A Missouri cafe converted itself to a private club with $1 membership fees to avoid mask-mandate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

rules - but a court shut it down

A Missouri cafe was forcibly shut down after its owner attempted to convert it to a private club with $1 membership fees to skirt local mask requirements.

Rae's Cafe and its owner, Amanda Wohletz, were hit with a temporary restraining order on Friday over health-policy violations, local TV station KSHB Kansas City reported.

The restraining order was just the latest update in an ongoing battle between the Blue Springs cafe and Jackson County officials, according to court documents and local reports.

Officials said in a petition filed earlier this month that Wohletz refused to close despite having her food permit revoked on September 3.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/a-missouri-cafe-converted-itself-to-a-private-club-with-dollar1-membership-fees-to-avoid-mask-mandate-rules-but-a-court-shut-it-down/ar-AAOmil5

Yes I'll have the cholesterol laden eggs and hash browns with a side of COVID.

[Midnight Writer]

1. Pay extra for an enhanced chance to get sick at a restaurant? What a deal!

[Walleye]

2. Going back to the playbook of the old segregationist

[hlthe2b]

3. If they serve food to the public for a charge, they are subject to public health rules/regulations

and inspections. Private club or no.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. I want you to see some of her fans. What idiots.

[NYC Liberal]

6. Bet you if those two got food poisoning at a restaurant with unsanitary practices,

they'd be screaming for the same health department to shut them down.

[ashredux]

18. No sweethearts ... you are way past stupid

[Takket]

19. yeah. it is stupid. and you have everytihng figured out because you saw a video on youtube

and a report of facebook.

fucking dipshits. i really wish we could just give these bozos their own country so they would leave the rest of us the hell alone

[paleotn]

20. What trash.

Nearly 12,000 people in Missouri have DIED of stupidity as much as Covid. You can't reason with this human garbage. You just have to let Darwin take its course.

[Backseat Driver]

5. Some day in the distant future people will need to buy a

museum membership fee to gaze on an exhibit of artifacts left by people who would not mask like the fee to gaze at ancient people who made them part of their death ritual.

https://ancientegyptianfacts.com/ancient-egyptian-death-masks-death-rituals.html

[littlemissmartypants]

23. It's almost like they've already had their brains removed.

Like the Egyptians did with those tools that went up the nose...

[mopinko]

7. reminds me of indiana fireworks laws.

for a while it was the law that you had to belong to an organization. so for a buck you could join a fireworks 'club'.

[Tommymac]

8. Once upon a time didn't restaurants in the South try to do this to avoid serving POC?

Just askin'

[Boomerproud]

17. That was my first thought.

This has gone beyond surreal.

[Ms. Toad]

28. And, more recently, bans on smoking in restaurants. n/t

[keithbvadu2]

9. Taxes and bookkeeping must be quite a change.

Taxes and bookkeeping must be quite a change.

[Blues Heron]

10. Club Covid

free oxygen tank after every 10 meals

[Rebl2]

11. Last week

the owner also said nobody would be allowed to wear a mask inside, once they became a private club.

[roamer65]

12. The suspense is killing me.

[Treefrog]

13. What is it with Missouri?

Holy cow.

[SergeStorms]

14. Not just Missouri....

any red state. These people will cut their noses off just to spite their faces.

If they have death wishes, more power to them I guess.

[Treefrog]

15. It seems to be in every state.

I wish I had a buck for every California Karen lol.

I think it’s because I watched that CNN special the other night where the reporter was interviewing Missourians that it just hit me harder.

[SergeStorms]

16. Isn't Missouri the "Show Me" state?

You show them 1,000 times and they still don't believe you. Just about everybody in Missouri has to know someone who's died or at least extremely ill from COVID by now.

[BlueIdaho]

21. When will these boneheads learn?

Killing your customers is not a winning proposition.

[lame54]

22. So that's one tax they are ok with

[Hekate]

24. Sounds like a plan. Make sure hand-washing in the kitchen is also a matter of choice!

[Moebym]

25. Just like tax dodgers

They probably thought they were clever with this trick.

It all boils down to "sticking it to the man", whatever the consequences, be they committing a crime or putting others' lives at risk.

[Ms. Toad]

26. Ask the VFW how well that worked for avoiding the smoking restrictions. . . n/t

[StarfishSaver]

27. Good. Makes it easier for sane people to know where not to eat

[TlalocW]

29. The cousin of my co-worker's wife

Worked there as a bouncer/doorman. She says it's not surprising that he would be involved with something as stupid as that.

TlalocW

[KY_EnviroGuy]

30. Low down payment on a casket.

From the article:

The members-only club had a $1 fee to join and didn't allow patrons to wear masks, AP reported.

KMBC on Friday posted a video with a shot of the cafe's front windows with two signs: "Rae's Cafe is NOT open to the public" and "Our Authority comes from GOD! Not the Jackson county health department!"

These people are not like the Missourians I remember from my childhood in the 50s and 60s, but neither are the folks in my original home state of Tennessee.

The foundational disease here is mental not physical and it's a very serious national issue.....

[Turbineguy]

31. Get it here!

Only one thin dollar folks. Step right up, what do you have to lose?