IHOP Refuses Military Discount to Widow of Slain Veteran [Video]

Kristen Davis, widow of Spc. Johnathon Davis, killed in Afghanistan last year says this is about honoring the memory of those killed in action



GRIFFIN, Ga. - A local family says that IHOP refused to give them a military discount on their meal.

U.S. Army Spc. Johnathon Davis, a 20-year-old from Griffin, was killed in Afghanistan in March of 2012.

His widow, Kristen Davis, says she's used veteran discounts at various businesses after her husband was killed in action. She said that last Friday at an IHOP in Griffin, she went to pay for a meal after celebrating her son's first birthday there. She said that she showed her ID card as the wife of a soldier, but the manager refused to give her the discount.

Kristen says the same IHOP manager honored her dad's veterans discount when her mother paid. He'd already left.

 

Karrie Young, the IHOP manager involved, told FOX 5's George Franco that she's sorry for the incident. "I would just like to apologize and say I that didn't want anyone to get hurt or to offend anyone," said Young.

A spokesperson for the IHOP Corporation from California said that veteran discounts are up to the individual franchisee. Both corporate and franchise representatives said they value the service and sacrifices of military personal.

"Of course she is going to apologize when the news comes to ask her about it. I'd apologize too if I was her," Davis said.


Here is the video: Military discount denied even though this woman showed her ID card as the wife of a soldier
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