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Sign to report employees not speaking English at doughnut shop creates a stir
Last edited Tue Jun 19, 2018, 04:30 PM - Edit history (1)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/sign-to-report-employees-not-speaking-english-at-doughnut-shop-creates-a-stir/2018/06/19/bf6fc4de-73ac-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.24d221ccc902
A sign asking customers at a Dunkin’ Donuts store in Baltimore to report employees who were heard not speaking English has set off a controversy.
The sign, according to the Baltimore Sun, would offer coupons to customers who reported workers at a doughnut store on West 41st Street if they were heard yelling in foreign languages.
Views of the sign were posted on Twitter. It read, “If you hear any of our staff SHOUTING in a language other than ENGLISH Please call 443-415-7775 immediately with the name of the employee to receive a coupon for FREE Coffee and a pastry.”
The sign was spotted Monday at the store and has apparently since been removed after it went viral on social media, according to the Sun and other media outlets.
Dunkin’ Donuts told the Sun in a statement that the store’s general manager put it up “based on her own personal judgment” to deal with a “customer service and satisfaction issue.”
[Millions of U.S. citizens don’t speak English to one another. That’s not a problem.]
A sign asking customers at a Dunkin’ Donuts store in Baltimore to report employees who were heard not speaking English has set off a controversy.
The sign, according to the Baltimore Sun, would offer coupons to customers who reported workers at a doughnut store on West 41st Street if they were heard yelling in foreign languages.
Views of the sign were posted on Twitter. It read, “If you hear any of our staff SHOUTING in a language other than ENGLISH Please call 443-415-7775 immediately with the name of the employee to receive a coupon for FREE Coffee and a pastry.”
The sign was spotted Monday at the store and has apparently since been removed after it went viral on social media, according to the Sun and other media outlets.
Dunkin’ Donuts told the Sun in a statement that the store’s general manager put it up “based on her own personal judgment” to deal with a “customer service and satisfaction issue.”
[Millions of U.S. citizens don’t speak English to one another. That’s not a problem.]
Would they report Melania for speaking Slovenian to her parents? How about the many Jewish people in the north side speaking Hebrew and Yiddish? How about the Greeks? We've already had a US Vice President from Baltimore who spoke Greek.
My grandparents were disappointed when I was a kid I chose to only speak English and tried to be as "American" as possible. It's because of garbage like this.
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Last edited Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:21 AM - Edit history (1)
It was taken to the state's Human Relations Commission, which eventually ruled that he had a first amendment right to put that bullshit there because he (his staff obviously) purportedly never refused service to anyone not speaking English.
It was eventually taken down by his son in 2016 after 10 years. Vento's grandparents were off the boat Italians.
I imagine they’d like to change the number now. 
