Racism is on the menu at The Cheesecake Factory, said three Black women who visited a restaurant location in California. The women were denied service and treated like second-class citizens because they are Black, they said in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Friday (June 29).
The #DiningWhileBlack incident happened last July at a Redondo Beach location where a White male server allegedly refused to wait on Latonia Whyte, Kimberly Jones and Lucy Ngaujah, NBC Bay Area reported. The server also referred to them as “you people,” and a white female manager said “you are nobody,” according to the women. The manager threatened to sue them for filming non-Black customers being served after they were refused service, they claimed in the suit. The discrimination was in clear violation of their civil rights and has caused the friends emotional distress — a sentiment expressed by several other people of color who have sued high-profile restaurants over racial profiling.
Source: Cheesecake Factory May Face Boycott After Racist Manager Tells Black Women ‘You Are Nobody’
