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 Update: This post has been updated with a statement from the owner. 
 
 A popular Portland mini doughnut shop has found itself in the midst of a hiring flap after including a prohibition against dietary restrictions in its help-wanted ad. 
 
 On July 21, Northeast Portland's Pip's Original Doughnuts listed a Poached Jobs ad looking for a new barista that has basic skills, a friendly, outgoing personality and "no non-medical, non-religious dietary restrictions." 
 
 According to a Facebook post from co-owner Nate Snell, many have taken to Facebook and email to voice their displeasure with ad, which seems to exclude vegetarians in what PETA honored in April as the most vegan-friendly city in America. 
 
 According to the Poached Jobs ad, any non-medical, non-religious dietary restrictions "would stop you from tasting, accurately representing our treats and maintaining quality control." 
 
 "After receiving as much hate email as we have in the last two days, I'm more steadfast and sure of our position than ever," Snell wrote in a lengthy Facebook comment. "I'd rather have the freedom to run my business in a way that is both lawful and representative of my own hard-earned right of choice than capitulate to bullying, fear tactics and intimidation." 
 
 Some commenters have argued that the requirement might be illegal. Under federal anti-discrimination law, dietary preference is not a protected class. 
 
 "As someone whose religion requires me to eat a kosher diet, I am deeply offended," Dave Hobson wrote in a one-star review on Facebook. "If I wanted to apply for this job, I'd be turned away due to my religious views. I do believe this practice can get you in trouble." 
 
 Others discussed the unfairness of the practice. 
 
 "Wow! To not hire otherwise qualified workers, because they make a particular dietary choice is unfair," Danette Teegobra wrote. "There are plenty of alternative lifestyle individuals in Portland who work at establishments that serve meat and dairy." 
 
 For those who are vegetarian or vegan and would like to apply, Snell invited applicants to send a "respectful email explaining why you are vegan but still feel like you can work at our shop and suggest some workarounds." In the Facebook posting Snell noted that the shop serves bacon. 
 
 "I've had employees in the past decide to radically change their diets to the point where they can not longer eat what we're serving and it's created health safety issues and compromised the excellence and integrity of our product," Snell explained. "I would rather not deal with that again by being upfront and clear and what our expectations are." 
 
 Update: Co-owner Nate Snell sent the following statement at 3 p.m.: 
 
 At Pip's we serve dishes that contain meat, gluten and most other common food allergens like soy, diary and nuts. It is our responsibility to let potential employees know that they will be expected to taste the food and drinks we prepare in order to maintain both food quality and food safety. 
 
 If a potential employee is not able to perform these duties because of a voluntary, non-medical and non-religious dietary restriction (no sugar, no gluten, no nuts, no meat etc.) working at our shop would place an undue burden on our ability to maintain the quality of our food and the health of our customers and employees. 
 
 Pip's Original Doughnuts is located at 4759 N.E. Fremont St. 
 
 -- Samantha Bakall 
 
 sbakall@oregonian.com 
 
 Follow @sambakall 

 Co-owner Nate Snell declined to comment to WW, saying he'd received far too many phone calls already from people wanting to share their opinions on both sides. But on Sunday, he made it clear that the shop was maintaining its policy. 

 Donut Farm looks like your typical Los Angeles doughnut shop: It’s in the middle of a weathered shopping center on Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake, and the guy behind the counter is putting doughnut after doughnut into a pink box. Only these doughnuts are all vegan. 
 
 Donut Farm, which opened its first Los Angeles location late last year — there are outlets in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley — is making more than 15 kinds of vegan doughnuts. The company started as a hobby for San Francisco resident Josh Levine in 2007. He eventually started a vegan doughnut wholesale business, then opened his first vegan doughnut shop in Oakland in 2010. 
 
 All of his doughnuts are vegan and 100% organic, which is an important thing to keep in mind when you take a bite of the plain glazed. Because if someone hands you this doughnut and doesn’t tell you it’s vegan, good luck figuring it out. 
 
 The doughnut may not have the eggs, milk and butter that give a typical yeast doughnut its light, airy texture, but the glazed doughnut at Donut Farm is a dead ringer for the original. Chewy and almost weightless, the doughnuts get a full coating of the familiar sugary glaze. 
 
 The fritters, both apple and banana, are equally deceptive. As is the jelly doughnut, covered in powdered sugar and full of raspberry jam. 
 
 The cake doughnuts are on the heavier side, with a dense, stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth texture. And each is served under a blanket of flavored glaze, including salted caramel (tastes more like butterscotch), coffee (made with Philz coffee), Meyer lemon, chocolate or blueberry, just to name a few. 
 
 It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that the doughnuts are also priced three times as much as the regular ones they so closely resemble. Both vegans and nonvegans may be skeptical, as the price of a banana fritter is $4.25.They’re pretty good, though. 
 
 2609 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, pepplesdonuts.com. 
 
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– An Oregon doughnut shop is hiring—just not any vegans or vegetarians. A job ad for Pip's Original Doughnuts in Portland describes the ideal candidate as someone with "a friendly, outgoing personality," but "no non-medical, non-religious dietary restrictions" that "would stop you from tasting, accurately representing our treats, and maintaining quality control." Given that PETA recently named Portland as America's "most vegan-friendly city," the ad is not going over well, reports Oregon Live. "Won't return now that I know you discriminate against vegetarians," one customer writes on the bake shop's Facebook page. But co-owner Nate Snell isn't budging. "After receiving as much hate email as we have in the last two days, I'm more steadfast and sure of our position than ever," he writes. Snell says employees are required to taste shop items that contain bacon, gluten, soy, dairy, and nuts. Those unable to do so "would place an undue burden on our ability to maintain the quality of our food and the health of our customers and employees." The ad is perfectly legal since dietary preference isn't protected under employment laws, reports KGW. But "it's really heartbreaking that we live in a society where people feel like they have to use intimidation and fear in order to force their own personal viewpoints on others," a Pip's post reads, per Willamette Week. Snell suggests vegans and vegetarians apply and "suggest some workarounds." Otherwise, they could try Los Angeles' new Donut Farm, which makes 15 varieties of vegan doughnuts, per the Los Angeles Times. (These vegan restaurateurs received death threats.)