No bad press, revisited

I posted a short piece last week about the owner of Nathaniel's Restaurant in Owen Sound, who probably didn't agree with the old saying about there being no such thing as bad press, after his business came to the notice of the media for firing laying off a waitress who'd shaved her head for a cancer charity fund-raiser. Yesterday, he apologized:

Dan Hilliard is offering his apology to Stacey Fearnall, a waitress who no longer works at the downtown eatery after shaving her head for Cops for Cancer.

Hilliard is also apologizing to the Canadian Cancer Society, Cops for Cancer and the public "for failing to resolve the issue."

Hilliard says the public outcry after the story broke has been devastating for all involved and has upset the staff, who he describes in a news release as family.

Hilliard says Fearnall was not fired — but was offered to take the summer off to spend with her children and husband.

He says he has not received a response from her yet on the offer.