Olive Garden customer loudly demanded non-black server, manager complied

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A customer at an Olive Garden restaurant in Indiana on Saturday loudly demanded a server who was not black, an employee and an observer said. A manager acquiesced, and is no longer employed by the company.

Amira Donahue, a hostess at the restaurant in Evansville in southwestern Indiana, said the customer, a white woman, complained to a manager about her and the other black hostess working during Saturday's dinner rush.

"She made comments about me to my coworkers concerning my race and saying that I should work at a strip club instead," Donahue told NBC News on Wednesday. "She asked if I'm even black and if I am from here."

Donahue, 16, said the woman — who was with a handful of other people, including two children — was seated at a table that had a black server, at which point she became particularly irate.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/olive-garden-customer-loudly-demanded-non-black-server-manager-complied/ar-BB10KX7Y?li=BBnbcA1

[eleny]

1. Olive Garden - Oh, no!

[elleng]

2. manager acquiesced, and is no longer employed by the company.

[mopinko]

3. jumping on a 16 yo? rly? what.the.actual.fuck.

glad the asshole that didnt kick her to the curb got the boot.

corporate america really needs to come to grip w this.
man, the girl should get a bonus or something. a paid day off. we really have to take care of these employees.

[TwilightZone]

4. Manager clearly should have asked them to leave.

No big loss. It's Olive Garden, there's always a revolving door of customers.

Glad they terminated the manager.

[TDale313]

5. The Hostess was 16.

I don’t know why this bothers me as much as anything else in the story, but directing so much hate at a child- with your kids in toe to witness this, just makes it so much worse to me.

[Karadeniz]

7. Bullies attack the defenseless.

[TwilightZone]

8. Agreed.

That was the part that stuck out to me, as well. Telling a 16-year-old that she should be working in a strip club.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

10. I think what upsets me the most

is that NO ONE stuck up for this teenager.

[TwilightZone]

12. Agreed.

We've had a couple of similar situations here (central Texas) and in one, customers threw the guy out while others got management involved and made sure the employee was taken care of. It varies wildly, of course.

It is a little bizarre that no one intervened. And sad.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

14. I guess the gods are intentionally keeping this kind of crap

from happening in front of me, because what would follow would be on the 6 o'clock news.

I did not serve a career in the USNAVY to watch Americans of color be bullied by loud mouth ignorant bigots.

[roamer65]

18. The manager should have given this ultimatum.

Amira will serve you, or you leave. Then if they refused to leave, as you say, definitely call the police.

[Hekate]

9. Management has the right to eject troublesome customers. This one should have been gone...

...in a nanosecond. The fact that she wasn't shows a complete lack of judgment on the manager's part -- good riddance, and may you do better in your next job.

[ret5hd]

11. How do you get another job with...

“Olive Garden xx/xxxx to 03/2020 Fired” on your resume?

[Blue Owl]

13. So, that manager would be OK with a "whites only" section...

Make America Great Again!

[Turbineguy]

15. Always keep handy

the name of a competitor to which to send asshole customers.

[Phoenix61]

16. Have to wonder how the manager treated

non-white employees. I’m sure that had something to do with them being terminated. Talk about a hostile work place.

[doc03]

17. Republican's always say blacks are lazy and don't work but they see them

working and they get pissed.

[Initech]

19. I would have told the racist POS to go take a hike.

But then again, that's why I'm not in customer service.