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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Also, I work in a restaurant. Even if the place you are attending does not take reservations, it is a good idea and a courteous idea to call ahead to the place at least 30 minutes to one hour before you come in, so the hosts and the servers can start setting up a table for such a large party. If you’re going into a busy restaurant on a busy Friday night, there is going to be a wait, even longer for parties as large as 25. It was dumb of them to think they could be seated so quickly on a Friday night. I see this happen ALL THE TIME AT MY RESTAURANT. You can come in with that large of party, but you better expect to be waiting at least an hour or more! Just sayin’.
You all clearly cannot be as retarded as you appear to be in this thread. Then again maybe you can be.
If you would put away your handy-dandy, always at your fingertips RACE CARD for a second and actually use what little brain you have left after the years of crack and chronic, you’d clearly see that the story the “group” is peddling is absolute GARBAGE. NO WAY, NO HOW did anything similar to that happen in that restaurant.
I’ll go really S-L-O-W so you can follow, try and keep up.
You are actually gonna try and convince people that a white manager came up to a group of 25 BLACK patrons that had been waiting for 2 hours to be seated and spend their money and told them to GET OUT based on 1 single complaint by a white lady saying she was afraid? REALLY? You actually think that happened in a RESTAURANT CHAIN that is in multiple states and has tens of millions in yearly revenue at stake? Any manager that made it past the 4th grade would know the consequences of that action and what it would likely do to not only her job, but the entire CHAIN. If that DID happen, every single one of the them would have it recorded on their cell phones. It would be playing wall to wall on MSNBC with the RACE HUSTLER and POVERTY PIMP Al ‘Tawana Brawley” Sharpton loudly cheering every second of it. Both he and his PIMP Brother Jackson would be on a chartered JET right this second to have a HUGE rally and march right outside that restaurant. Eric Holder would be right on the heels of them getting there to file civil rights actions.
Lets see all the racism on the cell phone vids that everyone of them were no doubt recording every second of. If they were discriminated against that blatantly then they’ve got evidence to prove it and all of them will be pretty wealthy when this ends and a Wing Chain will soon be out of business.
The fact that nothing has surfaced that shows ANY of what they claimed ought to tell you something. If PIMP Sharpton and PIMP Jackson ain’t holding a march and rally there by this evening, the situation never happened the way they claimed.
It’s sad this nations education system has failed to educate the vast majority of blacks to the point that they lack rudimentary language, comprehension and basic reasoning skills.
Here’s hoping you can cut back on the phony racism claims the remaining months of this year and try to live like everyone else does where they aren’t looking to be offended every time they walk out the damn door and blaming every white guy you see for your lot in life that YOU have been solely responsible for.
Dr. King prayed and hoped that one day his people would be judged by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin. If he were alive today, he’d see that the content of your character hasn’t progressed even an inch since his murder and in many ways its gotten worse.
You have 80% of your babies born to single mothers, the most dangerous place in the world for a BLACK BABY is in its MOTHERS WOMB. Black unemployment is near 50%. Food stamp use with blacks are near 90%. A white is 400% more likely to be the victim of a hate crime by a black than a black is from a white. Black men are less than 10% of the US population yet they occupy over 50% of the prison population. 3 out of 4 black men have a criminal record. You want me to go on?
All of this is YOUR FAULT. The white man didn’t do ANY of this to you. You might want to actually work on that whole CHARACTER THING that MLK begged and pleaded about to you. Ahh, who am I kidding? You all don’t give a shit. It’s much easier to sell crack, shoot a couple thugs trying to move in on your turf, knock up a couple dozen women and support NONE of your kids all the while hollerin’ RACISM..RACISM…come and get ’em AL and blaming it all on WHITEY than it is to actually take responsibility for your OWN LIVES AND ACTIONS.
…please, there is no way Wild Wings would refuse business to 25 black people unless there was a VERY good reason. I’m sure blacks are a large % of their customer base.
Did you call the restaurant for comment before publishing this? If so, you should include a paragraph that the restaurant refused to comment. … If you did not call at all, you now know why you should have.
