EXCLUSIVE: A viral TikTok showed a Black restaurant worker in Ohio forced to put up with racist customers. Now, the man at the center of the video told The Daily Beast he’s torn between giving up a job he loves and sacrificing his “self worth.”
Mandy, 41, said he expected the party to be his last table for the night. A reservation was set for 11 people, but initially only a small group showed up—including a baby wrapped in a Confederate coat. But Mandy said he didn’t really notice the customers’ attire until more people joined the group.
“I’m doing my spiel or whatever, things that we offer, things that we have, what he may like, and he says, ‘Well, I’ll tell you what, boy. Just get me a water with lemon.’” “This whole Confederate flag situation,” Mandy told The Daily Beast. “They don’t want people judging them because of how they dress or what flag they like, and they try to defend their right to have this flag. But that’s how they treat [Black people]: how we’re dressed, how we act, and what we do.”
The party allegedly ordered more than $400 worth of food, but Mandy said they complained so much that they had their bill knocked down to a fraction of that. They also continued to distract other customers in the restaurant during a busy night, loudly using the N-word and creating a scene. Mandy said it got to be so much that he had to walk outside and cry.
At that point, restaurant managers were so concerned they told all Black staff members to stay away from the dining area until the group left, Mandy said. When they eventually did leave, they loitered in the parking lot as if they were waiting for Mandy, he added, and only left the premises entirely once a manager threatened to call the cops.with Mandy’s contact information for anyone who wanted to send him tips, so far receiving over $1,000 in donations.
staff to kick the guests out. Instead, the other managers on duty had to make that call themselves, he said.“If I could go back and do it over again, I would take that table because I wouldn’t want anybody else to feel what I felt and what I still feel,” Mandy said, adding that he hasn’t been able to sleep since.
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