NaBloPoMo Month - "Restaurant Hate"

NaBloPoMo Month - "Restaurant Hate"
Entry #16 - 11/16/2013

 

It happened last month in Kansas and it appears to have happened once again this month in New Jersey - could this be the start of a coast-to-coast display of hate? Let's all hold our breath for a moment and hope not!

 

In October and now this month customers at two separate restaurant chains have left their waiter and waitress, as the case maybe, without so much as a $1 tip - all because these customers perceived their waiter/waitress to be gay or lesbian. The October asshole, rather customer I suppose, wrote on the receipt, "Thank you for your service, it was excellent. That being said, we cannot in good conscience tip you, for your homosexual lifestyle in an affront to God," the not went on to use three homophobic slurs, all the while using the front of God to hide behind. Here's my issue with this jerks in Kansas - if you don't want to tip because you think someone is gay...then do not tip, but also do not for one second continue to set there and use them for your own personal gain! People have been hiding their hate behind the cross for years and it really pisses me off. Hiding behind the "God" complex is such bullshit to me! If you don't like me for whatever reason, come right out. Because hiding behind Jesus to promote hate amongst one another is not right and I'm pretty sure Jesus would agree.

 

Courtesy of Dayna Morales

The latest tip scandal occurred this month in New Jersey and involved Dayna Morales. Instead of a tip for a nearly $100 table Ms. Morales received this note, "I'm sorry but I cannot tip because I do not agree with your lifestyle and the way you live your life." The waitress said that there was no mention of her sexual orientation to the customers that she interacted with and treated the table as normal. So how does one know you're gay? For years now, people have looked for ways to get out of leaving a tip because let's face their cheap bastards! But for someone to get out of it by using Jesus Christ and the fact that you could be gay is outrageous. If you don't want to tip, don't tip! But to call someone out for being who they are and trying to make a living is not the acceptable way to do that. If you want to be an asshole who doesn't provide a tip, for what you believed to have been good service, then be an asshole and don't provide a tip - stop spreading hate and trying to justify it with Jesus and your own cheap ass ways!

 

Morales found the note of course, after the customers had already left the restaurant, because hate is a cowards game! The former U.S. Marine Corps, was compensated for her tip by the restaurant management and posted the receipt on Facebook with the following message...of course it's the last sentence in her post that makes this display of hate all so much worse.

 

 

"I'm a server at Gallop Asian Bistro in Bridgewater, NJ and THIS is what happened to me today," she wrote, alongside the photo. "NEVER in a million years did I think this would happen...I am THOROUGHLY offended mad pissed off and hurt that THIS is what her kids will grow up learning and that I served in the Marines to keep ignorant people like them free."