A woman is confused and embarrassed after a restaurant told her that her summer dress was inappropriate. The woman, Y'Mine McClanahan, says she went to Stab's Prime Steak and Seafood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one day but was told that she could either put on a jacket or leave the restaurant and go somewhere else. The interaction left her feeling "mortified" and "ashamed," she told WAFB. Stab’s Prime Steakhouse and Seafood's attire policy is outlined on its website, and says that "tank tops" and "revealing clothing" are not allowed.
"Business casual. Proper Attire is required," the website states. "Appropriate for a fine dining, family restaurant."
Y'Mine wondered what was so "inappropriate" about her outfit. Though her floral two-piece set did include a sleeveless crop top, she felt targeted and discriminated against because employees at the restaurant technically weren't following this "attire policy" either.
Y’Mine told Inside Edition that servers at the restaurant were wearing "fishnets, with mini skirts and crop tops."
"If you're going to hold your customers to a standard, then your wait staff needs to have that same standard," she told the outlet.
Even the woman who told her that her outfit was too revealing was technically violating the restaurant's attire policy. Y’Mine recorded her interaction with the restaurant's co-owner.
"This is just too revealing at the top," the co-owner told Y'Mine in a video she shared on Facebook. Y'Mine pointed out that servers were also wearing "revealing" clothes, and the co-owner explained, "We have doubled down on our dress code. It's been like this for a while now."
In the video, the co-owner was wearing a tank top, which is not allowed at the restaurant, according to the restaurant's attire policy on its website.
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The apparent double standard made Y'Mine feel like she was being discriminated against, she explained to Inside Edition.
"It says no tank tops but you're telling me that, in a tank top," she said. "I'd never had this happen to me before and I feel like I was pre-judged and discriminated against."
In her Facebook post about the incident, Y'Mine said that she has worn the same outfit to the restaurant before without any issues.
"I was just 'kicked out' of Stabs Prime Steak and Seafood of Baton Rouge, a place I’ve patronized for years in an outfit I’ve worn there SEVERAL times because of their recent 'dress code' policy," she wrote on Facebook.
"But people can wear jeans, regular t shirts, their waitresses can wear mini skirts with their butt hanging out and fish nets but my set is too revealing for the 'atmosphere' they’re trying to create," she continued on the platform.
The restaurant shared a statement with WAFB. In the statement, the restaurant explained that its attire policy is "not new, it has been in effect for over three years now."
"We spoke with a guest yesterday about her attire and she pointed out that we have waitstaff dressed in a manner that might not meet the standard of our attire policy," the restaurant said in the statement. "For the last several weeks we have actually been working on a different uniform so that we are not asking a different standard for our customers than we are requiring of our staff.”
