[nickcarraway]

Last time these guys dealt with an ornery Austrian, they weren't so nice about it...

[nickcarraway]

Wolfgang Puck's Five Sixty restaurant turns away World War II veterans over dress code

[Melas]

because they showed up dressed in T-shirts commemorating their past ordeal, ball caps, and shorts

Not appropriate attire, and I don't care who you are.

[Melas]

Since it’s one of my favorite restaurants, here is the dress code, just to be clear:

Dress code at Five Sixty is business casual, collared shirt for gentlemen. Jeans are acceptable as long as they are not torn. No sandals or flip-flops for gentlemen.

[j.argese]

more years ago than I care to admit, I worked in a country club restaurant. There were always spare jackets for clientele who may not have known about the dress code. Was there no private party room that could have accommodated this group?

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I have eaten at Wolfgang Pucks many times and its a very swanky restaurant. They do have a dress code.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I have also dined at Spago’s in Hollywood.They have a dress code there too.

[Larry Lucido]

the guys shrugged it off, joked about being bad-boys, and ambled off.

Class acts, all the way. Kudos to the manager for the complimentary scotch.

[Senator John Blutarski]

Unimaginative restaurant manager - this situation could have been parlayed into a gigantic public relations coup -

“Gentlemen, I’m obliged to inform you that your attire violates our restaurant’s dress code in a number of ways, but considering how well you served our nation, Restaurant Five Sixty will be pleased make a special exception and to seat you.” The Schweinfurt party is then ushered into the center of the restaurant, where the manager gets the attention of the other diners and announces - “Despite their inadvertently inappropriate attire, we are seating these gentlemen in special recognition of their outstanding and selfless WW2 service to the nation; please take a moment and give our heroes a round of applause.”

A free bottle or two of champagne on the house puts the cherry on top.

Guaranteed to make the newspaper next next and word of mouth alone would have attracted a surge of new customers.

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..... however, this is all presuming that the restaurant manager had the remotest idea what the Schweinfurt Raid was.

[wku man]

Many things take precedence over appearances...like courage and sacrifice. Those old guys have earned the right to wear whatever they want, I'd say. If I was in Dallas, I'd invite them all to a real Texas BBQ for an American feast, on me.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[SortaBichy]

I bet Wolfie will NOT like this and he do something to make amends to these men. I hope I am right.

[davetex]

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$$!!

[traditional1]

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.....

[exit82]

If it weren’t for these six men, there wouldn’t be a Wolfgang Puck anything.

[Silentgypsy]

Please identify this person so that I can pay a visit. :)

[investigateworld]

Interesting, during my recent move I noted on my German Aerial bombing map, the "British Isolation Hospital" had the samy priority as a railraod machine shop. They knew the Irish would rush in to save the injured, thus exposing themselves to TB... which in 1941 was very deadly.

Vunderbar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!