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Many people hear offensive things everyday, but few make the effort to stop it.

According to Yahoo! News, Michael Garcia was working at a Texas restaurant when a customer's comment stepped over the line.

Garcia, who works at the Houston restaurant Laurenzo's, was waiting on a family, regulars with a 5-year-old child, Milo, who has Down syndrome. The server said that another family at the restaurant commented on Milo's behavior, which Garcia described as "talking and making little noises." Garcia moved the complaining family to another table, but they were still unhappy. "Special needs children need to be special somewhere else," the father reportedly said.

Garcia then told the customer that he couldn't serve him.

The Internet has shown massive support for Garcia via Laurenzo's Facebook page. The restaurant has said he will not be disciplined.

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    wrote...
    Couldn't or wouldn't
    So now it is ok for a server to apply their moral relativism to a customer and decide on their own whther to serve them or not? Where does this lead? I agree that the comments were rude and insensitive. However, the server should have handled it in another manner. He should have went to a manager and explained what was happening and let them handle it. You can now look at the server as being rude and insensitive to someone that has a problem, foot in mouth disease, but what is next? Two wrongs don't make a right.
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    good for him
    We have a law in this state that a business can refuse service to anyone for any reason and I appreciate that this waiter stood up for what he felt was a just cause, but this story is almost a month old.
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    justthinkin wrote...
    I agree with couldn't or wouldn't
    It would be ok for the management or owner to refuse, but the waiter does not have this option- he does not own the restaurant and cannot make decisions about who is served and who is not served. The waiter was under the rules of the place that was paying him. The customer has the freedom to discuss what he liked. It doesn't mean I agree with the people who said this about the child, but where does it end? Someone says, "I don't like chocolate ice cream" and the waiter can refuse because it "offends him?"
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    sorryassguy wrote...
    lesson
    The customer has the freedom to discuss what ever he likes, but the waiter has the right not serve him, the management or owner has the right to fire the waiter if they feel he has acted inappropriately, in this case the management backed the waiter right on.This is an old lesson if you cant say something nice don't say anything at all.
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