If you are living in the Seattle area, and you are looking for a job then you probably should look up the Chocolati Cafe because they just might have a few vacancies. This Seattle chocolate shop has made a few headlines recently because they had an employee that refused to serve a Seattle police officer. However, this “woke” employee is now looking for another job after a tall onslaught of negative comments on Facebook and other social media apps. Simply put, the owner of this Seattle chocolate shop finally fired this employee because she refused to serve these police officers.
The Background
This commotion kicked off after a report from the Post Millennial about police sources that reported this employee who was refusing to serve a police officer at this chocolate shop. After that, the North 45th Street chocolate shop was embroiled in scandal. Apparently, the employee was a white female that had green streaks in her hair and she told the police officer and his trainee, “No, I won’t serve you” and then the two officers departed.
Additionally, the Post Millennial said they contacted the Chocolati shop for further comment, but an employee answered the phone and told them that they could “go f***k themselves.”
Wednesday, Chocolati issued a statement on Facebook that did acknowledge the refusal of service incident. However, they did not indicate that the employee in question had been terminated or disciplined. “We continue to actively work with this team member and the local precincts to create an inclusive, inviting, and cohesive Community for every member of our community,” they said.
Of course, this was a rather tepid response, so it did it elicit a tremendous amount of angry, negative reactions across the board. Indeed, there was even a report of a far nastier anti-police incident at a different Chocolati location that involved an officer who was concerned that his new beverage had been tainted by hostile chocolate shop workers.
Change of Heart
Well, even though it took a lot of bad press, it looks like the owner of this Chocolati finally had a change of heart. They decided to go ahead and terminate the employee who had refused service to the police officer. That’s right. She was fired!
“After we reached a full understanding of the facts surrounding this incident, we came to the conclusion that we had no choice but to part ways with this team member involved in this incident,” the owner of the chocolate shop said. “We are also continuing to communicate with our employees about what our values should be and how we should serve our customers so that an incident like this never happens again. We are going to do better.”
Christian Wong is the owner of this chocolate shop and he said that he was looking forward to meeting with the police officer involved in this incident and you personally apologize to him. ” I would personally extend my apologies to him and to any customer who was refused service simply based on their personal views,” he said.
What do you think about this incident? Your comments would be appreciated!