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The River Café

A Brooklyn, New York, bar had a policy to overcharge Orthodox Jews, according to reports.

The River Café landmark on the waterfront in DUMBO Brooklyn famous for its floating barge dining with panoramic views of Manhattan discriminated against Jews dressed in religious garb, requiring them to pay a minimum of $25 per person to sit in the bar according to one current and one former employee.

 

The reservationists, who stand at the entrance of the popular wedding venue and tourist destination, are instructed to use code words to alert the maitre if someone wore a yarmulke, religious headgear or tzitzit requested to sit in the picturesque bar, the workers say.

“There are several notes in a book that reservationists use,” a current employee at the restaurant,


which opened in 1977, said. The book is kept in the booth greeting. New notes are added

periodically by management and employees which they read before each shift, the worker said.

 

According to notes in the book, it says that when two Orthodox Jews request to sit in the bar, they should be asked for a $25 minimum, if they refuse to pay they should be told that there is no room for them.

The bar is a popular dating scene for Orthodox Jews.

Restaurant officials denied the claim.


 

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