[Girlene]

This wasn’t church.

The restaurant certainly has the right to have a dress code, but they should post it before asking someone to leave because of it.

This was extremely poor behavior on the part of the restaurant.

[so_real]

No it wasn't a church. But it was private property with an established etiquette policy ... just like church. The parallel is a valid one. Ruin it for one, you ruin it for the other by incrementalism.