Regina brewery receives cross-country support after anti-vaccine mandate incident
CBC
To go to a restaurant in Saskatchewan, patrons need to show their proof of vaccination or a recent negative test for COVID-19.
But, as Rebellion Brewing president and CEO Mark Heise describes it, one would-be customer decided to cause "a bit of an incident" on Friday night instead.
"A gentleman had made a reservation for what we thought was a table of six," said Heise. "When he arrived, when we asked for proof of vaccination, he showed us … a picture of a middle finger.
"At that point, he wanted to speak to me and wanted to make it very clear that he hoped we went out of business for not letting him stay there."
Heise said he believes the man was just trying to "make a scene," though he ultimately didn't wind up causing much of a disruption.
"We just let him say his thing, and when he got tired and ran out of breath he walked out," he said. "And that was that."
According to Heise, this is the first time something like this has happened at the brewery. While so far, he's hearing that it is a rare occurrence across the industry, he does worry for frontline staff who have to face these sorts of responses.
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