racism in restaurants
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Employees at a Georgia Jimmy John's Fired After Making a Noose Out of Dough
White people must really like being unemployed. It’s the only way to explain why they keep doing blatantly awful things, which will inevitably lead to them losing their job. Take the four employees at a Georgia Jimmy John’s sandwich shop who thought filming themselves making a noose out of dough was the move. According to…
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Black Mother and Son Discriminated Against in Maryland Restaurant
Dining while black can be a frustrating experience. There’s always that nagging suspicion that being on the receiving end of poor service is due in part to your race. Sadly, for a mother and her 9-year-old son, it was blatantly clear why they were being discriminated against at a Baltimore restaurant. NBC News reports that…
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Olive Garden Manager Fired After Complying With Customer's Racist Request
Olive Garden is, for the most part, a respectable establishment. It’s a decent first date option if you’re young or broke. It’s a great place to treat coworkers or families who really, really love breadsticks or have the gastrointestinal fortitude to eat pasta for two to three hours. But for one pair of white diners…
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Applebee’s Employee Believes She Was Fired for Kicking Racists Out of Restaurant
You know, I’m not gonna lie. The fact that this story went down in an Applebee’s in New Jersey just makes all the sense in the world. NBC News reports that Amanda Breaud has filed a lawsuit against an Applebee’s in Middleton, N.J. She worked there as a supervisor and believed she was fired after…
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North Carolina Man Sues Hardees for Civil Rights Violations for Shorting Him on Hash Rounds
If you look at the menu for Hardees’ breakfast platter—as you might be wont to do if you were craving a quick, affordable morning meal—you’ll notice that along with two slices of bacon, two scrambled eggs, and two biscuits sopped in sausage gravy, you’ll also get roughly a half dozen hash rounds. Beloved reader, that…
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‘Silence Is Common’: White Man Who Put Racist Restaurant Owner on Blast Says White People Need to Speak Up About Racism
For weeks, Don Merckle wondered what he might have done to make the owner of Main Street Public House confide in him about his racism. Was it his tattoos? His trucker hat? His beard? As Merckle, a musician based in Columbia, S.C., tells it, he was in a bar talking to co-owner Jimmy Latulipe about…
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South Carolina Restaurant Closed After Musician Says White Owner Promised to Keep the ‘Nigs’ in Their Place
The white owner of a popular Columbia, S.C., restaurant picked the wrong white man to confide in. Main Street Public House is now closed as the business investigates racist comments one of its owners, Jimmy Latulipe, allegedly made to a white musician he was trying to book. As The State reports, Don Merckle, who manages…
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A Homeless Black Man Was Jailed After Trying to Eat at Burger King. Now He’s Suing for Almost $1 Million
Emory Ellis was just trying to buy breakfast. At a Boston Burger King in November 2015, Ellis, who was homeless, attempted to pay for his morning meal with a $10 bill—a simple transaction that goes without incident or comment millions of times each day across America. But on this morning the cashier accused Ellis, who…
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Watch: White Dude Gets Big Mad at People Speaking Spanish in Front of His Salad, Threatens to Call ICE
Consider this a variation on a theme. Internet sleuths are trying to track down a white man caught on video ranting about people speaking Spanish at a New York City lunch spot. The viral video, which has garnered over a million views since being posted Tuesday afternoon, shows the man threatening to call Immigration and…