Chapel Lane Huts — Restaurant in Melbourne

Sorry everyone for the long review. I DO NOT RECOMMEND.

For Easter this business decided to do a 'activation', They hired rabbits from a pet shop and had them in cages for four days in 30+ degrees for customers to pat.

This is exploitation of animals. This is only for the benefit of themselves as a marketing ploy. They were told that rabbits are very anxious animals and do not like being held, by a number of people. 'exploitation' - the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work. the action of making use of and benefiting from resources.

When confronted with the fact that customers and public were very unhappy with what they were doing they decided to justify themselves but stating 'they made everyones Easter because covid'.

They also blocked many people who showed their unhappiness and deleted all comments on both facebook and instagram. They even managed to report reviews. They then lied about where they got the rabbits from forgetting they had tagged and posted it was from a pet shop a week ago, but instead said they 'borrowed them from a friend'.

It is upsetting that they refuse to accept what they have done and refuse to educate themselves of the exploitation of animals. Which is obvious they will do this again.

I and hope many others would never support a company that blatantly do not care about animals and what their customers think. They constantly respond to negative reviews with shocking comments, obviously no care for anything but...

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Awesome venue... Great atmosphere... The cocktails are fantastic and very reasonably priced.... You can book a booth for about 10-12 friends.... Great idea for a party... I went with a friend and we sat out under the stars and had a few drinks while the DJ pumped up the music.... There were a lot of people just up dancing. The place has a really chilled vibe. You can get some food while you're there. I highly recommend you give this place a go.. We're gunna book our...