Group of 25 Black people waited two hours to get in a Wild Wing Cafe restaurant in North Charleston
This place has had MANY complaints of the same type since this happened in August of 2013. Who was it that created the chicken wing concept again?
Once again we are witnessing the true power of social media. You are hearing about this story because one man posted about his experience on Facebook at a Wild Wing Cafe in North Charleston, SC, where his friends and family suffered some “1960’s” style discrimination.
A group of 25 Black people waited two hours to get in a Wild Wing Cafe restaurant in North Charleston, South Carolina, only to be asked to leave almost immediately after entering the restaurant because a white customer felt �threatened� by their presence. One member of the group, Michael Brown, took his complaint to Facebook when the corporate office of the restaurant did not call him back after placing several calls.
Mr Brown says he was celebrating his cousin’s last day in Charleston last month at Wild Wing Cafe in North Charleston. He says after his party of 25 peacefully waited two hours for a (read the rest of the story by clicking “Next” above or below< table, the shift manager told them there was a “situation.”
She said “there’s a situation where one of our customers feels threatened by your party, so she asked us not to seat you in our section, which totally alarmed all of us because we’re sitting there peaceably for two hours,” explains Brown. “Obviously, if we were causing any conflict, we would have been ejected out of the place hours before.”
Brown says while he was talking to the shift manager, someone in his group began videotaping the conversation. Brown says that’s when the manager became upset and refused to seat them. “I asked her I want to be clear with you,” says Brown. “I said so you’re telling me I have to leave. She said I have a right to deny you service. I said so you’re asking me to leave because you’re upset because he was recording you after we’ve waited for two hours, and after you’ve already pretty much discriminated on us, and she answered yes.”
Brown told WNEM TV 5 news that several calls were made to the corporate office in Mt. Pleasant, but he says they did not receive a callback, so he posted about his experience on Facebook.
His Facebook post read, “I will never go to Wild wings cafe in N. Chs again! We (Party of 25 family and friends) waited for 2hrs, patiently and were refused service because another customer (White) felt threatened by us.
This type of racial discrimination is unacceptable and we have to put a STOP TO IT. The manager looked me dead in the face and said she was refusing us service because she had a right to and simply she felt like it. DO NOT SUPPORT THIS ESTABLISHMENT… PLEASE SHARE THIS POST… We need your help.”
Once his post went live and began to circulate around Facebook, he finally got a response from Wild Wings Cafe corporate office. ” We got alerted through social media, so we always encourage our customers to respond to us or to comment on our social media pages,” says Debra Stokes, the chief marketing officer for Wild Wing Cafe.
“We had a conversation,” says Stokes. “It was a really good conversation. He and many of his family and friends were there about a month ago, and they are regular customers of ours. So, they were having a going away party, and they just didn’t receive the experience that they have come to know and love.”
Brown says an apology was offered and a free meal for the entire group, but he says he’s not completely satisfied.
“We weren’t coming here for a free meal. When we came there that night, we were coming to patronize the business. This is not a situation where you can just give us a free meal and everything is ok because it’s deeper than that.” See an employee of Wild Wings’ different account of the events >HERE<
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I am 61. I was 11 when my mother took me to the March in Washington in 1963. I marched and protested while in college. And s like this is still taking place??!!! Work still to be done!!!!
Black people are always so quick to jump on the side of their race and its not fair. You need to consider all the facts and have good judgement of the situation. Black people are mess up and do bring BAD situations on themselves sometimes.They are stubborn, combative, and many are one track minded, and the mentality is one of a mental case.I am black myself and do not, will, and will never fit into this stereotype.
I’m quite sure this incident didn’t happen as it is being portrayed here. The restaurant may still be in the wrong, but the story reeks of half truths.
There is another side to this story and I would not past judgement until I hear it. We cry racism to quick in this country and it has to stop. The black on black violent crime does more harm to use than eating at some restaurant.
This is horrible and no one should expect this should happen, even here in SC. What is being ignored here is that Wild Wings Corporation is owned bay an investment group that has, as one of it’s principal partners, former Carolina Panther wide receiver Mushin Muhammad, who is very clearly an African American. I wonder if we’ll hear anything from him?
Thatt ONE PERSON who felt uncomfortable should have left.
