Why the hell do you want to eat in a Southern restaurant with "Cracker" in it's name, anyway?
I have to admit to being torn about such cases as this. My first reaction is to shout several expletive and denounce the concept of giving these fools any money. My second reaction is the thought if no response is made, Black folks down south won't have any place to eat after a date.
This sort of behavior needs to be punished, not just corrected. It may be time for the Racial Discrimination Licensing Act.
Cracker Barrel Agrees to Plan to Address Reports of Bias
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON, May 3 — Cracker Barrel restaurants agreed Monday to overhaul their training and management practices after the Justice Department accused the country-style chain of widespread discrimination against black diners in about 50 locations.
A civil rights investigation found that black diners at Cracker Barrels in seven Southern states were routinely given tables apart from whites, seated after white customers who arrived later, and given inferior service, the department said in announcing the settlement.
Managers allowed white servers to refuse to wait on black patrons, and blacks were given less favorable treatment than whites when they complained about service, investigators found. Interviews with dozens of employees suggested that managers "often directed, participated in, or condoned the discriminatory behavior," the department said.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, a chain based in Tennessee that has 497 locations nationwide and is known for its country-style cooking and folksy retail stores, denied the accusations in a lawsuit that the Justice Department filed on Monday in Georgia.[P6: Of course.] But in an agreement filed with the lawsuit, the company agreed to wide-ranging steps to combat discrimination against black diners. Among them are new training programs, random testing by undercover diners, the posting of nondiscrimination statements on menus, and the hiring of an outside auditor. [P6: Of course.]
