WWII Veterans Turned Away From Puck's Restaurant
United Press International
Oct 18, 2010
A group of World War II veterans in Dallas for a reunion said they were turned away from Wolfgang Puck's restaurant for failing to comply with the dress code.
Jay Coberly, 93, said he and five fellow veterans tried to dine Tuesday at the Five Sixty restaurant, which rotates atop Reunion Tower, but the hostess told them their unit baseball caps, POW T-shirts and shorts did not comply with the facility's dress code, the Dallas Morning News reported Friday.
"I figure if I spent two years in a POW camp, I could have handled the privilege of sitting in that fancy restaurant a few minutes," Coberly said.
"We weren't dressed like hobos. We were just dressed comfortably," he said. "We've been all over the country, and we've never had this kind of problem. Dallas must be a first-class town."
Stephanie Davis, director of communications for the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, said the hostess made a mistake and the men would have been admitted if she had spoken to a superior.
"It was a mistake and we're apologetic," Davis said.
Marcus Cascio, general manager of the restaurant, gave the group two bottles of Scotch, an invitation to return to the restaurant and a written apology.
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