Cracker Barrel discriminates against Chris Rock's mom?

[TheShooter 0]

I don't know... I've sat in quite a few restaurants where I've been ignored. Usually if nobody comes to my table within 10 minutes or so I just get up and leave. The fact is there's just a lot of piss poor waiters and waitresses out there.

 

Then again, with a name like Cracker Barrel, is it such a stretch to believe they'd discriminate against blacks?

 

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) -- Rose Rock, the mother of comedian Chris Rock, claims she was racially discriminated against when she was seated but ignored for a half hour at a Cracker Barrel restaurant along the South Carolina coast.

 

Rock said Tuesday she planned to sue the Lebanon, Tennessee-based company. A Cracker Barrel spokeswoman said the restaurant chain was investigating and taking the complaint "very seriously."

 

Cracker Barrel has in the past faced numerous lawsuits and a federal inquiry over complaints of refusing to serve black customers, discriminating against minority workers and firing gay employees. The company has taken steps to rebuild its folksy image and reach out to minorities.

 

Rock, who is from Georgetown, said she and her 21-year-old daughter were the only blacks at the chain's Murrells Inlet restaurant in April. She said when she asked the manager about the delay she was told they could have a free meal.

 

"He never called over the waitresses and asked, 'Why did these people sit here for a half hour without service?' " she said. "The only thing he said was we could have a free meal and neither of us wanted to eat."

 

Cracker Barrel spokeswoman Julie Davis said the company doesn't "tolerate any form of discrimination."

 

"It has always been a violation of our policies and procedures and it is neither condoned nor allowed," she said. "We do not allow the type of behavior you are describing," Davis said.

 

Rock said she contacted the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission and was told her complaint would be handled, but "nothing ever happened."

 

The head of the commission, Jesse Washington, said Tuesday that after initial discussions, the complaint was finalized August 7 and his agency also was investigating. He would not comment on the complaint.

 

"We get thousands of charges coming through here in the course of a year," he said. "It's not out of line -- the time frame on this. It is being investigated and we will be in touch with her when we have a report."

 

The Rev. Al Sharpton will join Rock on Wednesday in South Carolina to announce that Sharpton's Action Network will finance the planned lawsuit.

 

"I'm getting reports from all over the country about Cracker Barrel," Sharpton said from New York on Tuesday.

 

He also said state officials are slow to act on such complaints.

 

"When people are talking about there is no more discrimination, a lot of it is because they are not following this stuff up," Sharpton said.

 

Cracker Barrel, established in 1969, operates 547 restaurants in 41 states, according to the company's Web site.

 

Georgetown is about 60 miles northeast of Charleston.

[2GOLD 0]

Racism in South Carolina? GETTA OUTTA TOWN.

[Ginger Snaps 0]

She may not have gotten service due to the fact that Cracker Barrel has really shitty service to begin with. There's a thousand of them along highway exits all along the south. That's pretty much all they're good for. Trucker food.

[vivalaultra 0]

I usually go to Cracker Barrel on Sunday mornings for breakfast with my Dad...he really likes their biscuits and gravy. Personally, I think it was just shitty service. When I go, it's usually shitty service. I don't think it's discrimination. After all, they weren't at Dennys.

[TheShooter 0]

I just go there to sit in the rocking chairs.

[Guest netslob]

Racism in South Carolina? GETTA OUTTA TOWN.

 

that's usually what blacks hear in South Carolina.

[bob_barron 0]

There's two kinds of black people: There's black people and there's niggas.

 

Maybe they thought she was the second one

[the max 0]

Shitty service in a highway restaurant when it happens to whites is called "shitty service"

 

The same thing happens to blacks and it's racism. Not sure if it's racism? Rev. Al is there, so there's no doubt been a crime committed against the race. I'm sure that the honky manager just didn't want to serve no negroes...that's why he offered them a free meal.

[snuffbox 0]

Bob Barron is soooo funny!

[TheShooter 0]

I might be willing to sit ignored for a half hour to get my meal comped. Sounds like a good trade off.

[Guest Felonies!]

I went to a Cracker Barrel in Mattoon, Illinois. The menus had all these little notes like

 

"Why, let me tell you, I reckon we do declare that people reckon we've been known to serve a mighty fine helping or two of your favorite good old meals. So if you do declare that you reckon you can't find it in you to finish up one of our hearty old dishes, don't feel bad about asking your friendly server to see if he can't find a box for you to take the rest of your mighty large portions home in, so we reckon that you can declare that you reckon you can take a little Cracker Barrel old-time hearty homestyle meal home with you. Oh, and don't forget to mosey on down to our old-time gift shop."

