Who knew that some Louisiana home cooking could cause so much controversy?
A Pennsylvania restaurant, Prudhomme’s Lost Cajun Kitchen, was offering a Sunday discount to church-goers that would bring in a flyer from their congregation.
However, the Freedom from Religion Foundation – an atheist group – says that’s not fair and filed a complaint.
State officials are allowing the restaurant’s promotion to continue, but they must now offer the same discount to any religious group, even atheists.
Our Food for Thought question: Should restaurants be allowed to pick and choose who they offer discounts to?
2 Comments to “Should restaurants be allowed to pick and choose who they offer discounts to?”
December 6, 2012 at 6:20 PM
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December 7, 2012 at 5:53 PM
I think it depends. Some discounts should be made for certain groups of people, for example: their own employees. Some businesses have S.I.N. (service industry night) discounts. The whole purpose of a discount is to bring in more business. I don't believe the restaurant intended to keep Atheists out , but to bring large groups of people (who are usually in a good giving mood like, um , I don't know… a congregation) in.
I believe had the Freedom from Religion Foundation simply gone to speak to a manager, they too would probably have gotten the same discount . Heck, Cajun Kitchen probably would have asked to bring the whole foundation … and tell a friend. Anyway, Prudhomme’s Lost Cajun Kitchen got more publicity for it. Now it's not so lost.