The restaurant's owner has apologized for keeping the restaurant open while authorities and the family waited to remove the woman's body.
The owner of a popular Largo restaurant that remained open while awaiting help from authorities after a female customer died of cardiac arrest said Friday he is not sure whether it was the right decision not to close.“It’s just a tragic situation,” said Fred Rosenthal, 80, whose restaurant, Jaspers, swiftly became the target of online misinformation in recent days as social media scrutiny intensified.
A spokesman for the medical examiner said state officials declined the case because it did not meet the office’s The online dust-up prompted Rosenthal to apologize to any customers who felt the situation was mishandled. But Rosenthal also said the criticism felt hurtful to his staff and disrespectful to the family of the woman — all of whom, he said, were trying to navigate a difficult situation the best they could in the moment.
The women’s restroom was closed off to other customers, and those on scene directed all customers to the men’s restroom for about two hours, Rosenthal said.The restaurant owner was not at Jaspers that night, he said, but at his Bethesda home after visiting his son near Baltimore. Rosenthal said he received a call about the woman’s death at around 11 p.m., nearly two hours after the woman’s body had been removed by the funeral home.
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