The Thai Spice restaurant in Australia was recently ordered by the Equal Opportunity Tribunal to pay a blind man $1500 after refusing to allow him to entry with his guide dog because they thought the dog was “gay.”
Ian Jolly, 57, was barred from dining at the restaurant after a staff member mistook his guide dog Nudge for a “gay dog,” a tribunal heard this week.
A statement given by restaurant owners Hong Hoa Thi To and Anh Hoang Le said one of the restaurant’s waiters said that Mr Jolly’s partner Ms Chris Lawrence stated “she wanted to bring a gay dog into the restaurant.”
Mr Jolly and Ms Lawrence were refused entry to the restaurant – which displays a “guide dogs welcome” sign – even after providing staff with a guide dogs fact card.
At an Equal Opportunity Tribunal conciliation hearing on Friday, the restaurant agreed to provide Mr Jolly with a written apology and attend an Equal Opportunity education course, in addition to paying him $1500.
“The staff genuinely believed that Nudge was an ordinary pet dog which had been desexed to become a gay dog,” a statement from the hearing said.
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