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A man walked into Soleil Ramirez's restaurant last month and started to ask strange questions: How many people do you have on staff? Why are you so small? Stuff nobody asks," she said.

The man then started talking loudly into his phone. I'm here doing a dip in a restaurant. There's not a lot of people here, so I don't know if it's worth coming," Ramirez recalled him saying. The encounter left her unnerved.