A Mexican restaurant in Houston is keeping its mask rule. People threatened to call ICE on the staff.
- Thread starter Kenneth Griffin
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“Imma eat tasty cheap food produced by illegals! Yes!“
”Wait, they want me to protect their health?“
No way, me sic ICE on those mean peeps.
”Wait, they want me to protect their health?“
No way, me sic ICE on those mean peeps.
I have to believe that Houston has more than one Mexican restaurant. If you don't like the mask rule at one, go to another or STHU.
JFC. There are way too many @ssholes in this country that are publicly disdainful of the food service industry.
I wonder which will cause more spread? The mask rules being changed or the Biden administration sending hundreds of covid positive immigrants people into various communities
You probably didn’t realize that immigrants being processed now are being vaccinated.
What do you have against masks? They have saved lives as well as long term health issues.
Probably the "mask thing", because that's "real".
The other half of your sentence is false propaganda, designed to stir fear and public backlash against immigrants.
I heard Biden is sending THOUSANDS of actively infected illegals into Republican districts to live......and this is being facilitated by the FBI and CIA.....Master strategy!
One of the local publications in DFW put out a list of all the places still requiring masks, in an attempt to let people know ahead of time which establishments they could chose to patron (on either side of the issue).
Those that get upset over the mask requirement at a restaurant are a special kind of soft. You are required to wear it to your seat and if you go to the restroom. What is the BFD? Oh, muh freedums.
Those that get upset over the mask requirement at a restaurant are a special kind of soft. You are required to wear it to your seat and if you go to the restroom. What is the BFD? Oh, muh freedums.
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It is my understanding that in Texas, the restaurant can still require customers to mask up if they feel it safer. Is that the case or not?
They can "require" it, but there isn't much "bite" to the enforcement, if the state has no interest in backing it up.
Correct, and patrons can obviously wear a mask at a place that doesn’t require them.
I believe a restaurant can require, and enforce a mask policy (no entry/no service). Similar to as they would a dress code. Some businesses appreciated the state requiring one, as it gave the business cover/a shield from people wanting to personally blame store owner, or assign “blame” specifically to someone/something. @Fijimn might be able to provide more insight to this from a legal standpoint.
A business can try to enforce a mask policy, but it's only a matter of time until some ignorant puke does something like make threats against staff to call ICE, or shoot the place up to save America.
Sure, but those avenues existed during the state-wide mandate too. People have always been allowed to be a-holes. I did mention the “cover” provided by a state-wide mandate, and agree that it would help with some of these folks.
whats that have to do with a business owners right to have customers wear masks and those customers throw tantrums and threaten to tattle to ICE?
They can deny service then, correct? If you dont follow the rules....it is that way here, still.
Sure; but then people throw tantrums in stores and rant about their rights.
When it's a local or state government mandate, the store is less likely to encounter those idiots. Eliminate those mandates, and you empower the idiots to act up.
Our favorite mexican restaurant did the same after the governor opened things back up. I'm not quite sure why some people have trouble understanding that businesses can keep those rules in force if they like. Either go there or don't. The fact that people need to be assholes about things is ridiculous.
"“People and businesses don’t need the state telling them how to operate."
"Now, Texans have mastered the daily habits to avoid getting COVID"
- Ken Abbott five days ago.
Nah man, people are stupid, and they don't respect business's rights/obligations to do what they think it best - they just want everyone to do things the way they want them done, and anyone deciding different is somehow infringing on their rights (to chips and salsa, in this case).
There will be more threats, and there will probably be violence, as businesses try and decide for themselves without the state mandate.
"Now, Texans have mastered the daily habits to avoid getting COVID"
- Ken Abbott five days ago.
Nah man, people are stupid, and they don't respect business's rights/obligations to do what they think it best - they just want everyone to do things the way they want them done, and anyone deciding different is somehow infringing on their rights (to chips and salsa, in this case).
There will be more threats, and there will probably be violence, as businesses try and decide for themselves without the state mandate.
And for the record, the mask mandate ends on the 10th, so these people are doing this with the mandate in place. SOTE regardless.
These idiots must not be reading the news. Calling ICE is only going to end up getting these illegals bus tickets to better cities, per our new Immigration policy.
Cities with dominant Republican populations...it’s the Dems answer to gerrymandering.
It's a weird area because there is no law enforcing the mask wearing. But technically if the store has asked the customer to leave because he/she is not following the mask policy, they are trespassing and the police can escort them off the premises or even arrest them.
Could a business require and enforce a "No shoes" policy? Seriously. I don't know. Would be interesting. If a Supermarket said, "No shoes allowed in store". What would happen?
They can't hold you down and put shoes on you, but they can ask you to leave if you aren't wearing complying with their dress code. If you refuse, you are trespassing and then the cops can remove you.
Another honest question. Do you think the police would resist enforcing the trespassing laws in the same way many have with mask requirements? No shirt, no shoes has been an accepted dress code for mostly decency reasons for ever. But no mask suddenly becomes a political issue and an affront to individual freedoms.
I think that people that don't wear a mask to an establishment that has a mask requirement are going to get their way because, generally, these businesses don't want to create a scene and make the eating/shopping experience unenjoyable, as well as put their employees at risk of escalation. One side is going to be an adult about this and try to coexist and the other is going to be childish.
