Customer Ordered to Leave Restaurant After Calling Manager a Muslim
The 68-year-old woman was upset about the price of food at Ryan's restaurant in Oconee County Tuesday afternoon.
A 68-year-old Oconee County, Georgia woman was told to leave Ryan's restaurant on Dowdy Road at lunchtime on Tuesday after the manager said she became irate over the price of the buffet.
When the 43-year-old manager from Buford spoke with the woman, who he said was with a church group, he said she told him she "wanted to talk to a white manager and one that spoke English clearly," according to an Oconee County Sheriff's deputy's report.
"[The manager] then stated [the woman] began to call him a Muslim and told him if he wanted to live in her country, he needed to speak clear English," the deputy wrote.
Accompanied by the deputy, the manager went to the woman's table and asked her to leave. The woman became upset and said she didn't believe she had to leave, but the deputy explained that the manager had the right to demand that she go.
Then the woman "became upset and stated I was taking the [manager's] side because he is a Muslim and a minority," according to the report. The deputy told her that had nothing to do with the matter and that she'd have to leave, which she did without further incident.
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Charles Welch
3:42 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
I hope that lady is embarrassed and sorry for acting so hateful like she did. For one thing, if the price is more than you'd expected just find some other place to eat. Another thing is getting ticked off and being irrational, then calling someone "Muslim" which really makes no sense anyways.
How about instead, you go over to that same person and act mature, and ask for forgiveness and say "your sorry", there's no reason to call someone something so ignorant as you did.
Jim Boucher
4:42 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Please, if you are going to act like this, do NOT tell anyone that you are with a church group! One "Christian" doing this racist, ignorant and very un-Christlike act can undo the good works of thousands of believers.
Dave Ballard
1:51 am on Friday, March 22, 2013
I honestly don't know why stories like this still shock me; it's not like they don't occur often enough (way too often). Maybe it's because I just can't put myself inside the mind of someone like that to understand WHY they would act in such a way. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the lady, ahem, was already piping mad about something else and just lashed out with the most hurtful and outrageous things she could think of to say off the top of her head...?
Anyway. Whatever. The point is, it was wrong, it should never have happened, and the lady - if truly a christian - needs to go back and make amends if at all possible. If her GROUP is truly christian, they will insist upon it.
Gundoctor1
9:22 am on Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Well, is he a Muslim or not? Is he ashamed of being a Muslim? If I had been at another Ryan's and called a manager a white guy, would I have been asked to leave?ha ha only in Georgia!!