McDonald’s restaurant serves anti-gay slurs, insults to customers
”It may just be a few dollars for a Big Mac and some fries, but if I’m going to spend my hard earned money anywhere, I should be able to do so without being verbally abused. The original name-calling was bad enough, but the fact that McDonald’s refuses to do anything to make this right just adds injury to the insult.”
Ryan Marlatt relaying through the ACLU the details of a hateful incident that ocurred at a McDonald’s restaurant on East Market Street in Louisville, KY. While he and two friends were waiting for their meals, an employee behind the counter referred to them as faggots. After telling their cashier that they were insulted and asking to see a supervisor, the friends claim that the other employee came forward to argue with them in front of other customers, repeatedly calling them faggots, cocksucker and bitch. (ACLU)
”Nobody should be treated the way my friends and I were at that McDonald’s. When we finally got to speak with a supervisor, she said she didn’t see what the big deal was. I couldn’t believe what was happening
Teddy Eggers who was one of three friends who bought lunch at a Louisville, KY McDonald’s restuartant in July, but were instead served a barrage of anti-gay slurs by one of the women staff. They say they were refused a refund of their $28 and their requests for response from the corporate office have gone unanswered, and that they are hung up on when they try to contact the East Market Street store where the incident happened. The friends say that their original cashier should be thanked because she was the only one on staff who recognized that the situation was wrong and that the abusive employee should stop calling them names. (ACLU)
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