‘Buy-cott’ boosts Memphis pizza shop after owner refuses to serve national guard

The city rallied behind Tamboli’s despite online boycott calls, as frustration grows over the Trump administration’s federal taskforce following multiple deaths You can measure the disconnect between angry Internet commentariat and real life Memphis residents by the length of the wait for a table at Tamboli’s Pasta & Pizza. In early July, Miles Tamboli, the owner of the midtown pizza spot, made a decision: he would not serve the national guard deployed to the city by the Trump administration,...

By George Chidi in Memphis