To get back on topic....
has anyone mentioned yet Denny's paid out settlements totaling $54 million to over 300,000 people who said they were racially discriminated against at Denny's restaurants?
They pussed out.
Given the evidence, I'm not convinced they did anything wrong.
Maybe you weren't, but juries and judges for well over a quarter of a million people were.
Amazing you can make that judgment without even KNOWING any of the evidence.
At least Intense was fair enough to look it up and provide some insight:
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Intense: This is sad to read. Sort of reminds me of some experiences at Friendly's on Long Island.
In 1993, Denny's restaurant chain fell under an uncomfortable spotlight as it faced the first of several lawsuits and thousands
of claims of racial discrimination of its customers. San Jose, California was the site of the first incident, when several black
teenagers were refused service unless they agreed to pay in advance (Smith, 1996). The following year more and more issues
came crashing down on the popular casual dining chain. One of the most well-known cases was that of six Asian-Americans
of Syracuse University. The students visited a Denny's restaurant late at night and waited over 30 minutes for service. As
white patrons were regularly seated and waited on, these six students were kept waiting. When they complained, they were
forcibly ejected from the establishment by two security guards. Outside, they were beaten by a mob of white customers that
spilled out of the restaurant while guards stood by and did nothing. These six students were pushed, shoved, jeered, and
racially insulted, and not a single law enforcer present did anything to stop it. Three black students were threatened with
mace by guards when they attempted to aid the Asian-Americans. A white student accompanying the group was also
threatened. Two of these students were knocked unconscious during the assault ("Students Accuse," 1997).
On the same day that the first lawsuit was settled, six black Secret Service agents visited a Denny's restaurant in Annapolis,
Maryland, and were forced to wait an hour for service while their white companions were seated promptly and were waited
on with second and third helpings (Guillermo, 1997). Countless other incidents similar in nature occurred throughout the
Denny's chain. One Sacramento resident, a white male, was seated promptly at a Denny's restaurant. When his wife, a black
woman, came to join him, the waitress's demeanor altered drastically. She slammed down a plate of spaghetti in front of the
black woman, splattering her blouse with tomato sauce. Another black Denny's customer, Douglas McNeal, was told that he
and his friends had to pay for their meals at the same time they ordered their food. McNeal observed a white couple order and
pay up at the counter after their meal, as usual. He questioned the waitress: "We asked the waitress about it and she said some
black guys had been in earlier who made a scene and walked out without paying their bill. So the manager now wanted all
blacks to pay up front" (Ferraro, 1995).
These are only a few examples of the discrimination that Denny's displayed. Thousands of black customers have claimed
similar suits.
http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/bh/badco/dennysgbu.pdf
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