A Meath café owner that banned pyjamas from her store has said it is time people ‘smarten themselves up’ and get dressed before going out the door.
The Sage & Stone Café in Duleek posted a new ‘no pyjamas allowed’ rule on social media this week after two customers came in wearing pyjamas, dressing gowns and slippers.
The café said it welcomes anyone and everyone wearing smart casual clothing but ‘draws the line’ at pyjamas.
Café owner Ciara Burke explained what happened.
“I arrived in after dropping the kids off at school - not in my pyjamas by the way - and I had two women being served by my lovely staff, who were all suited and booted in their clean uniforms.
“They were serving these two women in their pyjamas, dressing gowns and slippers and sorry, they were on their holidays on the way to the airport.”
She said the women were on their way to the airport to fly to New York.
“They were going in their pyjamas,” she said. “That’s the way they were going.
“I tell you I wouldn’t like to be sitting beside them on that plane because those pyjamas were not on their first use – they weren’t fresh.
“That was quite discernible because they had walked around my gift shop and we had to have a little bit of a spray after it.
“I’m not putting up with it. I don’t care.”
She said she had to take down the original social media post because the debate had started to “turn toxic,” with people on both sides getting nasty with each other.
She said the responses showed that plenty of people want to be able to head out to cafés in their Pjs.
“Let’s just get dressed every day,” she said. “Let’s just smarten ourselves up in this country.”
“Like, I’ve seen it; I’m watching people go into the supermarket in their pyjamas and I think it’s dreadful. So, I’m not having it in my place.
“I think, let’s have some standards in this country and let people get dressed and washed and out the door.”
