A restaurant server complained his coworkers sent him a food order with the n-word written on it, but management took it as a joke.
He shared a post on Instagram. Rakevion White, a 21-year-old student at Arizona State University, shared a picture of the October 22 order ticket.
White explained to BuzzFeed News that he told about the incident to management, and as a result, his hours have been reduced and he allowed to do only one shift as a server. This stops him from earning tips.
“They’re making light of the situation and pretty much still allowing it to go on,” White said.
White, working at the Phoenix breakfast restaurant since February. On that day, he was working in the kitchen line as a server assistant when he noticed a new order displays on the kitchen line screen.
“It pretty much lets me know that another order had come in for me to fulfill or whatnot, and so that’s when I saw the order and it said ‘Nigga Order’ on it,” White said. He was certain the message was directed at him because he was the only one working in that area of the restaurant at the time, he said.
White asked a coworker who was serving the bar and told her to remove it.
“I asked her if she could take the order down or change the name because I was offended by it and I was upset that she was sending something in like that to me, and she said that she didn’t know how to take it down,” White said, adding that she just laughed and “pretty much disregarded how I felt about it.”
“It made me feel uncomfortable because it’s like, OK, well, you’re pretty much saying it’s acceptable, but since they explained to you that they were joking, then I should be OK with it,” White said.
White, who works on the restaurant to pay for school, said now he is allowed to work 14 to 18 hours a week, far fewer than the 25 hours a week he had been previously working.
“I’m pretty much not making any money working there,” White said.
A coworker who did not want to disclose his identity confirmed White’s account and told BuzzFeed News they felt that management trying to hide the issue.
“Nothing happened, and it kind of just got blown over,” the coworker said.
White and his coworker said this wasn’t the first time when black employees have face racism at the restaurant.
“I feel personal that if I had pretty much did something like this I would have been fired immediately,” White said.
“It’s not OK. Not just that it was done to me and you know other black employees but for any race regardless that works there.”
Management reactivated the Breakfast Club’s account on Instagram and posted a message. They explained their reasons why they did not fire the other staff member. They called that employee’s conduct “crude, insensitive, and deeply hurtful.” They said they would give him a second chance, but not a third.
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