# Restaurants Cutting Off Customers Neckties with Scissors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2015, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988 "2015-10-18T10:16:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988/41 "2015-10-20T10:46:20Z")
I was in a bar once that had hundreds of bras stapled to the ceiling. Can’t remember where, and it was many years ago. Women slipped them off voluntarily, though. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988/42 "2015-10-20T12:32:31Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > There’s an episode of Frasier where Martin takes Frasier and Niles to such a place. Only time I’d ever heard of such a thing. I’m currently watching through Frasier on Netflix and saw this episode recently, so this is what I was thinking about when I opened the thread. But I had no idea it was based on anything from real life. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988/43 "2015-10-20T18:34:36Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Here in San Diego (suburb of Santee) we used to have Pinnacle Peak, a lovely place for a damn good steak. (Now out of business, doggonit.) I haven’t been in years but it was at the Santee location. I went to their website and they have a restaurant in Lakeside so maybe they just moved. A friend used to live just behind PP (in Santee)and we’d just walk down to get dinner. It was great. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988/44 "2015-10-20T19:36:22Z")
> [@Cheez\_Whia](#): > > Colton and San Dimas; click on the link! 😉 Pinnacle Peak was immediately what I thought of when I saw the thread title. Used to live not far from the one in San Dimas and drove by it frequently. I only ate there once, though — I don’t recall the food being all that great. I did not donate a tie. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988/45 "2015-10-20T20:39:13Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > I only ate there once, though — I don’t recall the food being all that great. I have not eaten there (the one that is – or was – in San Diego) since I was a kid; so late-'60s, probably. I thought it was very good. I can _just_ remember the mesquite char flavour – and I remember the flames coming up from the grate. I liked the beans, too. Of course, in the single-digits I was still eating meat well-done, as my dad did. There was a Pinnacle Peak just off the 22 when I worked down that way. Unfortunately, it didn’t open until 5:00 and I always wanted to get home. I never ate there. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988/46 "2015-10-20T20:50:51Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > There was a Pinnacle Peak just off the 22 when I worked down that way. Unfortunately, it didn’t open until 5:00 and I always wanted to get home. I never ate there. [Off-topic]I had a knee-jerk “You mean ‘22’ without ‘the’” reaction. I have been in Maryland too long already.[/OT] ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988/47 "2015-10-21T17:21:46Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Used to be, not any more. That area is ripe with prostitution now. > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Damn stinky prostitutes! > [@SpeedwayRyan](#): > > Thank you. **Grrr!** , what these posts are referring to is that it should be _rife_, not “ripe”. Don’t worry, even the [New York TImes](http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/is-it-ripe-or-rife/?_r=0) gets it wrong sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988/48 "2015-10-21T17:38:01Z")
There was a place in downtown Memphis, possibly close to Beale Street, that did this. We were permitted to remove ours before entering but they did have a nice display in their necktie graveyard. I’ve googled the name and can’t find mention of it now though. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988/49 "2015-10-21T17:59:43Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I was in a bar once that had hundreds of bras stapled to the ceiling. Can’t remember where, and it was many years ago. Women slipped them off voluntarily, though. [Hogs and Heiffers](https://www.google.com/search?q=hogs+and+heifers+nyc&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CEsQsARqFQoTCOyciN-R1MgCFUSZHgod0P8HNQ&biw=1280&bih=863) in NYC? I think it was the inspiration for [Coyote Ugly](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200550/) but could be very wrong about that. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988/50 "2015-10-21T20:40:51Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > [Hogs and Heiffers](https://www.google.com/search?q=hogs+and+heifers+nyc&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CEsQsARqFQoTCOyciN-R1MgCFUSZHgod0P8HNQ&biw=1280&bih=863) in NYC? I think it was the inspiration for [Coyote Ugly](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200550/) but could be very wrong about that. The inspiration for Coyote Ugly was [Coyote Ugly.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_Ugly_Saloon) ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988/51 "2015-10-21T20:42:47Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’m guessing that they publicized it enough that almost all of the people wearing ties there were doing so deliberately with the intention of getting them cut off, and that the ~1% of tie-wearers who didn’t realize what was going to happen were given the choice to just take it off and put it in their pocket. There was one in Ottawa in the 80’s and this was definitely true of it. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988/52 "2015-10-22T11:09:22Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > [Hogs and Heiffers](https://www.google.com/search?q=hogs+and+heifers+nyc&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CEsQsARqFQoTCOyciN-R1MgCFUSZHgod0P8HNQ&biw=1280&bih=863) in NYC? I think it was the inspiration for [Coyote Ugly](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200550/) but could be very wrong about that. No, pretty sure it was in New Orleans, but a long time ago. I’d ask my gf, but I’ve been to the big easy with a few different women and it may predate her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-cutting-off-customers-neckties-with-scissors/734988.md?page=2)