Bachelorettes Allegedly Disobeyed COVID-19 Restrictions, Coughed On Employee At Tennessee Restaurant

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Incident took place Saturday (Aug 1)
One of them coughed a few times on an employee
Restaurant co-owner is planning to file a police report

A group of 10 bachelorettes have been accused by the co-owner of a Nashville, Tennessee, restaurant of defying the COVID-19 restrictions and coughing on an employee.

Mikey Corona, the co-owner of The Mockingbird in the Gulch, posted about the incident on the Facebook group, Nashville Hospitality Professionals. He said the bachelorettes arrived at his restaurant Saturday (Aug 1) night and threw a fit "because we couldn’t sit them at one long continuous table due to phase 2 restrictions (no more than 6 guests per table)."

"They even began to defy the rules and pull the tables together themselves. After we told them we can be reported for violating this condition of Nashville’s Phase 2, they got up and stormed out-most not wearing a mask as they left (and even arguing with other tables as they even were telling them to put their masks on), but before they left one of them that refused to wear their mask on the way out turned her head and coughed a few times on one of our team members," he wrote.

Speaking to NewsChannel 5, Corona said, "We love our tourists because that's what helps keep us alive. Please come, but when you come in here with your bedazzled cowboy boots and stomp all over us like some mat, that's not okay. We are here to show you a good time."

Corona wrote in the Facebook post they are not taking the incident lightly and are planning to file a police report.

"Please message me if anyone here has any other info we can add to the police report. Thanks y’all, be careful out there- we are all just trying to survive in this wackiness," he wrote.

The incident comes a month after a woman in California was caught on camera coughing on a bartender at a pub after getting called out for not wearing a mask. The bartender asked the woman to comply with the mask policy after seeing the woman hugging everyone without wearing a mask. The woman argued with the bartender before leaning over the counter and coughing in the worker’s face.