Berea, OH Ice Cream Shop: Stop Yelling at Our Teenage Employees about Masks

[Norbert]

BEREA, Ohio (WJW)– An ice cream shop in Berea has a message for people who yell at employees: Respect them or go somewhere else.

Mootown Creamery posted on its Facebook page Tuesday morning about customers mistreating workers, who are mostly teenage girls, for wearing state-required masks during the coronavirus pandemic. The owner made the decision to also require guests to wear masks while in the store, saying it’s for the protection of employees and customers.

“Do you know how hard it is to work a summer rush in a face mask? With a line of customers to the door, some waiting outside, online orders dinging on a tablet, the phone ringing off the hook — and then have a customer throw a temper tantrum in the store calling the girls ‘paranoid’ or ‘anti-American’ or even worse – CUSS AT THEM! (Does it feel good to make a 16 year old girl cry in the bathroom? Or sob on her way home from work? Does that make you feel better about Covid? How would you feel if someone did this to your child?)” Mootown Creamery wrote.

These people are just heartless and completely immature.

https://fox8.com/news/coronavirus/berea-ice-cream-shop-stop-yelling-at-our-teenage-employees-about-wearing-masks/

[lame54]

1. It also kills their argument about personal choice...

It's personal choice as long as you choose what they do

[global1]

2. Pro-Life or Pro-Choice.....

Make up your minds people.

[aggiesal]

18. That's easy, before they're born Pro-Life ...

after they're born Pro-Choice.

Never any consistency, just what benefits themselves.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that the subject of medical masks would become a political

It makes me want to shake some people till their heads rattle and shout "What the f*ck is wrong with you?".

I am normally a calm' non-confrontational person, but this just drives me insane.

[iluvtennis]

24. Agree with you Arkansas Granny. It's just so frustrating seeing people be illogical

and throw common sense to the winds. Don't they see over 129,000 people in the US and over half a million people worldwide have died of the virus. We need to be doing all we can to protect ourselves and others and wearing a mask is simple easy thing to do. I just shake my head at the irrationality of some people.

[ashling]

39. These people need to get covid and suffer

[Cosmocat]

48. This is really par for the course

Over a quarter century of these people being ginned up over a "war on christmas" that you can't even say "happy holidays" now.

All the bullshit in the 90s over gay marriage being the gravest threat to the institution of marriage, you can't even begin to list all the culture wars bullshit we have been put through.

These are the same people who turned on the NFL of all things, smashed their Kuerigs and man caves over Kapernik taking a knee.

When he was running for his first term, this country spent over a month in a lather because BHO did not wear a flag lapel pin.

We have had to turn our schools into prison like environments, with armed guards, students having to do active shooter drills, etc all because that is "the price of freedom!"

In my adult life, over the last three plus decades, there have literally been countless ways in which complete right wing lunacy has been put forward - that we have indulged it 99% of the time is what got us to where we are now.

[Tipperary]

4. Ohio seems like a lovely place.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. It's no worse than anyplace else. That kind of crap is happening everywhere.

[tazkcmo]

6. Over 25 years in food service

It happens everyday in every city during the best of times

[blueinredohio]

13. That's one job I would not want. Or to be a cashier.

I would rather be a janitor than have to deal with the public. Why do people think they're entitled to treat other people that way? They're trying to get through life just like the rest of us. I wouldn't want anyone to treat my child that way so I don't do it to others.

[Tipperary]

52. That is exactly my point.

I see a lot of region and/or state hate here. So I simply comment each time one is posted. PA, CA, and OH do seem to be mentioned quite a bit. And of course, yesterday there were several posts about several Ohio politicians with their hands caught in the proverbial cookie jar.

[Cirque du So-What]

9. I wish people would stop doing that

Every time some yahoos act badly, someone is Johnny-on-the-spot with a derogatory comment about where it occurred and by extension a slam at everyone who lives there. Tell us where you live and I guarantee there are stories you’d rather not serve as examples of the average resident.

[LanternWaste]

40. You seem like a lovely person.

Said with precisely the same amount of sincerity as was yours.

California. Again.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Heartless and completely immature, just like their hero TRE45ON tRump.

[TheBlackAdder]

36. Deny them service. If they object, call cops have a TRO and ban w/threat of trespassing arrest.

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This shit is only going to stop when stores put their feet down and get serious.

Being nice doesn't work when you are dealing with assholes.

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[MineralMan]

8. That shop needs to hire a bouncer.

A big biker-type-looking guy. Some moron comes in and harasses a teenaged employee, and Mike the Biker walks up and gets in the person's face and says, "You! Out! Now!

That would be the end of that nonsense real quick like.

[irisblue]

11. I think the Boss should be there during afternoons with a ban hammer as well

as a bouncer.

[TheBlackAdder]

38. Better yet. Hire an off-duty police officer who can arrest their asses.

[Olafjoy]

10. No mask

NO ICE CREAM FOR YOU!!!!!

[maxsolomon]

19. They're berating the EMPLOYEES for wearing masks.

Fucking Berea, man.

Berea KY, I'm looking at you, too.

[Initech]

12. These assholes can go eat a steaming scoop of horse manure on a cone instead.

[doc03]

14. There is a cafeteria near me that has blue stickers on

the floor six feet apart. They have a women there watching to make sure people follow the rules. She told me a women told her she could shove her blue sticker up her ass last week.

[Grins]

15. Tell me again about "Traditional Family Values..."

Conservative “Christian” weasels who lack the manners of baboons.

[AZ8theist]

27. That comment was unfair...

to baboons.....

