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Server at acclaimed Bay Area restaurant loses job after wearing Black Lives Matter mask to work
sfgate ^ | February 9, 2021 | Madeline Wells

Posted on 02/09/2021 1:07:58 PM PST by KingofZion

On September 3, 2020, Kimi Stout showed up to her server job at The Girl & The Fig, a popular French-inspired restaurant in Sonoma, wearing a Black Lives Matter mask. By the end of her shift, she no longer had a job.

For a while, Stout kept what had led to her departure from the highly acclaimed 24-year-old restaurant — which has served esteemed guests including Lady Gaga and some ‘Bachelor’ contestants — mostly private. But on January 1, 2021, she decided to post a video on her Instagram. Filmed on her last day at the restaurant, she is seen taking off her The Girl & The Fig T-shirt, throwing it in a garbage can, and raising two middle fingers to the sky, with the words “Black Lives Matter” superimposed over the screen.

Just last week, Stout switched her Instagram account to public....But this story actually dates back even further. In August, just a few months after Stout returned to work at The Girl & The Fig for outdoor dining after being laid off in March, she says a manager pulled her aside. Stout was wearing a BLM mask.

“He said, ‘you're not in trouble by any means,’” said Stout. “‘However, we just wanted to let you know that we did have somebody complain about your mask and they were very aggressive about it.’”

After offering her a different mask to change into, citing her safety as a concern, Stout declined. She says the president of the company, John Toulze, stopped by at the end of her shift to offer his support for her decision to keep wearing the mask. And so she continued to wear BLM masks to work every shift, and didn’t hear anything new about it until September 1.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: blm; california; followrulesorbefired; woke
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Of course, this would not have made the news if she had been fired for wearing a MAGA mask.

This being Kalifornia I'm surprised she didn't get a raise.

1 posted on 02/09/2021 1:07:58 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

Good!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 02/09/2021 1:09:04 PM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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I am sure she spits in food if she sees a red cap


3 posted on 02/09/2021 1:10:14 PM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: KingofZion

He’ll be owning the company next week.


4 posted on 02/09/2021 1:10:26 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (They HAD to kill somebody for their plan to work. RIP Ashli.)
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To: KingofZion
And we all know the ghettos of Sonoma are far worse than Compton … < /sarc >
5 posted on 02/09/2021 1:11:18 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O my great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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Being California it sounds like she crafted a little 2 minute “Story” film on company premises with the notion of posting to a now public social media site.

Does she have her esty shop or gofundme account up and running yet?

6 posted on 02/09/2021 1:13:02 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: KingofZion

Great news! And in California no less!

Maybe people are finally getting fed up.


7 posted on 02/09/2021 1:13:40 PM PST by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!)
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To: KingofZion; Admin Moderator

That link is broken. This one works: https://www.sfgate.com/food/editorspicks/article/Server-Bay-Area-restaurant-loses-job-BLM-mask-15935245.php


8 posted on 02/09/2021 1:14:03 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: KingofZion

Or, was she aggressive with the patrons and they finally had enough of it and complained?

I just wonder what the other side of the story is?


9 posted on 02/09/2021 1:14:09 PM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: dsrtsage
I am sure she spits in food if she sees a red cap

I'm sure that was a big concern among any conservative customers, that they could not trust that she would not tamper with their food if she became aware that they were conservatives.

10 posted on 02/09/2021 1:14:12 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: KingofZion

I’ve lived in Communist countries, and the nature of ideologues in those places is to politicize EVERY aspect of society. It’s awful - and its very dangerous

Specifically for that reason, I avoid anyone who publicly supports leftist economic and particularly social-engineering causes. Just leave immediately.


11 posted on 02/09/2021 1:14:53 PM PST by PGR88
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To: KingofZion

What’s only surprising is that she thought she could wear the mask of a terrorist organization on the job and still keep her job.


12 posted on 02/09/2021 1:15:02 PM PST by MountainWalker
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Woke dimwit defies company policy, gets fired, learns nothing.

“I got a text notification saying ‘new mask policy in place, everybody sign,’” said Stout. “... I’m not saying that they wrote the policy for me, but I felt very targeted when I read it. I decided that I was going to wear my mask anyway, because as far as I knew, the president of the company, I had his 100% support.”

In a statement, Toulze confirmed that the restaurant created a new “formal face mask policy” for employees in September 2020, specifying that staff should wear “a The Girl & The Fig branded mask provided, or a plain black or blue surgical mask to provide flexibility but still align with the dress code.”

“The policy was added to our formal dress code which details the required attire or uniforms for all staff. For example, in standard business conditions, we require servers and runners to wear plain blue jeans and a long sleeve, button down and collared white shirt with our signature green apron provided by the company,” continued Toulze’s statement.

When Stout came into The Girl & The Fig on September 3, she wore her BLM mask. About halfway through her shift, she says Toulze asked her to turn her mask around to hide the logo. When she declined, she says he asked her to stop by his office after work.


13 posted on 02/09/2021 1:15:41 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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You’re in the service industry. Why should management allow employees to wear items that alienate customers?


14 posted on 02/09/2021 1:19:20 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: KingofZion

I’d say there is sone justice in the world but it seems more like a planned publicity stunt.


15 posted on 02/09/2021 1:21:54 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: NobleFree
“I got a text notification saying ‘new mask policy in place, everybody sign,’” said Stout. “... I’m not saying that they wrote the policy for me, but I felt very targeted when I read it. I decided that I was going to wear my mask anyway, because as far as I knew, the president of the company, I had his 100% support.”

Me. Me. It's all about me. The President of the company probably has no idea who this idiot is.

16 posted on 02/09/2021 1:25:33 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: KingofZion

You get attacked physically for wearing a MAGA mask, so I am not feeling any sympathy today.


17 posted on 02/09/2021 1:25:58 PM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: KingofZion

There is and should no be free speech while at work.


18 posted on 02/09/2021 1:27:20 PM PST by Meatspace
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To: KingofZion

Any place that would hire a person like this in the first place is definitely not on my list of places to eat at. Not that I would ever go to San Francisco in the first place.


19 posted on 02/09/2021 1:27:52 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
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The company was correct of course, but in this day and age, and in the Bay Area - to quote Bush 41: “This aggression will not stand!” I expect to see the eatery burned down at least.


20 posted on 02/09/2021 1:29:34 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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