The archaic ideology of white supremacy will die, eventually. As time passes, people pass away and take with them outdated philosophies and beliefs. Leaving a new way of thinking, an evolution of thought and spiritual awakening. Times have evolved in such a way where we merely have to shine the spotlight on acts of discrimination and allow the masses to chime in and let it be known that ths behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. This is 2013, not 1913 or 1813. Change has been coming for awhile now, we simply have to remain steadfast in pushing it forward.
Point #1– IF this group waited for two hours to get service, then during that time IF they were disruptive, wouldn’t that have been the time to ask them to leave? Why wait until it was time to seat them for someone to feel uncomfortable? Wouldn’t they have felt uncomfortable before that? Just saying…Point #2 – Just reading some of the posts on here from people calling other people “Monkeys” and “Niggers” and saying that because they are “Monkeys and Niggers” they’re troublemakers and disruptive. Interesting to label every black preacher, teacher, doctor, lawyer, corporate exec, Oscar winning actor, musician, Nobel Peace Prize winner, innocent law abiding God loving adult and child such a demeaning name. This is clear evidence that racism is still very much alive when you know nothing about the person you’re calling that name just their skin color.Point #3 — To those posters who start off saying…”I’m white…” I don’t care if you’re white, black, blue, green, or albino. If you’re standing for right, justice, and all people being equal… stand on it on the basis of fact, not color.Point #4 — I’ve taught my children that there is no color, just one human race. And now they’re teaching their children the same. And by the way, I’ve got the most beautiful racially diverse family that crosses many cultures. And because of that diversity, we’ve learned so much from each other.By the way, my diverse family is coming to that area in two weeks and unfortunately, that is one restaurant chain that we will avoid.
I would sue them for racial discrimination…. Thats what you should do!!!! SMH
This could likely all be true, but it doesn’t smell right. What restaurant would kick out a quiet group of people, with a guaranteed tip? I’m as liberal as they come (yet will be immediately called a racist on this forum…), but I also suspect the group was loud. What group of 25 is quiet? What culture is often too loud? We don’t have a video of how the group was acting, ‘sitting quietly’. No restaurant would refuse to seat a large group because of ‘one white person’.
We’re pretty quiet. One time on vacation, a party was very noisy. They couldn’t sit us in another room, and the waiter asked them once to quiet down, at our request. But really, what was he going to do? Large tip from drinkers vs small tip from a couple? He wasn’t going to push the issue. It spoiled our dining experience, but we didn’t protest, or run to social media. We had a bad experience, and got over it.
That said, I’m not naive enough to say these racial things don’t happen. But I’d guess they happen a lot less than blacks assume.
Everyone ready? 3..2..1.. RACIST!!!
Do not support Buffalo Wild Wings! Stand with them, support them!
Lol, pretty freaking amazing at the Caucasians that only have the nerve to talk racist and be angry behind the computer screen. But face to face, will piss on themselves when face with this kindve problem. Wrong is wrong no matter how you look at it. Just don’t be suprised if the next buger you eat taste like piss lmaoo… dumb mofos
Nothing lasts forever, white supremacy will die, eventually. As the older generation passes away, the younger generation replaces them with new ideologies and philosophies. It’s a slow, blood-letting process but evolution remains constatn and change is inevitable. All the masses have to do is shine the spotlight on discriminatory behavior, and let it be known it’s archaic, unacceptable and won’t be tolerated in 2013.Fear of black people has been ingrained into euro-american culture and woven into their societal norms. It’s going to take time to eradicate white supremaciy, the masses simply have to remain steadfast in battling against it.
So sad that in this day and age white folks are still afraid of blacks. It’s time to buy our own franchise’s let’s stop accepting this behavior from scared folks. Not all white folks are this way, thank God or we would have a race war. Oh yeah but some want to initiate a race war, keep watch.
I will boycott the whole company and pass it along until a public apology is made!!
The servers at the cafe are probably behind it. They probably didn’t feel like busting their asses all night for a $5 tip on a $500 bill…..
