Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
You can try that, of course. If someone is abusive to the workers, or creating a disturbance, there's no problem. But if you refuse service because someone is black, or Hispanic, or oriental, or Muslim, you run the risk of losing your license should they complain.


You cannot refuse to serve someone just because they speak Spanish. That is discrimination. You CAN, however, notify your customers that you have no one in your employ who understands Spanish. That is information which might be important to a customer. Assuming they can read English! (Might be smarter to put up the sign in Spanish. And you can add French, Russian, Greek, Urdu, Bantu, etc, etc, etc.)

But think about it for a bit. You run a business, lets say a small restaurant. You are located in an area where a significant percentage of the locals are Hispanic. Wouldn't it make good business sense to have menus printed in Spanish, and to hire at least some Spanish speaking staff? To my mind, it would take a particularly masochistic, and foolish, business man to turn away a large amount of business just because he doesn't like to hear Spanish.
Thorne,
Again I agree with you, my question is how does that Resturant get away with putting that sign up NOBDY had told him he has to take it down, I am sure it effect his busienss but how does he legally get away even using that sign?