True Kitchen and Kocktails TWERKING. 

His restaurant his rules. Why are y’all twerking when people are trying to eat that’s beyond me

I don’t care what type of music is being played, you don’t get your big, grown ass up on nobody’s furniture!! No excuse!!

“You can pay for school but you can’t buy class!”

"But when did black become synonymous with bad behavior and tacky ways to dress?" OMG THIS!!!!

The owner is right! It’s his restaurant. If you don’t like his rules, don’t eat at his restaurant. Simple!

There's a time & place for everything. They where dead wrong they weren't in a club. He could've used better wording yet he was not wrong for expecting respect in his establishment.

As a diner, I am not trying to see anyone twerking NOR am I trying to hear you yelling in my ear. He should have had them escorted out by the 2nd/3rd time.

They know better..THEY JUST DON'T CARE TO DO BETTER🤷

If he wasn’t talking to you, that means you shouldn’t get offended. The man was just giving a public announcement bro cmon. And yes you can go too a restaurant that plays twirking music, just have self control... no excuses

His restaurant, his rules. I don’t care what type of music was played, they got ratchet and he turned it up a notch on their asses.

I live in the DFW area and am originally from Chicago! These folks down here are nuts! The cases in Dallas County and the surrounding areas are through the roof! These folks are crazy! I go outside ONLY WHEN NECESSARY and am damned near in a hazmat suit! I'm 51...I ain't playing no games! I'm trying to live foreeevvvvaaahhhh...or at least until the universe says my time is up! Why are they packing an establishment like this, and taking the risk?! Take your ass home and cook...get on Zoom with your friends and jam and drink and talk shit! This shit is crazy! We hate to see it!😥

It’s not a problem that he said something but he could have just addressed her and not been unprofessional and announced it to the whole restaurant

Anti-Blackness is Anti-Blackness, Anti-Bullshit is Anti-Bullshit. Funky is on that Anti-Bullshit. Some of us need to do better. Period.

THANK YOU Q! I never understood my folks moving from the hood to a better neighborhood, only to treat the better neighborhood like the hood!

I had friends there that witnessed him speakin to them first! Ive been to True Kitchen at least 5 times. The vibe is not ratchetness at all. Its kind of edgey and upscale but not bougie upscale..music is always old school 90s r n b and some hip hop but not a lot of rap. Good food and crafty drinks with live music some days. The moment that dj decided to play that particular song didnt mean get yo gutter ass and stand in the seat and twerk. He had a polite convo with them first and the still acted ratchet so he sd wtf he sd. And I agree. There are other spots to do that, go there. It aint about the money its about havin somewhere nice that black ppl can go to and have a good vibe. We dont have spots like that in the area. We have a lot of day party spots and clubs but not nice black owned restaurants. He already had to make an announcement and enforce a dress code that includes no furry slides or athletic gear! Cause some ppl dont have common etiquette! There are a lot of blacks that go to boomerjacks sports bar on Tuesdays and they play nothin but rap and folks aint on tables or chairs twerking! So why do it a nicer spot where u dnt see NO ONE else behaving that way? Also he was speakin in the area where those ladies were not the whole restaurant

First up, that place was packed “as if a deadly pandemic isn’t raging across the country”,,, I get how he felt , but to cussed down all of your patron’s, when all of your patron’s didn’t do anything wrong is a mucked up way to run a business. Address those were out of pocket, and if they continue “call the cops, and have them escorted off the premises.

The owner was not wrong at all. That's how I feel about it and I'm sticking with it. So, we can agree to disagree.

He asked the ladies twice, nicely not to twerk. He got Fed Up. He also released videos on his IG Page. I see nothing wrong w/ what he said and how he said it. Also, He was on the Rickey Smiley Morning Show. And his Business is Booked and Busy! The Food, Ambiance, and music is great!

The wild thing is those same ppl who is twerking on his table would have NOT thought twice to behave that way in a White Establishment... It amazes me in 2020 how we treat our own! The Owner could have been said what he said in a professional manner but how I look at it if it's not me who is acting a fool what he says doesn't affect me! 🤷🏾‍♀️ *We Got To Do Better*

When you're a classy base girl like me you know how to act in public...

