🚀 go-pugleaf

Earlier I wrote:

>: 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.  


clbooks@netcom.com (Steve Wertz) responds:

> That's insensitive too.

Screw sensitivity.  Restaurants aren't in the sensitivity
business.  They have no particular obligation to accomodate
every bizarre, off-the-wall food-related weakness that exists
in the world.  There are those places, such as vegetarian 
restaurants, that choose to cater to the tastes/requirements/whims
of a particular, limited clientele, and that's the prerogative of
those establishments.  But they're certainly not in any way obligated
to do so.


> If you are allergic to wheat, you are probably restricted to a 
> gluten-free diet, which includes most grains and other substances
> you find in almost all processed foods, including restaurant food.
> Eating at resturants is nearly impossible for people afflicted by
> the disease.

Ergo, they should avoid eating at restaurants, or, more likely, choose
their menu selections carefully.  Problem solved.  How did their 
digestive malfunctions get to be my problem as a restaurateur?


> <snort>

Learn to use that device properly; otherwise, it just sort of falls
flat as a non sequitur.


> Trader-Joes accomodates such people with a list of Gluten-Free 
> products, but the restuarants are ignorant to it

It's Trader Joe's prerogative to cater to such people.  They do
that because they want to; it's the result of a rational business
decision, not of an attempt at ethical behavior or altruism.
That's a niche market for Trader Joe's, as is all the vegetarian
stuff they sell and that awful, dry, nonfat "cheese" of theirs.



Geoff

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Why be politically correct when you can be right?