Cici's manager refused to serve customer in Black Lives Matter shirt, Texas suit says

[TexasTowelie]

A Cici’s Pizza manager is accused of refusing to serve a customer in a Black Lives Matter shirt and children in Texas, according to a lawsuit.

Grace Bullard went to a Cici’s location in Cedar Hill, a city about 30 miles southeast of Fort Worth, with three young relatives in July 2018, a federal lawsuit filed last week says. Before she could finish putting in her food order, a manager looked at her shirt and refused to serve the family, it says.

The manager called police on Bullard when she asked to speak with the company’s corporate office, according to the lawsuit.

“The three children with (Bullard) were ages 8, 5, and 4 years and were scared and upset to see the police arrive,” the lawsuit says. (She) was never disorderly during the entire incident.”

Read more: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article244524782.html

Considering that according to the 2010 census Cedar Hill is 51% Black, this probably wasn't a good business decision.

[underpants]

1. Actually they can do that

Sorry but you can refuse service based on WHAT people do or are wearing but not WHO they are.

[TexasTowelie]

2. I agree that they have the right to refuse service,

but do you think that the Black people there are going to give Cici's Pizza their business. They shot themselves in the foot and I suspect that in a couple of months we will hear about them closing. Antagonizing half of the customer base isn't good for business.

[underpants]

3. Yes there is that

and the fact that you might as well be at a feeding trough

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. Anyone who eats at a buffet in a pandemic is

not being smart at all.
Neither was the manager.

[TexasTowelie]

5. I don't go there myself, but my brother use to go Cici's occasionally.

I think that they may have converted to a cafeteria style approach and no longer serves buffet style. I noticed that the article says that the woman had place her order so maybe she was ordering takeout? I'm in complete agreement that the management screwed up though when he called the police.

[LeftInTX]

6. It happened in 2018