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Thread ID: 19731 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2005-08-19
2005-08-19 13:04 | User Profile
Guess Karina's identifier was shorthand for [I]"Obnoxious frizzy-haired couple with pickle schnozzes who stiff me every time they come in..."[/I]
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050817/ap_on_re_us/restaurant_slur[/url] [B]N.J. Eatery Writes 'Jew Couple' on Check [/B] Wed Aug 17, 6:50 PM ET
LOCH ARBOUR, N.J. - The bill was a shocker, and not because of the amount.
After eating at a Jersey shore restaurant, Elliott Stein and his girlfriend were handed a bill that said "Jew Couple" near the bottom, as a table identifier used by the waitstaff. The slur also turned up on Stein's credit card statement weeks later.
"My grandfather went through all that in old-school Europe," Stein, a New Yorker and a regular at the restaurant, told the New York Post. "But that happened more than 50 years ago. You don't expect it to happen in 2005."
The New Jersey Attorney General's Office said Wednesday it is investigating the July incident at Parkhill's Waterfront Grill through its Division on Civil Rights.
Stein, 23, could not be reached for comment Wednesday. He did not return two telephone messages left at his office.
The server, identified on the check only as Karina, is no longer working at the restaurant, general manager Malia Wells said Wednesday. Wells wouldn't say if it was because of the incident.
"We don't run our establishment like that," Wells said. "It was definitely poor judgment on her part."
Stephen Reid, a spokesman for the restaurant, said it had been the waitstaff's practice to use descriptions of diners to identify them on checks, instead of using the number of their table, as many establishments do.
He said racial slurs were never used to describe diners.
2005-08-19 13:15 | User Profile
How is "Jew couple" a racial slur?
2005-08-19 13:39 | User Profile
And if the restaurant had ignored their ethnicity, the kiken couple would have probably sued them for violating their talmudic right to a proper kosher dinner.
Reminds me of a story that some of the old timers around here have related.
Quite a few years back when there were still loansharks, the following exchange supposedly took place in a local diner. (Moshe = Moses Bannerman, the local shylock)
Moshe: "What's for dinner today/"
Waitress: "Special today is roast pork."
Moshe: "I'm Jewish and can't eat pork, just give me some ham & eggs instead."
2005-08-19 13:46 | User Profile
The New Jersey Attorney General's Office said Wednesday it is investigating the July incident at Parkhill's Waterfront Grill through its Division on Civil Rights. What is there to investigate? Is it a crime to tell some a Jewish couple that they're Jewish? Is it a violation of their civil rights? WTF?
2005-08-19 13:55 | User Profile
They can look at the bright side. At least they didn't have to wear those cute, little yellow stars the Germans used to make them wear.
2005-08-19 14:06 | User Profile
I can't blame the waitstaff at any restaurant from warning others about the Jews who might be present.
If you've never been out to dinner with Jews, you can't even imagine what they can do to a waiter or waitress. The Jews will rewrite the menu everytime, or send a half eaten plate back saying it's no good, ordering water because they're too cheap to buy a proper drink, leave a pathetic tip while demanding everything, short of a hand-job, from a waiter. I've seen all these things happen.
They are the worst customers in the world.
2005-08-19 15:08 | User Profile
[QUOTE]What is there to investigate? Is it a crime to tell some a Jewish couple that they're Jewish? Is it a violation of their civil rights? WTF?[/QUOTE]
Power openly acquired, openly exercised, and openly discussed is one thing. You may think organized labor or the Social Security lobby abuses its power, but you don't jeopardize your career by saying so. [B]But a kind of power that forbids its own public mention, like the Holy Name in the Old Testament, is another matter entirely[/B]. - Joseph Sobran
2005-08-19 16:07 | User Profile
They should be proud that people can see that they are Jews, after all six millions of them died for the priviledge (six millions???)
By the way, when the time comes it will be easier to find them.