Burger King: No shoes rule taken too far with baby



JIM SALTER | Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2009 3:45 pm



Like most restaurants, the Burger King in this St. Louis suburb has a no shoes, no shirt, no service policy.

And baby, do they enforce it.

Too much so, the company admitted, after apologizing for restaurant workers who asked a mother to leave because her 6-month-old wasn't wearing shoes.

Jennifer Frederich, her mother and Frederich's infant daughter, Kaylin, stopped at the Burger King in Sunset Hills on Sunday. The baby was shoeless _ Frederich figured tiny baby feet were immune from the rule.

But workers told the family to leave because the shoeless baby was violating a health code. In fact, shoelessness is not a health code violation in St. Louis County.

Frederich told KTVI-TV that she and her mother ate hurriedly and left before they could be kicked out. Frederich did not have a listed phone number, and The Associated Press could not reach her for comment.

Burger King released a statement Thursday indicating workers had taken the no shoes, no service policy too far.

"Our franchisee, which independently owns and operates this restaurant, apologizes for this guest's experience," the statement read. "The franchisee is retraining his restaurant team on the proper use of the 'no shoes' policy."

The franchise owner also contacted Frederich to apologize in person.

Frederich told the TV station the flap was a bit overblown, and she hoped no one would be fired. But she appreciated Burger King's apology.

Burger King, based in Miami, is the nation's second-largest hamburger chain, with 11,800 restaurants worldwide.

Posted in National on Thursday, August 6, 2009 3:45 pm |

I seen on the news the other day that a woman got brain damage from eating KFC

WHAT!!!!!! thats not even possible

I saw that last night, I would have let the baby stay no hassle at all and then she was cool enough too put socks on the baby, thats out of line

I question the general state of the brains of the KFC dinners

She is suing KFC. Says it has some kind of salmonella in it that caused her brain damage

I woulda shoved my sons foot up their ***.

technically, babies aren't even supposed to wear shoes.

yea i know that. and burgerking should know that.. there idiots..

I'm sad to say that this happened in my city.

Here's the baby:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi6h34V7tXk

I would have laughed at that worker. Babies aren't supposed to be wearing shoes at 6 months old. Mine didn't. I wanted my child to strengthen their foot muscles.

good point

Oh but it is.

Been reading up a bit on orthomolecular medicine.

Try looking up "sugar metabolic syndrome"