Posted on 06/01/2021 3:07:19 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Wear a mask, pay a penalty. That's the unusual message a Mendocino restaurant owner is offering his customers.
Signs posted in the windows and at the register of Fiddleheads Cafe on Lansing Street read: "$5 FEE ADDED TO ORDERS PLACED WHILE WEARING A FACE MASK." And in the fine print below that message, it adds that anyone overheard boasting about receiving a vaccine would get another $5 surcharge.
Owner Chris Castleman told NBC Bay Area some customers have paid the $5 fee while others have expressed shock and outrage. He says the "fee" ultimately is an optional donation as it goes to charities assisting domestic abuse victims.
"Customers either love it or hate it," he said via email. "There are people who refuse to pay it; I guess a $5 donation to charity is too much for them. Others have gladly paid it knowing that it goes to a good cause. I don't force anyone to pay, I give them the freedom of choice, which seems to be a foreign concept in these parts of the country."
The latest signs shouldn't come as a surprise as Castleman is not shy about expressing his political views and has previously posted several highly political messages railing against the pandemic restrictions.
Another sign posted at the restaurant in April read: "THROW YOUR MASK(S) IN OUR TRASH BIN AND RECEIVE 50% OFF YOUR ORDER."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcbayarea.com ...
Don’t wear the mask. Stop dancing to their tune. Stop eating in their establishments.
Hard to believe that anyone in the embattled restaurant business would enact a policy likely to drive away customers.
Yeah, someone who sticks to their principles and is not afraid to lose money. What a nut.
Restaurant business is not bad enough?
One day I will stop posting about masks on FR. Maybe that will make things normal.
I don’t know that it would be bad for biz.
We don’t eat out anymore.
We tried it once since restaurants reooned to dine-in. We felt like we were dining in a bio warfare lab.
No thanks.
Something else to keep in mind...
Fomites aren’t an issue with WuFlu.
But they are for bugs like noro.
Restaurants don’t need more fomites.
People are fighting science. They want to wear the face diaper.
Lots of this going on. See it every day.
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