For anyone in the food service industry the above “complaint” is just the tip of the iceberg. The truth doesn’t matter. They got their free meal for their complaints = typical. For everyone else, rest assured there was no racial discrimination. These idiots will claim ANYTHING to get a free meal and/or get special treatment.
These customers would have NEVER waited two hours for a table and nor would I so it appears some of this story is slanted.
I have a strict policy with restaurants. Never complain about the food, people, or service before the food is served. Never send anything back to the kitchen that wasn’t prepared to your satisfaction.
Complain afterwards and if they don’t make it right then never patronize them again. There are plenty of other restaurants.
Please don’t believe this! There is another side of the story that makes more sense! This was not racism!
Jim, if you were at my restaurant in my section, I would def want you to alert me if your food isn’t to your satisfaction!! I can not stand when people wait till the end, after they ate their entire plate, to tell me they did not like it or something was wrong. I would rather have you leave happy with your meal then leave disgruntled because the cooks put too much seasoning or whatever.
lo and behold, these people were creating a disturbance and generally being assholes.https://radiofacts.com/woman-wild-wings-contacts-radio-facts-states-black-patrons-asked-leave-several-reasons/#Racism? No.People being asshole asked to leave? Yes.
Maybe before y’all started throwing out your own racial slurs you should find out the WHOLE TRUTH. This is just one side and you know most of the time when people complain they embellish the story. Read the response which some of you won’t believe because your so into finding racism that it won’t matter what the truth is. And you believe that they wanted TWO HOURS at a BWW’s place?? Really?? Who waits that long much less quietly to be seated to eat. After 30 mins people start complaining or getting loud, after an hour most of the time people are ready to leave. Two hours?? yea right. That’s a lie in itself. The rest I’m not totally sure but waiting two hours and not getting upset is a downright lie.
The other side of the story:https://radiofacts.com/woman-wild-wings-contacts-radio-facts-states-black-patrons-asked-leave-several-reasons/#
You guys really need to fix your advertising. When it blocks content on the page, there is a problem.
I wasn’t there, and by the posts that I have read, either were you, but I know the restaurant business, in a biblical way, I almost killed myself working in them almost 50 years.. This is a frequent problem in most popular establishments..Since we are talking hypothetical, lets talk generalities..
Busy restaurants, or any venue that services people in odd numbered groups, suffers from the seating configuration of the available space.. Large groups that pre-reserved their arrival have a much better opportunity to be accommodated in a reasonable amount of time.. No food establishment that can service a large group is not a popular place by having the open seats in a dining room..
Groups of 20 or more are usually reserved in advance, and most likely in a private room, and can pretty much guarantee, special attention and immediate seating.. The dynamics change completely if a large group arrive unannounced, and demand to be seated together.. Without knowing, the waitstaff have a rearranged seating configuration, 4-5 tables per station of service.. Seating is usually, first come first serve, diverting only for reservations..
Groups of 20 or more require 5-7 tables to be combined in the same station, or adjoining areas.. That many open tables, seldom happen in the rotation of seating, giving a waitstaff a table in prearranged rotation in the start of the evening..So by design, no single station would empty completely during any service ..
The problem is the guests should have been refused combined seating, unless they were given an empty meeting room, unless a similar empty space was provided for waiting the required time to configure the necessary configuration of tables..
Next, without this explanation, the typical guest would see the problem and accept the inconvenient wait, but no one knows if this was explained to the group, and if it was did the leader disseminate that knowledge to all of the others.. As for guest complaints, we take every concern at face value and react accordingly.. As you can imagine, value of the complaint varies by circomstance..
Finally, I blame the restaurant host for promising the group combined seating, at any peek period, and would have taken the leadership in explaining the situation at the forefront..
