Roscoe’s Chicken N’ Waffles is a legendary black owned restaurant in California.

It’s been frequented by celebrities, movie stars, even the President of the United States.

However, the chain of 7 restaurants clearly have an issue with race discrimination inside one of their stores and have to pay a hefty $1.6 million dollar lawsuit as a result of one employee suing over racial discrimination and wrongful termination.

Daniel Beasley is the man behind the lawsuit. The black man filed a racial discrimination and wrongful-termination lawsuit against the company and believed he was doing the right thing when he went to Human Resources to try and settle the issue.

“It’s owned by an African American owner, but he gives full authority to the Hispanics to run it,” Beasley said.

Who is the “It” Beasley refers?

[ADSENSE2]The “It” Beasley was referring to was the company, Roscoe’s Chicken N’ Waffles. Therefore, the question becomes, then how is he being racially discriminated against.

Beasley contends the Roscoe’s on Pico Boulevard is run by Latinos and they are given full authority to run the facility as they see fit by the owner. He says they harassed him for being black and gave special treatment to other Latino employees. One of the major complaints was better schedules.

After going to human resources to try and sort the issue, Beasley was later fired for retaliation, according to him.

“It just caught me by surprise because here I am getting fired when I’m trying to fix the problem,” he said.

A Jury clearly agreed with Beasley and ordered the company to pay $1.6 Million dollars in damages. Roscoe’s can appeal the decision and are fully expected to file this motion.

Source: CBS Los Angeles