Is it really alright to eat topless in a restaurant?

[ArfurMaggot]

Well, now that this has your attention I must point out it was a bloke. sorry!

Still, my point being; I went into the newly opened Burger King in Chaweng yesterday. They have some nice, soft cream coloured furnishings by the windows. While I was waiting for my order I noticed three people sitting there, one being topless and really quite sweaty. I asked the manager, as he passed by, if he thought this was acceptable and the assistant manager chipped in with, "Mai pen rai". When she realized I understood what she was saying and asked her if she really thought it was acceptable, she turned on her heels and walked off!

On a beach, in a beach chair, fine, but in a restaurant, where other people are eating?

I make no apologies for having high personal standards. That is the way I was brought up. I am just sorry that the basic standards of common decency and politeness are disappearing.

[smokie36]

You'll get over it in time.

[Tropicalevo]

Topless in a restaurant - definitely a no no. But a Burger King..............???

Seriously though - I am with you on this one.Pretty disgusting. Vote with your wallet and boycott the place..

[robblok]

Topless in a restaurant - definitely a no no. But a Burger King..............???

Seriously though - I am with you on this one.Pretty disgusting. Vote with your wallet and boycott the place..

expecting standards in burgerking 5555.

[crusty]

Topless in a restaurant - definitely a no no. But a Burger King..............???

Seriously though - I am with you on this one.Pretty disgusting. Vote with your wallet and boycott the place..

Nothing surprising here as the quality of the Samui tourist has plummeted the last four years. Almost every restaurant will have a few shirtless yobboes these days and they are mostly Russian and French !

[inzman]

These are the quality tourists that Thailand has been courting.

[doggie888888]

Burger King is not a restaurant, so you may eat your fries in your birthday suit should you desire.

[ocejanic]

Suggestion: Like in a casino where they lend you the compulsory jacket and tie in case you show up without, they should keep a stack of (really ugly) T-shirts to throw at those uncovered guests. So they'd have to sit in a specific corner of the restaurant neon green clad, like you'd have to stand in the classroom corner for indecent behaviour.

[Mole]

To be fair, like others said, this is BK and just a stone throw away from the beach, so it's not a big deal really. The weather has also been super hot lately, so there's no wonder the Russians used to Siberian weather is overheating a bit.

Ask any business owner on Samui if they would rather prefer shirtless tourists or no tourists.

The word "high standard" + BK doesn't really work together.

Edited December 7, 2014 by Mole

[evadgib]

IMO the 'no shirts or shoes' brigade are uncannily tied to the full moon cycle.

HTH

[crusty]

To be fair, like others said, this is BK and just a stone throw away from the beach, so it's not a big deal really. The weather has also been super hot lately, so there's no wonder the Russians used to Siberian weather is overheating a bit.

Ask any business owner on Samui if they would rather prefer shirtless tourists or no tourists.

The word "high standard" + BK doesn't really work together.

It's called hygiene and smelly hairy armpits are not compatible with food and this also includes singlets and if I was shown a seat in an aircraft with with a yobboe wearing a singlet sitting next to me. I would insist on another seat. Likewise do not expect to conduct official business here with no shirt or a singlet as you will be shown the door ! It says a lot for how you were brought up, maybe you never had parents ?

Edited December 7, 2014 by crusty

[Thai at Heart]

Topless or shirtless

[Mole]

This is a tropical country of Thailand and people have traditionally going around shirtless! So, naturally I have been brought up in this environment and shirtless is nothing strange. Maybe you should open your freaking eyes and look around in what freaking country you live in right now??? See any snow?

This is also about freaking BK and not fine dining or in an aircraft, so your comparison is moot. Nobody is conducting any "official business" at a freaking BK joint.

And what the xxxxxx hell does my parent's has to do anything with this?

I had parents as much as you had one.

Edited December 8, 2014 by Rooo

[transam]

This is a tropical country of Thailand and people have traditionally going around shirtless! So, naturally I have been brought up in this environment and shirtless is nothing strange. Maybe you should open your freaking eyes and look around in what freaking country you live in right now??? See any snow?

This is also about freaking BK and not fine dining or in an aircraft, so your comparison is moot. Nobody is conducting any "official business" at a freaking BK joint.

And what the xxxxxxx hell does my parent's has to do anything with this?

I had parents as much as you had one.

Never seen a Thai shirtless in a restaurant or a burger-joint..........

