![]() My coworker said she'd feel racist and like she was racially profiling her tables if she adopted my strategy. ![]() ![]() When it's obvious the guests are Muslims (and hijabs is an obvious clue, imho) I usually just come out and say "This has pork in the recipe is that ok, or do you prefer for us to leave it out?" Zero times has it been "ok." Personally, this has happened frequently: if someone isn't fluent in English and doesn't recognize the dozens of names we have for pork products, it's easy for them to miss it. Later, I asked my coworker why she didn't give the women a heads-up. These have pork?" We had to return the food to the kitchen (not "had to" had to, but they weren't going to eat the meals.) and the server started over with the ordering process. I asked them "did your server mention that these items have pork?" They conferred, my question was translated, and the one woman said "I ordered but I didn't know. I took one look at the women and became a bit concerned for them. When we ran the food to the table, I set a couple of the plates down. a Western omelette and a Canadian benedit (with peameal and cheddar). One of the women ordered for the table and picked menu items made with pork (listed in the ingredients, but not obviously used in the item. A coworker had a table of 6 Muslim women, all in hijabs, all lovely women but not fluent in English.
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