Cheesecake Factory suspends workers in MAGA hat incident

[Rvaughn]

[Haruo]

Any information on the racial composition of the mob?

[Jon Estes]

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

[Dave Roberts]

I have my questions about this because in my trips to Cheesecake Factory sites, I have almost always seen someone from management on the floor walking among the tables. Any gathering like this would have brought a manager immediately to see what the situation was. This may be the aberration, but they typically have a fast-moving business monitored by supervisory personnel.

[Rvaughn]

[Sandy]

The fact that this initially came out on the Daily Wire automatically calls the veracity of the whole story into question. So far, none of the other news sources have confirmed much, other than that there is an investigation. There's no excuse for that kind of behavior by restaurant employees. But I can't imagine that just wearing a hat would cause a problem. Maybe the hat wearer was being a little bit antagonistic toward an employee?

If the idea of reporting this is to try to point out the intolerance of people who don't like Trump, it fell flat on its face in the attempt, given the behavior of Trump supporters exhibiting far more than intolerant behavior toward those that don't agree with them.

[William Thornton]

...umm...the company suspended employees? Must be a reason for that. The customer was a bruthuh.

Better story: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cheesecake ... overblown/

[Haruo]

It looks to me like it was a legitimate complaint and like probably the management was on top of it as soon as it happened. My guess is it first came to light in a RW news outlet for the simple reason that the complainant/victim is a right winger and naturally took his story to a reteller he trusted. There are a few loose ends, but most of what I've seen fits this narrative reconstruction.

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

And so, if the employees were at fault, they should be suspended. Other than that, no big deal here.

[Jon Estes]

[KeithE]