Some Washington D.C. food workers pledged to refuse service to members of Trump administration
There are some food service workers in the Washington D.C. area who intend to refuse service to members of Donald Trump’s administration. Some also plan to cause some form of inconvenience to the customer associated with Trump. One of the bartenders claimed the officials have the powers to take rights away. So, this bartender has the power to make someone wait 20 minutes before the customer receives his or her order.
From Fox News:
“You expect the masses to just ignore RFK eating at Le Diplomate on a Sunday morning after a few mimosas and not to throw a drink in his face?,” said Zac Hoffman, a DC restaurant veteran who is now a manager at the National Democratic Club.
Bartenders and servers in the report promised to shun certain officials or employ other small acts of resistance against these figures to take their “power back.”
“This person theoretically has the power to take away your rights, but I have the power to make you wait 20 minutes to get your entrée,” Nancy, a fine-dining bartender, told the Washingtonian.
“There’s a lot of opportunities for us as workers to feel like we’re taking our power back, while not necessarily ruining someone’s life. Giving them a subtle inconvenience feels like a little bit of a win for us,” she continued.
Nancy said she would refuse service to certain Trump officials. If her employer tried to force her, she claimed she would quit “on the spot.”
“There is power in making it known that you’re not comfortable with a situation, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be this big dramatic show,” she said. “It’s just little bits of resistance that add up, and little bits of resistance that other people will see and hopefully feel empowered to stand on those convictions as well.”
Suzannah Van Rooy, a server and manager at Beuchert’s Saloon on Capitol Hill, also vowed to refuse service to Trump officials whom she felt held moral views that opposed her own, according to the Washingtonian.
“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,” she said.
“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,” Van Rooy added.
One anonymous host at a fine dining restaurant said she planned to look up every Trump administration figure online so she could know who they were and give them a bad table if they came in.
Additional Reading:
Parks, K. (2024, December 12). DC food workers vow Trump officials won’t feel welcomed when dining out in nation’s capital. Fox News. Link.
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Well, it may happen a few times. Then that darned old thing called capitalism will take hold and lefty will be free to protest all day. Then certain businesses will go out of business and be replaced by ones with management that understands people will return to a restaurant with good service and decent food more often than ones with great food and mediocre to poor service.
And you left out being lectured by someone with a college debt exceeding $100,000 about how they know more than you.
I’m going to make a bunch of these glossy cards for us MAGAts to hand out…
“Ahem….see DEEZE?!?!?! You can NOM DEM!!! ”
Ah, like deez nutz:
Gavin loves sucking on nuts!
Probably what McAuliffe’s “Nuts!” actually meant at Bastogne but his aide cleaned it up.
See it everyday here in the Great NW!
“It’s that this person has moral convictions that are strongly opposed to mine, and I don’t feel comfortable serving them,”
Funny that they don’t understand how that is no different that those moments when religious folks have concerns about practices and people they find morally reprehensible….
It speaks to a rather blind view of reality.
Funny how that works. Apparently “irony” is not in their vocabulary.
It’s always interesting when “open-minded progressives” demonstrate just how close-minded they truly are.
It seems not all that dissimilar to the folks at the bakery that would not bake the cake for the gay couple.
Its their right, for sure, but don’t bitch when you go out of business when folks go elsewhere.
I think those folks were losers just like these fucking clowns.
Just take the cash and move on.
It’s extremely dissimilar. It’s no different than refusing service to someone because of skin color. Custom work can be refused for any reason.
I disagree but there it is.
A business is a business.
What if I ordered a custom drink and they said no, or rather as they said, 30 minutes later.
Kind of hard to square a “custom drink” with trying to force a deeply religious baker to bake a cake celebrating a same-sex marriage.
If you wear religion on your sleeve.
So a server cannot willingly take the order of a specialty pizza in the DC area (no onions) from a gay married couple who look like Trump Supporters?
Aside, I do not believe the baker had to eat the cake with them, either.
