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Indiana Olive Garden Customer Demanded To Be Served By Non-Black Server, Black Hostess Speaks Out After Manager Complied: ‘She asked for a server that wasn’t black and the manager complied’

The manager at an Indiana Olive Garden has been fired after allegedly going along with a customer’s request to not be waited on by Black employees. The incident took place in Evansville, Indiana when Amira Donahue the hostess on duty at the time when the customer’s request for hot water made an ugly turn.

“She asked for a server that wasn’t black and the manager complied,” Donahue told WEHT, adding that the customer proceeded “screaming at me in front of all the customers.”

Two other Black staff members were also targeted in the situation.

Donahue said she doesn’t agree with her manager’s going along with the customer’s request, stating the incident should have been handled differently. “We have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind, and the manager involved no longer works for our company,” Olive Garden confirmed in a statement to Newsweek. Donahue said she and her co-workers are still shocked by the incident that brought her to tears. However, the customer’s request didn’t stop with taking exception to the employees serving her. Donahue said she and her co-workers are still shocked by the incident that brought her to tears. However, the customer’s request didn’t stop with taking exception to the employees serving her. “The lady also made comments about me to another coworker saying that I am not family-friendly and that I should go work at a strip club instead of an Olive Garden,” the hostess said. “[She asked] ‘am I even black, am I from here, am I from America,’ — just like offhand comments like that and referring me to the ‘other one.’” Donahue told WEHT she would never expect someone to act in such a blatant expression of discrimination in 2020. Some people took to social media to express their thoughts on the incident. “W ell I will not be eating at Olive Garden again,” one Twitter use wrote. “Stop catering to these racist , its getting ridicules, she should’ve been asked to leave the restaurant. You don’t cater to hate… @olivegarden.” “W Maxwell Robinson witnessed the incident wrote in a Facebook post the woman and her group, “refused service from a ‘colored’ sever.” “That couple should’ve been refused service for even asking something like that!!” Robinson wrote. “It’s disgusting that olive garden’s manager would allow that especially with a very diverse staff.

“I felt the need to post that on Facebook because I do not think anyone would’ve stood up for those [employees],” Robinson told “Today” in a separate statement. “Amira [the hostess] was in tears and did not have anyone supporting her at that time, so I felt someone had to stand up for her.”

The incident is still currently under investigation.

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