Table No. 5, a restaurant in Islamabad, Pakistan, has come under fire for selling sandwiches named after alleged rapists and men involved in domestic abuse cases.
The restaurant's marketing campaign revolves around the tagline "If she won't make you a sandwich, we will!"
This is an ad it released as part of the campaign.
A lot of people have been calling out the owners on Twitter and on the restaurant's Facebook page for its sexist and misogynistic themes.
Hope this pathetic excuse of a business going by the name of Table No.5 gets boycotted and is forced to shut down ASAP. #Islamabad
On 4 November, the restaurant issued this clarification.
"We don't have anything against the ladies; in fact we're grateful to them. It's because they stopped making sandwiches that we got the opportunity to open up a sandwich joint in town. So thanks ladies," they said.
Their clarification caused even more outrage and on 11 November, the restaurant finally issued an apology and decided to change its menu.
"Table No. 5's brand revolves around sandwich jokes! It's all in good fun and that's what we truly believe in! This whole 'rapist' stuff was never our intention," a representative told BuzzFeed.
"Will our sandwich jokes also die down? Probably not," they added. "That's all in good fun. Our tagline is our focus, 'If she won't make you a sandwich, we will.'"
