Posted on 10/15/2010 4:34:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Attire deemed inappropriate for Five Sixty
As if suffering the indignities of being held prisoner in a World War II POW camp weren’t enough, six Air Force veterans who flew one of the most dangerous missions of the war suffered yet another at the hands of a restaurant hostess.
She turned away the six members of the Second Schweinfurt Memorial Association, all fellow war prisoners, at the door of Five Sixty, Wolfgang Puck’s schmancy restaurant atop Reunion Tower because they showed up dressed in T-shirts commemorating their past ordeal, ball caps, and shorts. According to today’s article in The Dallas Morning News, the guys shrugged it off, joked about being bad-boys, and ambled off. Some of the wives and children accompanying them pitched a fit and scored the old boys a couple of bottles of Scotch courtesy of the restaurant’s, likely, embarrassed general manager, Marcus Cascio.
Mayor Tom Leppert sent the guys a letter dripping of schmaltzy PR and gave them each a gold-colored lapel pin depicting the Dallas seal.
Leppert’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, was quoted in the story as suggesting, “They can add it to their hats," which seems a bit cavalier.
Maybe next year when the Second Schweinfurt Memorial Association guys get together for their annual, um, get-together, they’ll have new T-shirts commemorating their most recent ordeal.
Sheesh - I hope Wolfie makes amends. I just ordered his $99 crockpot from HSN, and I don’t want to have to send it back ;-)
If they won’t serve these guys for something as stupid (that’s how Dallas is) as what they are wearing, I wouldn’t be caught dead there. Wolfgang Whatever can kiss my a$$!!
Same as the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas. You can’t even take your jacket off. Ex took me there for my birthday once.
ONCE. I almost asked for a fly swatter so I could nail the pest “hovering” to fill my water glass every time I took a drink. Hard a h*ll to have a private conversation.
I was thinking of that to.
If it would have been 6 black baggy-pantsed, hip-hop rappers, they would have either let them in, or we would have front page news of “discrimination” and a Mega-Lawsuit by some jackass lawyer.....
People who patronize restaurants with dress codes should have to pay higher income tax.
Sounds like a win/win to me.
The show was free too!!! Top of the old Trademart had the same offer.
LLS
Exactly. Obama could show up wearing a dunce cap, jock-strap, pink cape and high heel boots and he’d be led to the best table in the house. These gentlemen should’ve been given free meals and their presence announced to all diners.
If it weren’t for these six men, there wouldn’t be a Wolfgang Puck anything.
Not appropriate attire, and I don’t care who you are.
Please identify this person so that I can pay a visit. :)
ErnstStavroBlofeld wrote: “If you do not like the “house” rules you can always go somewhere else”
..... or you can make lemonade out of lemons.
Vunderbar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder if this is the type of seniors who think, “because I am a senior i can do what I want.”
I have been around WWII and Korean vets who were celebrating, they always respected dress codes. (they were loudly happy but harmless)
I wanted that crock pot!! LOL
I hope we hear Wolfie’s response to this situation.
Agreed. They should have known better.
Did the restaurant even know who these guys were (in advance) or were they a bunch of old guys not abiding by the dress code.
The one in Beverly Hills you must wear a suit.
There is no, ifs and or but. They will turn you away if you are not dressed appropriately.
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