Re: Saturday Night Supper? 12/07/2024

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 14:56:13 +0000, D wrote:

Wow, a complex phenomenon. You are a wise man David! Fish cake could
work
for me. In fact, that reminds me of a good Thai place close to where I
used to live. They had excellent fish cake!

This "waiter" will not be serving any "fish cake" - or anything else! -
soon, lol...!!!
"Beuchert’s Saloon told Fox News Digital that Van Rooy’s remarks were
“reprehensible” and she had been fired for violating their
“zero-tolerance policy on discrimination..."
Waiter fired after comments about refusing service to some Trump
officials
By David Rutz, Kristine Parks, Fox News
Published Dec. 14, 2024,
https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/us-news/d-c-server-fired-over-refusing-service-to-trump-officials/
"A Washington, D.C.-area restaurant server has been fired after she
spoke out about possibly refusing service to incoming Trump
administration officials...
“I personally would refuse to serve any person in office who I know of
as being a sex trafficker or trying to deport millions of people,”
Suzannah Van Rooy, a server at Beuchert’s Saloon on Capitol Hill, told
the Washingtonian this week. “It’s not, ‘Oh, we hate Republicans.’ It’s
that this person has moral convictions that are strongly opposed to
mine, and I don’t feel comfortable serving them...”
Her remarks were part of a report about whether there would be local
“resistance” to certain Trump figures when they were in public settings
again after several high-profile incidents during his first term. They
included then-aide Sarah Huckabee Sanders being ejected from a
restaurant in Lexington, Va., and protesters swarming then-Homeland
Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a D.C. Mexican establishment...
“People were a lot more motivated the first time around to do those
kinds of shows of passion. This time around, there is kind of a sense of
defeat and acceptance,” Van Rooy said, according to the Washingtonian.
“But I hope that people still do stand up to this administration and
tell them their thoughts on their misbehavior...”
By Friday, the restaurant said it had decided to dismiss the server
because of this incident, calling her comments and subsequent behavior,
“unforgivable.” It also said she had signed on to the restaurant’s
social media accounts to speak on behalf of the restaurant without
authorization...
“Not only do Ms. Van Rooy’s comments clearly violate our zero-tolerance
policy on discrimination, but her decision to sign into our social media
accounts in the middle of the night to post her own rhetoric in wildly
offensive responses to comments is a further breach of conduct and
protocol. She has no authority to speak on our behalf, and her comments
do not reflect the positions of over twenty other people who make up our
staff,” the Friday statement read...
“For these reasons as well as the sheer dismay and disgust we feel at
her unforgivable behavior, Ms. Van Rooy has been dismissed immediately.
Our staff and families (many of whom are personally offended by Ms. Van
Rooy’s comments about them) are still reeling from what Ms. Van Rooy
said and did, and we as a restaurant are simply horrified to be
associated with base prejudice...”
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GM
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