Its the lint that fell off the beard for me

The owner was not wrong

Knowing that he had spoken to them before this about the twerking and they still did it again, I can understand his public reaction. Some people won't take correction until it becomes humiliation. I hope he's learned to change the music and put up some "no dancing" "do not climb on the furniture" "patrons not behaving according to House rules will be asked to take their food to go" signs... *sigh*

I'm in agreement with you 100% there is a time and a place for everything and in this establishment was not appropriate at all when you know better the saying is you do better

IN MY OPINION: 1. Self Control & Maturity are what the "Twerker" is lacking.. Sometimes people think being defiant is "cute" especially when they are being egged on by others... 2. "You can't piss a person off and tell them how mad to get"... The owner was pissed off & felt disrespected, therfore he felt no need to "be nice" as he was several times prior... 3. When the "twerker" decided to "throw her a** in a circle" there were a group of women at another table hyping her up... This could be why the owner decided to address the entire dining room IMAGINE SOMEONE COMING IN YOUR HOME AND JUMPING ON YOUR FURNITURE AND DANCING... I'M SURE THE 1ST REACTION FROM MOST PPL WOULDN'T BE TO ASK ANYTHING.. THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING AND THE LADY WAS TRYING TO BE FUNNY/PETTY (IMO). IF SOMEONE ASKS YOU NOT TO DO SOMETHING MORE THAN ONCE AND YOU PROCEED...... YOU ARE MAKING A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO BE DISRESPECTFUL AND YOU JUST DONT CARE. I DON'T THINK THE OWNER WAS WRONG IN THE WAY HE HANDLED IT... IT WAS HIS HUMAN RESPONSE TO BEING DISRESPECTED. (IMO)

Thank YOU!! This is what I have been saying on this subject. My first response was Direct the DJ and you won't have that problem. Music creates an ambiance. It's a vibration and you used the exact examples I have been using. People get real ignorant when trying to make points, I sooo agree with you. And while I am eating please don't do that.

I hollered when he started talking about them boys who wear skinny jeans and sag at the same time. 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀

Both parties were wrong. I knew you would be on the right side of this conversation. Lastly, i live in Dallas and i heard he was serving Glory Greens anyway 😂 Ok byeee 😂😂

Yes am sitting up here with the out of shape body.(it aint jacked up and unhealthy) I still aint buying your gotdamn tea.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Just don't play Juvenile "Back Dat Ass Up" and we good. I am required to get out my seat for the National Anthem.

I only have a problem with him yelling at the whole restaurant. All he had to do was put out the people causing the problem. It was rude of him to curse at everyone in the restaurant

What happened to masks, corona virus. We are truly living in different worlds. We dam near on lock down up here in NYC.

I agree. If you have the balls to tell folk you don’t need their money, you better stand by your word... because if I was a patron getting cussed at, I would have packed my shit up and left

He business his rules. He asked the women to stop numerous times, but why play that kind of music.

“They always running out of chicken!” 🤣😭😪

This whole situation is hilarious. He is absolutely right! But gosh, 😂😂😂😂😂

The problem no one is talking about is that this is the definition of a super spreader event. No masks. No 6 feet DISTANCING. I mean how are we to stop this COVID-19 and you as a business owner can't enforce the minimum standards set by the CDC. Is he doing temperature checks at the door and asking if anyone has symptoms? Probably not. That's my main criticism about this owner. PUT ON A MASK!!!!!

🤷🏾 me and my bonus kid's mothers made our reservation for next friday 💅🏾 we watched all the video from the 1st time he asked nicely and they continued! We as 3 business women appreciated his reaction and are gonna support. We cant want classy based establishments then act like we at KOD

He had a line waiting to get in today. He will be ok

Funky it sounds like the Rona got you in that Nutraburst commercial

We gotta do better and not take everything to the heart. His delivery wasn't ghetto sometimes you just gotta put people in their place at that moment.

Why i was patting my head when he said weave patting 😂😂

People are mad that the black man cursed them out, but the White owners would have called the police and this would have escalated to so much more

He yelled to everybody, unprofessional. All he had to do was go to the table again and ask them to leave

He did apologize for using that language. This was his third time asking them to stopped.

Nah, so if you hear your favorite song in the streets while you're walking & you jumping on top of cars & twerking? Nah. Don't blame it on the music. Grown folks know how to conduct themselves regardless of the music & ambience

He DID ask them politely at first, but they didn't listen, so he addressed them in a way they understand 🤷🏾‍♀️

He's hypocritical is his approach. Men were seen at this same establishment on the same couches.... His tone with those women was unreasonable. The lecture could've been saved. A simple, "Ladies, I am going to have to ask you to leave."

I hate the speaker phone conversations ( always vulgar) in public

Rightttttt I'm sick of it!...He better had said it...we are so quick to critique and critize our own ppl for wanting nice things but we love and applaud the other ppl for doing the same...make it make sense

Wonder why he didn't have the same energy for his fellow Kappas when they were dancing and jumping on the furniture just a few months ago... this whole respectability politics is bull, black people will be profiled and face injustice still even when their suited and acting with "class" Our behavior isn't going to save us Policy and holding our representatives accountable. His whole argument GOES OUT THE WINDOW WHEN HE LET THE KAPPAS DO THE SAME DAMN THINGS they women were doing not long ago.

