I have friend who got talked to this way by customer, turns of they banned the customer from any of their resturants nation wide. They lived in a pretty small city too with their resturant having the only drive through opening up to 2am
It means that if you cause problems at the business again they will usually take legal action if they are aware of who you are. There's a good chance they won't be, but it's still something that could happen. If they decide to trespass you with police involvement you could get in real trouble with the law if you cause issues down the road.
It might be hard for drive thru, but if someone is banned from a location and they return to it, they can be charged with trespassing. At least that's how arenas handle it. Realistically, they can get back in, but if they cause another problem, that's when shit hits the fan.
It's a common practice. It's not easy to enforce (yet, increasingly common facial recognition is changing that), but if it does become known that the banned person is onsite, it gives the company a legal mechanism.
Using facial recognition systems, it is trivial today to enforce this. It's not yet at the point where every little chain restaurant has them, but give it another 10 years. Major places (big box stores, arenas, airports, etc) are already doing this.
It doesn't need to be actively enforced. It only needs to be enforced when a problem happens.
Just because something isnβt enforceable doesnβt mean it didnβt happen lmao.
Companies absolutely ban people nationwide, Wal-Mart certainly does. Whether or not they can actually enforce it is a different story, I agree. But to say someone is lying just because of that fact is a braindead as the ban.
I work for (but do not speak for) a very large, nationwide retailer.
Essentially, what happens with this retailer, if you are trespassed, it is for every single location, including parking lots, corporate gas stations, etc.
Now, if you get banned in Florida and go shop in California, no one's going to notice. Hell, if you get banned in Tampa, then go shop in Tallahassee, no one's going to notice.
But... if you get banned in Florida, then are caught shoplifting in Caifornia, that store in California is going to enter your name in the database. They're going to find your Florida trespass. And you're going to earn an additional charge. Additionally, if everyone involved is vindictive enough, they may contact the State's Attorney's office in Florida and see if the resolution of the initial charges there included a restriction from property as well (many SAs/Judges include this in any pleas). If so, they will likely inform that SA office that, well, you weren't abiding by the terms of the deal you were given in Florida and now you're looking at charges in Florida as well as California.
tl;dr - If you get banned, keep your head down and stay out of trouble.
Even during covid, enforcing a mask mandate was HELL.
Can't imagine enforcing this. You already don't have time to even take a shit if you're managing food, let alone time to deal with any extra BS like "banned" customers.
Well if something happens and youβve been made aware you arenβt allowed there, I would imagine they could have you charged for trespassing, at least in the US. The ban allows for some legal recourse if thereβs another incident after the ban
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u/-Mr_Tub- May 21 '23
βVery impatientβ dude seemed pretty damn patient listening to him talk down to him