{"id":48759,"date":"2015-09-04T07:45:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=48759"},"modified":"2015-09-04T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T11:45:29","slug":"arbys-offers-free-meals-to-cops-fires-manager-and-suspends-worker-over-refusal-to-serve-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/arbys-offers-free-meals-to-cops-fires-manager-and-suspends-worker-over-refusal-to-serve-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Arby’s Offers Free Meals To Cops, Fires Manager And Suspends Worker Over Refusal To Serve Police"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Arby’s fast food restaurant has fired a manager and suspended the drive-thru worker involved in an incident where a South Florida policewoman was told that an employee refused to serve her on the grounds of her “being a police officer.”<\/p>\n
Sergeant Jennifer Martin, 34, from the Pembroke Pines Police Department was in uniform when she went to a location in the Miami city area on Tuesday night and an employee allegedly told his manager he didn’t want to serve her.<\/p>\n
The Police Department created a press release about the even, prompting a wave of Internet outrage that resulted in a swift apology from the company on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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Tonight one of my fellow officers was refused service at the Arby’s located at 11755 Pines Blvd, because she was a…<\/p>\n
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Following calls for protests of the chain, the manager of the restaurant was fired, along with a 19 year old drive-thru worker who was suspended indefinitely.<\/p>\n
The company also said: ‘We will be following up with our team members to be sure that our policy of inclusion is understood and adhered to.<\/p>\n
‘Further, we will be following through with disciplinary action up to and including termination of the employees involved, as appropriate.<\/p>\n
The discipline was announced Thursday afternoon, along with an offer for free meals to all South Florida police officers on Friday.<\/p>\n