 

Anyway, I ordered a barbeque pork sandwich and it was basically KC Masterpiece and lunch meat on toasted Wonder Bread. It was disgusting, and several more hours until Memphis. This is my only memory of Cracker Barrel, and of Mattoon. I am impressed with neither.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Dude, the Cracker Barrel is like, 20 miles up the highway from Charleston. I want to go eat there now.

[Slayer 0]

The company has taken steps to rebuild its folksy image and reach out to minorities.

This quote stands on its own merits

 

Dude, the Cracker Barrel is like, 20 miles up the highway from Charleston. I want to go eat there now.

"Hey, no one serve that guy over there."

[Ted the Poster 0]

I enjoy the food, but the service is a crap shoot. They have one of every type of waiter ever heard of, apparently.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

Cracker Barrel has good jams & jellies.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

In the midst of a long-ass drive, I'm extremely fond of the meatloaf and the chicken n' dumplings.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

Fuckin' ay on the meatloaf.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I only eat breakfast there.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

I might be willing to sit ignored for a half hour to get my meal comped. Sounds like a good trade off.

Okay. Then you get your free meal, just as soon as a waitress gets to your table.

 

See how this works?

[SuperJerk 0]

Every joke I could've made about this has already been made.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Sharpton being involved was predictable before I even read the article.

[Art Sandusky 0]

I'm about to call our TV stations to find out where Al Sharpton is staying. I want to talk to him.

[Guest NYankees]

There's two kinds of black people: There's black people and there's niggas.

 

Maybe they thought she was the second one

 

 

Are there two kinds of jews as well? Penny pinchers and regular ones?

[Guest]

No, that's too tasteless.

[Ravenbomb 0]

I like the burgers I get whenever I go to a cracker barrel.

[alfdogg 0]

I only eat breakfast there.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

Rev. Al...still trying to be relevant in the 21st century any way he can...

 

I really doubt that a restaurant in South Carolina, where lots and lots of black people live, is going to actively discriminate against a black patron. Like someone else said, if this happened to a white person, it would be called "shitty service," and the person would have left to go to a different restaurant. But because this person is black, and has a famous son, it suddenly becomes racism and it makes the national news.

 

Part of being free is the freedom to leave a crappy restaurant. She wasn't shackled to the table or anything.

[Guest Kliqster]

I thought this was a topic about cheese.

[Toshiaki Koala 0]

"Why, let me tell you, I reckon we do declare that people reckon we've been known to serve a mighty fine helping or two of your favorite good old meals. So if you do declare that you reckon you can't find it in you to finish up one of our hearty old dishes, don't feel bad about asking your friendly server to see if he can't find a box for you to take the rest of your mighty large portions home in, so we reckon that you can declare that you reckon you can take a little Cracker Barrel old-time hearty homestyle meal home with you. Oh, and don't forget to mosey on down to our old-time gift shop."

 

I don't recollect having read a note like this one, but then I also don't recollect having paid a visit to the fine establishment known around these parts as Cracker Barrel.

 

Every time someone posts a story in this forum that isn't about imminent thermonuclear annihilation, douchebags swarm the thread and declare it "fluff." It's really, really annoying, and I wish they would stop. That being said, this is fluff.

[the max 0]

"Why, let me tell you, I reckon we do declare that people reckon we've been known to serve a mighty fine helping or two of your favorite good old meals. So if you do declare that you reckon you can't find it in you to finish up one of our hearty old dishes, don't feel bad about asking your friendly server to see if he can't find a box for you to take the rest of your mighty large portions home in, so we reckon that you can declare that you reckon you can take a little Cracker Barrel old-time hearty homestyle meal home with you. Oh, and don't forget to mosey on down to our old-time gift shop."

 

I don't recollect having read a note like this one, but then I also don't recollect having paid a visit to the fine establishment known around these parts as Cracker Barrel.

 

Every time someone posts a story in this forum that isn't about imminent thermonuclear annihilation, douchebags swarm the thread and declare it "fluff." It's really, really annoying, and I wish they would stop. That being said, this is fluff.

 

So in a roundabout way, you're a douchebag.