Dunkin' Donuts apologizes for Portland employee's refusal to serve Somali family after

[jpak]

Source: Portland Press Herald

A Dunkin' Donuts store owner met Wednesday with a Portland college student and activist who called out the business on social media after a store employee refused to serve her Somali-speaking family and then called police following an argument in the drive-thru lane.

Hamdia Ahmed, 20, said she felt that the employee discriminated against her and two relatives for speaking Somali as they waited to order coffee at the St. John Street Dunkin' Donuts on Monday afternoon.

Ahmed said she and her relatives drove to the coffee shop around 12:30 p.m. and waited for a store employee to ask for their order. As the family chatted in Somali in the car, a woman's voice crackled through the speaker and admonished them for yelling, Ahmed said.

"All of a sudden we heard a woman say, 'stop yelling, stop yelling,' " Ahmed said "We're like what's happening. We're just having a conversation. We were talking in Somali. She told us she's not going to take our order and for us to leave and she was going to call the police."



Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2018/10/17/argument-at-dunkin-donuts-drive-through-leads-to-no-trespass-order/

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This is Portland Maine.

[JHB]

1. "after title"?

[IronLionZion]

2. Witnessing people living life normally can feel "dangerous and threatening"

to racist idiots.

[brush]

3. Another out of control racist with a cell phone. Start fining them and it will stop.

[Nitram]

9. I agree, Brush!

[panader0]

4. I love meeting people from other countries.

I would pay for the donuts if they would talk to me while they ate them.

[gopiscrap]

7. OMG same here

[Bengus81]

5. Quick...change your business name just a tad like Papa Johns is doing...........

[SCVDem]

6. Dunkin' Donna? nnt

[lagomorph777]

8. Dunkin Dimwits?

[brush]

10. Yeah, who hired and trained that racist dimwit with a cell phone?

[Honeycombe8]

11. Doesn't seem to me like she was banned because of her family's language. She's an activist...

and was banned from the store for a year for creating a disturbance.

But because she did a protest thing and got other activists to protest outside, the ban was lifted and they apologized. I'm sympathetic to discrimination like that, and I've seen it where I live. But this doesn't sound like that.

My brother, a big white older male, has been banned from a number of places for creating issues there. He doesn't let anything slide. And he's white and speaks English.

If you create any kind of a disturbance, you can be banned from anywhere, regardless of your race or language. If you don't want to be banned, be courteous. My brother "stands his ground" and isn't concerned with being courteous. He will also call and try to get a minimum wage worker in trouble, if he does something that ticks my brother off. I've talked to my brother about doing such things and how ridiculous and shameful it is to get a min. wage worker in trouble over one minor incident. Everyone has a bad day now and then, after all. I hope it's sunk through. He hasn't done that in a while, that I know of.