Atlantic Sports Bar and Restaurant, a Rhode Island eatery, has garnered immense traction on social media after comparing the recent heat wave to concentration camp ovens. Netizens, however, did not think the dark joke was very funny and were shocked by the anti-Semitic reference. On Friday, the Atlantic Sports Bar and Restaurant took to their Facebook page and posted an image of Anne Frank with the caption “#ohboy.” Across a black and white picture of famed diarist Anne Frank, the words read:“It’s hotter than an oven out there… And I should know!”The meme has since been deleted from the restaurant’s official Facebook page. It remains unclear whether the restaurant took it down themselves or if Facebook took it down as part of their policy against hate speech.However, that did not stop angry netizens from calling out the restaurant for its insensitive post. Meidas_Doreen 🇺🇦🌻💙💛 🗽🇺🇸❤️🤍💙@doreendibona@ABC6 Calling BS on the employee. If the employee didn’t know, then why did they intentionally choose that photo with those words? No. Excuse. Will. Work.7@ABC6 Calling BS on the employee. If the employee didn’t know, then why did they intentionally choose that photo with those words? No. Excuse. Will. Work.During the second world war, Anne Frank and her Jewish family hid in an attic as millions of Jews across Europe were forced to work in labor camps and being killed in a genocide. Anne maintained a diary between 1942 and 1944 which later went on to be published as a memoir titled, The Diary of Anne Frank. The 15-year-old teenager died of Typhus in 1945 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust.Netizens outraged at Atlantic Sports Bar and Restaurant’s Facebook post, slam "disgusting" brand of humorAfter seeing the post, Jessica Machado, a radio jockey from New Bedford, Massachusetts, revealed on her show that she had contacted the owner of the establishment, who sounded irritated and asked her not to call again. Machado revealed to WBSM:“He doubled down on it and said he had just Googled it, he thought it was funny, and that they were very, very busy and it was very hot there, and that they didn’t have time to deal with my concerns or questions. He told me not to call them back and then, click, they hung up.”Internet users were unsurprisingly enraged by the social media post and found it insensitive as well as uncalled for. Several netizens blasted the eatery. A few of the numerous tweets read:RockZero@RockZero121@TedNesi Absolutely disgusting.@TedNesi Absolutely disgusting.Still fighting for women’s rights@JelliDonut@StopAntisemites @UnabashedMisfit I’m disgusted but not surprised. I’m betting they’ve already been told a multitude of times where they can shove that apology.21@StopAntisemites @UnabashedMisfit I’m disgusted but not surprised. I’m betting they’ve already been told a multitude of times where they can shove that apology.Junkyard Dog the Bounty Hunter@flopenstein@TedNesi @AlexMorash If youre the type of person who thinks this qualifies as a “joke”, you should be on a watch list2@TedNesi @AlexMorash If youre the type of person who thinks this qualifies as a “joke”, you should be on a watch listPaul L. Dion@PaulDion5@TedNesi How could anyone think this was funny or clever?4@TedNesi How could anyone think this was funny or clever?((Wry™)) 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈⚓️@RIWry77@TedNesi Absolutely vile!1@TedNesi Absolutely vile!R.M.E.@Ms_J_Cricket@StopAntisemites They can’t take back the posting of the meme. BUT they CAN sponsor a trip for all of the employees to visit and get a tour of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum so they have a better understanding of the Holocaust - and that is was not anything to joke about.2@StopAntisemites They can’t take back the posting of the meme. BUT they CAN sponsor a trip for all of the employees to visit and get a tour of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum so they have a better understanding of the Holocaust - and that is was not anything to joke about.Daniel Berke@DanielBerke1@StopAntisemites Oh My God - that is appalling10@StopAntisemites Oh My God - that is appallingRalph@Ralph28692729@StopAntisemites when the business is bad, and the food is lousy, they seek to tarnish the image of someone good, 8@StopAntisemites when the business is bad, and the food is lousy, they seek to tarnish the image of someone good, 😡Loathe 45*@VoteBlu4animals@KikiAdine Shame on Atlantic Sports Bar and Restaurant. This is sick.2@KikiAdine Shame on Atlantic Sports Bar and Restaurant. This is sick.Atlantic Sports Bar & Restaurant issues formal apologySince amassing immense negative traction on social media, the eatery issued an apology for the social media post. In their official statement, they admitted that the meme was "poorly thought out" and emphasized that it was not a reflection of their personal values as individuals in society. They continued: “There is no excuse for the sharing of this post, and there is nothing we can do to rectify it, all we can do now is offer our deepest apology to those who were rightfully hurt by our actions. The Atlantic Restaurant prides itself on being a tolerant, inclusive and safe space for all people.”The restaurant further added that they will be “vigilant” with posts that are uploaded online to ensure that something like this does not happen again. They went on to thank supporters who rightfully criticized them, acknowledging that it was a learning moment for the team at Atlantic Sports Bar and Restaurant.