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Cracker Barrel Fires Veteran Over A Muffin
FOX17 ^ | June 2014

Posted on 06/28/2014 9:20:47 AM PDT by BulletBobCo

Edited on 06/28/2014 9:28:34 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

VENICE, FL (CNN) " A 73-year-old veteran says he was fired from a Cracker Barrel restaurant for giving a needy man a few condiment packets and a corn muffin.

He admits it was against the restaurants rules, but says he thinks it was the right thing to do.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: theft
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I tried one of their recent dumpling desserts in two places.

Ah, a regular. I'll bet you wouldn't be if you had to wade through a sea of stinky bums just to get to your cardboardy dumpling.

201 posted on 06/28/2014 10:10:09 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The feed rate he had wasn’t producing any such plague.


202 posted on 06/28/2014 10:10:11 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

No, on the road for the first, and when I was too tired to cook for the second.

You sure seem to want to really vindicate yourself as a stinky bum guy don’t you.


203 posted on 06/28/2014 10:10:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The feed rate he had wasn’t producing any such plague.

Oh, I see the cause of the confusion. You thought I was commenting on the food thief. I was commenting on your hypothetical muffins for strangers fund.

BTW, if you read the italicized text preceding a comment, it gives a clue as to what the comment is referring to.

You're welcome. No need to thank me.

204 posted on 06/28/2014 10:14:02 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
You sure seem to want to really vindicate yourself as a stinky bum guy don’t you

Me? You're the one who wants to draw them in with your muffin fund.

205 posted on 06/28/2014 10:15:10 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

It wasn’t happening a lot. You made a strawman assumption for the purpose of the pleasure of supposedly righteously pummeling on me.

Well you have been exposed.

No need to thank me. You’re welcome.


206 posted on 06/28/2014 10:16:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Hubby and I used to go to a little Mexican restaurant in South Tucson. The place is always packed from before the doors open until the last patron comes in around midnight to two am. Let’s just say South Tucson is not known for being the safest barrio in town. They pay men to sit in the parking lot as a kind of security presence, and I am sure they have had to deal with some intoxicated folks every now and then. But it seems like they leave the beggars alone. We gave money to the same guy multiple times over the years outside multiple restaurants in that area. Sometimes he would go in and buy food right there. He always gave us a token of his appreciation. I am sure we aren’t the only ones. It doesn’t seem to affect the line at the door. Maybe it has to do with the happiness and generosity of the owners, their staff, and the patrons. The pictures on the wall seem to indicate that everyone is welcome there from the most powerful person in the world to the lowliest beggar. The same is true of another place down the street. Wonderful place and lovely people!


207 posted on 06/28/2014 10:21:58 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: HiTech RedNeck
You made a strawman assumption

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Go back and read post #181t. You proposed a hypothetical fund to buy muffins for them, so that can't be MY straw man. I just pointed out the logical result of such an action.

I do apologize if I made you feel pummeled. I thought we were just having a little fun. I'll let you have the last word.

208 posted on 06/28/2014 10:24:15 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: petitfour
I did a lot of local driving with my job years ago, and when I stopped for a cup of coffee at fast food places, I would often encounter stinky bums asking for money. I never gave them a dime, but I would buy a burger/fries/soda meal and give it to them on the way out. A manager at one of the places asked me not to so that because then they stick around and more of them gather. Now, maybe restaurants in South Took-sohn don't mind stoned derelicts adorning their establishments, but most other places don't care to have smelly and often dangerous bums harassing their customers.

A priest friend of mine came up with a wonderful solution He would buy gift certificates to restaurants, and when he saw a beggar on a freeway off-ramp, he'd give him one to the nearest place.

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(Notice, in neither example did I take it upon myself to give the beggars food or money that did not belong to me. Just sayin'.)

209 posted on 06/28/2014 10:34:36 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

True! I doubt the waiters and waitresses gave food away to the beggars. I am not sure how these businesses keep most of the homeless away. It may be that they only allowed this one guy to get anywhere near the place. Now that I am typing this, it is odd. A few blocks away from our favorite restaurant is what everyone calls the “homeless park.” But it may be that the security guys keep most of them away at least two blocks.


210 posted on 06/28/2014 10:44:30 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: SZonian

The nuance should simply be in the common sense notion that handing out a muffin and a packet of tartar sauce is not up there with the thievery of Edward Snowden or the evil of Kim Philby, lol.

I can’t imagine why an employer would write up a employee over several packets of mayo. That’s just me. And, yes, as I’ve written before, I am familiar with the restaurant biz. My husband is in it and he thought CB’s reaction was ludicrous. Maybe they should spend more time on smart PR and more time on improving their awful food than micromanaging 5 packets of tartar sauce.


211 posted on 06/28/2014 10:51:05 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: MinuteGal

That WAS a fun day!


212 posted on 06/29/2014 6:02:06 AM PDT by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: Jeff Chandler

MrT5 and I used to go on Saturdays to a restaurant in the nearest town that serves all-fresh and local food-22 miles-but I don’t see the point of eating out alone, and I like my own cooking-I prefer what is fresh, chemical free, and veggies from my garden in season.

The contractor I work with took me to CB-I had a chef salad-figuring you can’t mess up with that-but it was really bland-had to drown it in vinaigrette-the meat loaf my compadre had smelled like school cafeteria food, and he said it tasted like it, too...


213 posted on 06/29/2014 11:38:34 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: petitfour

I suspect a lot of areas have panhandling ordinances and if they do I suspect the businesses
would won’t them enforced.


214 posted on 06/29/2014 11:56:05 AM PDT by deport
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To: Dr. Sivana

Wow something like that could cost C.B. billions.

I’m surprised that C.B. did nor have him arrested, thrown in jail, tried and sent to jail for the rest of his life. That would show him for being kind. Oh the horror of his evil deed.

Oh well, just one more place that I will never eat at again.


215 posted on 06/29/2014 7:34:37 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: Jeff Chandler

YOU assumed the quantity.

There are some people who will assume the worst in each and every situation.


216 posted on 06/29/2014 7:37:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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