The owner of a Massachusetts ice cream parlor closed its doors just one day after reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic in response to how angry customers mistreated a teenage employee.
Mark Lawrence, who for 19 years has operated Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour in Mashpee, a small town on Cape Cod, waited to reopen his shop under the state’s restaurant guidelines until Mother’s Day weekend.But Friday’s grand reopening turned into a harsh lesson for the small business, according to Lawrence, who toldthat customers frustrated with having to wait longer for their ice cream after the shop grew busy took their anger out on his staff.
“People have forgotten how to treat other human beings in the six or seven weeks that they’ve been confined to their homes,” he told the station. “They have no clue how to respect other human beings.” In the hours following Lawrence’s decision to close, he received hundreds of messages of support from the community.
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