The result was keep. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 17:10, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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Does not appear notable as an entity/organization. Article uses primary sources (lovinghut.com) and reviews of individual restaurants using the same name. Lead paragraph uses phrases "restaurant group", "independent", "followers", "Supreme Master". The lovinghut.com/about page writes "Each Loving Hut is individually owned, with the autonomy to choose its own menu." It doesn't appear to be a corporation with branches, nor a franchise relationship and there is nothing on lovinghut.com to indicate it holds any business relationship with individual restaurants. It sounds more like a cult. I'm not sure what it is, but it doesn't appear that the "Supreme Master's" organization is notable. Normal Op ( talk) 05:36, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
"half of the sources I just linked talk about it being a cult", and you seem surprised. Like I wrote on the article's talk page, you cannot separate the subject of Loving Hut from Ching Hai, therefore any content is more appropriately placed in the Ching Hai article with a redirect from "Loving Hut" to Ching Hai. More quotes from your new collection: "All Loving Hut owners are members of Hai's Association", and "the affection the owners have for Ching Hai", and "Local Loving Hut owner Vincent Nguyen met Ching Hai in 1989 and has been a student of her teachings ever since," and "Loving Hut operates more like a homeowners association than a traditional franchise. There is no standard operating manual and no franchise fee, though the logo and the color scheme is the same in each location." Perhaps you've eaten at a local Loving Hut vegan restaurant and like the food; I have spent quite a bit of time reading about Ching Hai, her teachings, her other businesses, and other's viewpoints about it all. Those articles are representative. Normal Op ( talk) 19:21, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
and you seem surprised- no, just observing that it's not in the article.
you cannot separate the subject of Loving Hut from Ching Hai. I'll give it a go: one is a chain of restaurants and the other is a person. :P Plenty of sources are about the restaurants. It's possible a merge makes sense, but it's not clear to me at this point. If you think it should be merged, maybe withdraw this and start a merge discussion? — Rhododendrites talk \\ 19:48, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
The result was keep. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 17:10, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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Does not appear notable as an entity/organization. Article uses primary sources (lovinghut.com) and reviews of individual restaurants using the same name. Lead paragraph uses phrases "restaurant group", "independent", "followers", "Supreme Master". The lovinghut.com/about page writes "Each Loving Hut is individually owned, with the autonomy to choose its own menu." It doesn't appear to be a corporation with branches, nor a franchise relationship and there is nothing on lovinghut.com to indicate it holds any business relationship with individual restaurants. It sounds more like a cult. I'm not sure what it is, but it doesn't appear that the "Supreme Master's" organization is notable. Normal Op ( talk) 05:36, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
"half of the sources I just linked talk about it being a cult", and you seem surprised. Like I wrote on the article's talk page, you cannot separate the subject of Loving Hut from Ching Hai, therefore any content is more appropriately placed in the Ching Hai article with a redirect from "Loving Hut" to Ching Hai. More quotes from your new collection: "All Loving Hut owners are members of Hai's Association", and "the affection the owners have for Ching Hai", and "Local Loving Hut owner Vincent Nguyen met Ching Hai in 1989 and has been a student of her teachings ever since," and "Loving Hut operates more like a homeowners association than a traditional franchise. There is no standard operating manual and no franchise fee, though the logo and the color scheme is the same in each location." Perhaps you've eaten at a local Loving Hut vegan restaurant and like the food; I have spent quite a bit of time reading about Ching Hai, her teachings, her other businesses, and other's viewpoints about it all. Those articles are representative. Normal Op ( talk) 19:21, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
and you seem surprised- no, just observing that it's not in the article.
you cannot separate the subject of Loving Hut from Ching Hai. I'll give it a go: one is a chain of restaurants and the other is a person. :P Plenty of sources are about the restaurants. It's possible a merge makes sense, but it's not clear to me at this point. If you think it should be merged, maybe withdraw this and start a merge discussion? — Rhododendrites talk \\ 19:48, 24 August 2020 (UTC)