Restaurants Gotta Stop Singing Happy Birthday to Adults🎂 Feat Hasan Minhaj
Summary
Hasan Minhaj has a controversial take: restaurants need to stop singing "Happy Birthday" to adults. He argues it's embarrassing for everyone involved, the staff, other patrons, and the birthday person themselves. Kareem pushes back hard, insisting the servers like doing it and comparing it to other service jobs like changing tires or cleaning teeth. Minhaj isn't buying it. He claims restaurant workers are only singing "out of vibe," not because they actually want to serenade diners with cake. The debate gets heated as they disagree on whether making Cold Stone employees perform is humiliating or harmless. This one splits down the middle.
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So what's your take? This is a note to all restaurants: stop singing "Happy Birthday" to adults. 100% disagree.
Wait, what? I want it. It's embarrassing for everybody.
No, no, no. They're getting paid. What are you, a medieval Lord? Get out of here. It's embarrassing for the staff.
No, they like it. They—this is why you're a content creator. They hate it. They don't. It's embarrassing to other patrons at the restaurant, and it's embarrassing to the person whose birthday it is.
What's the problem with it? You make adults change your tires. That's different. And clean your teeth. That's so different.
How is it different? That's less humiliating. The guy in your mouth. Karim, you're making people at Cold Stone sing to you. Making them do anything they—they are doing it out of vibe.
Out of vibe? Yes, dude. Dude, you agree with me here, right?
I do. Like, say "Happy Birthday." This is nuts. Do you feel bad when they sing "Happy Birthday" to you?
Oh, no. At a restaurant? This is madness. The popular opinion stands with Kareem Rama.