Anyway, to my earlier point, both sets (the DC servers and the bakers) are self serving attention queens and losers.
As I recall, they would bake a cake, and had baked them cakes on previous occasions, but they declined to decorate the cake to celebrate their same-sex wedding.
It’s okay…she’s already in the unemployment line. See below.
Guess what toddlers, THE FUCKING DOOR IS THAT WAY!!
As soon as this EN MASS (sarc) starts happening, it’s going to get traction on social media and folks is going to be told…
Almighty dollar and also, MAGA PRESSURE!!!
We’ve had fucking ENUF of this shit.
I see a jump in waitstaff having to learn how to code. That’s what pipeline workers had to do when they lost their jobs, right?
Saw this last night and laffed my azz off.
Go ahead, shoot yourselves in your own dumb feet. Circulate the names of the facilities and servers to all members of Congress and staff.
I bet that some of those facilities could use some NYC rats as part of the charm and status. Some roaches will also enhance the ambience.
Might want to have those places checked by food inspectors, too.
I wonder how vendors will respond to such irresponsible behavior. OTOH, vendors probably have better business sense than bar tenders.
At the same time, could be a golden opportunity for a place to really shine and become attractive to the party in POWER.
The sheep continue bleat along
“Bahhhhhhaaaa take away my rights….”
When you ask which rights they are losing, they just star back with an empty, blank expression of an NPC because they were never programmed a response. Their protest will never last because workers that rely on tips for providing good service and then don’t provide good service receive no tips. So, just be slow serving me if I was ever foolish enough to be in DC, and on the tip line of the bill you’ll see…
When I was a server, the ultimate F-U was when someone left you a single penny, face down.. No tip COULD be an oversight, drunk enough to forget, etc. The face-down penny was a LOUD and CLEAR message ” your service sucked!”.. I have used it on occasion myself, though very rarely, as for me it’s a high bar to qualify for that level. That being said, the trolls quoted above would make me head to the bank for a roll or two of pennies..
Will they also turn down the food stamps and other nutritional aid? I wouldn’t want to think they were hypocritical or anything other than great Americans.
What was the name of the restaurant in north Virginia (I think), that got all political with Republicans? They got a temporary big boost from DildoCrats, but then went rapidly downhill after that.
Yeah, whoever, wherever, there’s a lesson to be learned, don’t piss off your customer base if ya wanna stay in business.
The Red Hen.
TY. I was thinking Red Rooster, close but no ceegar.
It was a rooster who self identified as a hen.
Yeah, that whole thing was in 2018. I just looked it up. They’ve closed the red hand but the same crew has opened up to get rid of the name obviously a new theme restaurant in the same place called ZunZun.
Thanks for the warning.
The unemployment line is about to get a bit longer.
Losers.
I’m seeing a lot of service industry jobs opening up in the DC area very soon. I read an article on this elsewhere, an unnamed server essentially said that even though she’s a democrat, she would not be participating because republicans tend to tip around 30%, democrats less than 20%. She’s more economically savvy than most of DC. Looking at you, AOC!
I’m picturing Trump taking his entire cabinet out for lunch at this fine establishment…
I would watch for human matter in their food.
And if found, charge them with battery on a public official (that’s the charge morons here in Colorado catch when they spit on a cop or a firefighter). Upgrade it as appropriate if the involved lefty has any communicable disease.
Not “insurrection” when Democrats do it, of course.
It’s “Peaceful Protest”.
Including:
I’m reminded of the time I sat for 20 minutes waiting for a breakfast that takes less than 10 minutes to cook. I complained to the manager who told me she’d see to it that I got served immediately. I warned her if the food wasn’t hot, I was out of there and would never return. 20 more minutes later, I got my breakfast and it was cold. I briskly walked to the nearest trash bin and flung the cold food into it. I then told the manager I would never be back and I haven’t been. I go somewhere else to breakfast.
I doubt the DC servers will ever learn this lesson; but, that’s how reality works.