You�re only getting one side of story here. I work at the restaurant and your representation of the events is way off base. The group was being loud and obnoxious to both customers and staffers. They kept complaining about their long wait and were talking about how �whitey� was able to get seated, but they were not. The problem was that they had a large group and insisted on sitting next to each other. We only had one area that could accommodate their large group and the patrons in that area were not done. So yes, some �whities� were able to be seated before them, but only because they were going to a different area. We also seated non-whites in other areas too�They made this a racial issue before anything. One of the guests also insulted a deaf white girl because she didn�t respond to one of them telling her to move (she was deaf and didn�t hear them) They were also all standing in the middle of the walk way, making it difficult for customers to leave. We asked them if they could move over, but they said they can stand wherever they want, and if we wanted them out of the way then we should seat them. The customer that was offended was offended by a particular individual�s constant uses of the word �n*gger� When asked to stop, he threw out a long string of racial epithets against one of my co-workers. – See more at:
If everything happened just as the aggrieved party/parties claim(s), this is just shameful.
Wild Wing Cafe has a lot of work to do if it “Ever” wants me and my compatriots to return. Too many other restaurants with better customer service, menu items and wait staff.
I don’t need this restaurant, but does this restaurant need………. US?
They have admitted they were wrong. You have chosen not to accept their free meal so forgive them, make your forgiveness public and move on. Be an example of a type of person that is not often seen. There is no shortage of aggrieved black people.
Kudos to Antoinette and dmanh12! Your response and comments are right on target. Yes, this type of behavior definitely needs to be brought to the RNC and conservative voters; they are convinced that every “white” person that has had anything happen to them since the Zimmerman verdict has been done by black people in retaliation! And more importantly my black people – take the advice of dmanh12 – stop patronizing these establishments; even when they don’t say anything, the racism is still there, any excuse will do for them to show what’s truly in there hearts.Pool your resources, come together and unite! We have got to be about the business of taking care of our own! bottom line.
@MWhitman, were you there to actually witness these events, or are you assuming that this is the way all groups of blacks behave? If you were not there I highly suggest that you stop contributing to the ignorance that already, and obviously, plagues this country. Could that have been there behavior? Possibly. However, only those actually present would know.
I certainly hope the manager and all that thought that this was appropriate business practice have been fired from this establishment.
Looking at the restaurants facebook page, it looks as though they are going to experience a loss of customers in many of their stores across the country!
KEEP letting this country know that we do not tolerate discrimination!
No free meal will compensate for the establishment s poor treatment of customers who clearly did nothing wrong unless being black is a crime. Push forward with legal actions this is not 1960. The manager should be let go
South Carolina, has a bad racist issues most of the whites are racist.
in 1959-60, I was riding on a bus to North Carolina with a bunch of teenagers from Virginia. We stopped at a restaurant for lunch. Therecwas a huge banner over the window saying “Whites Only!” We got back on the bus and left! I’m Jewish, and we don’t go for that stuff! It appears times haven’t changed much! The restaurant manager should have kicked out the white family instead! The Black family were loyal customers over time!
As a patron of Wild Wings I don’t feel I should come back until this incident is rectified. How were the employees dealt with at the SC store? Is it business as usual? If so, it’s time to take it a step further…
Blacks always turn Shit into a race issue; that is their “go-to” when they dont get their way. I havent seen Sharpton or Jackson flying to Oklahoma yet, but if they do, it will be to defend the blacks who shot that Australian. In this case, you can bet the blacks were being obnoxious and loud, trying to draw attention to themselves like they always do. A company that has a multi-state operation doesnt just kick people out because of their race; that’d be stupid. I’m sure Sharpton is on a plane to SC right now though. They will try and sue so they can buy the whole family Cadillacs with stereo systems and rims to go with them.
