[NEWS] An Olive Garden customer demanded a non-black server

[BrasSmonkey]

it's not like she's at home having babies and on welfare. she works!!!!!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77Q4kEnUi0[/youtube]

Olive Garden patrons reportedly launched into a racist tirade against a black server and hostess at an Evansville, Ind., location on Saturday, demanding to the manager that a white server take over the table. The manager, who acquiesced, has been fired from the chain of Italian restaurants, the company says.

Amira Donahue, a 16-year-old Olive Garden hostess, told local ABC/CW affiliate WEHT/WTVW that it started when the customer asked for hot water. Soon, the diners were dishing out prejudiced remarks, saying they didn’t want to be served by a black person, Donahue said.

“The lady also made comments about me to another co-worker,” Donahue told a reporter, “saying that I am not family-friendly, that I should work at a strip club instead of an Olive Garden, that am I even black, am I from here, am I from America — just offhand comments like that. And referring me to ‘the other one.’ ”

Instead of asking the customers to leave, the manager allegedly changed out the server for a white one. Donahue didn’t think the manager should have complied.

“I do agree that was a bad decision at the moment,” Donahue told local media. “There was a way, a better way, that this could have been handled.”

Olive Garden looked into the incident Sunday and Monday and then made the decision to dismiss the manager, company spokeswoman Meagan Bernstein wrote in a statement to The Washington Post.

“We have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind, and the manager involved no longer works for our company,” Bernstein said. “We completed our investigation on Monday. As a result of our investigation, we made the decision to separate with the manager involved.”

Bernstein didn’t respond to questions about what prompted the probe and when the manager was let go.

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[TheButcher]

This sort of thing probably happens all the time across the world but most employees are too scared to talk about it in fear of losing their job. It's simply wrong. Sorry for the young lady who had to face this.

[BrasSmonkey]

the naacp needs to change the fucking name! colored is not a good word

[24alex]

The manager probably thought best keep her happy and not make a bad situation worse, but it was the wrong decision.

[BrasSmonkey]

The manager probably thought best keep her happy and not make a bad situation worse, but it was the wrong decision.

keep her happy? and betray your employees? only place she will get a job is around her kind. i want to know if she called the waitress the N word to the manager. if so she needs to be watched.