Woke restaurant goes broke, closes permanently
Aug 26, 2021 23:28:02 GMT -5
Post by OmegaMan on Aug 26, 2021 23:28:02 GMT -5
Can't say I feel sorry for them! I looked at their reviews on Yelp, and the owner was super paranoid - not only were patrons required to wear masks, but they had to have their temp checked at the door and every table had hand sanitizer on it!
First story, back in March:
Texas diner charging $50 if staff is forced to 'explain' continued mask requirements to customers
'I just can't afford to get the virus,' said co-owner Wayne LaCombe of his decision to institute the surcharge
By Jeanette Settembre | Fox News
Anyone who enters this Texas restaurant without a mask will be served a hefty surcharge.
Legends Diner in Denton is charging $50 to anyone who asks about its continued mask requirements despite Texas lifting its statewide mandate earlier this month.
In a sign posted to the door of the diner, the management of Legends outlines its new policy thusly: "$50 if I have to explain why masks are mandatory, $75 if I have to hear why you disagree…"
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Here's the update from this week:
Legends Diner in Denton to close after mask frustrations: ‘People just don’t want to comply’
The restaurant went viral in March 2021 after a sign on the door threatened to charge $50 ‘if I have to explain why masks are mandatory.’
By Sarah Blaskovich
11:56 AM on Aug 23, 2021 CDT
Legends Diner in Denton — the restaurant that made national news for a sign threatening to charge customers a fee if they complain about masks — is closing at the end of August 2021.
Co-owner Wayne LaCombe says the concerns over COVID-19 and mask-wearing are “too much of a variable right now.”
“People just don’t want to comply, and I don’t think they will comply,” he says, looking at the problem from a big-picture sense. “COVID is going to go on for quite some time.”
LaCombe and his wife Kat LaCombe, a retired nurse, opened the Denton diner two years ago, serving pancakes as big as plates for breakfast and cheesy patty melts at lunch. They suffered through the coronavirus pandemic, intent upon keeping employees and customers safe by requiring that everyone wear a mask, even after the mask mandate was lifted by the governor of Texas in March. The city of Denton requires masks again, as of Aug. 12, 2021.
Their hand-written sign posted on the door back in March 2021 went viral:
“Our new surcharge,” the sign says: “$50 if I have to explain why masks are mandatory” and “$75 if I have to hear why you disagree...”
The LaCombes never collected any money, but Wayne LaCombe says it helped customers understand their stance on public health. After the hand-written sign faded from sun damage, a man from New York sent the owners a metal version, which still hangs in the window, Wayne LaCombe says.
He actually didn’t have a problem convincing customers to wear masks, he says. It was bigger than that.
“They don’t come talk to you in person about it,” he says. “They just want to put their feelings on social media.”
The diner has lost about $200,000 since 2020, according to our partners at NBCDFW. The co-owners are exhausted, not only of the prolonged health crisis and of the political divide over masks, but also because of other difficulties of running a restaurant during a pandemic.
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First story, back in March:
Texas diner charging $50 if staff is forced to 'explain' continued mask requirements to customers
'I just can't afford to get the virus,' said co-owner Wayne LaCombe of his decision to institute the surcharge
By Jeanette Settembre | Fox News
Anyone who enters this Texas restaurant without a mask will be served a hefty surcharge.
Legends Diner in Denton is charging $50 to anyone who asks about its continued mask requirements despite Texas lifting its statewide mandate earlier this month.
In a sign posted to the door of the diner, the management of Legends outlines its new policy thusly: "$50 if I have to explain why masks are mandatory, $75 if I have to hear why you disagree…"
Continued at link
Here's the update from this week:
Legends Diner in Denton to close after mask frustrations: ‘People just don’t want to comply’
The restaurant went viral in March 2021 after a sign on the door threatened to charge $50 ‘if I have to explain why masks are mandatory.’
By Sarah Blaskovich
11:56 AM on Aug 23, 2021 CDT
Legends Diner in Denton — the restaurant that made national news for a sign threatening to charge customers a fee if they complain about masks — is closing at the end of August 2021.
Co-owner Wayne LaCombe says the concerns over COVID-19 and mask-wearing are “too much of a variable right now.”
“People just don’t want to comply, and I don’t think they will comply,” he says, looking at the problem from a big-picture sense. “COVID is going to go on for quite some time.”
LaCombe and his wife Kat LaCombe, a retired nurse, opened the Denton diner two years ago, serving pancakes as big as plates for breakfast and cheesy patty melts at lunch. They suffered through the coronavirus pandemic, intent upon keeping employees and customers safe by requiring that everyone wear a mask, even after the mask mandate was lifted by the governor of Texas in March. The city of Denton requires masks again, as of Aug. 12, 2021.
Their hand-written sign posted on the door back in March 2021 went viral:
“Our new surcharge,” the sign says: “$50 if I have to explain why masks are mandatory” and “$75 if I have to hear why you disagree...”
The LaCombes never collected any money, but Wayne LaCombe says it helped customers understand their stance on public health. After the hand-written sign faded from sun damage, a man from New York sent the owners a metal version, which still hangs in the window, Wayne LaCombe says.
He actually didn’t have a problem convincing customers to wear masks, he says. It was bigger than that.
“They don’t come talk to you in person about it,” he says. “They just want to put their feelings on social media.”
The diner has lost about $200,000 since 2020, according to our partners at NBCDFW. The co-owners are exhausted, not only of the prolonged health crisis and of the political divide over masks, but also because of other difficulties of running a restaurant during a pandemic.
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