Posted on 12/30/2024 5:44:41 PM PST by simpson96
A popular California restaurant is closing following a lawsuit centered around its "ladies' night" events.
Lima, a family-run restaurant in Concord, California, is shutting its doors next week after settling a discrimination lawsuit over its ladies' night promotions. The restaurant posted on Facebook earlier this month that it was "unable to fully recover" from the lawsuit and the "compounded" issues it faced regarding increased operation costs.(snip)
Gender-based promotions, such as ladies' nights, have faced legal trouble under the California Civil Rights Act. In 1985, the state's Supreme Court ruled that ladies' day promotions at car washes and elsewhere and ladies' night promotions at restaurants and nightclubs violated the act.(snip)
Lima's ladies' night promotion offered women drinks, including wine, at half price for three hours each week, a deal that had been going on for years.
"It's a frivolous lawsuit that took us down. It's just ambulance-chasing lawyers," John Marquez, Lima's chef and owner, told ABC News.
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Ironic.
These kind of laws were championed by women.
Too bad
That was a great place
Minimum wage, anyone?
I recall many years ago, some bars had cover charges, which men paid to get in, but women didn’t pay cover charges.
I think the “business model” was, let women in, and then men will pay the cover charges because there are women in the bar. The women attract the men, everybody drinks, the bar makes money, men meet women, everybody benefits.
It sounds like it is illegal to do such things. I remember hearing, before my time, some baseball teams had ladies days, where women were admitted for free.
Oh well, since we live in a world in which we can’t even define what a woman is, so much for any of this sort of thing.
In my experience, “Ladies night” meant cheap drinks for women - which had the effect of attracting more men to the bar.
I’m guessing it was a gay man who brought the lawsuit?
“It’s a frivolous lawsuit that took us down. It’s just ambulance-chasing lawyers,”
I’m off the opinion that once a month or so an attorney should be chosen at random and executed by a squad of men using flamethrowers just to set an example for the rest of them.
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What a great way to co-opt the leaders of North Korea over to our side - put them in charge of those sorts of events. Didn’t they use a firing squad of anti-aircraft guns a while back?
A restaurant that hosted a "Men's Night" event would be burned to the ground by every feminist group in the country.
#WINNING.
Or a trans woman.
Yep. So youmrealize what they say they want is not whzt they really want.
The old model doesn’t work anymore. Women come to the bar, men don’t, and women are forced to pay for their own drinks.
I always paid for my own cover charge no matter where we went. I had a VIP pass to a few nightclubs in NY and definitely got my money’s worth. I was typically the designated driver so $10 was the most I would spend at the bar. Usually, it was throwing down tips to the bar tender because I ordered non-alcoholic beverages.
My husband loved that I was an inexpensive date. He ordered drinks; I wanted water or soda. We’d go out to eat; he would get steak or seafood and I wanted a salad (back when salads were cheap).
Calilosers destroyed more of the state. Newsom got high, collected another government paycheck and ran to the French Laundry to escape.
Agreed. Welcome to equality.
I really wish business forced to shut down because of these lawsuits went out in a blaze of glory by publishing the name and address of the judge, plaintiffs and the plaintiffs’ attorneys.
Maybe if they had had Laddies nights too?
Looks like Good Timez...
The Democrats war on women continues apace. When will they learn?
A profitable family minority-owned business forced to close. Liberals ruin every decent thing they touch.
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