Second California In-N-Out Dining Room Closed After Refusing to Play Vaccine Police
“We fiercely disagree with any government dictate that forces a private company to discriminate against customers who choose to patronize their business. This is clear governmental overreach and is intrusive, improper, and offensive.”
Major props to In-N-Out. I prefer Whataburger and Braum’s, but if we had them in Oklahoma I would give them my money.
San Francisco shut down the only In-N-Out in the city last week. The restaurant reopened with takeout and drive-thru services.
Contra Costa County Health Services shut down the In-N-Out in Pleasant Hill after the company refused to check the vaccination status or negative test results of its customers.
Officials claimed the burger joint created “a public health hazard by repeatedly violating a county health order intended to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission.”
The county gave In-N-Out numerous violation notices and fines totaling $1,750: [“]There is no attempt to single anyone out,” he [Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia] said. “In fact, it is In-N-Out that wants the special treatment.”
No, In-N-Out doesn’t want the government to interfere with its business:
“On Tuesday, October 26, our restaurant at 570 Contra Costa Blvd. in Pleasant Hill, California, was closed by the Contra Costa Health Services Environmental Division. The reason for the closure is that In-N-Out Associates were not actively intervening by demanding COVID-19 vaccine or testing documentation and photo identification from each dine-in Customer before serving them. Rather than acting as enforcement agents, our Associates were allowing our Customers to be responsible for their own compliance with the divisive local regulations.
“As a Company, In-N-Out Burger strongly believes in the highest form of customer service and to us that means serving all Customers who visit us and making all Customers feel welcome. We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government. It is unreasonable, invasive, and unsafe to force our restaurant Associates to segregate Customers into those who may be served and those who may not, whether based on the documentation they carry, or any other reason.
“We fiercely disagree with any government dictate that forces a private company to discriminate against customers who choose to patronize their business. This is clear governmental overreach and is intrusive, improper, and offensive.”
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As much as I want to applaud this restaurant for doing the right thing, it’s not good that only one chain is taking this stand.
Well I applaud the company. I am the only member of my immediate family resisting the vaccine; that doesn’t make me wrong, just the only one with a brain and a spine.
I know this is totally’ inappropriate but I’ll just put this here. I’ll let you determine the truth of the matter as there’s a lot of “spin” in this article about what happened on that fatal day.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/alec-baldwin-gun-movie-set-bullets/2021/10/27/id/1042272/
And as I say with everything like this: if this was truly an accident, then they’d just tell the truth and it would be over, and you would want EXTREME CLARITY on what actually happened.
The fact that they’re constantly trying to ‘spin’ and obfuscate and use buzz words that they know goddamn well mean something other than what they’re trying to make them mean tells you that they know GODDAMN WELL that somebody royally fucked up here and are trying to hide it.
It was unlikely Baldwin intentionally murdered the cinematographer and the homicide was unintentional, but the killing was what it was.
Guns don’t kill people. Alec Baldwin kills people.
That revolver they were using? It’s a Pietta 1873. It’s basically a replica of a Colt Peacemaker. If you’ve never seen one or handled one before, let me explain why this is a case of gross negligence. The way the cylinder fits into the frame, you can look at it and tell if it’s loaded. Seriously, it’s just that simple. You can tell from the front or back of the cylinder if there are cartridges present. It’s not rocket science and you don’t even need to pop open the loading gate. There’s no breakdown required, you look at it for a fraction of a second and say,,.. oh, there are round in the cylinder. Baldwin couldn’t even be bothered to take that fraction of a second to look before he holstered it for the scene. If I’m on a jury… it’s not looking good.