Industry veterans, bartenders and servers in the nation's capital told the Washingtonian that resistance to the Republican figures in the progressive city was inevitable and a matter of conscience.
"You expect the masses to just ignore RFK eating at Le Diplomate on a Sunday morning after a few mimosas and not to throw a drink in his face?," said Zac Hoffman, a DC restaurant veteran who is now a manager at the National Democratic Club.
Actually, what I expect is a bunch of bankruptcies.
Its not like there isn't a restaurant or bar on every corner in DC -- there is.
Further, word gets around very rapidly. If you start doing this everyone in the Administration will know about it in 10 minutes. Everyone.
I'd love to be a bar owner in that town with this attitude running around. I'd make very-clear to my staff -- I will be watching for any indication of this and if I see it, you're instantly fired and the table's check is comp'd.
And the next day I get all the business with lines out the door while the place across the street that pulls this crap sees half their business disappear in a single day -- and those people never come back. Why would they when they get excellent service with a smile right across the street?
In fact I'd run advertisements so-stating and with all the targeted advertising (hi Google and Facebook!) I'd hit every mobile device in DC with the ads too -- "Come one, come all, everyone is treated equally and with respect irrespective of your political party. We are here to sell you delicious food and beverages -- and for no other reason -- and every member of our staff shall do so."
Smart businesspeople love a market where their competitors deliberately destroy themselves.