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Oh, well I haven’t eaten at Chili's in about 20 years, but I was just talking about going again last week.
Guess I’m not going to do that…
I’d much rather eat at Chotchkie’s. More flair.
I just realized this is Mike Judge himself
Brain has 37 pieces of flair.
If I've told you once I've told you 37 times…
At $60 to $70 for 2 people to eat out? Fuck that.
Texas Roadhouse family meals (takeout only tho) is where it's at. Near me it's $60 for 4 steaks (28oz total), 2 1lb sides, about a dozen rolls, salad. Or $50 for the same but with 24 chicken tendies instead of steak.
Just did this recently, would recommend.
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My expectation of "edible food" doesn't align with what Chili's offers, which is why I don't go there. Everyone has their beliefs, I suppose.
Too easy to boycott.
So easy, I’ve been accidentally boycotting them for decades.
Based on this thread, it sounds like people with enough brainpower to know what pronouns are don’t eat there anyway, so this might actually make Chile’s money.
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Exactly what kind of sex is going on at Chili's? Anything I should know?
Is it getting into the food???
Judging by the restaurant staff I've known, a lot. Those people fuck more than porn stars.
Line cooks are way uglier than porn stars.
Line cooks tend to be degenerates. The best kind of degenerates.
If you lock your keys in your car a line cook can probably get you into it and sell you a dime bag too.
If Chili’s actually gave a shit about “personal values” they wouldn’t be able to hire cooks. Some might pass a drug test because they’re on supervision, but not a single one is going to pass a morality screening.
Source: 20yrs as a line cook.
I guess this is how I learn that Chili's is actually still in business
a trans man who was assigned female at birth
Isn't that what "trans man" means?
They gotta dumb it down for people, it's a good thing for informing.
If you just say "trans man" at a bunch of people, a significant portion of them will think you mean "a man who has decided they are trans and wants to be a woman". Because recognizing the gender someone identifies as is catering to their delusion or whatever bigots tell themselves to get by.
Before all the recent hullabaloo in recent years, I couldn't remember which meant which way - because I could give two fucks - just let them be who they are.
Now I've had to learn a lot (which I don't resent learning) so I can help stand up for their rights, and it's really easy to remember. But it's sort of like "biweekly" or "semiweekly" before you actually pay attention - both of those terms mean both something that happens twice per week or once every other week (although I tihnk biweekly more strongly implies twice per week, but it can absolutely be used for both).
I suppose that's true that even people who aren't necessarily bigots can struggle to understand what being trans is. My boomer parents aren't transphobic, but they do struggle with the concept that when a person realizes they're trans it retroactively means that they were always the gender they currently go by, even if they themselves didn't know it at the time. I got into an argument with my dad when he kept calling the child of someone he knew "he" when talking about her in the past before she came out as trans. I tried to explain that, no, she was a she then as well, but didn't know it herself and presented as a he, but he just didn't get it.
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A lot of people are still just not familiar with the terminology surrounding all things trans.
If you just say “trans man” many of them don't go into a weird mental gymnastics session to justify their prejudice, they just go "which one was that again?".
I've been there myself a few years ago and since I learned have explained it to several people who couldn't be further from bigots, they were just not in much personal contact with trans people.
Sorry I didn't mean to say that anyone who doesn't know the difference is a bigot, I meant to say that the general public's lack of awareness about what means what is due to bigots intentionally using the wrong gender or terminology any chance they get. They're muddying the waters.
No need to apologize, and sorry that I apparently made you think an apology was required.
I wanted to build on and expand your point, not contradict it.
I guess they could be intersex? But mostly probably just to make the article accessable to boomers which I think is a fine thing to do.
And it's okay if they ain't intersex, because havin' a low lerbido or being uh-sexual ain't no big deal, neither.
/jk
The casual dining chain, which is owned by publicly traded Brinker International, professes to believe in “a culture of belonging,” telling job applicants that it welcomes “those of all genders, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, abilities, religions, age and backgrounds.”
“We celebrate these differences through a culture of belonging where individual strengths and stories are respected and valued,” ChilisJobs.com asserts. “We’re proud to be a community-oriented meeting place and want everyone to feel welcome at Chili’s.”
I don't understand the utility of proclaiming your company to be a bastion for the people you clearly hate. Why entice them to become employees just to fire them? And in firing them, receive a tidal wave of bad press and probable lawsuits? 🤷
It’s a kind of rainbow washing. Under Capitalism, queer money is still money, so they’ll happily take that while pushing us under the bus at every meaningful opportunity.
One thing you need to understand about chain restaurants is that they are not all micromanaged by a central corporation. They are franchises. Usually, a franchisee pays for a license and owns one or more stores in a region. They have certain standards they need to meet to fulfill their franchise requirements, but small day-to-day decisions about how to run the store are up to them. Chili's corporate might espouse all those values they list in their talking points (though I've personally seen companies turn their values on a dime when they think it is hurting their bottom-line). But they probably have very limited, if any direct input on hiring/firing decisions at a single restaurant. At most, they might step in and pressure the franchise owner to reverse this decision if they think it hurts the brand image.
Maybe there's more to the story than the article is telling us.
Fuck chilis and fuck chic fil a, I have never ordered either and will never order either
It's entirely possible the employees sucked, but for Chili's to fire them the way they did is nuts. The fact that there's a pattern means there's gonna be some fat paychecks going around.
I'll continue my tradition of not eating at Chili's in support.
I guess I'll continue to never patronize a Chili's. Wtfuck is "Chili's" any way? Is it someone's nickname? Do they have a chili that owns things?
Imagine if there was a place that served shit for food. But then, blend in a bit of cumin, some smoked paprika, chile powder, and corn in with the shit.
Thats a chiles.
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I always see stories like this and I think to myself I can't even boycott them because I wasn't eating there already. Not that I can really afford to eat out anywhere though...
Oh come on! It's not 'personal values' or 'lifestyle values’. They are just following current medical standards for what should be done against body dysphoria.
A medical decision backed by current science.
Monday, I drove my wife and youngest to Omaha to adopt a puppy (golden retriever). We were going to eat at Chili's because at least it's a known food. Well, the person we were getting the dog from was available early, so we did drive through.
Fucking bullet dodged.
Puppy tax https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/cc8f648a-d39a-4f15-899d-dc59475ea7a2.webp
Don't associate pictures of your children with your anonymous profile!
Were they a fascist pedophile?
so chili is not so spicy, it ha to adhere to bland taste of right wingers.
It's shit "food" too.
I haven't been in a Chili's in forever, and I don't expect to go again. So I'm going to avoid everything from Brinker International [NYSE: EAT] now (Chili's and Maggiano's Little Italy), and I'm thinking that I might sell some of it short too.
Chili's has no values, like any other corporate food slop provider. If people would pay, they'd use actual babies in the ribs.
I feel like that's a reverse backhanded compliment. So I guess just compliment.
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