Blacks Asked To Leave Restaurant Because White Customer Felt Threatened

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A group of 25 African Americans waited two hours to get in a Wild Wing Cafe restaurant in North Charleston, South Carolina, only to be asked to leave almost immediately after entering the restaurant because a white patron felt “threatened” by them. One member of the group took his complaint to Facebook when the corporate office of the restaurant did not call him back.



Michael Brown was one of those 25 customers. They were there to send off Brown’s cousin, who was leaving the Charleston area. After finally being seated after the two hour wait, the shift manager came to the table and told the group that there was a “situation.”

According to Brown:

She (the shift manager) said there’s a situation where one of our customers feels threatened by your party, so she asked us not to seat you in our section, which totally alarmed all of us because we’re sitting there peaceably for two hours. Obviously, if we were causing any conflict, we would have been ejected out of the place hours before.

A member of Brown’s group then begin to videotape the situation. That’s when the shift manager asked them to leave and refused to seat them.

As Brown explained:

I asked her – I want to be clear with you. I said, so you’re telling me I have to leave. She said I have a right to deny you service. I said so you’re asking me to leave because you’re upset because he was recording you, after we’ve waited for two hours, and after you’ve already pretty much discriminated on us, and she answered yes.

Brown said that he called the Wild Wing Cafe corporate office several times, and did not get a response. That’s when he and others in his group decided to publicize the racial discrimination that his group received on Facebook.

On Mike London’s Facebook page, this was posted:

I will never go to Wild wings cafe in N. Chs again! We (Party of 25 family and friends) waited 2hrs, patiently and were refused service because another customer (White) felt threatened by us. This type of racial discrimination is un acceptable and we have to put a STOP TO IT. The manager looked me dead in the face and said she was refusing us service because she had a right to and simply she felt like it. DO NOT SUPPORT THIS ESTABLISHMENT… PLEASE SHARE THIS POST.. We need your help.



Someone from Wild Wing Cafe finally responded when they were alerted on Facebook. “We got alerted through social media, so we always encourage our customers to respond to us or to comment on our social media pages,” says Debra Stokes, the chief marketing officer for Wild Wing Cafe.

On the Wild Wing Cafe North Charleston Facebook page, the following status was posted:

In light of recent discussions, we would like to make clear that Wild Wing Cafe welcomes and caters to customers of every background, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or age. We are proud to be a place where people from all walks of life can meet, relax and have a good time. Our corporate policy and ethics won’t stand for anything otherwise. We have been in contact with the person who has made us aware his experience was less than satisfactory, and are continuing to speak with him to reach a solution.

Nearly 300 comments had been made in response to the post as of press time Friday evening.

Brown said that an apology was issued, as well as a free meal for the entire group, but he says he’s not satisfied.

We weren’t coming there for a free meal. When we came there that night, we were coming to patronize the business. This is not a situation where you can just give us a free meal and everything is ok because it’s deeper than that.

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she should have told the person that was uncomfortable that she would be more than happy to pack up their meal and they could finish it at home...

unbelievable

 

I tell you. Nothing was ever fixed in MLK Jr.'s day. People can still refuse you service based on race, etc unlike what ron paul stated. It is just that they don't.


MLK jr resolved little to nothing.:smt012 but he had a dream. You need to make laws and enforce them like Hubert Humpfrey and Thurgood Marshall.

 

Yes, Yes and Yes. It is the public. Stay home if you don't want people near you because of your delusions.

 

Never underestimate the power of one. *smh*

I wish they would publicize the name of the person who felt "threatened" by a group of hungry patrons out to send off a friend. I can see how that would be terrifying.

 

And the most telling part of this is that, if this were a market-based decision, why did they decide to value a single customer over 25 potential ones?

 

Bingo! Priviledged..

 

Just another chain restaurant I will have to avoid. Good thing Haitian chicken wings are better anyway, lol.

 

So 25 paying customers are over-ridden for one? That choice makes no sense. I have a feeling the white patron is BS on the manager's part. As if a manager would make 25 people leave over one person. They (the establishment) clearly didn't want their patronage in the first place, @ 2 hr wait. I think the manager passed the buck to cover their own ass that night.

 

I guess it is clear, early in this century, that the country has a long way to go. One white patron wins over 25 paying black patrons because that person was "threatened" by them? They don't look threatening to me. They look like folks you would see at any informal social gathering. Now this person thinks that he/she has scored a victory and would more than likely do it again. The manager has to look at the mission of their establishment. Like all restaurants, they are to serve the customer, provide the best service to the customer and keep the customer coming back for more. The customer should've gotten the order to go and there would be no trouble.

 

For That individual's own well being I'd hope not.

This is a fucked up story through and through, it's bad business to prioritize 1 pansy over 25 potential payers.

 

Ain't a god damn restaurant in this world worth waiting 2 hours for. Lol @ waiting 2 hours to waste your money, people priorities are so fucked up these days.

 

Are we really surprised? Its South Carolina people.

 

I'm confused.

Your prior thread said that a white customer was intimidated by the group and asked to get that group removed. now you are starting another thread saying that same black group asked to be removed because they felt uncomfortable.

Which is it, geez keep one thread for the same thing!

 

This!

 

I was wondering the same thing. 25 hungry people, that's some damn good business.

 

My God think of the tip alone. That one individual had to be a big cheese around town or something.

 

I can really only assume what others already said. The whole thing about someone complaining was bs.
The restaurant didn't want them there. Made them wait for 2 hours (probably hoping they would leave by then) and then, after they got seated, tell them to leave?
This place needs a boycott badly!

 

Yeah, we are in post racial America, wake up from your pipe dream
America is more racist now that they've seen a blk man in the white house.

 

Im gonna sound like a broken record and repeat this anytime i see some racist shit like this. As long as there are white people in this world there will always be racism towards blacks by some whites till the end of the world. Eradicating racism is like eradicating poverty or hunger, its next to impossible.