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Wolfgang Puck's Dallas restaurant turns away WWII vets
« on: October 15, 2010, 10:44:20 AM »
Wolfgang Puck's Dallas restaurant turns away WWII vets
By SCOTT FARWELL Dallas Morning News
Oct. 15, 2010, 8:00AM

Jay Coberly has faced many indignities in his 93 years.

He bounced off the roof of a barn and landed in a pig pen after his plane was shot down over Schweinfurt, Germany, in 1943. He lost 30 pounds during two years as a POW at Stalag Luft III, the camp depicted in the movie The Great Escape. He’s dug through trash for food, eaten barley soup with his hands and slept in ankle-deep cow manure.

So Coberly couldn’t help but laugh this week when a hostess at Wolfgang Puck’s Five Sixty restaurant told him and five other war veterans they didn’t look good enough to visit the high-end downtown Dallas eatery -- a rotating dining room atop Reunion Tower, 560 feet above the city.

Houston Chronicles-Wolfgang Puck's Dallas restaurant turns away WWII vets

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Most restaurants I know do not have a dress code. I am surprised that Wolfgang Puck's do because I have eaten there and there is none. I usually think it would be those expensive haute cuisine restaurant.
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Re: Wolfgang Puck's Dallas restaurant turns away WWII vets
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2010, 10:50:46 AM »
I've eaten there too and I never noticed a dress code.
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Re: Wolfgang Puck's Dallas restaurant turns away WWII vets
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2010, 10:53:39 AM »
Was the restaurant aware they were WW2 vets or is that incidental to their treatment?
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Re: Wolfgang Puck's Dallas restaurant turns away WWII vets
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2010, 11:08:10 AM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on October 15, 2010, 10:53:39 AM
Was the restaurant aware they were WW2 vets or is that incidental to their treatment?

MSB...heard it on the radio today.  It seems the young hostess turned them away.  They were wearing items (hats, vests, etc.) that clearly identified them as WWII Vets.  A family member even told the hostess who they were.   The joke (on the radio) was that more than likely the hostess didn't even know what WWII was. 
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Re: Wolfgang Puck's Dallas restaurant turns away WWII vets
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2010, 01:47:51 PM »
There used to be a restaurant in Dallas called, "The Southern Kitchen". It was quite the affair and they DID have a dress code.

As long as folks didn't look like they just came from the gym, live on the street, etc, I see no reason why people have to be so snobbish. A person who is casually dressed, their money spends just as well as those wearing a suit & tie....
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Re: Wolfgang Puck's Dallas restaurant turns away WWII vets
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2010, 02:05:43 PM »
That hostess needs to be looking for a new job
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