A Chick-fil-A Customer Said She Was Asked To Cover Up While Breastfeeding Her Daughter
The owner of a Georgia Chick-fil-A location has issued an apology after a woman said a manager at the location asked her to cover up as she was breastfeeding her daughter in the restaurant.
In a Facebook post published last week, Samantha McIntosh said she was breastfeeding her 7-month-old daughter when a manager walked "up out of nowhere and tries to hand me her jacket saying someone has complained and would prefer if I cover up because of the other children in the restaurant."
McIntosh said she was wearing a "nursing tank top under a large long sleeve shirt" but told the manager she would finish feeding her daughter later. After that, McIntosh wrote in the post, she began to "simmer" especially because her 9-year-old niece who was with her witnessed the incident.
"I’ll admit it. I got angry. Mostly because my niece started asking questions about why I couldn’t feed my daughter. Why would someone ask me to cover up? Why would a baby eating in any way offend someone to the point where it takes a manager approaching me about the situation?! So I got mad," she wrote.
McIntosh wrote that another mother sitting near her asked a different manager about "policy, inclusion, and corporate contact information" and that she was given information to contact Chick-fil-A corporate. After that, McIntosh said the original manager came back and told her to "let it go in front of half the restaurant."
There are now more than 4,000 comments on McIntosh's post. Following the incident, a group of parents staged a "nurse-in" where they fed their babies in the restaurant (which is not the location in the photo above) in solidarity with McIntosh. She told CBS46 that she wanted to participate to educate the staff of the restaurant on how to handle similar incidents should they come up again.
"The only goal here is to encourage education for his staff, his management team,” she said. “I don't want anything else but for them to be educated and probably have a better way to handle this in the future."
McIntosh did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Delish.
Jason Adams, the owner operator of the Chick-fil-A where it happened, issued an apology, obtained by Delish:
“I am truly sorry for the experience Ms. McIntosh had in our restaurant. I have reached out to her to personally apologize. My goal is to provide a warm and welcoming environment for all of our guests."
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