Most excellent!
Boy, I bet your wife was pissed off when you threw away her cooking.
What …..did you head out to Waffle House?
/dadjokesoftball
The party of tolerance and inclusion.
I wonder what would happen if the roles were reversed.
“See something, say something” attempted domestic terrorism complaint to DHS.
I’d rather not be served rather than the alternative because this kind is also the kind who will stick their own junk in the bologna and then serve it. They get off on sick crap like that. %*# Pre-verts.
Trump has already hinted at breaking up the centralized bureaucracies of Government Agencies out of DC and scattering them out throughout the country.
Sooo….
You’re already losing a lot of your customer base there. You sure you want to go ahead and alienate/ban another portion of your remaining customers with this?
Doesn’t make good business sense to me, but good luck I guess.
Treat people like shit, get shit served back. Their creditors and utility companies don’t want to hear your sad excuse why your late on payments. It will suck to be them shortly.
The place down the street will gladly take your business and the new customers money.
Suck it beaches.
Reminds me when of this…
Elections have consequences.
Boycot, boycot, boycot, boycot, boycot, boycot, boycot, boycotBoycot, boycot, boycot, boycot, boycot, boycot, boycot, boyco.
Went to JFK Hospital this past Monday, Got covid and clean chest X-ray. woke up yesterday thursday with chest congestion, I go to my Doc and yells at me for coviding his help and now using a Z pack and a 6 pack of another med. Same thing happened last Dec. Sis has an upper restpitory infection and I now have the same WTF. Everyone have a great weekend.
*Sigh* Trump 1st term redux?
Without the burning and trashing of the place, so far.
Liberal “People of Tolerance” proving yet again that liberalism is a Mental Disorder!
I am envious. Evidently those DC bartenders/servers make a heckuva lot more money than I did and can afford to work without tips. And their owners can evidently afford to keep the doors open and pay the help without having to rely on nasty old customers.
“I have the power to make you wait 20 minutes to get your entrée,”
That may be true. Just remember I have the power to make you work for no tips, which in most places means almost for free. And I can make you work even harder by asking for a slice of lemon, then a side of ketchup/mayo/etc., then a clean fork because I accidentally dropped mine on the floor, then……
And then, at the end of your shift, while you bitch and moan and whine about the cheap bastard who stiffed you, I will be smiling for days.
Yep, ask for something new every time they come near, there’s myriad ways to make a servers life hell.. if they make the rules, they have no room to bitch when we play the game..
Let’s see how they pay their bills with only serving the likes of AOC, Omar, Presley, et al!
So by their logic, it would be perfectly acceptable for a conservative bartender or server to refuse to serve or undertake other “acts of resistance” against a demonrat politician because their moral views oppose the politicians support for abortion or trannies??
Somehow I imagine they’d feel differently about that.. but as lefties, as the saying goes, if it wasn’t for double standards, they’d have no standards at all..
I’m sure that refusing to serve a liberal would be automatic “racism”, “homophobia”, Ideophobe” or whatever label du jour they found applicable.
Wasn’t it about two weeks and change ago that Whoopi Goldberg (falsely) claimed that a Long Island bakery refused to serve her because of her political views, and the Woke Left went Full Bernath on denigrating the business? So, we’re not condemning that behavior anymore?
Not when it’s directed at the “right” people..
In DC waiting 20 minutes for service would be an improvement.
More of the tolerant left again.
Fired.
D.C. restaurant server fired after comments about refusing service to some Trump officials | Fox News
That escalated quickly! Halle-fuckin-lujah!
Bwahahahaha
FAFO.. and Go Woke, Go Broke
The employer knew on which side his bread was buttered.
Maybe the server can lean to code. No, wait – that requires knowing logic.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is already reaching out to her for a position as her Director of Media Relations.
Looks like the backlash starting already:
Shot. Chaser.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/d-c-restaurant-server-fired-after-comments-about-refusing-service-some-trump-officials-horrified