Police were eating outside a restaurant – so the fire department slapped the business with a violation
HOUSTON, TX – You know what’s pretty cool? When local eateries hook up first responders with discounted meals solely for being first responders.
What isn’t cool is when first responders get a restaurant in hot water for other first responders eating OUTSIDE of that very restaurant.
The Buffalo Grille location on Bissonnet in Houston is hooking up first responders with 100% free meals until May 2nd, after having offered them a 50% discount for years.
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So, it wouldn’t be terribly surprising to perhaps see some police officers grabbing some food from such an awesome establishment.
This restaurant just so happens to have a patio outside of the actual interior of the eatery. Now, since there’s an outdoor eating area, it likely wouldn’t be crazy to imagine a couple of cops eating at the table outside.
Yet, on April 20th, the establishment received a violation notice from the Houston Fire Department because police were eating at the patio.
A Houston firefighter had gone to snag a free meal from the establishment, but also told the manager on duty that they needed to instruct the police officers to leave the patio area.
Now, tell me what manager on duty at a restaurant wants to tell a bunch of police officers sitting on a patio table outside to go and hit the road? Well, apparently this manager on duty was among those who isn’t down with that gravity nonsense.
The manager was put in a tough spot and told the firefighter that they didn’t want to do it. So, the HFD member had instructed the officers that they needed to disperse instead.
[Editor’s note: This author was kind when he stopped at saying the firefighter didn’t want to do it. I say that the firefighter was a coward. In so many ways.
It’s Houston, for f’s sake: The cops were likely trying to scarf down their food before heading back out to their pending violence calls. Not everyone gets to go to their second home and sit in a comfy chair eating their takeout in between X-box games and their afternoon safety naps.
Every time I make a comment about firefighters, at least one of them sends me a hate email, but I don’t care. That is an a-hole move, and not even to the cops. The restaurant is the one that’s going to suffer for the violation notice.
Badly done, Houston Fire Department.]
According to McAleer, the following then transpired:
“About 15 minutes later, another set of police officers were there and the fire marshal came and asked them to leave and wrote us a notice of violation, I believe is what it’s called. We were surprised about it, but it is what it is. If we are in violation of it, we’ll take the notice.”
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/fire-department-issues-violation-against-restaurant-for-police-eating-outside-of-establishment/?