Barefoot Baby: Burger King Kicks Out Jennifer Frederich & Baby

How I love well thought out company policies by 'management'.

It reminds of me shops in Kent banning little old ladies/senior citizens because they just happened to wear a hoodie.

I read of another policy about a supermarket banning a parent from buying wine if they happened be with their teenager at the checkout at the time. The parent, being over 18, and buying it just for a famiily B-B.Q.

The incident at BK is soooooooooooo  bazar  what is this world coming to

I think it's disgusting that a 'BABY' with no shoes on gets kicked out of Burger King.  In any case the baby is in it's Mother's arms.  Sometimes I wonder what is the world coming to!!

I live in Missouri.  Moved here three month ago.  I have lived in many different states in the north east and south east.  I have never heard of such a rediculus thing in my 53 years of life.  When I was a kid we lived in Florida and I only ever wore shoes to school or to restaurants; you know the big fancy expensive ones( not BK or White Castle).  At six months old my children only had shoes on if it was freezing cold out and they didn't have on a footy snow suit.  They should get sued for discrimination against the younger generation, just on priciple; or at least a lot of free BK, though I'm not sure that is a benefit. 

Nobody wants you in Missouri Donvan.  Thanks for staying out.

This is why some people will only ever work at a minimum wage job and have no other responsibilities or decisions to make on their own. Sad! M

That is crazy.  I was in a Subway in MN, and a man in his mid 50's came in without shoes, walks through placing his order and even sat down to eat in the restaurant, and nothing was said to him.  That was gross!  But babies...come on!

August 6, 2009

Obviously, thinking is kind of overrated.  Not only in Missouri, but all over the U.S. as well.  Unfortunately, goof offs such as this one are gaining trend and are becoming more and more the rule rather than the exception.

Yes, call me old-fashioned; but I'm observing a surge in incidents such as this one.  And yes, people do (and say) stupid things; including myself.  But, there has got to be a limit somewhere.  Where do you actually draw the line?  At what point do you say enough is enough?

Cheers,

Emily

It's not all of Missouri is this ignorant. i have a 6 month old baby girl who doens't wear shoes. for God sake a pair of shoes for a 6 month old cost as much as a pair of shoes for my 12 yr old. And the 6 month old might only wear them a handful of times before they outgrow the shoes and I'm stuck trying to sell them in a garage sale for a buck. This makes about as much sense as banks charging non-customers a fee for wanting to cash their paychecks at the bank who aren't "regular" customers there. When will common sense and logic over rule political correctness and social acceptance...?

First off, if i was to employ a manager that wasnt able to handle this situation and use his judgement in a better way than what he did , he wouldnt be the manager of my store or resturaunt for much longer.  At the very least they should send him back to manager school or something similar.

The manager should be fired and his or her shoes taken from him or her and sent home barefoot.  It is a sad day when a burger joint that usually has play grounds for kids and creates meals with toys for kids stoops so low as to turn away a mother with an infant. I think that the whole country should go to burger king barefoot in protest of this. 

I wonder if BK fired this employee? The bad publicity alone is worth getting rid of him.

The manager was an idiot.  Management went to his head and probably was the most important job he ever had or ever will.  I'm sure Burger King will do their best to locate the mother of the baby and apologize to her. 

There are idiots all over the world, they aren't all in Missouri.

It seems to me that Burger King and that moronic manager are anti-Baby, you know, pro abortion. They hate babies.They go berserk when they see a baby. Diabolical bastards. I think a boycott of Burger King is justified and necessary. Starting today, I will deliberately use their competitors for all my fast food needs. Who needs Burger King? Not me. Besides, I find Burger King products to be unhealthy - high fat, high cholesterol, high salt; high in all the wrong things. They can keep their lousy burgers and go jump in the lake.

A lot of Fast Food Chains have play areas where they tell kids to take their shoes off. No shoes, no service... Take your shoes off... mixed signals.

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I know there is policies but a six month old child in most cases would be the exception to that rule. Most babies do not wear shoes on a regular basis unless they are already walking and a six month old, unless they are exceptionally well advanced, would not be walking until they are at least 9 months old. The manager should have used a little more common sense. It was a judgment call but a wrong one in my eyes and probably several others as well. If he would have called the police they probably would have laughed at him for the atrocity of the situation.

I agree- a six months old? come on  they cannot even walk I can understand if the mother puts the baby down on a dirty public floor- but I am quite sure that was not the case. Let's all band together someone with knowledge of graphic art/web designing  should declare a national BK Barefoot Walk and wear T's stating  "I'm with Baby!!!

and BTW free food as a compensation for life etc. is not a good option not the most healthiest and the baby can only eat fries at this age !!!

What do you expect from a minimum wage worker or a manager managing minimum wage workers, what you pay is what you get, no money no brains. I think the whole society is turning into machine, everything has a protocol. One day human being's brain will stop to develop because we stopped using them. I am refering to people who say it's gross that people would not put shoes in public places, what's your problem, you like shoes you wear them, if I don't feel like I won't. Common sense is gone nowadays.

This is the same moronic thinking (0 tolerance) that expels students for taking asprin or birth control pills on campus. Or searching old ladies in the airport 'cause they might be terrorists. Common sense has gone out the window everywhere. 

It's good that Burger King employs the mentally handicapped.

Only in the states! I'm surprised that the manager didn't pull out a gun and shoot her too!

SAD!

a 6month old cant even walk their bare feet dont even touch the ground by that reasoning all the people there should have been wearing gloves? wth is this world coming too

The MOM should have been the one calling the Police, that manager obviously doesn't have a BRAIN in his head!

you know what they say,  "CARMA WILL COME BACK TO KICK YOU IN YOUR A DOUBLE

your mistake BK

The lady in question should thank the Manager for saving her baby from the horrors of "BURGER KING".  Genetic slop from  satan.The manager probably saved the childs life!!

PS   how do we know the manager was a man not a woman?