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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It’s nice to know there are places in the USA that don’t have busybody health Nazis looking for germs everywhere. Unfortunately, under that idiot Bloomberg, we could no longer give well-prepared food to soup kitchens. Or even to animal shelters!
Not ham-I’d rather have a pork chop with mine, please...
Oh, for God’s sake-his big soda ban got trashed, but I suppose the Nazis will be soothed if a few people starve rather than eat at a privately supplied soup kitchen that is probably cleaner then a public one...
Sorry-cleaner than...
Another delicious choice, LOL
Some people just don’t have the imagination to think that someone in this country could go to bed hungry. Happily, we are a generous nation and there are plenty of soup kitchens and Salvation Armies and food banks who take care of needy people. Bloomberg never missed a meal in his life and it shows in his stupid policies. Same for his stupid successor.
Really?
I am truly impressed at how compassionate and generous so many Freepers are with Other People’s Money. I expect to soon read from them about Cracker Barrel’s War on the Homeless.
Mistake. If you start tossing scraps to a feral cat, you will soon have many, many feral cats at your door.
Oh, it’s started. Over 2,000 nasty responses on FB over packets of mayo and a couple of crummy corn dodgers. Also, what did Cracker Barrel do to Duck Dynasty? A lot of conservatives on FB are talking about this.
The money-maker in this county is the tourists, and they wander into our tourist trap stores, all the local festivals, farmers’ markets and other normal goings-on here. Basic, fresh food is everywhere at those functions-a busybody’s cell phone would disappear without a trace, and they would likely be asked nicely to leave.
Shure thay dew. Its inn awl thuh Publick Skools.
Throwing away food to comply with burdensome regulations is one thing. How much food did he give away for free? How much food did his employees give away for free? Would he fire employees who did this? Would he fire an employee who was warned repeatedly to stop giving away free food yet continued to do so?
It’s easy to be generous with someone else’s money.
NO Muffins for You! I never likeed goin to The Barrel, only went because family and friends! Better plan on 2 hrs for service and food! Last time I was in one was about 8 years ago and not planning one soon! Screw em!
I doubt my husband ever fired anyone for giving away mayonnaise - although it may have been the more costly and delicious tartar sauce - not all the facts are in.
Could be wrong, he generally worried more about the employees stealing the liquor - now that’s a huge problem and it’s hard to catch waiters and bartenders at it.
(sources for the above list: Salon, Wall Street Journal).
I chose Cracker Barrel for a Florida freeper get-together brunch. The manager knew ahead of time that we were a conservative group (I had reserved a couple weeks ahead of time). He was totally enthusiastic.... and we got extremely attentive care.
Leni
Did a member of Duck Dynasty attend?
There is nothing nasty about pointing out that donating other people’s property is not charity. On the other hand, it is truly uncharitable to insinuate that objecting to the redistribution of wealth is being heartless or miserly, or nasty.
In the first place, it was not his to give away. If he had purchased the items, it would be a horse of a different color.
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