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Waffle House Accused of Discrimination
Fox News ^ | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 | AP

Posted on 01/18/2005 11:28:43 AM PST by shoffma1999

A group of blacks sued the Waffle House chain Tuesday, claiming they were discriminated against at restaurants in three Georgia cities. The Georgia lawsuit joins three others recently filed in North Carolina, Alabama and Virginia against the Norcross, Ga.-based company and its franchisees, who are accused of maintaining a pattern of discrimination and violating federal civil rights laws (search). The Plaintiffs in the cases allege that Servers used racial epithets, refused to wait on minority patrons, provided them with slow service and poor quality food while providing whites with prompt service and quality food. Wafflehouse spokesman Pat Warner has pointed out two previous lawsuits in South Carolina and North Carolina where both Juries found in favor of Wafflehouse to demonstrate that "Waffle House Inc. has no tolerance for discrimination in our restaurants, and we react swiftly and decisively if we find a violation of our anti-discrimination policies," .

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: aclulist; backinblack; baloney; flatoutlies; litigious; sure2baclassicthread; vultures; whiners; yeahright
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To: LearnsFromMistakes
Is the Wafflehouse making this much money? Maybe I should buy some stock.

Yes.....hand over fist.

The owner also owns (or used too) Ritz Hotels.

102 posted on 01/18/2005 4:51:36 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: shoffma1999
Servers used racial epithets, refused to wait on minority patrons, provided them with slow service and poor quality food while providing whites with prompt service and quality food.

I throw the suit out just on the fact that Waffle House doesn't serve ANYONE "quality food".

103 posted on 01/18/2005 4:53:08 PM PST by Tall_Texan (Let's REALLY Split The Country! (http://righteverytime3.blogspot.com))
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To: eddie willers

That felt like a pity laugh! 8-)


104 posted on 01/18/2005 5:50:06 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead
That felt like a pity laugh!

It was. :o)

All the newbies think you're serious and simply pity your choice of clothier.

105 posted on 01/18/2005 6:02:04 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: shoffma1999
slow service and poor quality food

I had the same experience and I'm "not black".
106 posted on 01/18/2005 6:51:16 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: sgtbono2002
Back in my "on the road" days, at 2:00 in the morning, if the crew was hungry, the WH was great.

At that hour, it's filled with hookers, truckers and newsies who just did a 11:00 Pacific time live shot for the idiot West Coast stations!

.... and P.S., it's not discrimination. At 2:00 in the morning, they treat everyone like dreck, as I would if I regularly had to work at 2:00 AM!
107 posted on 01/18/2005 8:02:00 PM PST by MindBender26 (Having your own XM177 E2 means never having to say you are sorry......)
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To: shoffma1999
Somewhat relevant:

'Copycat' charged in McD's scheme

Cops say man placed objects in sandwich, then claimed injury
Thursday, January 20, 2005
By Michaelangelo Conte
Journal staff writer

WEST NEW YORK - A Cliffside Park man has been charged with cutting his own mouth with a razor and stuffing his McDonald's chicken sandwich with staples and a paper clip in an apparent copycat attempt to cash in with a lawsuit against the company, officials said.

The incident follows a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Beatriz Bermeo of North Bergen against the same Bergenline Avenue McDonald's, in which she claims she ingested five needles that were inside her chicken sandwich.

At about 2 p.m. Tuesday, West New York police arrested Jose Rodriguez, 48, and charged him with supplying a false report to law enforcement and tampering with or fabricating evidence, Capt. Robert Antolos said.

Police responding to a call of someone biting into a sandwich containing a sharp object arrived at the McDonald's to find Rodriguez bleeding from the mouth, Antolos said.

Rodriguez had created a scene in the restaurant, showing other customers and police the sandwich, which had staples and a paper clip protruding from it, Antolos said.

Rodriguez was taken to Palisade Medical Center while police began an investigation in which "evidence was recovered at the scene indicating that this new incident was nothing but a scam," Antolos said.

The investigation revealed that Rodriguez ordered a chicken sandwich and took it into the restroom, where he bit into it and spit the portion out into the garbage, Antolos said.

He then placed a row of staples and a bent paper clip into the middle of the sandwich and rewrapped it, Antolos said.

Finally, he took out a razor blade and used it to cut the inside of his mouth before discarding the blade in the garbage, Antolos said.

Rodriguez then walked back into the restaurant, sat down at a table and faked biting the sandwich before pretending to have been cut, Antolos said.

Armed with the evidence, police visited Rodriguez at the hospital and gave him another chance to say what happened, but he gave them the same story, Antolos said.

They then showed him the evidence against him and he admitted he had fabricated the story, Antolos said.

Rodriguez was arrested and his fingerprints and mug shot were taken in the hospital before he was released on his own recognizance to receive treatment for the cut in his mouth, which was serious enough to require stitches, Antolos said. ...

Bermeo's lawsuit alleges that on Dec. 29 she was in the restaurant when she bit into a sandwich and pain shot through her, said her attorney, Rosemarie Arnold of Fort Lee.

Bermeo clutched at her throat, thinking she was choking, and her husband opened her mouth, saw two needles stuck in her, and pulled them out, Arnold said.

Bermeo was taken to Palisades Medical Center, where three more needles were surgically removed from her digestive tract, Arnold said, adding that Bermeo spent three days in the hospital before her release. She is suing McDonald's for an unspecified sum, Arnold said. ...

"Hopefully this will stem any copycat crimes," Antolos said.


108 posted on 01/21/2005 9:37:11 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: shoffma1999
After a two-week trip down South, I just had to add on to this thread to respond to all those who bashed the food at Waffle House.

I spent the past two weeks in Alabama and Georgia and I ate at a Waffle House pretty much every morning - of my own choice. The food and service was consistently excellent and you get to see the food made right in front of you. Each morning I had ham & cheese omelet with grits and sides of bacon and sausage. Good wholesome food that really goes down well. Don't know why people think the food is crappy. Eggs are eggs and bacon is bacon, etc. Not going to get any better at more expensive "yuppie" restaurants at breakfastime. I suppose I could afford to have the $10 omelets at some fancy hotel restaurant but why waste my money when I can get the same quality at Waffle House for about $3.50? My only complaint was that they didn't have Swiss cheese with which to make the omelets but that's not the fault of those preparing them.

What a bummer that Waffle Houses don't exist up north. They are everywhere in the Southland but they pretty much peter out when you get north of the Mason/Dixon line. In fact, maybe they should consider renaming the Mason/Dixon line the IHOP/Waffle House line!

109 posted on 07/16/2005 3:40:48 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Old enough to know better, still too young to care)
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