Me and couple of friends went to this restaurant to watch the Panthers vs Seahawks football game. The restaurant was packed with 85% to 90% African Americans. The restaurant had a waiting list and we was waiting for a table to come available. As we was waiting to be seated, an unknown white couple came to me and my colleague and advised that they vacated a table in the bar area and we can have it. Our stay at that table was short live, we were advised by a RUDE BLONDE waitress, advised that the table reserved a white couple and we needed to get up now. We got up and we started talking to some of our friends at a nearby table. The general manager approach me and my friends and advised us stop "hovering over the white customer's table and we needed to go back up front now or he was going to call the police. The general manager didn't want hear that we was talking to our friends at a nearby table and not "hovering over" the the white couple's table.
The general manager called the police after requested his name and a business card to file a complaint.
We spoke with the police on the outside of the restaurant and advised them what happened and the officers could not believe that they were called out to Hickory Tavern Harris Corners Pkwy for that bogus call.
The general manager over reacted to a couple law a biding customers that was trying to watch the Panthers vs Seahawks football game. I will never patronized with Hickory Tavern again until they make this right with me and my friends. 5 thumbs down!
I reluctantly use the race card, however, I truly believe that myself and my friends race, African American, was determining and deciding factor as why the general manager elected to call the police. I am not sure what management training the general manager went through to prepare him for that role, however, he failed in a major way.
Question: If me and my friends was white, would the general manager would have called the police?????