Restaurant Barred A Customer – Single Adult Woman – From Sitting At The Bar, Assuming She Must Be An Escort by C. Lampen
Over a year ago, I did a post about an amusement park that banned all single adults, because its owners were (Link): worried that single adults were all pedophiles. Then there are actually people who assume any and all adults who show up alone to a church service or who (Link): sit around a public park are pedophiles. Now there’s this.
The author of this piece takes offense because she thinks it’s wrong for a restaurant to offer substandard treatment to any woman who works in the sex industry:
I find this story offensive because I would be livid if someone (especially a place of business) assumed I was a sex worker, when in fact, I have very good sexual morals – I’ve remained a virgin into my 40s, since I was waiting until marriage to have sex, and I never got married. I sure as holy hell would NOT appreciate an establishment assuming I must be an escort.
(Link): Fancy Manhattan Restaurant Allegedly Won’t Let Women Sit Alone at the Bar
Excerpts:
… Apparently, though, solo women (Link): make some male restaurateurs nervous. Take Nello, thecelebrity-beloved Upper East Side eateryslinging $275 pasta, for example.
On Tuesday, creative executive Clementine Crawford — a creative executive at the strategic branding firm Finch + Partners — published a personal essay entitled, (Link): “The Night I Was Mistaken for a Call Girl,” in which she detailed a perplexing policy change at a Madison Avenue restaurant where has has been a regular for about four years.
Crawford does not name the restaurant in her post, but confirmed to “Page Six” that it was in fact Nello.
Crawford did not immediately respond to the Cut’s request for comment.
In her essay, however, Crawford explained that she lives in London, but ends up spending much of her time in New York City, on business.
While here, she sticks to a routine: She stays in the same room, in the same hotel, and eats the same thing at the same Italian restaurant, where she always sits in the same seat at the bar. “Unless I’m with my boss or clients,” Crawford writes, “I usually prefer to eat alone. Catch up on homework, preserve energy, think of the day ahead.”
Recently, however, she says a waiter scooted her out of her spot when she sat down for dinner, telling her that she had to sit at a table instead.
When she came back a few days later, the same thing happened; she asked about the change, and says staff told her that meals were no longer served at the bar.
Odd, but okay — until a few minutes later, Crawford alleges this happened:
A gentleman walked in — a regular, like me — and was seated on a stool at the bar. As the evening unfolded, I watched with great interest and gathering fury as they poured him his dirty martini; brought him his breadsticks; adjusted his white linen; dished up his spaghetti; added his fresh parmesan and black pepper to boot; chatted amiably to him over the counter; and rounded off his evening with a limoncello.
Angry at an apparent double standard, Crawford reportedly flagged down a waiter she “knew best,” who, she says, quietly advised that she “shouldn’t cause a scene and that there was nothing to be done.”
Crawford, however, didn’t let it drop: She pressed the matter, and says that she eventually found out the owner, Nello Balan, intended to “crack down” on escorts.
Apparently, he had made some assumptions about her job, which — while not offensive to Crawford — smacked of discrimination.
Crawford says she asked to speak to the Balan (who, incidentally, has been (Link): sued by his workforce for allegedly withholding pay and allegedly breaking other labor laws): “He told me that he could run his business as he pleased, and that I was no longer welcome to eat at the bar, only at a table,” she writes.
…And so I cannot tell you why Nello (allegedly) assumes that a woman alone must be an escort.
Related Posts:
(Link): Theme Park Bans Single Adults For Fear They Are All Pedophiles
(Link): Why Is It So Difficult To Believe Single Men Can Have Paternal Instincts Too? by A. Mahdawi
(Link): Article About Doctor Pedophile from WSJ Mentions His Unmarried Status – Why?
(Link): Park Bans Single Men -AND- Single Women – Rebuttal to Blogger John Morgan
(Link): Ending Priestly Celibacy Would Not Stop Abuse by E. Condon – Celibates Are Not Pedophiles
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