Orange County Restaurant settles lawsuit over N-word receipts given to black customer

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Restaurant settles lawsuit over N-word receipts given to black customer

By James Eng, msnbc.com

A California restaurant has settled a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a black businessman who said he got racist receipts that referred to him by the N-word.

According to court records, lawyers representing Mark McHenry and Landmark Steakhouse in Newport Beach, Orange County, agreed to a stipulated settlement on Feb. 2, the Orange County Weekly reported.

Terms of the settlement were not announced. The case had been scheduled to go to trial next month.

According to court documents, McHenry, a Chicago native, began patronizing the restaurant, in the affluent, predominantly white neighborhood of Corona del Mar, shortly after moving to Orange County in 2007. He visited two or three times a week and was a regular at the bar.

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[JustAnotherGen]

1. I'm glad

Mr. McHenry receive restitution - but really . . . this seems to be s.o.p in America today. And to see the crap written on the Asian Customers' receipts at other restaurants? Sometimes Americans just suck - don't we?

[Obamacare]

2. Yeah I heard about the Asian lady's incident as well

If these restuartants don't want to keep loosing money with racial discrimination lawsuits, they better do better screening of the employees they hire.