Employees At Two Restaurants Fired for Refusing Service to Police

Police in suburban Houston say a McDonald's worker has been fired for refusing to serve an officer.

Brenham Police Chief Craig Goodman says in a Facebook post that "one of our employees, who was off duty with his family, was refused service at a local restaurant simply for being a Police Officer." Goodman doesn't say when it happened but does say the owners were quickly notified.

Goodman tells Houston's KHOU-TV that the owners investigated and the employee in question "no longer works for their business." Goodman says the worker's son is in some legal trouble and that might have sparked her negative feelings toward police.

McDonald's hasn't responded to a request for comment. The owners of the franchise appeared alongside Brenham police in a picture posted on Facebook.

Two employees have been fired after denying service to a uniformed D.C.-area police officer at a Noodles & Company restaurant.

News outlets report Noodles & Company released a statement Thursday confirming that two of its employees at the Alexandria, Virginia, restaurant were fired. The statement says "discrimination of any kind is never tolerated at Noodles & Company," and extends an apology to the Alexandria Police Department.

Alexandria police spokeswoman Crystal Nosal previously said a female officer in uniform went Monday evening to the restaurant and stood in line. She says a female cook came out from the back and told the cashier, "You better pull me off the line, because I'm not cooking for," then gestured at the officer.

Nosal says the cashier laughed and the officer left.

The cook and the cashier were the employees fired.