He was selling HENNESSY slushies, playing twerk music, with a whole DJ. What type of customers was he trying to attract?

Tell the truth and shame the devil!

"On the floor to the ground, to the ceiling and back around" has me WEAK. 😂😂😂

If an adult doesn't know the meaning of a time and place for certain things or know how to control themselves then MAYBE that adult shouldn't go out anywhere

I needed this lol. Then when you dont act ghetto they say you act white 😒

THE BROWN HAIR JEL TOOK ME💀❤NESSA

We as black people get too comfortable around each other and we forget about respect and boundaries. It doesn't matter what people say. No one knows how stressful running a restaurant is. It's HIS ESTABLISHMENT. People have no respect anymore and these are the results. On the other note. If you're trying to establish a classy atmosphere, you should be playing Sade or Kenny G. Not like you at Magic city or Bella Noche 😁

That beat in the intro is everything! I be twerking (in my head) everytime! Lmao!

What you said around the 5:00 min mark was it for me exactly. He had every right to correct them, ask them to leave, etc. But don’t group curse me out if I don’t have nothing to do with it. Tf.

Now ... i had to CATCH MY BREATH FROM COUGHING AND LAUGHING at the last 1 minute of this video. ....Immediately after he says “booty cheek..” .... 💀

You nailed this one. I agree with your analysis. I would not have appreciated the twerking nor that tantrum. First rule of group management is to correct the individual separately, not blanket the otherwise well behaved group with censure, that lowers morale and can turn the remaining folks against your authority. Once he painted me with that generalized condescension, I would have walked out - promise you. You can either get my money or attempt to insult me, not both. The thing is, I agree with the owner, but he was hypocritical in this instance. Great content Quentin.

Everyone needed to hear it so no one else would try it and everyone could understand. The music excuse is unacceptable, people are eating period.

Lawd Q I had to fast forward through the video to make sure that piece of strang dropped off your chin at some point lol! Now I can run it back from the top lol! :-)

It would have been best if they did that down at Popeye's Chicken where people getting shot over chicken sandwiches.

Yes! It's the twerking in a damn restaurant for me. Take your ass to the damn club if want to do all of that.

It looked to be 1 woman twerking so that's who he should have addressed he put that psa out like it was a group

Ricky Smiley said that there’s two other times the owner asked them to stop twerking...the viral video was his third time asking them to stop.

As a business owner he was not in the right, it is your job as the owner to set the ambience and have a clear direction of the business vision that you are carrying out. He said that he is a "upscale" restaurateur which is not reflected in having no table cloths and or place settings and selling liqour "icees" to grown folks and playing "throw dat ass in a circle" during food service. The restuarant he has and the restaurant he thinks he is running is in stark contrast to each other which is why he was confronted with "twerking" in his establishment in the first place. I am tired of folks throwing around the "we as black people" tropes when it comes to chastising black women's behavior, this man is in business to make money and he just so happens to be black he is the same kind of owner that will use the "hood" and or "ghetto" incentives i.e. "throw dat ass in a circle" & Dusee Icees to drive busniess and then when he has gotten to a certain "status" abandon it as it no longer works for him. What we as black people should start doing is not supporting vultures that will take from our community to gain Money and affluence and then turn their noses down on it once they get on.

the owner can ask the people to behave however he wants, but it didn’t have to turn into a sexist rant on respectability politics. and i have seen people act stupid at high-end establishments. they get addressed directly and dealt with according. the entire restaurant doesn’t get shamed. so, why did this group of black women need to be?? that’s the part that bothers me.

She would not have done this in Ruth Chris!!!! Why do we not respect ourselves the way we respect the "other people?" Twerking is not "Ballet!" Just classless!! Only belongs in the house or private setting! When you are a true adult, you dont get to take a break in public! And stop making excuses as to how twerking in any restaurant is deemed acceptable! That's the other issue we have.. Tell the truth and receive the truth , for it is essential to self development!

It wasn't what he said, it was how he said it. Also, his views on twerking were a bit misogynistic. Twerking itself isn't an issue. He was making it seem like the women were whores or dirty for twerking which is not the case. It was the fact that they were twerking on his furniture.

