Posted on 09/06/2022 3:43:10 AM PDT by servo1969
A woman attempting to purchase food for a homeless man from a Popeyes store in Atlanta had the police called on her.
Jo Ortega, a student at Georgia State University, said she was picking up an order for DoorDash at the Popeyes location last month when she saw a man who seemed hungry.
She decided to order the man some chicken, but claims employees at the store near Ponce de Leon Ave would not allow the transaction. Ortega posted a video of the interaction on TikTok and it quickly went viral.
"No ma’am, you can’t do it," one employee told her in the video.
Ortega responded, "Why? He’s asking for food?"
"Ma’am, you can’t do it. I could care less about you recording me, baby," another employee replied before shutting the drive-thru window.
Ortega said Popeyes workers then called the police on her.
"At that moment I was terrified, I thought I was gonna get arrested," she told FOX 5 Atlanta. "Maybe I should just call my family, and I might not be coming home tonight."
Atlanta Police confirmed to Fox News Digital that they were called to the incident and said no arrests were made.
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It’s like animals in National Parks — if you start feeding them, they will become dependent and just hang around demanding more and more free stuff.
Most people understand this principle. Democrats base their career on it.
They were exercising their right to refuse service... By proxy.
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. — Hebrews 13:2
In the end this episode was just content. She could’ve left and bought food right next door I’m sure but she saw an opportunity to hassle fast food workers for tik tok views over their policy design to keep vagrants away from the store. She should’ve respected the policy. Period.
Among many many other things in this country customer service is becoming a thing of the past.
I’m seeing more and more black employees that interact with the public are rude and couldn’t care less.
What a customer does when they purchase a product is the customers business and No one else’s.
One of the main reasons I avoid fast food joints altogether.....chic-fil-a being the only exception.
I’ve done this before - saw some homeless guy begging for handouts and rather than give him money, which he’d use to buy booze or drugs, I’d get him a chicken meal.
It is kind of refreshing to have those kids at Chick-Fil-A smile at you when you walk in the door.
Or just ordered extra on her own order and giving it to him after. Them knowing she was buying it for him was the issue.
I have a feeling there were antisoliciting codes in effect and this guy was a persistent soliciting problem.
More than likely the law was called on him for solicitation more so than on her for trying to help him.
I suspect that there is a lot of information left out or this article, such as the reasons for not allowing the woman to order the food and the reasons for calling the police.
Quite a contrast from Popeyes or McDonald’s isn’t it.
We get takeout from Popeyes on rare occasions and every time go there I hold my breath......the one we go to is like going into the ghetto...and I’m referring to the employees not the customers.
Sounds to me like it’s company policy
The guy probably hangs around the store often hoping someone will buy him food. Not good for business
Exactly!
I very much appreciate that approach, Chainmail!
In this specific case, it does kind of seem that way to me.
I sympathize with anyone trying to run a business with homeless people camping out on the sidewalk in front of them, sometimes literally so, resulting in people avoiding the entire area altogether.
I have seen where this dynamic simply causes longstanding businesses to close up at that address.
Here is the deal. I have had similar happen at my business. In some states like Ca when you are open for business your business is public access that cannot be denied. Your only tool to remove someone for trespassing is to close up shop to the general public altogether first. Or you can refuse them service and stay open, but you cannot make them leave unless you close. Closing up completely will hit profits so it is more practical to refuse service.
I saw a video recently of a grocery store that had been in place for 40 years, and homeless people encroached upon it, first loitering, then sleeping, then setting up tents and claiming the area in front of the store as their own, with all the things that go along with it, trash, open excrement, etc.
Customers stopped going there because they didn’t want to navigate the “territory” of the homeless who had set up camp, and they felt personally unsafe approaching the store.
The city refused to help.
The grocery store ended up closing permanently.
Yep. See my post above. I think it was Venice Beach where that happened, but not sure. It was somewhere in California.
Yep... And some are professional “occupiers”. I have had some pretty slick operators “occupy” my business.
And local public right of way, easement, and “set back” codes facilitate it. Sometimes right up to the front door of your business.
Yet they force you to pay for that sidewalk when they put it in, and still pay property taxes on it.
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