A Peachtree City restaurant manager says her business is feeling the backlash from being erroneously associated with a controversial restaurant of the same name in Marietta.

Patricia Lowe of Mulligan’s says business has dropped off dramatically in the past few weeks, but it took a few days for them to figure out why.

The restaurant started receiving phone calls accusing the company of being racist, “and you should be ashamed of yourselves,” Lowe recalled. They couldn’t figure out what the callers’ beefs were at first, she said.

Then they put it together. The Peachtree City Mulligan’s was being blamed for the Barack Obama T-shirt stir caused by the Mulligan’s in Marietta, Lowe said.

At the height of the controversy, the Peachtree City business was getting about 30 calls a day, Lowe estimated.

“People were calling like crazy,” Lowe said, noting that the calls are now down to about 15 a day.

Management found out that the Peachtree City restaurant’s phone number and address was being listed on websites as being the store where the T-shirt controversy was taking place.

The controversy in Marietta was over T-shirts featuring a strong likeness of the Curious George children’s character, a monkey, with letters underneath reading, “Obama in ‘08.”

The Peachtree City Mulligan’s is not related at all to the Marietta restaurant, as they are both independently operated by different owners, Lowe said. The Peachtree City restaurant is located in the Marketplace shopping center in the former location of Macaroni Grill.

Lowe is just hoping to correct the public record so customers know the Peachtree City Mulligan’s had nothing to do with the T-shirt controversy whatsoever.

One of the websites that had the incorrect listing has since corrected it, Lowe said.

“We didn’t even sell the shirts,” Lowe said.