Memories Pizza Reopens After It Becomes Culture War Tipping Point

Weeks after it inadvertently became the center of a nationwide scandal and was forced to close, Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Ind., has reopened.

The pizza joint became embroiled in a massive culture war when its owners told a television station that while they would serve pizza to any LGBT customers who walked through their doors, they would not cater a gay wedding due to their religious beliefs. Their comments, made shortly after the state’s recently-signed religious freedom law was signed and met with an angry response across the country, soon became the subject of vandalized Yelp pages and a fundraiser spearheaded by TheBlaze host Dana Loesch that managed to raise nearly $850,000 dollars for the restaurant. In the meantime, the restaurant was forced to close due to threats.

Yesterday was their grand reopening, and Memories Pizza was full and doing fairly good business, according to the Associated Press. No protests were seen outside.

Yelp’s cleaned up the Memories Pizza’s page, and so far, there aren’t any angry reviews full of invective — but there is some criticism about the actual pizza itself, such as “The crust was a horrible, dense, foamy bread” and “akin to a generic frozen supermarket pizza.” (The service, however, “was very polite and pleasant,” according to other reviews.

[The Indianapolis Star]
[Image via screenshot/ABC 57]

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