For a party of 25, why didn’t they make a reservation before heading to the restaurant? If you show up with such a big group and ask to be seated in the same area, it will take time for the restaurant to accomadate this request. After 2 hours of waiting, I doubt a group of 25 will remain quiet and calm. They must have seen other people of much smaller parties being seated. This obviously pissed someone off who proceeded to harrass the personnel, and customers who were being seated before them. One of the restaurant’s employees mentioned the group was standing and unwilling to seat making it difficult for other customers to enter and leave the restaurant
Another ‘alleged “racial whine” incident exposed. A made up, ‘FALSE’ complaint based on their OWN disreputable behavior. No class at all. Tawdry really.
Yes, folks.. please read the other side of the story. The black folks started spouting off racist remarks and were being totally disrespectful to everyone in the restaurant. Yes, someone was offended. A white woman was offended because she was being referred to as ‘whitey’. Now what would happen if I went into a restaurant with a black waitress and referred to her as ‘darky’? That’d make headline news and I’d be receiving death threats. Practice what you preach, folks.
I’m going to ‘Wild Wings” now. Come on all you crackers and lets have some fun and enjoys some food.. We will now have a nice quite place to eat.. Love it!! <3
Party of 25? Hmm, a wonder they couldn’t get right in. Racial card thrown in again. Peter cries wolf, same thing, and it’s getting old.
Ugh, look at that group. They were obviously misbehaving.
Look at all the type 2 diabetes in that group.
They’re lying. Pulling an Oprah, if you will.
From a woman who works at the Wild Wings restaurant that asked the black patrons to leave and asked that we allow her to be anonymous. She states there are several reasons the group was asked to leave:
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: https://radiofacts.com/woman-wild-wings-contacts-radio-facts-states-black-patrons-asked-leave-several-reasons/#sthash.XDmhV4kM.FFZoJ12S.dpuf
Yeah fucking right. Im sure 25 people were sitting there quietly for “over 2 hours.” This is such bullshit.If anyone body was there with 25 people for 2 hours they were getting rowdy. I know I sure as hell would be. Then I would start making up stupid reasons in my head why they aren’t seating me. “Oh these guys are ass holes. They just sat three groups before us, probably cause I’m only 20 and they figure they aren’t going to get tipped so fuck me right?”Then i start to be a dick to the manager telling them all the reasons that they aren’t sitting me. (Mind you all these reasons I came up with in my head.) All the while my friend is getting in their face with a camera.At this point the manager is sick as fuck of you and doesn’t even care what you are bitching about as you leave and just says, “yeah” and “uh hu”.Grow the fuck up and stop acting like a douchebag. This had nothing to do with skin. I hate loud annoying fuckers too. If I was the manager you’d have been kicked out way sooner.
If these savages would learn manners and basic decency we wouldn’t have this problem.
I’ll repost the a link that was already submitted….READ IT YOU MORONS before spouting off retarded accusations based on on facebook post.READ THE LINK AT THE END IDIOTS! https://radiofacts.com/woman-wild-wings-contacts-radio-facts-states-black-patrons-asked-leave-several-reasons/ – See more at: https://radiofacts.com/blacks-asked-leave-south-carolina-restaurant-white-customer-felt-threatened-video/#sthash.XUskh9nX.dpufso a group of entitled, loud, obnoxious A#$holes didn’t get served food, who cares? this has nothing to do with race and everything to do with knuckle dragging retards who dont know how to behave in public. F*ck em’
I spent the better part of a decade working in restaurants as a host, busser and a waiter. Reservations ensure your table is ready upon arrival. Tact and character ensure one is treated with dignity and respect, and based on the stories I have read this group displayed neither.I have traveled the world around, Africa included, and can tell you from first hand experiences that people are treated and judged by the way they act.Being a white male who has grown up in California I have also experienced racism first hand from most every race and ethnic group under the sun. I care little.From my perspective the issue here is a lack of adequate social skills. To say this is racist is to say that the Black community as a whole lacks those skills. I don’t believe this to be true.
Anybody that believes these black people were not being aggressive and nasty are not living in the real world. White guilt is gone folks. You used it up. This is a stupid story obviously not covering the real facts.
