Popular restaurant chain had some legal trouble served up today members of the Greater Cleveland alumni chapter of Delta Sigma Theta black sorority filed a lawsuit this morning against Bahama Breeze Holdings News 5s Tracy Carlos live in the newsroom right now with the tails and Tracy this incident allegedly
Took place earlier this summer Robyn allegedly happened at the Bahama Breeze restaurant in Beachwood back in June now according to a lawsuit there was a private party at the restaurant hosted by a local author who was moving from the area the lawsuit alleges from the moment the private party arrived the
Staff treated the group with hostility it details a series of events that allegedly happened throughout the evening the lawsuit claims that two white managers at the store called police and falsely reported that the group was unruly and threatening to walk out without payment when police arrived
The suit says they were required to show receipts before they could leave the private area the sorority group says the white managers false reports to police were motivated by stereotypes from start to finish when you take all of the details and different experiences everyone had into account overall the
Experience was markedly hostile I reached out to the company for a statement today but so far I have not heard back the company did fire a manager over the alleged incident back in 2009 Bahama Breeze paid more than a million dollars to settle racial harassment complaints at that same
Location after more than 30 workers sued the restaurant chain claiming managers repeatedly harassed black employees live in the newsroom Tracy Carlos news 5 Tracy thank you also tonight
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