'No English, No Service' Diner Shuts Its Doors

The Reedy Creek Diner made headlines with its infamous "No English, No Service" sign.

Now it's closed.

But Greg Simmons says it has nothing to do with business, but instead his mother's declining health, according to MyFox 8. "I don't wont to close, but I can't run the restaurant and be there for my family at the same time," Simmons told the Fox affiliate.

Simmons maintains that the original posting of the sign wasn't intended to be racist, but was simply a matter of function. However, the Lexington, North Carolina restaurant took down the sign after some were outraged at its apparently racist nature, according to Fox News Latino.

"We started getting threatening phone calls and people using colorful language if you will," Simons told Fox.

While the nature of the sign remains a subject of debate, it didn't discriminate against any one language. "Everybody's money is green as far as I'm concerned," Simons told MyFox 8.

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In a nine-year study (between 2000 and 2008), nearly 1,300 children whose parents or caregivers were determined to have limited English proficiency were found to have spent at least 60 percent more time in the hospital when compared to children whose parents/caregivers spoke fluently, said study author Michael Levas, MD, and and his colleagues from Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo.

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Overall, most of the parents and caregivers observed by the researchers--nearly 97 percent--were proficient in English. The 3 percent who were not were more likely to be Latino and either uninsured or insured by Medicaid for both comparisons.

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