Dawn Silver and Matt Ward from the Goat Cafe (Picture: MEN)

A vegan cafe in West Yorkshire attacked customers in a series of bizarre online rants saying ‘F*** you Bethany, and f*** your plans!’ and calling one a ‘f***ing control freak’.

Goat, which is based in Huddersfield and owned by Matt Ward and Dawn Silver, made abusive comments to replies from Facebook users about a post announcing the café would be going ‘internet free’.

The café’s official Facebook account then continued to respond to people who did not agree with their decision.

The remarks included calling people ‘a caveman’, a f***ing control freak’ and ‘smallminded’.


They also said the people commenting are ‘the type of people we are trying to exclude’.



Goat later said sorry to all their ‘nice’ customers before deleting their posts.

Yesterday, the cafe a posted two more messages on its page confirming who the posts are from and announcing it would remain closed for a few days for ‘essential rewiring works’.

The first post, which came with a photo of a cartoon rocket, read: ‘We will remain closed for a few days as some essential rewiring works are needed on the mother ship! #takemetothemoon.’

While the second said: ‘The reason the page is still live is because we have only been able to schedule the deletion of the page for 14 days time.’

The owners of the vegan cafe gave their reasons for turning off WiFi (Picture: Guzeilian)

I would also like to point out that, although the original post was a joint effort, the subsequent, sweary comments were down to me (Dawn) and nothing to do with Matt (the goat man).

‘Posts loaded since then have been a joint effort! Chin chin!’

The series of posts over the weekend has resulted in a number of recent reviews, most giving a negative one star, stating the comments as a reason.

One review said: ‘P*** poor customer service with the owner telling customers to ‘go f*** themselves’. A business is not a platform to shove your ideals down peoples throat.’

A number of users believe the bizarre responses are a publicity stunt but the owners have not directly confirmed other than continuing to post on the page.

Some users have actually been amused by the Goat’s post with a few asking for ‘F*** you Bethany and f*** your plans!’ t-shirts.

We have made contact with the Goat Café and its owners and are awaiting a response.