Baltimore Restaurant Accused of Racism as Dress Code Gets National Attention

The western Journal ^ | SEPT. 21, 2019 | C. Douglas Golden

[Morgana]

It seems like one of these stories comes across our collective news feeds every few months.

A restaurant or a nightclub posts a dress code somewhere on the premises. Someone spots the dress code and takes a picture of it, then posts it to Twitter or Facebook and talks about how racist it is.

An extreme outpouring of conspicuous wokeness ensues. The establishment either apologizes or says “sorry not sorry.”

The answer doesn’t really matter since the wokeness will just be ratcheted up. If the answer is sorry, sorry isn’t good enough. If they don’t say sorry, well, they should have!

And this goes on until the whole thing ends up in the news.

This latest case is special because the restaurant in question has barely even opened yet and it’s pretty much getting canceled online.

The Choptank, a Baltimore eatery, opened to the public just this week, according to its Twitter feed.

However, a sign noting that its dress code proscribes “excessively baggy clothing, athletic attire, jerseys, brimless headgear and backwards or sideways hats” has already gone viral, and not in a good way.

It was first posted on Twitter by J.M. Giordano, who said that it was “CODED.” (You can tell he really meant it because it was all in caps.)

[SamAdams76]

This is where I might draw the line with regard to restaurant uniforms...

[Steve_Seattle]

"And what’s with all the 30-something males wearing baseball caps backwards."

I live in the Seattle area which is cool and rainy most of the year. I see 30s and older men dressed as you describe in all seasons, wearing backward baseball hats, shorts, and t-shirts or tank tops even in cool rainy weather - and I'm mostly talking about white men, but you do see the occasional black guy in hoody and baggy, low-slung pants. I call it the infantilization of the American male.

[Deplorable American1776]

Why should I go to an upscale restaurant and see people with their underwear showing? I’m glad they got the rules - hey, if you want to have your boxers showing - go to McDonald’s in the ghetto...

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah, that was what I was trying to say. 8>)

Lot's of brimless headgear, helmets for one, as you say chef's hat, hair netting, beret, turban,, burka's, some military hats, well you get the idea. 8>)

A ball cap does have a rim though. 8>)

[Albion Wilde]

[rktman]

Reminds me of Love Story written about he and Tipsee. Uh,Tipper. Yeah, that’s it.

[minnesota_bound]

#36 Tony Soprano asked a patron to remove his cap while dining at a table in Artie Bucco’s restaurant.

Yep and they killed him. : )

[Eagles6]

"this is racist as hell and I will never enter your restaurant & will actively warn others away from it, have a great day"

I guess it's working as planned.

[Terry L Smith]

I can see the ill-informed spitting their undies over a Sikh headgear.

[mosesdapoet]

No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service
WATCH OUT FOR BROKEN GLASS

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Uh, hello, you woke bastards, no athletic attire means even overweight White runners like me cannot go in there in our workout clothes.

Idiots.