Fancy NYC Restaurant Obliges Diners Who Hate Black People, Ex-Host Claims

A Black restaurant worker is suing his high-end former New York City employer, claiming he was fired for complaining that managers obliged diners who racially discriminated against wait staff.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in the New York State Supreme Court, a former employee alleges The Dinex Group—a restaurant conglomerate owned by French chef Daniel Boulud—violated state labor laws by permitting blatant racism in the workplace. (According to Boulud’s website, the restaurateur has been hailed as “one of America’s leading culinary authorities” after arriving to the U.S. in 1982. Twenty restaurants around the world are under the Boulud umbrella.)

“During the course of [the worker’s] employment with [The Dinex Group], [he] was subject to multiple incidents of unprofessional, abusive, offensive, and discriminatory conduct,” the lawsuit states, alleging the company systemically allowed those practices.

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