The Baltimore Sun reports that the Choptank, a new fish and crab house, has drawn fire on social media from people who believe the rules are unfair toward black patrons.
The rules bar baggy clothing, athletic attire, jerseys (except on Ravens or Orioles game days), brimless headwear and hats not worn forward.
Joe Sweeney, director of the Atlas Restaurant Group, said the company does not support discrimination and is reviewing their policy.
More
Northwest Woodsman: Why would it discriminate against blacks? If they are unable to follow the dress code ruled, just go to a Chicken Shack. Problem solved.
ReplyDeleteNo difference than seacerts.
ReplyDeleteSounds like it should be!
ReplyDeleteIt looks good to me. They just don't want a bunch of bums in their new establishment.
ReplyDeleteDon't like the dress code? Go somewhere else.
As if all of those fashion statements are exclusive to persons of hue.
ReplyDeleteThe Army-Navy Club requires a jacket and tie in their dining room.
ReplyDeleteSeptember 18, 2019 at 10:44 PM
ReplyDeleteThen maybe the persons should review their attire.
Dress for success has a lot of meaning.
They can have whatever dress code they wish. It’s their restaurant. I think it’s a fantastic idea. Wish more places had it.
ReplyDeleteSo one is supposed to wear their sunday's best to scarf crabs now. Lol. Too funny. I have no problem with black folks putting them on blast and outright refusing to patronize the place. Speak with your dollars and let the chips fall where they may
ReplyDeleteIt's gonna be a NO THUG GOLD MINE.
DeleteDon't like the rules? Don't go there. I personally like them, no thugs allowed, good idea.
ReplyDeleteI think it is insulting to blacks to assume that this is what they all dress like. It's absurd.
ReplyDeleteA business establishment has every right to enact a dress code.
Someones genetics has ZERO impact to the clothing they choose to wear.
What DOES impact someones clothing choices are the kind of people they interact with and how they represent themselves. Hence, dress codes.
The sign doesn't say "blacks who don't know how to wear pants prohibited", it says "anyone who is pants challenged prohibited".
Sure seems like the exact OPPOSITE of racial discrimination to me.
Northwest Woodsman: Went to a very nice restaurant for my wife’s birthday recently and only about half of the patrons were appropriately dresses in my opinion. At the table next to us there was an obviously overweight man dressed in camo shorts and a T-shirt with an obscene comment on it. None of the members of these later generations take any pride in their appearance. My stepson who is otherwise a great young man, is an embarrassment because of his mode of dress. I’d love it if more restaurants and other public establishments would set dress codes for their patrons. PS: I have stayed at the Army-Navy Club in DC several times and enjoyed it very much.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely NOTHING wrong with the dress code!
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA. The thugs don't like that.
ReplyDeleteBrew River has these same dress codes.
ReplyDeleteI do find it a bit ironic that people find a dress code racist, when white people are typically the worst and/or most inappropriately dressed.
Go to any restaurant or church and you'll find black people dressed nicely and appropriately. You'll find white people in dirty jeans and a stretched out t-shirt. Women in leggings and some trashy top. "dressed up" for like a wedding in kahkis and a polo shirt versus dress pants and dress shirt and tie.
LOLOL ok thug pull ur pants up HYPOCRITE.
DeleteALWAYS someone has to LIE. Where do you go to church?? Where do you go out to eat? Back up your accusations with examples.
DeleteYou know what needs a dress code? Schools. No not for the students, but for the teachers. Have you seen what teachers wear these days, super baggy/sloppy tops, leggings/jeans. It's not better any many workplaces either. No one dresses workplace appropriate anymore, shows you don't take your profession seriously.
ReplyDelete@ September 19, 2019 at 12:35 PM
ReplyDeleteI don't think the clothes you wear makes you professional or not per se. The way you present or carry yourself does... and you can be just as professional in jeans and a polo as you can in a suit.
Plenty of idiots wrapped up in suits that look the part that are just total nimrods.
Books and their covers...
Seacrets has the same thing
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteYou know what needs a dress code? Schools. No not for the students, but for the teachers. Have you seen what teachers wear these days, super baggy/sloppy tops, leggings/jeans. It's not better any many workplaces either. No one dresses workplace appropriate anymore, shows you don't take your profession seriously.
September 19, 2019 at 12:35 PM
HOT for Teacher!
Teachers look like bums going to the beach.
ReplyDeleteSeptember 19, 2019 at 10:31 AM:
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry NW Woodsman, but you did not take your wife to a "very nice restaurant." You need to come off some of your money and treat your wife to something better. Just because its not a fast food restaurant, doesn't make it a "very nice" one. Try one that has a maitre d' and cloth tablecloths and napkins. But that will set you back more than your very nice place. Are there even any classy restaurants out there? I can see where a restaurant with servers would be all it takes for the upper northwest loonies to think they are at a "very nice restaurant" bad dressers and all.
No problem with it at all. Who wants to eat at a restaurant and pay good money only to have someone come in with his pants well below his azz? Or some sweaty fool with a wife beater t-shirt on. Not me. It's disgusting. Whats wrong with dressing like you have some morals and respect for yourself and others?
ReplyDeleteSeptember 19, 2019 at 8:13 AM. I don't think the restaurant could care less or their customers if some people refuse to eat there. And it is not Sunday best they are talking about. Just dress like you have some morals and not come in with a wife beater t- shirt on or your pants below your stinking azz. Plus men used to take their hat off when going into an establishment. It was called respect, if you even know what that is.
ReplyDeleteAaaaahhh the sweet sounds of integration still not working!!
ReplyDeleteWhat wrong with that. Both blacks and whites want to be segregated again. Let's do it. Give it 10 year's and see who the winner is. But we all know who it will be.
DeleteI guess the Shriner's won't pass the hat test.
ReplyDeleteMost night clubs and other establishment have the same thing.
ReplyDeleteever since bill carey was arrested for everything under the sun his wife betsy shows up to teach in shorter and shorter skirts. whats up?
ReplyDeleteNorthwest Woodsman: Sorry 1031, but the restaurant I mentioned does have linen tablecloths and napkins. When stating that it is a “nice” restaurant, I am speaking somewhat relatively for I know that in more sophisticated cities like Salisbury, one may truly find a nice restaurant like Kentucky Fried Chicken or even a Red Lobster, however for us who live in the woods this place is a “nice” restaurant. Since you don’t know me, my background and my socioeconomic status it would be an interesting challenge to make the comparison. As an example, I have resided in 12 states and three foreign countries and travelled to many more so I feel that I have a basis for comparison Let me know if you feel that you can be competitive.
ReplyDeleteSeptember 23, 2019 at 11:24 AM:
ReplyDeleteI called you out because if you think you took your wife to a "very nice restaurant," and saw what you saw, you don't know what a very nice restaurant is, or you just don't have any out there. You "bragging" about all the places you've been, (and stayed nowhere for very long), still doesn't make me believe that you know a nice restaurant from any other. Being a nomad doesn't make you an expert on anything. But I do notice that you have an EGO problem, and think your nomadic travels make you better than everyone else. You should get that checked out. I've done a lot of traveling (all 50 states and most of Europe, even living there for a while), but I don't feel a need to be "competitive" with you. I don't have that EGO problem that is eating you up and making you obnoxious.
Establishments have the right to bar khakis, jacket and ties, neat polo shirts, and pants not showing at least a linear inch of asscrack if they choose. Wonder why they don’t do that?
ReplyDelete