In a since-deleted Instagram post, the Brooklyn Dumpling Shop blasted the city’s vaccine mandate for workers
, that restaurants should not be mandating vaccination status for employees, but rather mandating regular testing instead.
The Instagram post has since been deleted from Brooklyn Dumpling Shop’s account and replaced with another anti-vaccine-mandatethat calls restaurant workers heroes and specifies that the restaurant is “PRO VACCINE” but “not pro telling others what to do to their bodies!” However, Morfogen says he still stands behind the content of the post, and only maintains that it was a mistake for the commentary to be published on Brooklyn Dumpling Shop’s account. Morfogen tells Eater that the post was deleted from the account last week after a staffer at the company accidentally posted Morfogen’s personal message to the restaurant’s feed. “It was a mistake, nothing more,” Morfogen tells Eater. “I want that on my personal [account]. That is my personal belief.
“I’m tired of it, and I think I’ve reached my boiling point,” Morfogen says of all the various government mandates. Morfogen is a longtime NYC restaurateur who has backed a slew of restaurants in the city, including upscale celebrity hangout Philippe Chow, and, more recently, pan-Asian steakhouse Brooklyn Chop House. His latest venture, a line of automats dubbed Brooklyn Dumpling Shop, garnered plenty of attention in middle of the pandemic when the first location