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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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Anybody who's seen Tin Cup knows this can't be true...
I guess I've gotten the same treatment on my few Waffle House visits.
ML/NJ
You got that right...I worked for WH about 20 yrs ago, & I'd never, EVER, consider them to serve what folks might consider "fine" food.
I worked in several of their stores (we had LOTS of employee turnover @ the time, & I'd help try to fill in if I was off that night from my own store), & out of the 12 or so stores I worked @, black customers were few & far between. We mostly had country bumpkins (who would come in to drink coffee & try to sober up after leaving a C & W club) & families as our customers. The # of black employees we had @ the time were even fewer, thus racial incidents rarely occurred...w/ the exception of GETTING ROBBED @ night in one of the downtown stores.
Like I said, that's how it was when I worked for them ages ago.
In the local WH of my hometown, they locked the restrooms and made people ask for keys because blacks broke the urinals off the walls and pried the toilets off the floor in vandalism incidents. Then, some who would just loiter claimed they were "discriminated against" because the manager would only allow customers access to the toilets.
It got so bad the toilets weren't fit to wipe one's a- hands in. It's closed now.
OK, first it was Denny's. Who was next on this hit list?
Jesse Jackson's in this somewhere, somehow! Waffle House refusing to pay the strongarm money?
so fast service and good food area racial civil right now?Oh goody there are about 100 resturants in indiana that I can sue for millions im going to be richer then H. Ross Perot :-)
Sloth: "If only these people could live in a white person's shoes for one day, they'd learn that everyone gets treated like crap somewhere."
It's been done:
White Like Eddie
.....Eddie Murphy
Clerk.....Jim Downey
Eddie Murphy: You know, a lot of people talk about racial prejudice. And some people have gone so far as to say that there are actually two Americas: one black and one white. But talk is cheap. So I decided to look into the problem myself, firsthand. To go underground and actually experience America.. as a white man.
[ enters Make Up Room ]
Eddie Murphy Voiceover: I hired the best make-up people in the business. If I was gonna pass as a white man, everything had to be perfect.
[ make-up is placed on Eddie's face ]
Eddie Murphy: Hmm, I think that's a little light.
Make-up Artist: Okay, let's try this. [ applies fake white moustache on Eddie's lips ]
Eddie Murphy: That's, uh.. I look kind of Harry Reemsish.
Make-up Artist: Mmm, I like it.
Eddie Murphy: I studied for my role very carefully. I watched lots of "Dynasty".
[ show Eddie watching TV ]
Eddie Murphy: See? See how they walk? Their butts are real tight when they walk. They keep their butts tight. I've gotta remember to keep my butt real tight when I walk.
Eddie Murphy Voiceover: And, I read a whole bunch of Hallmark Cards.
[ show Eddie reading greeting cards ]
Eddie Murphy: "For my lovely wife." That's it. That's it. That's it. Go ahead. "You always mean lots more to me than you could ever guess. For you have done so much to fill my life with happiness."
Eddie Murphy Voiceover: Finally, I was ready.
[ Eddie walks onto the street, the perfect portrait of a white man. He enters a convenience store, grabs a newspaper and drops it on the counter. ]
Clerk: What are you doing?
Eddie Murphy: I'm buying this newspaper.
Clerk: That's all right. There's nobody around. Go ahead, take it. Take it. [ Eddie gives him a quizzical look ] Go ahead, take it. Yeah. Take it. Take it.
[ Eddie takes the newspaper, and cautiously exits ]
Eddie Murphy Voiceover: Slowly, I began to realize that when white people are alone, they give things to each other for free.
[ cut to Eddie catching a bus. He sits down between two white women. ]
Eddie Murphy Voiceover: There was only one other black man on the bus. He got off on 45th Street. [ the busdriver looks around the bus carefully, then sets a party in motion, complete with music and cigarette girls ] The problem was much more serious than I'd ever imagined.
[ cut to Eddie at a bank, talking to a black Loan Officer ]
Loan Officer: Now, let me get this straight, Mr., ..uh.. Mr. White. You'd like to borrow $50,000 from our bank, but you have no collateral, you have no credit. You don't even have any I.D. Is that correct?
Eddie Murphy: That's right.
Loan Officer: Mr. White, I'm sorry. This is not a charity. This is a business..
White Loan Officer: Uh, Harry, why don't you, uh, take your break now? I'll take care of.. uh.. Mr. White.
Loan Officer: Well.. okay. Thanks, Bob. [ exits ]
White Loan Officer: [ laughs, then sits ] That was a close one, wasn't it?
Eddie Murphy: It certainly was.
White Loan Officer: We don't have to bother with these formalities, do we, Mr. White? Huh?
Eddie Murphy: What a silly Negro!
White Loan Officer: Just take what you want, Mr. White. Pay us back anytime. Or don't. We don't care.
Eddie Murphy: Tell me, do you know of any other banks like this in this area?
[ cut to Eddie back at the Make-up Room ]
Eddie Murphy: So, what did I learn from all of this? Well, I learned that we still have a very long way to go in this country before all men are truly equal. But I'll tell you something. [ pan to reveal Eddie's black buddies applying white make-up to their faces ] I've got a lot of friends, and we've got a lot of makeup. So, the next time you're huggin' up with some really super, groovy white guy, or you met a really great, super keen white chick, don't be too sure. They might be black.
[ fade to black ]
Wow......things @ WH must have changed a lil since I worked there in the early '80s......
Woo, hoo!
Kind of like going to a McD's around here and complaining about the poor food and service. It is always a pleasant surprise when the person at the register actually speaks intelligible English.
I like going to the national chain bookstores where the kids working there have the nose rings, tounge rings, spiked hair, purple stripes in the hair, etc. I feel like I have gone to the Star Wars Cafe and the aliens have landed. They usually get flumoxed when I ask for a double shot of espresso. They look at me like I just asked for a line of coke. "Like. Wow, dude, he takes it straight!"
I am really old fashioned. I've never sued anyone.
Did you use to work @ WH before??? If I remember correctly, I think their slogan was "Good Food Fast".
Gag me w/ a spoon!!!!!!!
I was wundrin' what y'all were talkin about. Thanx for re-quoting it.
WH is makin $, all right....not much of it goes to their employees, but WH itself is doin quite well.
There is just no excuse for this ever happening, unless these people are threatening other customers or the waitresses or waiters.
And .. how could someone determine that another patron got better food than you .. did the guy go over to the white people's table and taste their food. How absurd!
I've heard Blacks complain that they get poor service because other Blacks are such poor tippers. Some wait staff learn to hate serving any Blacks as a result. The Black woman I who told me this made it a point to tip generously to try to undo the damage others had done.
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