Wow, a restaurant manager NOT giving in to pushy thug tactics.NOT tolerating racist blacks abusive behavior, calling customers and staff “whiteys” and attempting to be intimidating towards them met with being ejected from the restaurant? I highly doubt that the wait was 2hrs, and w/o a reservation a party of 25 should know that there’s going to be a decent wait anyway. 2hrs is quite unlikely tho. The story from the waitress at Wild Wings telling what really happened sounds much more believable. IF there were a Wild Wings locally I’d patronize them just in support of standing up for civilized behavior. Yes, yes…. call Rev AL & Jessie in on this one, as blacks not getting their chicken wings because they were loud and abusing the staff and patrons of the restaurant is soooooo important(rolls eyes)…. Nevermind the black youth (he was a good keeeed) that tweeted racist remarks, then went and hunted down and shot a white guy. Nevermind the “goood keeeeds” that jumped and brutally beat a white kid on the bus because he would’t buy drugs from him, or even the little angels that killed a white baby in its stroller just for the hell of it. The tip of the iceburg on the rise of Black on white racism that rational people of all races need to wake up and see, as well as put a stop to.
This is disgusting. To think on or about the 50th anniversary of Dr Kings speech and this is how far we’ve regressed. I can understand if it were about the groups size but come on people this is the 21st century. We have far worse things to fear than the color of each others skin. This is complete bigotry of some narrow minded fools. I’d never be afraid of a family out celebrating. From the picture you all look like hell raisers (sarcasm), you look like a typical family out to have a good time. 2 hours waiting, doesn’t matter if it were 2 hours or 2 minutes, barring the size of your group they should have served you period. What I really don’t get is why this manager chose to cow tow to one individual vs a group, I mean was her meal really what you all would have spent there that night? In the image I don’t see African Americans, I see an American family, we are all human before we are labelled with a color. Random White Guy.
https://radiofacts.com/woman-wild-wings-contacts-radio-facts-states-black-patrons-asked-leave-several-reasons/
everyone jump the gun,There is always two sides to every story,believe nothing of what you hear and half of what you see.
Wait. They were asked to leave right away but they waited 2 hours? His story doesn’t seem consistent.He said he’s got part of it on video. Then why not post it to youtube?
What’s really disgusting is that someone is LYING. Michael Brown’s version is completely different from the version of the worker who works at the restaurant.I can’t believe that someone didn’t film something with their phones to prove one side or the other.A group of 25 people and according to the worker, these blacks were complaining that “whitey” was getting seated first. Allegedly, they also ridiculed a deaf girl.Something’s wrong with this story. Everyone needs to do some actual fact-checking before simply believing what is said by someone who felt racially “violated.”He first says they were asked to leave almost immediately, then he said they waited peaceably for 2 hours. Which is it, Mr. Brown?I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in that restaurant when this went down.
Seriously, random white guy? You really think you’re seeing this with a level head?25 people show up to a sports bar and demand to be seated, then raise holy hell when they’re asked to leave for disruptive and abrasive behavior?This is exactly how far we’ve come. Any perceived slight against any one member of a minority suddenly becomes racism, and you just buy it.You’re an idiot, and the group of 25 is smearing a business just because they can.Put it back in the deck.
a group of black s do not wait peaceable for anything, everyone knows that whether they admit it or not. They are the most obnoxious and entitled group who need to get back to fields and harvest my cotton, where they belong. Fkn Nhiggers
Is there a single one of you capable of correctly spelling expressing your pathetic qualms? “Aw hell naw (sic)”, it would seem.
Racism goes both ways. Maybe instead of just showing up to a restaurant with 25 people you should have called ahead and gave them some time to section off an area for you? Oh, and saying ‘whitey’ isn’t racist? Really?Maybe you should go to school and learn some class, because i’m tired of being compared to people who act like this. I’m tired of being called ‘the whitest black girl’ just because I have an education and have manners. No, I do not try to be ‘white’, I was just raised right and was taught how to act in public.Tired of hearing about this racism shit everyday, it’s 2013 not 1960. I feel like all the hard work the activists put in has somewhat been wasted.Go ahead, throw it all away. So that you can have a different pair of Jordan’s everyday of the week, while your child and their mom are living off the state. Pathetic.
