Restaurant Asks 25 Black People to Leave Because 1 White Person Feels "Threatened" & Wild Wings Foul Service 24AUG13

THIS is absolutely mind-blowing!!!!! It is pathetic the patron actually made that kind of request to the restaurant manager, and more pathetic the manager felt it necessary to honor that kind of request. If you are outraged, disgusted, repulsed, and feel like letting the corporate office Wild Wing Cafe of know the second article has the phone number to call starting Monday morning. REMEMBER, you do none of us or the cause any good if you are rude, abusive, and threatening. Be calm, polite, and explain why the manager's actions were wrong. By the by, here's the web page for the North Charleston, SC restaurant (there seems to be only one in North Charleston) http://www.wildwingcafe.com/our-locations/north-charleston-sc.php
the link to e mail them http://www.wildwingcafe.com/company-info/contact-us.php  (I did) or tweet your comments to them

@wildwingcafe

Remarkable.
Fifty years after Dr. King's I Have a Dream speech this crap's still going on.  From Progressive Populist: Blacks Asked to Leave South Carolina Restaurant Because White Customer Felt Threatened. It happened at the Wild Wing Cafe in North Charleston.

Michael Brown was one of those 25 customers. They were there to send off Brown’s cousin, who was leaving the Charleston area. After finally being seated after the two hour wait, the shift manager came to the table and told the group that there was a “situation.”

By "situation" what she meant was one white person didn't like having 25 black people in the same room with him/her.  Says Brown:

She (the shift manager) said there’s a situation where one of our customers feels threatened by your party, so she asked us not to seat you in our section, which totally alarmed all of us because we’re sitting there peaceably for two hours. Obviously, if we were causing any conflict, we would have been ejected out of the place hours before.

Brown repeatedly tried to contact their corporate offices. He got no answer. What's wrong with this tired, old picture? Seriously. Can someone explain this business model to me? It seems it would make more sense to entertain 25 paying customers and throw one miserable old bigot out on their ass. But then, silly me, I don't own a bunch of restaurants.
If you like you can ask Wild Wing Cafe's home office to explain.
UPDATE: SocioSam published a diary on this same topic, only he did it shortly before me. He already called them. This is disastrous for them! You've got to go read it yourselves: Wild Wings Foul Service.

Originally posted to Ice Blue on Sat Aug 24, 2013 at 04:19 PM PDT.

Also republished by Barriers and Bridges. 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/24/1233588/-Restaurant-Asks-25-Black-People-to-Leave-Because-1-White-Person-Feels-Threatened 

Sat Aug 24, 2013 at 02:44 PM PDT

Wild Wings Foul Service

by SocioSam

I’m surprised but I didn’t a story on this. Twenty-five (25) African Americans were denied service in a Charleston, SC restaurant (Wild Wings) because a white customer said they scared him.
I went to the Wild Wings web page and found a Wild Wings restaurant in Charleston and called them. The manager was very polite. He told me that it was not his restaurant - there are 4 in Charleston. He seemed genuinely upset and said corporate had instructed all employees to say nothing about this. Corporate is panicked and trying to control this.

He then gave me the corporate phone number that is handling the “situation.” That number is 843-216-7601. I called and got a recording. The line will not open until 8:30 EDT on Monday morning.
It might be a good idea if one or two of us call to find out that is going on.
That number again is 843-216-7601. And the phone line is open at 8:30 EDT on Monday.

Originally posted to SocioSam on Sat Aug 24, 2013 at 02:44 PM PDT.

Also republished by Barriers and Bridges. 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/24/1233591/-Wild-Wings-Foul-Service