[Brenda]

What if some in your party pray and some do not?

[raydan]

The restaurant said the discount was given to customers at the discretion of the wait staff.

When I worked and lived in a tourist town at the local Caisse Desjardins, restaurants would pretty much all give discounts to the locals that ate there. Nothing written on the wall or menu.

[Jabberwalker]

Ste.-Adèle?

[bootlegga]

What's the big deal?

Places give discounts to seniors, cops, soldiers and all sorts of other people. It seems to me this is more of the same.

[raydan]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Ste.-Adèle?

Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts...

[Jabberwalker]

I know it well. I went to a Y summer camp around those parts just after the end of the dinosaurs.

[desertdude]

andyt andyt:

Good idea. Bring your prayer carpet and offer prostrations to Allah. Or maybe some sort of Wiccan chant.

Yeah it doesn't specify what sort of prayer, even after a muslim, buddhist, Jew or Spaghetti monster follower offer prayers and not get the 15% discount, does that make it legible for a religious discrimination action ?

[GreenTiger]

desertdude desertdude:

andyt andyt:

Good idea. Bring your prayer carpet and offer prostrations to Allah. Or maybe some sort of Wiccan chant.

Yeah it doesn't specify what sort of prayer, even after a muslim, buddhist, Jew or Spaghetti monster follower offer prayers and not get the 15% discount, does that make it legible for a religious discrimination action ?

Probably only if there was a 15% premium charge if you weren't on their select group.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

desertdude desertdude:

andyt andyt:

Good idea. Bring your prayer carpet and offer prostrations to Allah. Or maybe some sort of Wiccan chant.

Yeah it doesn't specify what sort of prayer, even after a muslim, buddhist, Jew or Spaghetti monster follower offer prayers and not get the 15% discount, does that make it legible for a religious discrimination action ?

Sure, if you're willing to spend money on a lawyer to go to court over 15% of a $20 lunch.

[herbie]

Yeah there is.
If you serve the public, you're not a private business. MOF the only thing private business means it that its not owned by shareholders or the gov't.
You can't discriminate if you serve the public.
Its STUPID in a business sense and immoral because it is undeniably a form of discrimination
Don't want to hand out coupons in church? Then convince your staff not to accept tips from people who pray at dinner. Good fucking luck at that!

[rickc]

Wait a minute now.......

herbie herbie:

As a newly minted senior all I can say is
Fuck You punk, and the horse you rode in on"
I'm sure you can approach your Boss at WalMart (or wherever) and negotiate a retirement package better than mine all by yourself

Is that not you in another thread complaining about how some young punk wants to take some freebies away from senior citizens like yourself? You want your free stuff and discounts, but you have a problem with other people outside your special interest group getting a break. All the businesses mentioned in that thread serve the public. How is it not age discrimination for them to give you a break, and yet expect some poor slob who is 18 and working numerous minimum wage jobs to pay full fares?

herbie herbie:

No they don't even think that far ahead. Like all the mill workers who resisted pensions in their contracts up until recently.
I know a guy with over 30 years at the mill. Gets $89 a month pension, he retired soon after it was negotiated.
It's a prevalent attitude out there: He gets something and I don't! Take it away from him so all will be fair.
Remember Kurt Vonnegut? Everyone should be equal so tie sandbags to tha
t ballerina's legs so she's not better than me at ballet....

Later in that same thread you complain about how people want to take stuff away from other people that they do not get themselves. Is that not what you are doing in this thread? You do not want to pray, so you have a problem with people who do, getting a 15% discount. Seems kind of hypocritical to me.

[herbie]

Yeah and it has dick all to do with the current discussion. Discounts for students or seniors are NOT discrimination because everyone is a student or senior at some time. Regardless of if you're black, white, red, Christian, Buddhist or what orifice you prefer.
I ran a business for 20 years, it doesn't mean you get to live by different rules. And this outfit just got flagged for stupid business practices. Who out of the majority of the customer base it draws on is going to go there knowing they'll pay extra?
That would be the same as if my repair shop which was located beside a rez offered a lower rate to natives. That would discourage others from doing business.

[raydan]

herbie herbie:

Discounts for students or seniors are NOT discrimination because everyone is a student or senior at some time. Regardless of if you're black, white, red, Christian, Buddhist or what orifice you prefer.

Back to my bar analogy, where they offer discounts to ladies... try as I might, I'll never be a lady.

So that would be discrimination?

[raydan]

From what I could figure out, the restaurant never publicized the fact that they gave discounts to people who prayed... it was given at the discretion of the wait staff.

[Delwin]

Absolutely discriminatory practice and an open door to segregation. If they are able to get away with this, what is to stop them from upping their prices by 1000% and offering a 900% discount to those who pray ? Thereby creating an "atheist-free" zone.

There is no way this practice should be allowed.