"Hello my name is Gaytard" Name tag teen forced to wear at Taco John's

[MADem]

3. Taco JOHN's? Sounds like a hellish marriage between Taco Bell and Papa John's--two of the

worst fast food franchises going!

I'm sure there are customers who saw the nametag--should be easy enough to prove.

Kid should have video'd his quitting, though. Nowadays, it's harder for people to get away with that kind of abuse.

I will say that the management of that place sounds like they are desperately scrambling. This doesn't sound convincing to me at all:

“At Taco John’s, we have a policy that we don’t discriminate against anyone,” Scott said. “This blew out of proportion before we even got a chance to investigate. We didn’t even get to defend ourselves. Everyone thinks we’re guilty. Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Not everything is true.”
He said a manager and two employees - including Brandt -- were involved.
“We never forced him to wear the name tag,” Scott stated. “He wore it himself. I have an employee who wrote me a statement and is signing it saying so.
“From what I understand, they were all joking around. Everyone has a nickname here, and he wanted a nickname. (Gaytard is) what he picked for a nickname. He wasn’t forced to wear the name tag. He asked the manager to make that name tag for him. He handed it to him. He didn’t tell him he had to wear it. He put it on himself and created the situation. He said the manager forced him to do it. The manager didn’t force him to do anything.”
Scott said Brandt became upset when he was told to go home early Monday for “not doing his job” and resigned early the next morning.
Brandt scoffed at the idea that he asked for the nickname and chose to wear the name tag.
“Do you really think I’d want to go around making a mockery of who I am?” he asked. “It’s really irritating to think someone could believe I would want that label.”

http://www.yankton.net/community/article_b1f60648-fce0-11e3-8113-001a4bcf887a.html

I think the franchise HQ, instead of adopting a "hands off" attitude, should really excoriate this individual asshole franchise owner. Their statement was mealy-mouthed at best. They should do their OWN investigation, simply for the Public Relations aspect of it all to show that they put their money and their time where their mouth is. I'm sure there's some kind of clause in their franchise agreement that prevents a franchise owner from damaging the brand name--maybe they need to invoke that.