Rude Patron Demeans A Special Needs Employee, Pizza Inn Manager Puts Them In Their Place

Jul 03, 2019 by apost team

Owning and managing a restaurant means you have to juggle a lot of tasks, and that, unfortunately, includes dealing with rude customers. Amanda Cartagine who manages the Pizza Inn in Greenville, South Carolina recently had to do so as part of her job as the restaurant's owner.

A customer who visited recently had a problem with the restaurant's policy of hiring staff with special needs. They reportedly told Cartagine she should hang a sign outside their door, according to Yahoo News, that explicitly explains that. Like any good business manager, Cartagine knew the customer was always right so she decided to comply.

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So, in her own style, she posted a sign on the restaurant entrance, that said that she hired "ALL of God's children!". Her employees mean the world to her and she would never want them to be rudely treated like the customer suggested. Cartagine wanted to make sure people knew that a rude and entitled behavior like that would not be tolerated. Creating the sign was the first thing she came up with.

Cartagine told reporters that if the customers don't have the patience to be more accepting of her employees, then she had no reason to accept their dollars in return.

When it comes to having employees that are mainly special needs, Cartagine says that once she taught them how to do their jobs, all it took was a bit of practice before they were amazing at it.

Social media was taken by storm when they heard of Cartagine's amazing sign. People agreed that the man was rude but more importantly people were in awe of how well she handled the difficult situation.

"I wanted to do something that was not rude, but got my point across," Cartagine said to WYFF.

When it comes to issues like this, it is very important to speak out against discrimination. Pizza Inn is just one of the many examples of injustice in this world. It is best to handle things like this in a mature manner. Cartagine handled her situation extremely well.

Tell us your opinion! Do you think Cartagine handled the situation well? What would you have done in this situation?