Waffle House Accused of Discrimination

Fox News ^ | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 | AP

[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," .

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I'm wondering how they determined that whites got quality food while they got......whatever!

[T.Smith]

I hope somebody reposts this article so that the comedians can head back underground.

[bikerman]

Only been to a couple of waffle houses and all I saw was minority's working behind the counter

[nuconvert]

You realize your typo has turned this into one-liner fest?

[Howlin]

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

Sounds like a scam to me.

[BigCinBigD]

Because the good food was on........Back order.

[RichInOC]

I was born a poor back child.

[FeeinTennessee]

Love the pic Lan! LOL...cute!

[evets]

[AnAmericanMother]

Private information:

One of the restaurants sued is in Darien GA, my parents' home town.

Utter silliness: the manager of that Waffle House is BLACK. He's going to discriminate against black customers? What's up with that?

[Reform4Bush]

Quality Food at the Wafflehouse? They must be joking.

[Eagles6]

Shakedown.

[drt1]

Please, PLEASE don't tell me the EEOC has defined yet another 'Special' minority group deserving of their protection and preference - Back People :-)

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Details, details, details..........You expect them to worry about something so trivial as details.

"Just give me the money, honey"!

[muleskinner]

Isn't your real name - sho'nuff ma1999? Admit it.

[dead]

Wafflehouse provided them with slow service and poor quality food

And the tuxedo I bought at WalMart was ill-fitting in the shoulders.

[BigCinBigD]

When asked in court what injury they received from the poor service. Those filing responded.....Back pain.

[the invisib1e hand]

waddaya expect at waffle house?

[mudblood]

I ate at this place called "maurice's" BBQ in NC (might have been SC, it was on my drive back north). They had tons of "slavery wasn't so bad" books and other stuff. Great food, but I was a bit taken aback at all the literature. Anyway, the place had about 5 black people sitting together eating. I thought maybe they were trying to get him to throw them out so they could sue him. I totally approved. The food was great - I highly recommend it (just once).

[newgeezer]

Next time you make a wisecrack about a typo in the headline, someone needs to quote the headline. Otherwise, once it gets corrected, there's no looking back. :-)

Backs Sue Wafflehouse ^