A Tropical Smoothie location in Florida fired one of its employees for refusing to serve a police officer.

An officer posted on social media about his experience at the shop’s Winter Haven location.

The officer said that he and another officer went to Tropical Smoothie on a Sunday afternoon. He explained that he wore plain clothes while his colleague wore his police uniform.

As they were about to order, the employee said to his co-worker, “I’m not serving them, you can. It’s the cops. I refuse to serve them.”

The officers decided to leave the store to “avoid any extra sauces in [their] food.”

WFLA reports the post was shared more than 8,000 times, but a search for the post garnered no results. It has, however, been re-posted by other users.

Tropical Smoothie of Winter Haven responded by firing the employee and releasing this statement on social media: