Country music star John Rich has decided to remove Bud Light from the bar he owns in Nashville after backlash from the beer company’s partnership with transgender TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney. “The customers decide. Customers are king,” Rich said on Fox News Monday night.
“I own a bar in downtown Nashville. Our number one selling beer up until a few days ago was what? Bud Light. We got cases and cases and cases of it sitting back there. But in the past several days you’re hard-pressed to find anyone ordering one. So as a business owner, I go, hey if you aren’t ordering it, we got to put something else in here. At the end of the day, that’s capitalism. That’s how it works.”
Rich says Bud is betting on an inclusivity push —and that’s the brand’s right.
“They’re making a bet [that] this is going to sell more product,” Rich said.
“What’s happening is people who have been loyal to brands for decades and decades are finding it hard to stay loyal to them, so they start hunting down other brands that they can support. There are tons of up-and-coming American brands out there that people are flooding to, kind of like mine.”
Rich reached out to fans on Twitter for suggestions for a Bud Light replacement.
What beer should my bar @rnrbarnash in Nashville replace #BudLight with? @RedneckRiviera
— John Rich🇺🇸 (@johnrich) April 5, 2023
