We don’t do catering.
Because, in a lot of places, you required to have a separate license in order to do catering.
I would have said, “what idiot, gay or otherwise, would want his wedding catered by a pizza joint?”
Did I hear today that the footage was actually old footage that was unearthed for the recent news story? Or did I mishear?
GFY. And get the hell out my store, you professional liar.
“Well, no, my dear, I don’t think a pallet full of pizzas would fit at a gay wedding any more than your butt fits on a news camera. Is that a wide angle lens?”
In the Dirty Harry books, Harry Callahan had a means of dealing with the TV cameras. He would smile a huge grin, laugh and wave, while uttering the most vile, profanity laced speech he could come up with. This would prevent airing of the audio, and anybody watching the bleeped video would not believe anything serious was being asked or discussed.
I probably would have said, “Get the %$#* out of my face, TV Barbie. I have work to do and no time to be cast for the Maury Povitch News Hour”.
The smart answer would have been, “we’re a pizza place, we don’t do weddings.”
Owner: So you want to know whether I will cater a fake marriage?
MediaBitch: Gay weddings are allowed here..
Owner: So you want to know whether I will cater a fake marriage?
MediaBitch: Gay weddings are allowed here..
Owner: So you want to know whether I will cater a fake marriage?
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NEVER answer a reporter’s question. Regardless of what you say, they’ll twist it to suit their agenda. Even “No comment” is a comment. Just say nothing.
I know the business owner said this in a later interview, but it probably would not have turned out to be such a furor, if she had said it at the very first interview ...
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“We have to accept them [gay people], and we just ask that they accept us.”
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It’s the first interview that often sets the tone!
“Sure, we’ll cater. How many pizzas? We will need a $1,000 minimum deposit and a minimum 2 weeks notice to order a sufficient amount of food. And, we will need an insurance non-cancellation fee of $2,500 which will be non-refundable if the party cancels.
“Do you want that $3,500 on a credit or debit card or are you going to write a check?”
“You idiot, who has pizza at a wedding???”
These fiascos regarding catering and food services are rather ridiculous.
In the 1970s and 1980s, in an area that was mostly agricultural and predominately Caucasian, a realtor told the story of Black couples who would come in every few years. The area realtors knew the game, so they played along.
They would show the Black couple anything they expressed interest in. They might even get to the point of signing a contract and making the escrow deposit. At that point, the couple would hmmm and haw and decide they needed to think about it. The couple would leave. The realtors knew the couple would not return to seal the deal. The realtors also knew that, if they balked on showing property or offering the contract, the NAACP or similar civil rights would be all over them.
A few years later, another Black couple would show up and want to look at property ...
This aint no bath house lady. It’s a friggen pizza shop. You gonna order a pizza or not?
“Wedding pizza? That’s so GAY.”
I would throw it right back at her face:
Are you married?
Did you have a Pizzeria cater your wedding?
Do you know of anybody who had a Pizzeria cater their wedding?
So why are you asking this incredibly stupid question?
Get out.