Hats/caps in restaurants internets survey

[steve2470]

Internets spelled this way courtesy of GWB.

When I grew up, I was taught that usually, one did not wear a cap or hat in an indoor restaurant. Outdoors restaurants were an exception. Restaurants directly on a beach were an exception. Cowboy-related restaurants were an exception.

Does any of this ring a bell with you ? I mean no offense by this survey, simply trying to gain input. Thank you kindly and have a lovely weekend.

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	Hats/caps everywhere, no exceptions
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	My childhood teaching was similar to yours
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	I never wear a hat or cap
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	In my local area, everyone wears hats/caps indoors
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	In my local area, no one wears a hat or cap indoors
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[Populist_Prole]

1. All that crap went out with fedoras and straw boaters

Nobody wears hats like that anyway, back when you removed them when indoors anywhere.

Ball cap type hats are common, true, but it's the accepted norm to see them worn indoors or at eateries, except at high-end requiring jackets/ties and all that shit, which makes sense.

[Taverner]

4. The ball cap is for men and women who didn't do their hair that day

That's how I understood it

[Still Blue in PDX]

5. You speak truth, but I kind of miss those more formal days. nt

[Chan790]

2. As someone who used to work managing restaurants...

with the exception of my time with Starbucks, it's been my policy when managing pub/brasserie/bistro/coffeehouse-type places and fancier to instruct servers to refuse service to people who lack the good sense to not wear a hat or outerwear in the dining area. If pressed, I tell them to respond "Oh. I didn't know you were staying, since you're wearing your coat and hat."

I can be pedantic, but it's my decision. You won't be served wearing your hat...exceptions to church ladies at Sunday brunch, some of those gals glue or pin those things to their heads to keep them in place and I don't need the blood, flesh, hair or screaming it takes to remove their hat from their head.

[steve2470]

3. hmmm

I'm starting to get the impression that my childhood teaching is now out of favor. That should not surprise me. My son certainly takes strident exception to it. I certainly respect your decision.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. When I was a kid and woolly mammoths roamed the earth,

men did not usually wear hats in a restaurant, but women did. City-dwelling men did not wear baseball caps unless they were playing baseball. Women also wore their hats and white gloves to church and most other outings. Women seldom wore slacks at all unless they were on vacation (such as camping) or working in the garden. Girls were not allowed to wear any kind of slacks to school except under your dress on very cold days if you had to walk to school, and then you had to take them off before class.

Some other old "rules": One did not wear white shoes before Memorial Day or after Labor Day. Women always wore hose with dresses or skirts; you never went bare-legged. Men did not wear pinky rings, especially rings that had diamonds, which was extremely gauche. Girls who got their ears pierced or wore ankle bracelets were "fast." Tattoos were unheard of on anyone other than sailors and ex-cons, and a woman with a tattoo was probably a prostitute.

Like most people I don't concern myself with such "rules" any more, though I still think pinky rings with diamonds are sort of tacky.

[tonekat]

7. A mid-grade restaurant can really be affected

If I go in a place that isn't white linen, but isn't a sports bar either, if I see dudes in ball caps it lowers my expectations of what the place will be like. Add flip-flops, t-shirts and shorts and you expect cuisine on the level of hot dogs and frozen fries.

[LWolf]

8. Hats are never worn indoors, period.

I don't really give a damn one way or the other, but it's still the rule at work, which leaves me having to enforce it.

[rrneck]

9. I always take my hat off,

but I have a hard time finding a place to put it. I can remember the last time I saw a hat rack in a restaurant.

[NYC_SKP]

10. Then: Men wore hats, boy wore caps, ourdoors only except for boys, ladies indoors or out.

Today, women don't wear hats indoors or outdoors except for the few remaining who were around "back then" (fifties and sixties)

Boys still wear caps, indoors and out.

And, worst of all, men of all ages who were ball caps, indoors and out, sideways and backwards and looking like fucking fools in them.

Don't be that guy.

[noamnety]

11. We finally got rid of our no hat rule at our school.

(high school where I work)

Everyone seems way happier. We get some ball caps, some fedoras, and come winter when the rooms will be freezing, we get a lot of those knit hats that include animal ears. I enjoy seeing the range of how people express themselves.

I don't understand why people get upset about habits that don't hurt anyone. Smoking indoors, I see why that's a problem. But if someone wears at hat at the next table over ... I just can't see how it harms me at all.

If a server had an attitude about me or a friend wearing a hat, that would be a server with a very tiny tip at the end of the meal. It's not their place to comment on my appearance, as long as I'm not causing a health code violation (no shoes) or wearing something with bigoted slogans.