Posted on 12/17/2013 4:03:34 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Morton's The Steakhouse, a high-end restaurant chain, is responding after a firestorm of complaints on social media about how it treated a cancer patient dining at its Nashville location over the weekend.
A man undergoing chemotherapy treatments says he was asked to take off his hat because it violated the restaurant's dress code.
Robert Chambers says he put on a beanie to keep him warm --combating the side effects of his chemotherapy treatments. Chambers says a waitress then told him to take off the hat because it was against dress code.
After explaining that Chambers had cancer, a manager came over and asked to see a doctor's note before he could put the hat back on.
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“Nothing wrong with a Golden Corral”
So long as one doesn’t go with the expectation of a quality steak experience.
There are plenty of restaurants in Nashville.
Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two guitar pickers in Nashville.
My main question concerning their policy, is this: If they are asking people to be civilized and remove their hats, do they have hat racks? I like it when I go to a restaurant that is civilized enough to have racks for hats. They are few and far between these days.
I think that beanies are rather casual. I appreciate that the restaurant has a dress code-perhaps they could keep a small selection of more appropriate hats on hand, much as they do ties, for customers who arrive unprepared.
How would they have known that he had cancer prior to advising him of their policy?
You get what you pay for, and what you’re paying for is quantity over quality. Some of the sides aren’t all that bad, the fried chicken is OK. Cheap food, usually edible, a lot of it.
If the gentleman had had surgery perhaps he could show his scar. I am not a cancer patient (I have an auto-immune muscle thing going on) so I have my hair, but if someone bugged me I’d just show them where they placed my porta-cath.
Local IBEW meeting, no doubt......but let’s hear more from the unions how companies keep the “little guy” down.
Everything offensive happened after they were informed of his condition so this manager was acting like this knowing the predicament he was putting his employer in. I have no idea how strenuously Mortons want this rule enforced....usually when an employee acts this way they truly believe their boss wants them to. If there’s one thing you can count on with many bosses it is that when the thing blows up they usually throw the employee under the bus and act shocked that it happened. Don’t know how much of this if any actually pertains to this particular situation!!!
They appeared to be farmers and ranchers at some kind of convention.
“Common sense is lost nowadays.”
Generally, on both sides, nowadays. Morton’s could have handled it better in this case. But I applaud Morton’s attempt to maintain some standards. The slovenly crowd seems to be everywhere anymore.
When you said co-op, I immediately thought utility company, since that is what our local power company is referred to.
The savvy diner would call ahead to be sure it does not present an issue.
Ditto here.
I remember eating at some “greasy spoon” type place that had a sign:”If you wear your hat while you eat at home, please do so here. We want you to feel at home”.
No, but I figured you would react that way…in fact, I kind of baited you. Let me add that 99.9% of the time, I’m not Mortons material either.
However, when I do want to go to such a restaurant, it’s nice to know they exist with standards. BTW, I teach my kids…that when we go out….to certain places….there will be a dad enforced dress code at time….in deferene to the owners of the restaurant and the other patrons.
Perhaps your dad didn’t bother to teach you that….and yes, I baited the trap and you fell right in.
I love the little holes in the wall, the off the beaten path types too. Especially when we travel to new places, we avoid most of the touristy spots. My wife and I run missions in Uganda and on the dirt poor island of Andros in the Bahamas, and there’s nothing but those kinds of places there.
Having said that, for so called conservative Freepers not to see the value in having a few places like Mortons, with dress codes and standards, is teachable. We have a lot of “situational conservatives” around here. Jesus even made it clear that there is a social aspect to meals, and at times extravagance is approrpriate: read Mary and Martha, the Last Supper, Judas and the perfume.
I hope you’re not one of those situational conservatives.……but your comments indicate you perhaps are. Why don’t you celebrate that certain entrepreneurs offer fine dining and certain Americans choose to partake????????? I do, even in the Obama economy where I can no longer do it.
You really fell for the trap worse than I thought.
And you have no concept of liberty. I’ve eaten at Golden Corral far more than I’ve eaten at a Mortons or a Ruth Chris or any of those types..
However, because I have a concept of liberty, I am glad that both exist, and I would not want Mortons to have to bend to my Golden Corral instincts when I choose to visit Mortons, and I would not want Golden Corral to try and live up to Mortons standards when I visit Golden Corral.
And I was mistaken. You are not a situaional conservative. You are a situational populist liberal……but probaly have a few social leanings…..and my trap proved it.
It’s very unfortunate. I hope that Morton’s will find a way to avoid a situation like this in the future.
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