I’m not getting a lecture with my meal, because of something a stranger next to me has done ... no thank you please

I go around telling them pull your pants up. I can't stand to see a full grown arse man with grey hair like that. I think it's inappropriate for them to be twerking in a restaurant. So if someone rides by Church or pull in Church parking lot playing back that up you going to start twerking to. It's called a time and place for everything.

on his IG page he showed that he went over to the ladies 3x and asked them please to stop...but they continued.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣"They gone sip they wine real classy based"

This reminds me of that whole bonnet/school dress code saga from a couple of years ago. People were accusing the principle of being anti black because she refused let people wear PJs, bonnets and bodycon dresses inside the school 🙄🙄🙄🙄. I definitely think he should have just spoken to her quietly instead of making a spectacle of himself because it was inevitably going to end up on social media. However I do not believe that she would have done that in a higher end ‘white’ establishment. There is a time and place for everything and standing on furniture/twerking in a restaurant while people are trying to eat is classless no matter who you are 🤷🏽‍♀️. The ‘respectability politics’ argument has lost all meaning because it is overused by people who simply wish to escape any accountability for behaving or dressing inappropriately etc. Respectability politics is definitely an issue especially when it comes to black hair in the work place but now not standing on the tables in restaurants is succumbing to respectability politics? I have to laugh.

This was a whole word Q! You get it right every time!

Funky Dineva gets it. I also think both parties are wrong. Those women were definitely trashy and wrong, and they definitely need some self-control. But I also thought the owner was off-putting and unprofessional with the language he chose to you in front of everyone. I thought his speech came off as preachy and misogynistic at the same time. Plus, he allowed the wrong type of music to play. If you want a "classy fine-dining experience" for your guests, you don't play "Back That Azz Up" at club volume levels. None of this negates the fact that those women were wrong and incredibly trashy, but I think all parties were just too much for me. I wouldn't set foot in that restaurant.

Who’s a blood spelling Cocktail with a K 👀

This was total disrespect. She would have NEVER tried this in a white owned business. Black people MUST start respecting each other.

I saw late last night the extra footage, he had to talk to them several times and then he had enough. I understand his frustration. I agree 100% with Funky Dineva though. His approach afterwards was wrong to address the whole resturant with all that cursing.

It's the parenting in most cases these days. These babies really don't know they're being offensive. No one taught them not to.

He told them what their fathers should have. They need that masculine energy and discipline. Black establishments can have rules too.

I was waiting for you! 🙌🙌

I agree with you 100% the owner of the restaurant has to take some of the heat too on this. He set the stage for the Twerk-Gate but again if ladies are going to dine in a so called Classy place they should have known better then to start twerking on the chairs, they knew they were dead wrong for that. They would not go to a white restaurant and do that because they know they would have been asked to leave. Maybe these young ladies need finishing school???

Everyone is so soft these days talm bout " he didn't have to cuss out the other patron's" meanwhile I'm watching Gordon Ramsay🤣🤣🤣🤣 but fr tho y'all missing the point, that an owner shouldn't have to ask at all on how to conduct yourself!! If they respected his request this video isn't made..... for every action there's a reaction...

I think the owner gave them a warning the first time because he doesn't know if they're experienced in high-end dining situations. After making things clear and then having to ask again is like being told fuck you and your business. I understood completely.

As a patron I would have been APPALLED had the owner come out in the middle of the restaurant and started yelling and going off. I don’t like all of that black mama cussing in front of me anymore than someone dancing on furniture. Also, I have been to nice restaurants in Atlanta that do play music and people will stand up and dance by their table. It’s not unheard of. Folks don’t climb the furniture, but partying or signing along with the music yes.

Businesses CANNOT decide which customers patronize their business. It’s against federal laws. However, you can enforce a dress code and have to the right to not serve someone but you better have a damn good reason or else.

Quentin is really brilliant. His analysis is always well balanced and spot on....

No they deserved to be spoken to like that... they understand that language

This should have been addressed to the table that was causing the issue and not the entire restaurant. If it continued he should have asked them to leave or had security escort them out. When I am at an upscale restaurant, I don't want to hear the owner lose his mind and start cussing out the whole restaurant. Professionalism would have resolved the issue without going viral in a negative way. Also, it is a room full of black women being yelled at by a black man and people are excusing it... it doesn't sit right with me.

You couldn't have said it any better. This generation does not like you tell them a dam thing. I don't want nobody dam boots juices shaking around my food either. Periodtt

He’s not at fault. You don’t stand on a table or chair and twerk on a glass at a RESTAURANT for ANY reason. Like what are you talking about?? No matter what music is being played. Like WHAT??!! The people who were there, I’m sure understood his temperament and were more than likely equally annoyed about the behavior the young ladies displayed. I know I would have been.

And some times you have to be ghetto to get the message out. Cause like my one of my children he act like he don’t hear me unless I get on his ass. So it what it is. I wouldn’t have done that to my customers but sometimes that’s the only thing that’ll work. You have to step down to their level.

I think he made a general announcement to prevent individualized retaliation. When some folk get shame they wanna shoot.

Not “where the Honda cars be” 😂😂😂😂 #catch

I’m just confused as to why he didn’t just put them out. What was the whole loud cursing speech for?

What's going on with Funky's beard?