Landmark Restaurant Settles With Customer who Received Racist Receipts
A California restaurant has settled a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a black customer who received receipts using an offensive racial slur. The settlement is the latest bit of cultural controversy to hit the restaurant industry in recent months.
The Orange County Weekly reports that Mark McHenry had been a regular at the Landmark Steakhouse in Corona del Mar for several years. McHenry says employees at the restaurant had made uncomfortable comments to him previously, such as, “black is the new white,” but that he nonetheless continued to patronize the establishment.
However, on Dec. 5, 2010, McHenry visited Landmark twice in the same day. He received three receipts, all containing racist language. Written on the receipts were the derogatory names, “McStinky[racist word],” “Mc[racist word],” and “McCottonwood.”
Photos of the receipts are at the link. To add insult to injury, the customer was an excellent tipper.
OCWeekly should change the title of their link. Oh, and delete the comments too.
UPDATED: Changed the link to a different article that does not contain a racist word in the URL.