The Greenville Pizza Inn on Woodruff Road in South Carolina is a special place that gives people with disabilities a chance to earn an income. And that’s thanks to its owner and operator Amanda Cartagine.

The majority of her kitchen staff has special needs. And they get the job done.

Like any good boss, she’ll go to the mat for her employees, especially when a close-minded bully comes along.

Unfortunately, that’s what she had to do one Sunday back in October of 2018 when a rude customer tried to disrupt the loving environment she had created just because they felt mildly inconvenienced.

The customer told Ryan Mosley to refill the salad bowl.

Mosley has Down Syndrome and a very specific job description. When he didn’t do as the customer asked, that man decided to complain to management and demand customers be warned about special needs employees.

That guy must really love his salad – more than he loves other people, for sure.

The manager told Cartagine how it all went down.

“My manager explained to him the situation privately, ‘That’s not his job. We’ve trained him to do this and there are special circumstances,’ and the customer was still not happy” she told WYFF News.

Instead of understanding that someone else would simply fill the salad bowl, the customer told the manager that they should post a sign on the door that warned people about the employees having special needs.

Because apparently a full salad bowl is more important than the dignity of another human being.

Cartagine wasn’t having that nonsense, but she did decide to hang up a sign. Just not the one the customer had envisioned.

“These are like my kids, and it made me angry. I wanted to do something that was not rude, but got my point across,” she said.

When you go out in public you should expect to encounter all kinds of people who are not like you. And you should have the grace and dignity to be prepared to treat them with respect and understand their circumstance. Anything else it s poor reflection on you, not them.
“Some of us have different color hair, some of us have tattoos, some of us have different walks or personalities, but as a unit, we are family,” the owner said of her employees.

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“If you have the patience to let them take their time and learn at their pace, when the light bulb comes on, they are unstoppable,” she continued.

Mosley, for example, had started working for the restaurant over the summer. His mom Angie said he loves being able to earn a paycheck and buy the things he wants with the money he’s earned for his hard work.

“He loved the fact that he has money in the bank and he can actually go buy his favorite video game,” Angie told WYFF.

So the sign the owner hung on the door?

It read:

“We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and hire all of God’s children.”

She doesn’t care what the customer who complained thinks of her response.

“If he is not OK with that, then I’m OK with him not coming back,” said Cartagine. “That’s a dollar that I don’t need.”

The rest of the community loved the gesture – and we do too!

Be sure to scroll down below for an interview with Amanda Cartagine.

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Source: WYFF News 4 via YouTube, Wyff.com

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