That's the way things work

A restaurant manager got busted and fired for following the restaurants sub rosa policy for keeping the undesirable portions of the populace out. In Baltimore no less.

Per the New York Post:

"A Baltimore restaurant manager turned away a black woman and her son due to the boy’s outfit — despite serving a white child dressed in similar athletic wear, video shows"

That is how we did it in the bars I used to advise in NYC back in the day. We banned certain types of clothing. Hats. Do rags. Gold chains. If you had that no admittance. You could get rid of it and come in but they never did. 

This restaurant is a corporate chain. So they had to do the politically correct thing and fire the manager. But normal restaurants will not.

The advertising manager of the NY Post once asked Macy's why they didn't advertiise in their paper. He said your readers are our shoplifters.

Just sayn'

White People's Problems....at least in NYC

The surprising way restaurants discriminate against old people

By Steve Cuozzo

August 10, 2016 | 2:53am

New York Post August 10, 2016

You’re hungry. Who ya gonna call?

Not a restaurant. These days, some don’t even have a phone, let alone a human being to field reservations.

At trendy Bergen Hill in Cooper Square, the number given by Zagat yields a recording saying the number is “temporarily disconnected.”

The recording for Dizengoff on Ninth Avenue says, “Hello, we are not available now.” And at Aska in Williamsburg comes the cheery (recorded) declaration, “This mailbox is not currently accepting messages.”

I Was Buying Into This Story About Gratitude Until.......

My long-departed Irish grandfather had away of  dealing with the nonsense I'd spout when I was an under-achieving and over-complaining college student.  It was always a quick quip, delivered in his brogue and with a smile.  When he had heard enough of my complaining  he'd just smile and say "Ah, Mikey, things could always be ninety-five percent worse as easily as they could be five percent better."  It was his way of reminding me to be grateful for what I have. 

And I do try every day to be grateful for the people I  know, the strangers I meet, the grace and forgiveness I have been given, and just about everything else.  Except the Cubs, maybe.  But I digress.

I was reminded of being grateful and of those conversations with my grandfather today when I read this interesting article about a family that opened a restaurant based on gratitude.  And their success allowed them to expand and to open several more locations.

The restaurant is named Café Gratitude, and it's vegan, natch, but set that aside for a moment.

 The menu is broken down into affirmations, so instead of asking your server for the cereal blend of coconut milk, pecans, seasonal fruit, vanilla and cinnamon, you say “I Am Bright-Eyed,” and the server repeats back to you “you are bright-eyed.” They also ask you a question of the day, like, "What moves you to your heart?"

Stay with me here.  I know you're starting to skim quickly.  Let's go further into the article.