Wow. Is that real or an intentional mockery?
That image is a perfect stereotype of exactly what I expected.
Posted on 11/12/2017 11:21:56 AM PST by lowbridge
It’s why, at Powderhorn’s May Day Cafe, a small sign taped to the counter bears a polite request: “The May Day Cafe asks that you use gender-neutral language when addressing its employees. Thank you.” A similar note, modeled after May Day’s, went up next to the cash register at Taco Cat’s Midtown Global Market stall in September: “Please use gender-neutral language when addressing our staff. Thanks for being a pal.”
“I think gendered language is pretty integrated in restaurant culture,” says Taco Cat co-owner Tristan Jimerson. “I’ve been working in restaurants for a long time, and sir-ing and ma’am-ing people, that’s just how you’re taught.”
For Jimerson, who in interviews asks potential hires their preferred pronouns right after asking their name, it just made sense to extend that same courtesy to customer interactions. Following May Day’s lead, the bike delivery taco joint became one of the newest practitioners of this emerging language movement in the service industry.
That movement got its start in the Twin Cities at Cafe SouthSide. More a community gathering hub than just somewhere to hunker down and suck up the free WiFi, the Powderhorn cafe was a place of radical hospitality, one that actively welcomed LGBTQ+ customers and served as a safe space for trans and non-binary folks. Co-owners Roxanne Anderson and Anna Mayer intentionally created that trans-friendly environment—it was always as connected to their mission as brewing coffee or selling sandwiches.
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It is virtually there now.
I am always surprised when leftards who run businesses on purpose piss off potential customers.
How about put a nametag on each employee?
Why eat at a place that would probably spit in your food.
how about Hey You!
Can “neuter” be used as a pronoun?
I would rather talk to the robot kiosks at McDonald’s than to a human food service worker who attempts to coerce me into being an enabler for their Progressive madness.
Just refer to all of them as Sweet Cheeks. That should solve the problem.
“The May Day Cafe asks that you use gender-neutral language when addressing its employees. Thank you.”
Gotta love how they ask you to respect their pronouns and then presume to address customers as “YOU”.
“You” is not among the pronouns I respond to from pompous jerks.
No, and if that doesn’t meet with your approval, I can just leave...
Wow. Is that real or an intentional mockery?
That image is a perfect stereotype of exactly what I expected.
TacoGato.
You heard it here first.
5.56mm
Used to take my grandfather out for breakfast on Sundays. Always had to get the same waitress, a redhead, and while she was pouring the coffee he’d ask “How ya doin’ Toots?”.
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Boy is that a 1920’s phrase.
My grandfather used to call my grandmother Toots when they were at home, privately.
My advice is never buy a taco from a dude in blue lipstick who's wearing his cat.
Is FU gender neutral?
Very real.
According to the article it's called "Q" which is probably short for queer.
That level of mental illness is the very reason I do not go outside of Texas except perhaps up to Oklahoma.
I don't know why there are pockets of that extreme crap in the locations where they exist but even here in Texas the nutcases are much more conventional.
There has GOT to be something in the water in those locations.
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“Thanks for being a pal”
Hey! I prefer being a buddy!
I wouldn’t eat there. I don’t want to be pulled into the craziness.
They keep this excrement up and pretty soon, we will be all calling out "WaitBot, I require a new napkin" and a shiny machine will deliver it with a polite response.
I’d worry about that shedding into my taco if I had to eat there. . .
Taco Cat? Do they speak non-gendered Spanish?
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