained or offered to traitors."