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!!! ”
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 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.
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…
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 unemployment line is about to get a bit longer.
Losers.