READ THE LINK AT THE END IDIOTS! https://radiofacts.com/woman-wild-wings-contacts-radio-facts-states-black-patrons-asked-leave-several-reasons/
There IS an article link to this with an employees account of what happened and I, a Black man and 10 year server/16 year vet in the restaurant industry, completely believe it…It’s no way the video depicted them experiencing racism like that and they aint throw it out there IMMEDIATELY…Then they stage of pic of a “party of 25 looking sad outside” with only 17 people in it…Black people we gotta stop flying off the handle when we see the word “racism” and use some sense…NO ONE in 2013 is gonna just be THAT blatantly racist…if so, they would’ve been told they can’t be accommodated as soon as they got there…Like I commented on the other story, they should have called ahead…I see this over and over again…They show up unannounced in these big groups, and want you to put up a cake and bring it out at the precise moment, have everybody in the restaurant hide under the table so they can scream surprise when their cousin gets there, they want sing “Happy Birthday”, they get LOUD like they are the only ones there…they wanna sit “all together”, they want separate checks, everything “takin so long”; it be a mess…and I’m not saying this is AAAAALLLLLL Black parties…But “THIS” party is usually Black…use y’all Black psychology and look at the picture…You mean to tell me Black gay dudes and their female friends sat quietly anywhere for two hours???? please…they was spilling tea, clapping five, being antagonistic, and all y’all know it LMAO!!! Like, put your intelligence away for a moment…Y’all making good points but they are not relevant to THIS situation…Y’all gotta RIGHTLY divide the word of truth…Like, for real…
Excuses, excuses…. treat Black people poorly and then reach for any justification for doing so. Black people…. stop eating at their establishments, can you imagine what they may be doing to your food behind the scenes…… create your own dinner party, that way, you not only know what you’re eating, but you’ll probable have more money in your pocket. Considering how those people feel about us… they are libel to do anything to my food…. Ain’t worth it…. make my own.
YEAH RIGHT!! 25 people of any race waiting for 2hours to be seated for a much anticipated celebratory event are more than likely to become frustrated hungry or not! Two hours is a long time to wait for anything …. As a one-time mgr of a restaurant I certainly can understand this mgr as well as her staff being frustrated with having to deal with a large group of frustrated people and the customers that were already seated ( work in and of itself) is frustrating enough. I think that both parties were frustrated and when the power struggle ensued either party chose to say or do whatever they felt necessary to win in that situation. That’s the only scenario that makes sense to me. There is not enough information here to say who was right or wrong. The only thing that you are left with is deductive reasoning. Now put yourself in either place faced with the exact same thing and if you’re honest you will say ” yes I would’ve become frustrated ” and after tempers flare and frustration is agitated………ANYTHING GOES!!!!
Wow blacks in south refused service, what a compelling story! You know what’s less exciting? The facts. Yell angrily at white girl ignoring you when you tell here to move. Oh wait she is deaf! Offend other patrons of restaurant with loud use of n word, f word, when confronted. Use race card to cover your shameful behavior. Wow living the dream, MLK would be proud.
Common sense will tell you a party of 25 does not get seated in a timely manner. Prior planning on the family’s part to make reservations–would have probably prevented frustration for both ww and the disgruntled family.
Ok. So another example of people pointing out what is being done to blacks, meanwhile, the media and government covers up the black on white crime. And a few black patrons have the audacity to use racial terms against whites, yet, if i were the use terms like nigger, porch monkey, cotton picker, it will be deleted by the administrators of this report. What about the WW2 vet that was just killed by 2 black men unprovoked. Yeah you’re right this is wrong and an apology should be issued maybe even some minor compensation. But why is all this being covered but not the 17 year old white kid that was jumped by 3 black kids and killed in south carolina 3 years ago, that never made it past local news but the black kid that got shot after repeatedly herassing someone in florida made cnn and local news for a week here in NY, yeah equality my ass. Were is obama with the WW2 vet. Why is he not outraged that could have been his grandfather. The government and media is walking a line of turning this country in to a communist country. Just remember a government is nothing without its people keep us free or you wont keep us at all
How long would have they have taken to eat?? The party was waiting for two hours!! Damn were thinking that hard to create a problem.
You people are so naive. If anyone has to specify that they were waiting peacefully for two hours, they are fucking lying. Americans aren’t patient…. please do better…
If these “complainers” want to know the REAL story……please read this:
https://radiofacts.com/woman-wild-wings-contacts-radio-facts-states-black-patrons-asked-leave-several-reasons/#
Funny how details are left unmentioned when it wouldn’t perpetuate this hyped racial divide. These people, and all who blindly believed their “story” should be ashamed.
Only a group of blacks would show up 25 strong to a restaurant, unreal.Highly unlikely that a group of 25 people were being peaceful and calm. Any race of people in a group of 25 will be a little intimidating, but come on guys, don’t be naive… I live in Maryland, 4th highest population of black people in the country… when blacks get together in large groups, it’s chaos, you know it’s true. I agree with the establishments decision to evacuate the unruly crowd and hope they would be sensible enough to implement a party limit in the future.If you believe 25 blacks in a group at a restaurant were being peaceful, I have some magic beans for sale… amazing prices.
