What the hell, man.
Posted on 07/08/2023 5:43:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Mexican restaurant in New Jersey is serving up an ultra strict dress code — despite the fact that it’s on a truck route next door to a QuickChek convenience store.
Cantina 46 — off of Route 46 highway in Ridgefield –has a laundry list of fashion faux pas including: no plain white t-shirts, men’s tank tops/sleeveless shirts, beach attire, sweatsuit/athletic attire, excessively baggy clothing, flip-flops or slippers, work boots or inappropriate headwear.
“We don’t want to be like a regular restaurant, we want to be high end,” partner and manager Joaquin Molina told The Post. The clothing regulations — which are posted on its website and a sign on the front door — start with “no plain white tees.”
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A restaurant I would go to and bring my family.
Mexican food in New Jersey? I would think that finding a good burrito in New Jersey would be as hard as finding a good Jersey cheese steak in Caliornia.
My theory: the further away from Mexico that you go, the worse the Mexican food. Also, my favorite Mexican food area: New Mexico (Az is a close second)
Food in Santa Fe is great. Love the blue.
Ok but I don’t get the no work boots.
What about cowboy boots?
What the hell, man.
Have you been to Sazon (sp?) in Santa Fe? I have heard good things about it
I’m not a cowboy boots guy. If I ever get a horse, I’ll get the boots.
This restaurant has artistic class and therefore can limit what clientele they will serve as a public accommodation business.
If you got the horse, how would you prepare it?
I don’t get the workboots thing, either.
If hubby was running between locations and didn’t have time to change, he’d just wear his work boots with his business casual clothes.
He often ate on the fly and wasn’t lugging around spare footwear just to look spiffy.
I hope the restaurateur reconsiders the workboots.
I don’t get the “work boots”
I have a hobby farm in Hawaii and use Bates duty boots
is that a work boot? That rule would eliminate most cops from your business.
Although I would not be caught dead or alive in NJ.
I see nothing wrong with this dress code. It appears to be family oriented.
A few years back I walked into a restaurant and the cook came out in a tank top, shorts and sandals. And this was one hairy dude, like hair all over the place, arm pits, chest, legs, etc.
After seeing this creature I promptly walked out not bothering to order anything.
Dress codes just aren’t for looks, there are some sanitary reasons too.
Meanwhile, spurned customers have returned — but this time dressed to impress, Molina noted.“They call a manager and say, ‘I was sent away,’ but now I am [dressed correctly],'” he said.
“When they do that, we send them a free drink.”
Pretty cool.
Poliberto’s on Baseline in Tempe, AZ.
Great Mexican food at a value price. Lotsa locals, especially on weekends for their menudo (though not my cup of tea)
Z
Over 25% of NJ’s population is foreign born, albeit from different parts of the world.
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