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Uniformed Police Officer Refused Service at Texas Wendy's

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Uniformed Police Officer Refused Service at Texas Wendy's


A Texas cop says he was refused service at a Wendy's restaurant because he was in uniform.
The Fort Worth Police Department patrol supervisor said he entered the location at Trail Lake Drive at about 6 p.m., at which point he said the employees turned their backs and walked away, according to police spokesman Sgt. Marc Povero.
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Sounds outrageous. Surely, there must be more to this story, isn't there?
 
 
Seems a bit dumb, no fast food chain would back up this type of nonsense protest. Of course, these free thinkers are working at Wendy's so...

I'd understand if the specific person, had beef with the specific cop. But refusing any cop is just nonsense.
 
spud_meister said:
But has the cop been denied a wedding cake?
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Really? Gays have a special category when it comes to discrimination?

LMAO!

Especially, when gays kick a guy off a softball team after finding out that he wasn't gay enough!

Hypocrites exposed!
 
ThoughtEx. said:
Seems a bit dumb, no fast food chain would back up this type of nonsense protest. Of course, these free thinkers are working at Wendy's so...

I'd understand if the specific person, had beef with the specific cop. But refusing any cop is just nonsense.
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That's what I was wondering and I agree.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Really? Gays have a special category when it comes to discrimination?

LMAO!

Especially, when gays kick a guy off a softball team after finding out that he wasn't gay enough!

Hypocrites exposed!
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spud_meister said:
But has the cop been denied a wedding cake?
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And I would guess there will be no organized angry mob descending on Wendy's (or any of those other places), harrassing customers, threatening suppliers, vandalizing, disrupting everything they can to punish them for this offense. Why? Because the people who do that kind of thing probably approve of it. And those who don't all have jobs or other responsibilities taking up their time, and disapprove of that kind of mob activity anyway.

Strange world we live in these days.
 
There are a-holes on the left and right doing this kind of crap. And none of it is new. We just hear about it all the time now due to social media.

Of course I believe businesses should be able to discriminate for anyvstupid reason they want but something tells me the franchise owner wasn't in on this. If it were my business I would fire employees who refused service to customers without very good reason.
 
I would be firing any employee denying service to a paying customer.

Plenty of people want a job.
 
BrewerBob said:
There are a-holes on the left and right doing this kind of crap. And none of it is new. We just hear about it all the time now due to social media.

Of course I believe businesses should be able to discriminate for anyvstupid reason they want but something tells me the franchise owner wasn't in on this. If it were my business I would fire employees who refused service to customers without very good reason.
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You do know that Rational thought was not really desired here, don't ya?
Do it again:applaud
 
Dittohead not! said:
Uniformed Police Officer Refused Service at Texas Wendy's




Sounds outrageous. Surely, there must be more to this story, isn't there?
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There may be more to it. As it is stated, it does seem to be rather outrageous and stupid. And if true as stated, it certainly violates Corporate's policy. If Wendy's Corporate is made aware of this, people will be fired. There's no excuse for refusing service to an officer merely for being an officer.
 
BrewerBob said:
There are a-holes on the left and right doing this kind of crap. And none of it is new. We just hear about it all the time now due to social media.

Of course I believe businesses should be able to discriminate for anyvstupid reason they want but something tells me the franchise owner wasn't in on this. If it were my business I would fire employees who refused service to customers without very good reason.
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Of course there are people on the right who do things that are just as bad. Some even make and serve hamburgers to those that every progressive knows spend every waking hour shooting 'black' people.
 
ThoughtEx. said:
Seems a bit dumb, no fast food chain would back up this type of nonsense protest. Of course, these free thinkers are working at Wendy's so...

I'd understand if the specific person, had beef with the specific cop. But refusing any cop is just nonsense.
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If I owned the place and my employee refused service to a customer because he didn't like the customer for whatever reason I might well be looking for a new employee pretty quickly.

Denying anyone who's behaving like a civilized human service is stupid.
 
Gaius46 said:
If I owned the place and my employee refused service to a customer because he didn't like the customer for whatever reason I might well be looking for a new employee pretty quickly.

Denying anyone who's behaving like a civilized human service is stupid.
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Alright, you care nothing for your employees got it. Say one of your employees were raped, and their uncovicted rapist walks in beelines for your employee seeking service. Employee refuses, are you saying your going to come out of your office and force your employee to serve their rapist?

What about if Dagid Duke walked into your store, came up to the register and called a black employee boy?

I can think up a hundred scenarios it would be prudent to side with the employee on, and some of them involve dirty cops prone to harrassing people. But hey, if you would rather have 12.50 in sales more than the respect of the people representing your company, then that's your mistake.

That cop could have said something totally inappropriate, and is now making a big stink for vindication because he's a "hero". Entitled assholes do that, alot. And I've never met a cop who didn't act a little entitled.

The customer is always right is bull****, take care of your employees and they will take care of your customers.
 
ThoughtEx. said:
Alright, you care nothing for your employees got it. Say one of your employees were raped, and their uncovicted rapist walks in beelines for your employee seeking service. Employee refuses, are you saying your going to come out of your office and force your employee to serve their rapist?

What about if Dagid Duke walked into your store, came up to the register and called a black employee boy?

I can think up a hundred scenarios it would be prudent to side with the employee on, and some of them involve dirty cops prone to harrassing people. But hey, if you would rather have 12.50 in sales more than the respect of the people representing your company, then that's your mistake.

That cop could have said something totally inappropriate, and is now making a big stink for vindication because he's a "hero". Entitled assholes do that, alot. And I've never met a cop who didn't act a little entitled.

The customer is always right is bull****, take care of your employees and they will take care of your customers.
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No I wouldn't. And while I probably shouldn't have stated it such absolutist terms the point is still valid. Employees by and large do not get to decide to not serve customers who are behaving.
 
What if police who patrolled that district decided not to respond to calls at that Wendy's? I think that would be wrong, because it could harm innocent people who had nothing to do with the refusal of service to these officers. But it's an interesting legal question whether local police officers always have a duty to help people who call them.
 
matchlight said:
What if police who patrolled that district decided not to respond to calls at that Wendy's? I think that would be wrong, because it could harm innocent people who had nothing to do with the refusal of service to these officers. But it's an interesting legal question whether local police officers always have a duty to help people who call them.
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I remember reading awhile back that they are not legally bound. If I can find that article again I will link it to you.

EDIT: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

Here is the court case
 
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