The other side of the story….ou�re only getting one side of story here. I work at the restaurant and your representation of the events is way off base. The group was being loud and obnoxious to both customers and staffers. They kept complaining about their long wait and were talking about how �whitey� was able to get seated, but they were not. The problem was that they had a large group and insisted on sitting next to each other. We only had one area that could accommodate their large group and the patrons in that area were not done. So yes, some �whities� were able to be seated before them, but only because they were going to a different area. We also seated non-whites in other areas too�They made this a racial issue before anything. One of the guests also insulted a deaf white girl because she didn�t respond to one of them telling her to move (she was deaf and didn�t hear them) They were also all standing in the middle of the walk way, making it difficult for customers to leave. We asked them if they could move over, but they said they can stand wherever they want, and if we wanted them out of the way then we should seat them. The customer that was offended was offended by a particular individual�s constant uses of the word �n*gger� When asked to stop, he threw out a long string of racial epithets against one of my co-workers.
Sorry, but these people made this up. And just by looking at their faces and judging their attitudes – I am sure they were causing some kind of problem. And that suspicion was confirmed today by another article. Sorry people – the only race problem we have to day or real problem we have today is these kinds of people trying to stir up racial problems. Just like sharpton and jackson – couldnt find any real race issues for years so started creating some so they would have jobs. Sad, truly sad.
The only real racist in this country it seems are blacks, I’m sorry to say they are creating these kinds of incidents, not whites, Hispanics, or Orientals. They�re the first ones to throw out racial comments and claim racism. They ought to look at the 40’s and 50’s watch the white races to see how not to act, because they are acting just like them.
The real reasons they were asked to leave…
https://radiofacts.com/woman-wild-wings-contacts-radio-facts-states-black-patrons-asked-leave-several-reasons/#
Oh my God! They were racist for kicking out after they used they said N*gg*r repeatively. After they insulted patrons and staff, including a deaf girl. Threatening violence, etc.Get real people, they were discriminated against because they were acting like buffoons.
The way I heard it, these people came in with no notice and wanted all 25 of them to sit together. On no notice, such is not possible, not without a wait time. So yeah, if you refuse to be split up your group of 25 is going to wait. And wait. A group of 2 or 3 or 4 would of course be seated before you–BECAUSE YOU ALL WANT TO SIT TOGETHER. Not to mention I heard the lot of you were rude to other customers and blocked the exit. Wild Wing is prolly lucky other customers did not leave. Not to mention that some will never go back because of the behavior of a large group of people that they felt should have been asked to leave long before they were.
I’m supposed to believe this large group of people waited for two hours and never became belligerent? Not even slightly? If they managed that, they are the most laid back group of black people I have encountered in 25 years.That said, I can’t help but notice the banner at the top of this page, sporting an image of a young black man, shirtless and festooned with tats, pointing two fingers at his own temple to imitate a gun. Fascinating. Can’t imagine why black youth is having difficulty identifying with responsible role models when this kind of crap is peddled to them.
This explanation seem more plausible. The racial angel seems to take over every story like this these days. Which is a shame because they water down legitimate stories.
Turns out MWhitman hit pretty close to the mark. The rest of the story:https://radiofacts.com/woman-wild-wings-contacts-radio-facts-states-black-patrons-asked-leave-several-reasons/Now, I’d like to know which one of the folks pictured was the one who insulted the deaf girl while they were waiting.Also, did any of them try to tell the others that it was not a good idea to show up with a party of 25 without calling ahead to find out where they could be seated in a reasonable amount of time?I won’t even ask why it seems like the black who make the most frequent use of racial epithets themselves are the quickest to allege racism on the part of others when asked to quit making racist remarks themselves…
Turns out theis party of blacks were a bunch of liars and a-holes, they couldn’t be seated all together like they wanted because their party was so large, then they started with the harassment, intimidation and racist outbursts.
https://radiofacts.com/woman-wild-wings-contacts-radio-facts-states-black-patrons-asked-leave-several-reasons/
After reading both sides, I actually believe the other one (the linked one) more. Customers would not be asked to leave ‘because someone feels threatened’, they would be asked to leave after acting unruly, such as described in the linked story. Get both sides of the story before you all judge.