The Boardman police department is currently investigating a fight that broke out at an Applebee’s after concerns about cleaning up confetti between restaurant staff and the partygoers on Monday.
According to the police’s incident report, a manager told officers that a party of 20 people came to the restaurant around 7 p.m. for a gender reveal party.
Guests planned on popping one of those obnoxious confetti cannons inside the restaurant to announce the baby’s gender, but management presumably realized no one wants a sprinkle of blue tissue paper crumbs inside their Dollarita and told the party they had to pop the confetti outside.
However, after the party exploded blue confetti all over the parking lot, sidewalk and patrons’ vehicles, the Applebee’s staff kindly asked the group to clean up their mess, a more than reasonable request.
It was then that staff reported some of the party members started getting rowdy and began shouting at the manager and the hostess. The manager claims some of the group began screaming, “I’m going to beat your ass” and telling the hostess they were going to “fuck [them] up.”
You know, a completely sane response to a restaurant asking you to clean up the completely unnecessary mess left behind in their parking lot.
Police were then dispatched to the scene at 8:59 p.m. according to the incident report, as two members of the party threw menus across the room at the hostess, who was struck several times. Fortunately, there were no reported injuries.
Members of the party began to leave the scene as police were called and after they left, the manager noticed a bill for $31.81 that had not been paid.
Police are still investigating the incident and Applebee’s parent company, RMH, released a statement on Wednesday night saying, “The safety of our guests and team members is our top priority. This is an unfortunate incident, and we are looking into what happened to determine next steps.”
Lastly, let us all just agree gender reveal parties are the fucking worst.
This article appears in Oct 10-16, 2018.
WTF is up with these farkokte “gender reveal” parties, huh? Who DOES this stuff, anyway? I am afraid to ask for more details.
These excuses to par-tay, whether in a residence or a food establishment, always seem to end in a fight, a shooting, a stabbing, a killing, a restaurant being trashed. Is this some kind of lowlife-trash FAD, or what?
But hey, it’s not a total loss…these brawls (literally) mean more column inches for Beej! They DO add up!
It is just dumb. Other than the immediate family, who CARES!!!!
My wife said they expect to get gifts at these shindigs, and then MORE gifts at the actual baby shower later on. Greedy, trashy, low-class losers are the ones who tend to do this sort of thing. Maybe that’s why there are so many violent incidents at these “parties”…and they aren’t drinking tea or pop, either. Drunk, obnoxious, and stupid.
And to begin with, Applebee’s is not exactly a high-end establishement, at least, not the kind of place that you read about in the SCENE food reviews. I feel sorry for all the poor folks who were eating there…and working there…when these slobs walked in. Time to pay up and get the hell out of Dodge.