Comments on: Restaurant/diner dilemma: flip-flops or no flip-flops? http://davidsonnews.net/foodanddining/2011/06/29/restaurantdiner-dilemma-flip-flops-or-no-flip-flops/ Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Greg Scoggins http://davidsonnews.net/foodanddining/2011/06/29/restaurantdiner-dilemma-flip-flops-or-no-flip-flops/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:56:29 +0000 http://davidsonnews.net/foodanddining/?p=1521#comment-118 I don’t see why this should be ‘jarring’ for diners. The restaurant had a sign that said no flip flops. And what does the cost of the flip flops have to do with it? How is a restaurant supposed to police that? This was supposed to be a “romantic” dinner … at 5:30 in the afternoon … wearing shorts and flip flops?

As a long time member of River Run Country Club, I can say that there are many violations of any sense of appropriate dress that are not addressed for fear of offending the member.

In short, restaurants have a right to try to enforce a minimum level of appropriateness for dress in their business. Sounds like this restaurant was quite fair in simply mentioning it and not refusing them service.

]]> By: Robert Cameron http://davidsonnews.net/foodanddining/2011/06/29/restaurantdiner-dilemma-flip-flops-or-no-flip-flops/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:07:14 +0000 http://davidsonnews.net/foodanddining/?p=1521#comment-117 It’s the restaurant’s business, and a marketing decision. Clearly, they lost a customer that night, but their sign was a hint. Personally, having gone to an upscale restaurant in Birkdale last week (entree prices $25+), only to be seated near one guy in sandals with his bottle of water lying on the carpet next to him, another in a Harley-Davidson T-shirt, I can appreciate that when you want to dress it up a notch, you prefer to be able to find a place where others do as well. I’ll be checking out restaurant windows locally and will patronize the place in this article, if I can identify it.

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