Area Pizza Hut In Trouble Over Alleged Racial Slur (South Carolina)

[bluestateguy]

This doesn't quite make the time deadline for LBN, but I thought it worth sharing:

http://www.thecarolinachannel.com/news/3374978/detail.html

GREER, S.C. -- A Greer husband and wife have started legal action against the owners of a local Pizza Hut restaurant.

David Benson claims that a racial epithet was printed on the receipt for a meal he ordered from the Bergen Foods-owned Pizza Hut in Greer last summer.

"(I) went to the counter, ordered my food, he gave me my change and receipt back," Benson told WYFF's Nigel Robertson.

A few days later he saw the slur printed at the top of the receipt where his name should have been.

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[lazarus]

1. Unless there's a clear pattern or trend

Or even a few occurrences of this sort of thing in the past, I don't see how the company should be held liable. The only way is if somehow the plaintiff is able to prove the manager approved this behaviour.

As a former manager of a RadioShack, I can tell you that employees get very creative with names and addresses. Managers would have a difficult time tracking all of it, since it's on computer, and we'd have to review every single receipt every single day.

The guy's not working there anymore. I wonder if the plaintiffs even contacted the company before taking legal action? I'd have gone out of my way to make these people happy. Free pizzas, lifetime discount, something like that.

Was the manager or owner given the opportunity to do the same? I didn't see anything in the article about that.