No, I won’t.
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If some idiot asked for my preferred pronoun I’d say “X”. Short for “ex-customer”, and walk out.
In a related story, Minneapolis restaurants failing at an alarming rate.
“...use gender-neutral language...”
When I was in high school (many years ago) I took Latin. We used to joking use the Latin word “istud” to insult each other. It just means “thing” with no gender attached and no brain.
If we wanted to further the insult, we’d say it backwards: “dutsi.”
Be careful what you call them. Better to just move on.
Servers and kitchen help have been known to pee and worse on the food of people they do not like.
Save any insults for the way out the door.
The idiot thinks getting into a political tiff with their customers isn’t going to hurt business??
Typical liberal: An idiot.
Liberals are the most stingiest, polluting, unfriendly, greedy, fascist, hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, child-abusing, amoral, stupid, censoring, horse-punching, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, Jew-hating, Israel-hating, communist, vote-rigging, vulgar, dirty, smelly, election-rejecting, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, poo-flinging, cop-killing, and scared little lying thumb-sucking idiots God has ever created.
Oh, serving unit!
As long as the requests are phrased politely, I will as politely decline. “Thank you for asking, but I prefer to use proper English. I will refer to the staff in any way I choose. If you elect not to accept my patronage because of that, please inform me now so that I can find a meal in a less politically correct milieu.”
Big Top for the Freak Show. Oh, and they also serve coffee.
Minneapolis can go to Hell.
If you use the wrong term will they spit in your food like Jesse Jackson used to do when he worked in a Restaurant?
“I’m sorry, but in my culture we refer to people as XX or XY.
Which chromosome set are you?”
“Hey! You!”
"Excuse me, Comrade!"
Then I looked and this jumped out:
" “The May Day Cafe asks that you use gender-neutral language when addressing its employees. Thank you.” "
That's why it's always fun to have The Captain over for snacks on Sunday afternoons.
I will, but only if they address me in the manner I require:
“Hast thou finished thy victuals, sire, or workest thou still upon them?”
“Payest when thou art ready. The top copy be thine.”
Most people go to restaurants for food, friendship or to relax. Very few go to be judged, tested, ridiculed, even reprimanded by someone who, by the way still expects to be tipped by you!
Besides, didn’t the article say the restaurant is currently closed anyway, until the owner can find a more sustainable policy?
No.
I will not.
I'll do 'em one better and just avoid their place entirely. Problem solved.
“What? Yeah? Ah...no. Now get my steak wench.”
Yeah - I deliberately leave off a tip when my wife and I are addressed as “guys”. My wife is no “guy”.