No hugging and no taking pictures especially with employees allowed at the Miller's Ale House of Fort Myers.

[traveller]

In Southwest Florida, including in the cities of Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Bonita Springs, Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island, Naples, and Punta Gorda, a lot of bartenders and waitresses hug their customers, most commonly when they're leaving for the evening. Regular customers are the most commonly hugged. And hugging between waitresses and bartenders and their customers is very common at many numerous restaurants and bars throughout Southwest Florida.

A lot of bartenders and servers at numerous bars and restaurants in Southwest Florida also take pictures with most patrons, especially regulars. Selfies are also very common as well. The most common time span for pictures and selfies at Southwest Florida bars and restaurants is the slow season, most specifically May thru October.

Unfortunately, one place in Southwest Florida where you will never see bartenders and servers hugging their customers at all, nor will you ever see bartenders and servers taking pictures and selfies with regular customers at all, including during the slow season, is the Miller's Ale House on Colonial Blvd and Metro Parkway in Fort Myers. As it appears, hugging was banned there by the management around March 2020 during the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, pictures and selfies have also been banned there in 2020, and neither of the bans have ever been lifted. It's the management's rules and regulations as of 2020, and they clearly don't care that the Covid-19 pandemic is over. Numerous servers and bartenders have been fired from that Miller's Ale House for hugging their regulars and taking pictures and selfies with regulars since both bans were enacted in 2020, and both bans show no sign of ever being lifted, not even before the year 2075.

Management like that which just bans all hugging at any bar or restaurant for good, especially in a southern state like Florida, has no right to be in Florida, especially now with the Covid-19 pandemic long gone and over mostly due to the widespread vaccinations and immunizations of people against the virus. Any bar or restaurant management that decides to permanently ban all hugging and all pictures and selfies, at any bar or at any restaurant, really in fact belongs in Northern Illinois, at a bar or restaurant in Glen Ellyn, Sycamore, DeKalb, Byron, Rockford, Stockton, Naperville, or Bloomingdale, where nobody ever hugs at all or even socializes or makes friends, Covid pandemic or no Covid pandemic.

Or even better yet, all such no-hugging-allowed and no-pictures-allowed managements belong in Saudi Arabia, where people actually in fact get arrested and thrown in jail for hugging at a bar or restaurant. Hugging, especially in public and including at all bars and restaurants, is completely illegal in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is a very heavily Islamic country, and all forms of public display of affection, including hugging, are strictly forbidden under Islamic law. In Saudi Arabia, getting fired as a server or getting told to leave a bar or restaurant for hugging is the very least of your worries. There is news of a woman that hugged a guy in Saudi Arabia and got sentenced to 2 years in prison and fined 100,000 Saudi riyals, all for hugging and for public display of affection. Taking pictures, including at bars and restaurants, is also completely illegal in Saudi Arabia and can in fact get a person arrested and charged with espionage in most cases. Arabs and Middle Easterners are extremely private people.

[hb2345]

Sounds like a group home for retarded adults would be a perfect place for you. Downies love hugging.

[Yohan]

I have no idea from where 'Traveller' (Mercury) gets all these stories.
Does he write them out of his fantasy or does he find them somewhere on the internet and all what is written here is merely a copy/paste?

[Voyager1]

Why would you want to hug an employee? I don't want to hug an employee. It's inappropriate.

Some guys would use a hug to grab the female employee's ass or thrust their pelvis into her pus$y.

Probably Traveller (Mercury) is one of them

[traveller]

Clearly, all 3 of the above repliers have failed social studies and World History in junior high and in high school. This is no joke at all and this is no fantasy. Miller's Ale House in Fort Myers has banned hugging and taking pictures in 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic is over, and both bans still remain there while any hugging bans at other area restaurants and bars have been lifted due to the end of the pandemic. Anyone who fires or reprimands bartenders and waitresses for hugging, especially in America's sunbelt region, belongs either in Northern Illinois where nobody hugs at all and in fact nobody even interacts with others except for business reasons only, or even Saudi Arabia, where hugging in public is completely illegal and gets people downright thrown in jail, and so does taking pictures, especially if any other people are involved in the picture or pictures.

[traveller]

Another thing to note, at most bars and restaurants especially in Florida, if you have a favorite bartender or waitress working there that you're friends with, you go there and you don't see your friend working there, another server will tell you when to come back to see your friend at work. But at the Miller's Ale House of Fort Myers, employees are prohibited by the management from doing that, basically leaving patrons to deal with stranger servers and their default ice barriers. I think Northern Illinois will fit such management, as nobody ever makes friends at all in Northern Illinois, and nobody in Northern Illinois ever interacts with anyone except for business only. In Northern Illinois, the default ice barrier between strangers is like bronze, even a jackhammer could never put a dent in the barrier. In Northern Illinois, it is even criminal to make friends on the job and at colleges and universities, and even at public use facilities such as department stores, shopping malls, parks, playgrounds, libraries, bike trails, and even at the gym. Also, not everyone is on social media, either, so it is not always practical to use social media to find out when a friend or favorite server or bartender is at a particular restaurant or bar.

Also, the lifting of the last hugging bans at bars and restaurants in Southwest Florida occurred around roughly the same time that mask mandates were lifted at airports and on commercial jet planes, the TSA stopped enforcing mask mandates at airports, and when people were permitted again to be without a mask at airports and on planes. Miller's Ale House clearly is far behind.

And another thing to note, in Saudi Arabia, all bars and restaurants have separate seating sections for families and for single men (whom they call "bachelors"). In Saudi Arabia, it is definitely a big time criminal offense for single men to mingle with women at a bar or restaurant. In fact, there is even news of a group of four men and 11 women that were convicted of socializing at a party in Saudi Arabia and were sentenced to unspecified numbers of lashings followed by 1 to 2 years in prison. Saudi law adheres to a strict interpretation of Islam that prohibits especially unrelated men and women from mingling with each other. https://www.nydailynews.com/2010/06/22/ ... ison-time/