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Earlier I wrote (reasonably enough, I thought):

>: Part of the implied contract between restaurant and customer
>: is that while he's on the premises, the customer will obtain
>: all food and drink from the proprietor exclusively. 


James Salsman <jps@mti.sgi.com> replies:

> I think that is insensitive to people with 
> pervasive food allergies (e.g., wheat) who 
> want to enjoy the company of their friends 
> in the atmosphere of a resturant.


<snort>

People's allergies aren't the restaurant's problem.  
They're free to chose another place to enjoy the
company of their friends (including somebody's home)
if a restaurant's policies aren't to their liking, just
like anybody else is.  Restaurants have no obligation
to accomodate them.  And if somebody is allergic to wheat
or whatever, then he certainly doesn't have to order any
dish containing that substance.  Problem solved.  

Of course, that approach sends the issue zooming back
over the rhetorical tennis net at the complainer and
firmly establishes it as a matter of personal responsibility,
which won't sit well with the more left-leaning folks in the
audience, but there it is...

Restaurants are businesses, free to establish their
own ground rules as they see fit.  And customers are
free to choose which business to patronize.  People
can be found who are allergic to damn near anything -- 
especially _these_ days, when it's apparently hip to
be weak^H^H^H^Hsensitive (in _all_ senses of the word).

I thought I'd left the world of finicky eaters behind
by the time I'd turned eleven or twelve, but these
days it seems that everybody's "allergic" to this or
has a "sensitivity" to that or "can't eat" the other.
Whine, whine, whine. 

What's all this talk of "sensitivity" I see these 
days?  "Insensitive" has become the latest liberal
buzzword, much like "empowerment" was in the 1980s.
And it's evidence that women have found their
political voice, too; "sensitivity" isn't something
that it would occur to most men to speak in terms of.
At least, not unless they were trying to get laid...



Geoff

-- 
Why be politically correct when you can be right?