Buffalo Wild Wings Employee Fired For Making Racist Remark

A server at a Texas Buffalo Wild Wings was fired after making a racist remark to a Black buyer.

Tasha Lee informed FOX 26 she was at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Tomball when a waitress requested to verify her ID. 

As soon as Lee handed her ID over, the unnamed worker smiled and mentioned, “Don’t take this racially, however typically the one means you may inform with Black individuals is from their eyes and their smiles, as a result of it’s so darkish.”

Lee informed Fox 26 she couldn’t imagine what she had simply heard from the server, who Lee says was both white or Hispanic.“I used to be in disbelief, I used to be shocked. I couldn’t actually, it was exhausting to imagine that I had heard what I heard.”

After the incident, the restaurant’s supervisor stepped in and apologized to Lee. Moreover, the supervisor comped Lee’s meal and gave her a $10 present card to cowl the drink she paid for.

Though she obtained an apology from the corporate, Lee desires individuals to pay attention to her scenario.

“I imply, to inform a Black person who the one means you may inform it’s them from their image is from the whites of their eyes, and the whites of their tooth it’s completely unacceptable,” she informed FOX26. “Whereas this was the primary time this has occurred to me so overtly, it is a regular expertise for African-People all over the place,”

A company spokesperson informed FOX 26: “The worker on this case now not works for Buffalo Wild Wings. We worth an inclusive surroundings and don’t have any tolerance for discrimination of any type. We’ve supplied our deepest apologies to the visitor.”