[Doremus]

31. ... and weasels nt

[Beaverhausen]

16. GOFUNDME for the employees if you feel so inclined

https://www.gofundme.com/f/mootown-creamery-virtual-tip-jar?fbclid=IwAR0MIsr4BcR5yu3yU4f0mFx6X0--Kff4LwE334zRqV2kVwA31s6VvsEI4YU

[aggiesal]

17. Wonder if they can spit into their ice creme? ...

Wait I forgot to add a topping!

[irisblue]

21. That is a truly gross suggestion, you sure you want *that* forever attached to your good name here?

[aggiesal]

22. I never send food back to the kitchen at a restaurant ...

because I'm afraid one of the cooks will get offended and spit in my food while they "Fix" it.

I ordered medium well, this steak is raw.
Sorry, let me take it back and I'll have it "fixed"

If you don't believe it happens, then you probably didn't understand my previous post.

[irisblue]

23. I know it happens in food service.

And it is still a gross thought that I hope does not occur to those young people.

[aggiesal]

28. When I was growing up, I used to work at KFC ...

I never did anything like spit in anyone's food, in fact I probably didn't even know it happened back then, but when a customer would be an a$$ about their order, we would make sure that person got the oldest & smallest pieces of chicken, the oldest biscuit, ..., basically short them where ever we could.
The person that would get the brunt of their attitude was the girls taking the order.
This was our way of protecting them.

[irisblue]

29. Burger King & Rinaldis Pizza & Taco Tower

HS & college years.

[aggiesal]

33. OK, what did you do to the obnoxious customers? ...

And don't say you didn't do anything.

[irisblue]

35. Swore at them in Polish & Yiddish. Uncle Stan taught me useful terms, my Mom was mad about that

2of my siblings are deaf, we also created family sign language. "Kiss a frog and croak" was chef air kiss motion to lips, touch right cheek, make 2 circles, touch right ear, then lips again.
My sister can still make me laugh loud & hard over that. Old lady bursting out laughing hard tends to get looks.

And I cried a few times.

[aggiesal]

37. ROFL. Enjoy your day. n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

41. I urge people to be creative in their cussing.

The usual words are boring and tiresome. Yiddish has some lovely terms. So many words for "loser"!!! (Schmuck, schlemiel)
I suggest foreign languages. Figlio da putana! Schweinhund! Pendejo!

Archaic terms and compound terms too. My daughter once called another girl a trollop when she was in high school. I was proud of her education.

Heilege-fliegende-kinder-Scheisse! <---made up by yours truly I knew Heilege from Heilege Dankegesang (Beethoven) and Fliegende from Der Fliegende Hollander (opera by Wagner).

[panader0]

46. I totally agree.

Creative cursing is intelligent and humorous. Shakespeare had it down.

[GusBob]

43. Oh my gosh

That is funny
I thank you
Ima practice that sign language

[frazzled]

20. Berea is such a charming place

We’ve stopped there several times on road trips and always take home some of the traditional local crafts from the Berea College gift shop.
I guess some of the locals are not so charming.

https://www.bcshoppe.com/

[KY_EnviroGuy]

49. The Berea in the OP is the Ohio one up near Cleveland.

But yes, Berea, KY is a lovely town and thanks for visiting!.......

[frazzled]

53. Oops!

Who knew there was a Berea in Ohio! Thanks for pointing out my oversight.

[Niagara]

25. I'm glad to hear that the ice cream shop is standing up for it's teenage workers.

This is another dangerous consequence of tRump and Faux Noise spewing their content.



I wonder what part of this image that these harassers don't understand.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

54. That is an extremely useful image.

Well, at least reasonable people could be expected to get the message.

Maybe even some free-dumb fighting Rs would get the idea.

[mwb970]

26. These are mostly evangelical "Christians".

Need I say more?

[Red Pest]

30. Same thing is happening here in Wakefield, RI

Yes, even here in southern Rhode Island, near the coast, we have schmucks who want to display their boorish, ignorant behavior by screaming at the kids who work in the local ice cream shop. Here is the link to our version of this bad behavior: [link:https://www.independentri.com/news/article_9eab9a20-b658-11ea-b806-83d6c3a745f7.html|

You know, we took the pandemic seriously in this state and now the positive test rate is 1%. This weekend will be a big test though.

[zentrum]

32. These people are killers.

They resent utterly that they have to wear a mask to protect others.

Disgusting.

[louzke9]

34. If the authorities in your community....

town, city, state or by federal government, issue ORDERS pertaining to the health and welfare of the citizens concerning communicable and infectious disease, those orders are lawful and it is MANDATORY to follow them. This is not a matter of Burger King where you have it YOUR WAY! And these governments are making this up on their own. People are simply UNAWARE there are laws that government at all levels are have to tackle/control communicable/infectious disease. If you are told to wear a mask in public, that is law. At the federal level, if you violate health orders, its a $1,000 fine, ONE year in jail, or BOTH!

[GusBob]

42. All this over ICE CREAM?

I fucking hate the stuff. It makes you fat.
And mean and stupid apparently

[Mariana]

51. It's not about the ice cream. nt.

[Maxheader]

44. Rabid sons of bitches...

The clorox chuggers...the prolifers that say nothing about all the babies the shrubs

killed in the middle east..the gun freaks..believers of all conspiracy charges by the

rights media mouthpieces...what to do? Hopefully the young kids have someone to

reassure them and explain the illness such people suffer from....

[GoCubsGo]

45. Bunch of fucking self-centered, immature bullies.

Just like their Dear Leader.

[panader0]

47. Aside from the jerks, Mootown Creamery is a great name for an ice cream shop.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

50. Cuyahoga County, OH cases are on the upswing....

and the slope of their curve is not looking good.....

Cuyahoga County, OH COVID-19 Cases as of 7/1/20:



Source: https://infection2020.com/

Berea is near Cleveland so they are in a COVID war zone........