Olive Garden Customer Requests Nonblack Server, Manager Grants Wish Leading To His Termination

A customer at an Olive Garden in Indiana made a scene and shouted for a server who wasn’t black.

When the manager complied with the disgusting request, he lost his job.

According to Amira Donahue, the 16-year-old waitress at Olive Garden restaurant in Evansville, Indiana, the customer was a white woman who began to complain to the manager about her and the other black staff members.

In an interview with NBC News, Donahue explained the situation stating, “She made comments about me to my co-workers concerning my race and saying that I should work at a strip club instead.”

“She asked if I’m even black, and if I am from here,” Donahue continued.

The customer, who was with a group of people, including two children, began to yell louder, demanding the manager to make her request happen.

However, the manager didn’t get away with it as a nearby customer, Maxwell Robbins, 22, who couldn’t believe what he was witnessing, posted about the ordeal on Facebook.

Robbins also made complaints to Olive Garden via phone calls made to the company.

In Robbin’s Facebook post, he explained how the manager should have made the customer leave altogether.⠀⠀⠀⠀

Donahue explained how the incident made her cry because she was so upset as she felt the customer was more important than the employees in that moment.

Robbins witnessed her crying as well and saw no one helping during a time of need.⠀

“The young lady was in tears and had no one to support her,” Robbins said. “So I felt if I didn’t write this post, nothing would have happened, and she would continue to go to work for a place that she feels uncomfortable at and unwanted at.”⠀⠀

Megan Bernstein, a spokeswoman for Olive Garden, said in a statement that the popular restaurant chain has “zero tolerance” for any type of discriminatory action.

Following an investigation done on Monday, Bernstein confirmed on Wednesday that the manager had been let go.

“As a result of our investigation, we made the decision to separate with the manager involved,” she explained.