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Fast food cashier and manager fired for refusing to serve police officer
ABC News ^

Posted on 11/11/2019 2:55:38 PM PST by chuckee

Two fast food employees have been fired after one of them refused to serve a police officer who wanted to order food from the establishment. The incident occurred at the Cook Out restaurant in Roxboro, North Carolina when Kenneth Horton, an army vet and veteran police officer, visited the chain restaurant and was denied service by the cashier. "We're saddened that an employee denied service to a police officer. We promote unity. The public here knows that. And, unfortunately, this incident has created a divide but it is only because of a small action that could have been avoided," said Roxboro Police Chief David Hess when he sat down in an interview with ABC’s Raleigh-Durham station WTVD. Word of Horton’s encounter at the Cook Out allegedly spread through Roxboro and on social media before it got back to senior level Cook Out employees who then took the unilateral decision to terminate the employment of both the cashier and the restaurant manager. "We did not contact corporate directly asking them to fire this employee. Cook Out took it upon themselves to take action," said Chief Hess. The manager, a mother of 4 who had worked at Cook Out for 10 years but wished to not be identified, said that she wishes the employee would have asked her to come to the front to take the officer’s order instead of asking another cashier to do it. "If a cashier doesn't feel comfortable taking somebody elses order, it's not wrong for them to ask somebody else do it or contact the manager," the former manager told WTVD. It is still unclear as to why the cashier did not want to serve Horton in the first place. But, the day after the incident occurred, she was fired by the district manager along with...

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KEYWORDS: blackkk; cookout; davidhess; food; kennethhorton; northcarolina; police; roxboro; wtvd
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To: rigelkentaurus

That comment right there proved to me that the manager DESERVED to be fired!


21 posted on 11/11/2019 3:51:08 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: chuckee

In other words, “She shudna axed anudder cashier to discriminate agains that pig, she shudda axed me to do dat”.


22 posted on 11/11/2019 3:51:29 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: chuckee
The former manager explained that she would not have felt safe going outside to take the officer’s order having not been directly involved in the incident herself and not knowing the circumstances.

Not feeling safe outside around the officer? SMH The manager has issues with the police. She doesn't need to be working in the food service industry.

23 posted on 11/11/2019 4:14:15 PM PST by Ikeon (Oops.. did I say that?)
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To: robowombat
This chain needs to sack everyone and hire a complete new staff.

They are individually owned franchises........It's up to the owner to make that decision.

With that being said, there will be repercussions on the owner of that outlet from the corporate office..Up to and including the yanking of the franchise from the current owner.

I have a friend who owns two Jets Pizza outlets and he says that when corporate says jump, you say how high. They even dictate how his parlors are to be decorated...from floor tiles to floor plants.

24 posted on 11/11/2019 4:29:28 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: TMN78247
If the Manager were managing she would know.

Sometimes people who have been on a job a long time sit back, take a load off their feet, and just let things go.

Nothing better go wrong when they do that.


Legitimate firing.

25 posted on 11/11/2019 4:47:42 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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To: softengine

Influx of leftists and liberals, as well as illegal immigrants. That’s what is happening.

Peach


26 posted on 11/11/2019 5:11:21 PM PST by CarolinaPeach
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To: chuckee

If you are a restaurant owner, you tell your employees they WILL serve our policemen or they will not only be fired but be sued into oblivion for any financial consequences as a result of their actions.


27 posted on 11/11/2019 5:27:27 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: chuckee

According to my son, the Cook Out at Ole Miss is where the drunk college kids go after midnight. I guess it’s their version of White Castle.


28 posted on 11/11/2019 5:30:47 PM PST by ebshumidors
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To: ebshumidors

For some reason their billboards crack me up.


29 posted on 11/11/2019 5:34:11 PM PST by ebshumidors
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To: chuckee

“”If a cashier doesn’t feel comfortable taking somebody elses order, it’s not wrong for them to ask somebody else do it or contact the manager,” the former manager told WTVD.”

Mealy-mouth ex-manager, “a mother of 4 who had worked at Cook Out for 10 years but wished to not be identified” deserved to be fired. Glad she’s an ex-employee.


30 posted on 11/11/2019 7:02:32 PM PST by moovova
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To: Chickensoup

You have clearly have not worked retail. There are workers who are justifiably uncomfortable with customers who harass them. Sometimes it’s touching, sometimes it’s words, some are uncomfortable with customers who are known to yell, scream, make accusations about race in attempt to bully associates or managers. YOU HAVE NO IDEA.


31 posted on 11/11/2019 7:42:38 PM PST by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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To: Chickensoup

In England a few years ago there was a muslim police officer who refused to walk a beat protecting a Jewish building.


32 posted on 11/11/2019 7:45:25 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: MrEdd
"If the Manager were managing she would know."

How many people to you manage and where?

33 posted on 11/11/2019 7:46:05 PM PST by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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To: Liberal Anti Venom

More like criminals above all. Who else are at odds with the police that hard?


34 posted on 11/11/2019 8:08:07 PM PST by NorseViking
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To: newzjunkey

I’m nearly sixty, and work alone now.
I used to manage variable amounts of troops in the Marine Corps. Largest number was a training class at the Arty school at Aberdeen Proving ground.

If you aren’t touring your troops and making sure that they have the provisions they need for the task at hand and that each one of them knows what they are supposed to be doing you are neglecting your duties.

Im pretty sure this little restaurant has a lot fewer people and the woman in question doesn’t have nor does she deserve my sympathy.

The task this woman has is not that difficult.
Why would you assume that posters on this forum do not have even minimal command experience?


35 posted on 11/11/2019 8:17:33 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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To: a fool in paradise

England is a sinkhole of leftist policies


36 posted on 11/12/2019 1:46:13 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: robowombat

Roxboro not Oxford, Roxboro is northwest of Oxford.


37 posted on 11/12/2019 1:51:14 AM PST by kalee
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