Milk and marketing.

I don't understand this mindset.

Our family friend came over for dinner tonight and a comment she made is the inspiration for tonight's post.

She is involved with the La Leche League and that reminded me of something from my time at Applebee's.  Some idiot saw a lady was breastfeeding at the restaurant so they complained to the manager and the manager told the lady to stop or leave or something equally ridiculous. 

I heard about it because the lady and her friends were going to protest all of the Applebee's in the area, or so we were told.  My Area Manager came by and told all of us (in addition to the email) what we should do when the protesters show up in the morning.  He said the protest was by the La Leche League so I called my friend in the League and she told me the truth; it wasn't them. 

The corporate policy was to ignore the protesters and refer any questions to the corporate office.  I wasn't going to do that.  I had my strategy all planned out.  I was going to turn it into a marketing ploy. 

If the weather was cold (this is Texas and it wasn't summer therefore it could be cold) I was going to go out with coffee (regular and decaf) and hot chocolate or water and iced tea if warm and offer it to the ladies.  Let them know that my wife breastfed all three of our children (even had the last one at a birthing center) and I think that the manager that caused the issue was a moron.  Let the ladies know that not all of us managers are idiots, maybe we could get some good word of mouth advertising out of it.  All of this planning and the ladies never showed.

I would do this because breast milk is insanely healthy for babies.  I'm all for breastfeeding and would like it if it could be encouraged more, I have no idea how to do this though.