Edited December 8, 2014 by Rooo

[Mole]

Upcountry at some local somtum neighbourhood stall, there will be shirtless people.

Speaking of being "brought up". Maybe I'm just being more tolerant about the cultural differences in people...

Putting on a t-shirt is not gonna make a smelly sweaty armpit disappear.

Edited December 7, 2014 by Mole

[umbanda]

In Brazil, a very hot country, nobody can enter a restaurant without shirt or shoes, only seating on outside tables and by the beach, even if its can be semi naked on the sand.. I agree that restaurants is the least place to show bad manners....and "tatoos". Unfortunately some people likes that.

Always is a sign saying "The management has the rights to refuse service to any person and for any reason"...and they do, to anybody.

[Mole]

Yes, but this is tropical island of Samui and in a burger joint where the average clientele aren't really "high class", nor is the food, it's really not a big deal.

If you notice, for example uniforms on many places, like AIS center etc, they all wear shorts, which elsewhere in the country would not be acceptable. But this is a tropical island famous for its tourist industry, so the "standards" are a bit different than elsewhere.

If you don't like it, then move elsewhere.

I noticed in the other thread with old pics from Samui, and I'm pretty sure most farangs way back then were shirtless too. But of course there where no burger fast food joint back then. But I'm sure there were farangs eating shirtless at the Thai cheap charlie restaurants.

Maybe it's not the shirtless tourists which are new, but these tourists with "high standards" complaining about things which has been going on for a long time.

Edited December 7, 2014 by Mole

[steve187]

String em up

[WitawatWatawit]

Don't lose your head over this, mole. Otherwise I might have to recall the old headline: "Headless body found in topless bar."

[saakura]

Yes, but this is tropical island of Samui and in a burger joint where the average clientele aren't really "high class", nor is the food, it's really not a big deal.

If you notice, for example uniforms on many places, like AIS center etc, they all wear shorts, which elsewhere in the country would not be acceptable. But this is a tropical island famous for its tourist industry, so the "standards" are a bit different than elsewhere.

If you don't like it, then move elsewhere.

Smart casual shorts as a uniform is not the same as shirtless with your beer gut hanging out and not to mention sweaty underarms.

[canuckamuck]

If the topless offender had been a young nubile lass there would be a lot less righteous indignation.

[Beara]

there should be special restaurants for these type of pigs to eat in , they could be hosed down before eating and the food should be served in a trough.

[eeeya]

"No shirt, no shoes, no dice"

[Mole]

My point is that the standards in a fast food burger joint near the beach in a tropical tourist destination island is a bit different than elsewhere. So you better get used to it, or find some other "finer dining" to eat.

These people may already be sweating and putting on a t-shirt won't certainly help at all. So sweaty smelly shirtless farangs, not OK, but if they put on t-shirt which will be soaked in sweat and smelled perhaps worse, that would suddenly make any difference?? Will putting on a t-shirt make smelly armpits go away??

Or do you suggest they head back to their hotel, then take a shower, and change clothes and then come back to that high standard fast food joint and get their burger? By the time they make their way back to this joint, they're be soaked in sweat again.

Even the finest restaurant on this island won't mind if you come in Hawaiian shirt and shorts and sandals and you expect "high standards" in a BK joint?

Edited December 8, 2014 by Mole

[BlackWolf]

Sometimes I have seen the same in Tesco Lutus. Then I go up to them and ask;" Sorry is this the way to the beach". You should hav seen thes yes they put on me. But I walk away as nothing have happened.

[evadgib]

Sometimes I have seen the same in Tesco Lutus. Then I go up to them and ask;" Sorry is this the way to the beach". You should hav seen thes yes they put on me. But I walk away as nothing have happened.

I had these in mind @ post 10.

(Fishermans pants, no shirt & bare feet all around the supermarket. Staff clearly notice & don't like it but have ever had the gumption to chuck 'em out!).

[Birdman]

Have seen many old and ugly Farangs at Tesco Lotus with young Thai women. But it's ok

[PoorSucker]

Same people that wonders around temples in black tangas.

[transam]

Regarding "dress" at restaurants, it is a simple case of respect for other dinners, but you will not change the mindset of a slob.

[robertthebruce]

there should be special restaurants for these type of pigs to eat in , they could be hosed down before eating and the food should be served in a trough.

Sounds like 'Burger King''...