A Connecticut restaurant owner has apologized after the business faced backlash following a social media post that went viral last week.

The post, which has since been deleted by Egg & Cheese restaurant in Willimantic, was meant to showcase a new sign for the quick service breakfast sandwich shop. Instead, the artist who created the sign and was pictured in the post, had a tattoo on his arm allegedly depicting two lightning bolts or “SS Bolts,” a common white supremacist/neo-Nazi symbol, according to the Anti-Defamation League .

“The SS Bolts are a common white supremacist/neo-Nazi symbol derived from Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany,” the ADL said.

Egg & Cheese owner Hannah Dupuis took down the post and apologized, noting online that the person in the photos “was not an employee.

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