Employees at a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Illinois asked a group of adults and children that included African Americans to move to other tables because a regular patron sitting nearby was 'racist,' a woman wrote on social media
Employees at a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Illinois asked a group of adults and children that included African Americans to move to other tables because a regular patron sitting nearby was"racist," a woman wrote on social media.
"In 2019, this type of behavior should not be accepted because of certain views. If you don't want to sit next to certain people in a public restaurant then you should probably eat dinner in the comfort of your own home," Mary Vahl said on Facebook.The restaurant chain says it has fired two employees."We take this incident very seriously and after conducting a thorough, internal investigation have terminated the employees involved," the restaurant said in a statement.
— WGN TV News November 5, 2019 Read More"A couple minutes went by and the host went up to my husband and asked 'what race are you guys?' My husband asked him why it mattered and the host responded that a table with 2 of their 'regular customers' were next to where we were to be seated and he didn't want us sitting there because he's 'racist,'" she wrote. Vahl said her group was mostly African Americans.
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