Posted on 12/09/2024 10:14:35 AM PST by Morgana
A group of special-needs students was denied service at Cracker Barrel in Maryland, with the mother of an autistic boy expressing outrage after the restaurant's manager told them not to come back.
Stacey Campbell said her non-verbal son Jojo, 9, was refused sit-down service at the restaurant in Waldorf on Tuesday along with 10 other special-needs children.
Jojo was on the trip with his school's community-based instruction (CBI) program, which gives special-needs children the opportunity to go on field trips and participate in educational activities.
According to an email from a teacher, the kids and the seven adults with them were denied service at the Cracker Barrel even though they called beforehand to confirm they did not need a reservation.
The email said that the decision had nothing to do with the children's behavior and that the manager told the group not to come back for any future field trips.
'So, if you’re telling them to take us off the list, then they're not welcomed there. Why?' Campbell told WJLA.
The restaurant only allowed the group to place a to-go order and made the students sit in the back of the eatery, where they waited for more than an hour, the teacher's email said.
'We did take the food back to the school and the students enjoyed their lunch and were so well behaved,' it stated.
'I am however disappointed about this experience and am still stunned that this happened in a public setting.'
The email also noted that Cracker Barrel staffers were very rude to the group.
The concerned mother shared the letter on social media to bring attention to the situation, sparking hundreds of reactions.
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1:6 is a more common ratio...up to 1:12
Even at McD's that's a lot to handle at once.
When I worked there, occasionally we'd get a call about a bus full of some school's sports team stopping by, and it was great because it gave us a chance to make enough food, and they actually got it hotter and fresher for it.
The occasional bus that showed up without warning sent us scrambling and took forever to cook enough food and serve everyone.
I guess everyone thought we'd automatically have enough on hand in the middle of the afternoon, between rush hours. Doesn't work that way.
autistic ? I call BS until a medical report. Every parent who fails to discipline their kid thinks the kids has autism.
It seems some of these were mothers; mothers go on field trips with ‘regular’ school kids.
Wow, not a good experience. Yuck
Until I read or hear otherwise my comment stands.
They were told they did not need a reservation. They also kept them waiting for an hour to make their food, plenty of time to seat them.
I'm done here.
Disgusting attitude. Hope you never need help from some who treats you this way.
Yes, if you read the article you would have read that he has autism.
Always is. Usually involves an ambulance chasing lawyer and a corporation with deep pockets.
FU and your medical report, who the hell are you to require that? Nice simply little moronic world you live in right there.
My friend and wife told the school to go to hell when they said their daughter had ADHD and should be on Meds.
That child is now a doctor...a real doctor...not a Jill doctor.
Ya, wouldn't want you defending the mentally disabled, the defenseless.
I remember being at work one night at McDonald’s when two busloads of high schoolers showed up about 20 minutes before closing time. There were four of us, including the manager, and we worked like mad for 45 minutes to take care of them all. Another time we got five buses at once just as the dinner rush was subsiding. Fun times.
I’m not certain, but that sounded like heavy sarcasm to me...
Common sense says you don’t take 10 kids to a restaurant. That was so unfair to the children.
Yep.
I take you are one of those I am talking about.
Back in the 1980’s, schools received extra funding for any kid on Ritalin. I can only image that incentive is much greater now.
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