Breastfeeding mom asked to 'cover up' by restaurant manager. Mom tells her the request is 'illegal.

The Buffalo Wild Wings manager came over to the table where Bobee Carroll was seated recently with her husband Caleb and their 3-month-old daughter Addison.

But the manager of the Bossier City, Louisiana, establishment didn't ask if they needed more Asian Zing sauce.

Image source: KTAL-TV video screenshot

You see, Bobee Carroll was breastfeeding Addison — and their server was uncomfortable, which prompted the manager's visit.

"She had this fleece blanket, and she said, 'Do you have a cover for her?'" Carroll told KTAL-TV. "I said no, and she said, 'Well, here, I brought one for you.'"

That didn't sit so well with Mom.

"I said, 'That's illegal for you to tell me that I have to cover up,'" Carroll recalled to the station.

Image source: KTAL-TV video screenshot

What does state law say?

Louisiana law says a mother may breastfeed her baby in any place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement, and that breastfeeding isn't a violation of law, including obscenity laws, KTAL reported, adding that the state's human rights commission handles enforcement.

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What happened next?

Caleb Carroll told the station they compromised, creating a barrier with "a chair, a toddler seat, and the blanket that they provided."

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But they weren't going to let the incident go away.

The Carrolls reached out to Buffalo Wild Wings district managers, and the next day a corporate representative contacted them, KTAL reported.

"I think they were actually genuine and honest about, 'Hey, we should look into a policy for this kind of stuff,'" Caleb Carroll told the station.

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What did Buffalo Wild Wings say?

KTAL said the company's human resources vice president wrote the Carrolls a letter that read, in part:

First I would like to extend our deepest apology to you and your husband for the uncomfortable situation that you encountered. Our company does not discriminate in any manner. Nor do we have any policy in place that would stop a nursing mother from openly nursing her child. This was a case of a very young waiter who was caught completely off guard and was not prepared to properly react. The manager or another server should have stepped in and taken over for him which was not the case.

Quite frankly, we have never encountered a situation like this as we don’t get many nursing mothers in our Buffalo Wild Wings locations and most of our young team members have never been in this position. We are certainly going to take this opportunity to educate and prepare our Team Members throughout our entire system, in order to show discretion and sensitivity in these matters in the future.

Now what?

The Carrolls aren't angry at Buffalo Wild Wings and don't want to others to stop going there, the station said.

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And if you're in the vicinity, Bobee Carroll is hosting a breastfeeding sit-in at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the same restaurant, KTAL said. According to the sit-in's Facebook event page, 28 people plan on attending.

"We're just going to be a bunch of moms enjoying our dinner and taking care of our babies," Carroll told the station. "We want breastfeeding to be normalized. It shouldn't be sexualized. We want women to know their rights, and we want the companies to know they can't interfere with that."