"We're sorry Buffalo. You deserve better." Those words from one of the area's most popular restaurants and food trucks after receiving a spate of complaints regarding a recent lunch service visit.
In a statement posted Thursday on social media, lloyd said they made an 'honest mistake' by serving lunch Wednesday at the Buffalo Federal Detention facility in Batavia.
Citing its strong ties to the local immigrant community, lloyd says they will update and review their internal procedures to make sure any and all of their future visits going forward are aligned with their core values.
As part of its apology, the restaurant is donating all of the proceeds from the Wednesday visit to Justice for Migrant Families WNY.
You can read the full text of their statement below:
Thursday afternoon, ICE Field Office Director Thomas Feeley issued the following statement:
“The men and women who work at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility are Detention Officers, Deportation Officers, administrative support staff, Doctors, Nurses, Judges, Attorneys, and maintenance staff. Each and every one of them is entrusted with the safety, security, and care of the detainees here. Almost 50% of the staff are Veterans. Families are not detained here nor has any child been here. Further, an overwhelming percentage of the detainees detained at this facility are criminal aliens, meaning, they continued to commit more crimes after illegally entering the United States. We are doing our jobs, enforcing the laws passed by Congress. Just like we have for many Presidents. We will not apologize for doing this, not even to a food truck that now chooses to discriminate against us.”