I guess the lesson learned here is if you come in unannounced with 25 people who want to sit together, you’ll have to wait – regardless of your skin color. And if you sit there and yell nigger this nigger that at the top of your lungs you’re going to go home hungry.Welcome to society.
Well what i say about that u will go see a lawyer and sue cause your civil rights was threatened make them an example. Don’t take that.
I Have no doubt that the party of 25 was acting very uncivilized when told of the wait. They did not have the foresight to reserve an area to accomadate they together. They made verbal threats towards a death girl for not moving out of their way. She could not here them. They used the N***er world dozens of times out loud. Caused a complete disruption of buisness. And the manager refused to then seat them. Which is “HIS RIGHT to REFUSE SERVICE” to anyone. Don’t go away mad. Just go away and don’t come back. Go spend your $ elsewhere. It’s that simple….The Truth will set you Free…Lies and deception will only please satan and send you to hell…
https://radiofacts.com/woman-wild-wings-contacts-radio-facts-states-black-patrons-asked-leave-several-reasons/#
To I hear someone asking for a blanky? Again People screaming RACISM if we cannot be loud and obnoxious then we well scream RACISM. Read the other side the side that makes the most since.
– See more at: https://radiofacts.com/woman-wild-wings-contacts-radio-facts-states-black-patrons-asked-leave-several-reasons/#sthash.3q3NoeLU.dpuf
25 people show up to a crowded restaurant without reservations and demand seating. Rational human beings would understand it’s the group’s fault. Blacks just blame whitey.
Detroit in shambles? Blame whitey.
Oakland a cesspool? Blame whitey.
Zimbabwe is a nightmare? Blame whitey.
When the go to answer is blame whitey, people who don’t like to hear the same bongo drums and chants of racism will turn a deaf ear.
I have read both sides to this story & I can only speak from my 50 yrs of life & my last 4 yrs in particular. The last 4 yrs I have been dating a woman that happens to be black & all her friends are black (all but 2 & I have only meet 1). I am often if not always the only white person in the group when with her friends, her kids have some white friends. I don’t mean to be judgmental but I have seen exactly what the employee said happened on many occasions. When I’m with my GF & her friends often they say “I hate white people or cracka”. Then they politely turn to me & say OWWW not you Bobby oww well then it’s ok WTF REALLY. The words Nigga & nigger roll out of their mouths like please & thank you. When I say I am offended I get a WTF attitude that they are entitled to talk like that. SO wait a sec if someone at a restaurant/store talks to my GF like that I should & I want to kick there ass but her friend does it’s ok BULLSH*T. I would also say that in the black community there is a habit of doing things such as standing in a doorway & expecting others to walk around the group & if I say something WOW does that start shit. My GF is the one to say something & maybe maybe some attitude comes her way but they see me & STFU I’m a big man 6’3″ 270 & a biker Ironworker. Any way all I am saying is the story above does not sound likely on occasion to a couple (& COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE when it does) but not a group of 25 did it happen the way it’s stated above.
Video of Wild Wings Altercation https://radiofacts.com/video-wild-wings-altercation/
After watching the video the group seems to have several issues and objectives with this. It is a real shame with someone tries to use race like this and when it is found untrue allegations are made there is one solution; to sue everyone making this false statements and the online media allowing it to post before fact checking.
It doesn’t surprise me with this group and I believe I know the “lead” guy and ashamed.
JB
GOD CREATED US ALL EQUAL. WHY CAN’T THE WORLD SEE THIS??? WHAT THEY DONE WAS AN AWFUL THING
These dirty niggers have been given far too much. They should still be slaves on plantations and chained up too.
Sounds like a great restaurant. I will have to start eating there. More places should be that supportive of white people.
While they didnt have the right to not let them eat. Who brings a pack of 25 people into a resturant at once and expects no one to complain.