NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario — Aretha Franklin has some harsh words for a server who showed D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T by telling the Queen of Soul she wasn’t allowed to eat her takeout inside a restaurant.
A spokesman for Franklin said the situation unfolded Tuesday at a Johnny Rockets restaurant on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. He said Franklin ordered a hamburger after performing a sold-out show, but the server screamed at Franklin, saying she couldn’t sit down to eat because she ordered takeout. Franklin said in a statement that the worker was “very rude, unprofessional and nasty.”
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Singer Aretha Franklin looks up while seated on stage during Harvard University’s commencement ceremonies in Cambridge, Mass., where she was presented an honorary Doctor of Arts degree on May 29, 2014. The Associated Press
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