A diner in Texas has put up a sign declaring a surcharge for any patron who has to be asked to wear a mask.
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As the Dallas Morning News reported, “Customers at Legends Diner in Denton are met with a new pink sign on the door when they visit the breakfast spot: ‘Our new surcharge,’ the sign says: ‘$50 if I have to explain why masks are mandatory’ and ‘$75 if I have to hear why you disagree…’
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Co-owners Wayne and Kat LaCombe are asking their customers and employees to continue to wear masks, even though Texas lifted its mask mandate earlier this month.
“I just can’t afford to get the virus,” said Wayne, who has lived in Denton for 41 years. “We’d have to shut our business down.”
The article notes that Kat, a retired nurse, is now the chef and co-owner of Legends, and she makes what her husband says is “the best patty melt in town.”
Although the couple is getting vaccinated, they’re concerned for their customers’ safety as well as their own.
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“We want to stay safe for them,” Wayne said. “For our customers, our employees, it’s the right thing to do.” The article notes that the 1950s-style diner has a mostly elderly clientele. But it’s not just Legends Diner; the publication determined that a great number of restaurants throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex are enforcing mask rules.
The article, published Tuesday, noted that no one has been charged the $50 or $75 fee as of yet, though Wayne did point out that he’s ready to use it if he needs to.
“I had two ladies who just left; and I was getting ready to charge them,” LaCombe said Tuesday morning. “They came in wearing a mask; they had breakfast. … When they came up to pay, they didn’t have their mask on and I had to explain to them why it was important.”
“But no,” he said, “I didn’t charge them.”
*First Published: March 21, 2021, 8:30 am
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