Restaurant Turns Away the Wrong People

Jennifer R. Povey
The Illusion of Choice
2 min readSep 8, 2022

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Photo by Wander Fleur on Unsplash

When three people walked into Shōtō in downtown D.C., one of them was asked to leave and change their shoes.

If you say “It’s the woman,” you’re right.

The issue was that the employee enforcing the dress code couldn’t tell the difference between Birkenstocks and flip flops.

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Jennifer R. Povey
The Illusion of Choice

I write about fantasy, science fiction and horror, LGBT issues, travel, and social issues.