Servers/Bussers and the "Manager"... SHAME ON YOU!…read more
We live in the city and whenever we are around Times Square, my husband & I always stop by and hang out at this bar, we come here all the time. Yesterday however, we celebrated the World Cup Championship in TimeSquare, then we went into this bar.
At the front we asked to sit upstairs, as we always like to hangout upstairs by the window. We had a Burger and drinks. We enjoyed our time for about an hour. While leaving we used the restroom downstairs, since the restroom upstairs were busy. I just came out of restroom and was waiting for my husband by the corner table by the stairs.
My husband left our bubble-tea bag (Hey-Tea paper bag to be exact) that we were using to carry a boxed water, Bubble tea, sunglasses, and an apparently controversial Twisted Tea, still in the brown paper bag (inside the Hey-Tea bag). We actually forgot that we even still had that can, it was pretty much empty.
One of the two male servers/bussers came past me, looked in my bag, decided he had the right to grab the can, and then threw it in their trash can. I asked him, "What are you doing, why did you just grab that from my personal belongings bag and throw it away? We were just about to leave. I was not even holding that can at all. It was just in the bubble tea bag. My husband is still in the restroom."
I was furious because of the way he did. I don't care or mad about almost empty cocktail can. That male server completely bullied and humiliated me, I'm an Asian woman (I am 39 years old but I look younger than my age). He wouldn't do something like that to "other" races. He just assumed he would get away with it because evidently he can. Even another server guy joined the first one and they both bullied and humiliated me.
When my husband got out of the restroom, he was also mad that they did that to me so he asked for their manager. The two server guys said the manager was at the front, so we came out and talked to the host. I reminded him that he saw us when we walked in, we had this bubble tea paper bag, but he just denied ever seeing us.
He lied and said "I don't even know what you are talking about" instead of just admitting, being honest, and being a man. My husband then was actually triggered and yelled at them. Then all three men decided to choke us both out, pulling us very violently, even to me (a small woman) out to the street. It was disgusting and humiliating.
They assaulted us.
We are not letting them get away with this. We are pressing charges against them.
We are the paying customers, we literally just spent money in this bar, and have many times before. These "men" have no respect for customers, especially women and people of color.
Bottom line is they do not have any right to reach into a customers bag, especially a woman's. All he had to do is be civil, ask me what I have in my bag, ask me to discard it if need be, or leave the bar. Does he not have actual job to do than bullying, harassing , humiliating me?
Obviously we were about to leave, since we live in the city, we know the rules, we're self aware, well behaved, classy people. Unfortunately the workers at this bar are extremely rude, assaulted us and don't have respect to the customers. You'd think the manager would de-escalate the situation, but he only instigated it further.