Disabled pals horrified after Indian restaurant refused to serve them as owner decided they looked ‘too ill to eat’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14446609/Disabled-horrified-Indian-restaurant-refused-serve.html
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None of the other diners complained. The manager said he didn’t say they did but who believes him?
>Restaurant owner Mohammed Nazrul Alom , 53, (pictured) says the pair’s social media shaming campaign could put him out of business
Good. No excuse for prejudice like this.
This shit is happening more and more frequently in the UK.
Its almost as if years of reckless government screaming about people on benefits and disabled people being a burdon on society is having its intended effect and the chancers (IE employers and business owners along with scumbag joe public who want someone to pick on) are exploiting the lack of police, the lack of legal aid, the lack of charity donations in a cost of living crisis, the lack of government enforcement on the law, and the lack of court capacity and prison overcrowding for those found guilty to great effect.
People with disability don’t stand a fucking chance. They can be refused a job, refused entry to a shop, refused to be served in a restaurant, refused assistance on a train, refused PIP, left to die by DWP (btw all of these have been news stories in the last year) and chefs kiss, unless you’re a fucking millionaire you can’t do nothing about it because the police won’t help, the courts won’t help, and the government would prefer it if you were dead (because it would save them money).
Sorry im going to get massive hate here but, i kind of side with the owner here. Not so much in some of the things he apparently said, but that fact he was right to refuse. Owner is in fear that this person who is disabled may have an incident that are not trained to deal with. He doesn’t know their level of independence and has to judge it off sight alone. The owner said they are not medically trained to deal with this kind of incident. You can’t do the normal stuff like CPR with his condition.
By the sounds of it they turned up without any prior information to their disabilities. “We had booked a table and were looking forward to a meal – I like spicy food. But as soon as we went in I sensed there was a problem.” – 2 people come in a wheelchair bound, one with a oxy tank that’s a potential health and safety issue that most places don’t assess for because its very very rare.
Everyone has the right to not disclose a disability. but lets be real, 2 wheelchair users in a small restaurant is something that could do with a little prep to help accommodate.
Everyone has the right to be accommodated, but not everywhere CAN accommodate and if a business asked them to leave then its not always discrimination, but a decision the owner has taken to reduce risk to staff and customers.
That’s a shame. Imagine being disabled and then you get shit on for it. Double whammy of fuckery. Unfair and sad 🙁
Oh look, society is turning in disabled people after being bullied by successive governments over the last decade. I’m shocked. I’ve got three autistic teenagers, this is not the future I had hoped for them. I shouldn’t feel guilty for having disabled kids just because a bunch of cowards in government find it easier to turn the public against disabled people, instead of turning them against the super rich.
‘I do not discriminate against disabled diners, and we welcome them to our restaurant.
Isn’t that exactly what he did? Like to a T? He refused them entry because he didn’t like how they looked.
How has this idiot been in business for 18 years?
I was about to be like, ‘this is an old story’, but no, it’s recent, it just keeps happening. The ableism is appalling.