Mexican restaurant requires employees to wear anti-immigrant t-shirts

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

Mexican Restaurant In South Carolina Under Fire For Racist ‘How To Catch An Illegal Immigrant’ T-Shirt



By Scott Keyes on Jan 7, 2013 at 12:30 pm

A Mexican restaurant in Columbia, South Carolina is being criticized for its racist T-shirts showing a wooden trap using tacos as bait with the caption “HOW TO CATCH AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT”.

As the Palmetto Public Record notes, a South Carolina reporter tweeted a photo yesterday of someone who appears to be a Taco Cid restaurant employee wearing the offensive shirt.
http://palmettopublicrecord.org/2013/01/07/sc-mexican-restaurants-offensive-t-shirt-how-to-catch-an-illegal-immigrant/

ThinkProgress spoke with an employee at Taco Cid who confirmed that restaurant workers indeed wear the shirt. He also noted that patrons can purchase it as well.

Taco Cid, a one-star restaurant that has shuttered franchises in recent years, appears to have cribbed the design from the “Offensive Obscene & Sex Related Tees” section of an online apparel designer.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/07/1407561/racist-mexican-shirt/

[liberal N proud]

1. I bet Taco Cid is no more Mexican than Taco Bell

No self respecting Mexican would be caught dead in one.

[d_r]

4. yeah, you know it has

to be a crappy taco

[MynameisBlarney]

24. Total gut rockets

I'm sure, lol

[MynameisBlarney]

5. When I was living in NC

There were a bunch of Mexican immigrants that worked at a Taco Bell that was on my daily delivery route. Even though one can only do so much to improve food from that place, whatever they did, made it much better than any of the other locations I've been to.
And the hot sauce was served in little to go cups, no packets anywhere. It was definitely not taco bells hot sauce.
I miss that place.

[liberal N proud]

9. Our favorite Mexican Restaurant was in an old Taco Bell building

You stood in line to get in the place.

I don't think the waiters spoke english but the food was incredible.

[MynameisBlarney]

20. Nice, those are the best types of places

No fancy decor, no BS, just good food, cheap.
If you ever make it to Charlotte, check out Price's Chicken Coop.
Best fried chicken in the known universe.
It's one of those bare bone, no-frills places. It's probably more expensive now, but still likely very affordable.
But 3 bucks used to get a heaping plate of chicken, one side, and a big fat slice of bread.

[liberal N proud]

22. We always stop for barb-que in Statesville

Little place down in a neighborhood that is a simple no frills cafe. Always busy with locals. Carolina Barb-que I believe.

[MynameisBlarney]

23. Eastern Carolina style?

Or Memphis?
I think I've been there once before, back when I was a truck driver.

I might be thinkin of that place in Shelby though...

[liberal N proud]

26. Eastern Carolina

Smoked, not saucy.

The place is about 3 miles off I77 exit 49 maybe?

[MynameisBlarney]

27. Love Eastern Carolina style!

It's possible I had a delivery that took me past it, but it's been years and years since I was there.

[Brigid]

49. Yep, always eat where the locals eat.

They know.

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Oh good lord...

what a jackass. I hope people boycott this place hard.

[alp227]

53. Well, the restaurant is horrid enough for ONE STAR

[TDale313]

3. Truly disgusting...

and sadly, they'll probably get a ton of publicity from this.

[MynameisBlarney]

7. I dunno...

Columbia and Greeneville are fairly progressive...compared to the rest of the state anyway.

[bitchkitty]

38. Not sad - the people who think like him will patronize his restaurant -

and eat lots of low-quality, high-fat, carcinogenic-containing-god-knows-what tacos.

The best tacos come from restaurants that are run by and patronized by Mexicans. Anyone with taste buds knows the difference!

[TDale313]

39. Well, yeah. There is that. n/t

[bigworld]

6. It's not even funny. <nt>

[MADem]

8. Well, those shirts, to me, scream "How to find an asshole, racist, abusive employer!"

It's just not cool to force employees to "get political"--and even more so when you pay them minimum wage and work 'em like a dog!

[JI7]

10. how do people turn out so fucked up ?

[Ken Burch]

16. Rogers and Hammerstein had an explanation, and it still stands up:

[struggle4progress]

34. +

[TDale313]

40. +1

[obama2terms]

11. That's disgusting and racist. If it were me once I left

That place I would either sue the shit out of them or just report them.

[mac56]

12. Fortunately, their phone number and website are emblazoned on that shirt.

Just sayin'

[ForgoTheConsequence]

13. Jokes on them.

Mexicans don't eat those stupid hard shell tacos.

[Chellee]

19. LOL

You're right. They'll waste all their time catching each other, and still never figure out what they're doing wrong.

[MynameisBlarney]

21. They'd catch me though...

because, hey...free tacos!

[ZombieHorde]

28. Yeah, me too.

I love Mexican food. Even crappy Mexican food.

[MynameisBlarney]

31. It's kinda like pizza

and sex, even it's bad, it's still good.

[ZombieHorde]

32. Exactly. nt

[Judi Lynn]

14. Looking for comments on the place, found this:

One look will tell you they don't seem to be impressing people in South Carolina!


http://www.yelp.com/biz/taco-cid-west-columbia

[Bicoastal]

15. Guys, don't bother. This is basically trolling.

Yet another third-rate entrepreneur took a tip from that old axiom that says "Any PR is good PR." They WANT us to get upset so more people will hear about their restaurant. And this being Red County South Carolina, I'm sure many of them want a meal AND an opportunity to stick it to us uptight PC libs. The more noise we make about it, the more customers they're going to get.

I can tell this because the shirt doesn't even make any sense. If only illegal immigrants liked tacos, why would they be attempting to sell them to the general population?

[CreekDog]

18. don't respond? what if the shirt said the n- word?

still?

nice try but no.

[frylock]

37. it may not be such a bad idea to send business their way..

evidently the food is pretty bad. I could live with having some racist bagger types attached to their toilets for a couple days.

[Systematic Chaos]

17. One story I found said they've gone from 4 locations in the state to just this one.

It's like the owner is trying to make this last one fail.

I just hope that it's in the true fast food style of stand at the register and they hand you food after you pay. If there are actual waiters depending on tips in this place then they're well and truly fucked sideways.

[struggle4progress]

35. ... The restaurant reportedly used to be a chain in South Carolina but has since shuttered three ...

Mexican restaurant serves up racism with horrible employee T-shirts
http://now.msn.com/taco-cid-makes-employees-wear-racist-t-shirts

[Ken Burch]

41. Maybe it's all about getting some sort of tax write-off.

Does the IRS do an Loser Asshole deduction now?

[Posteritatis]

25. "one-star restaurant . . . cribbed the design" - Ha. (nt)

[SwankyXomb]

48. Since it appears they swiped the design

from BeWild.com, I went ahead and gave them a heads-up, and maybe a C&D will be along shortly.

[Xipe Totec]

29. I am more disturbed by where the guy's hands are - Yuck!

[They_Live]

30. Maybe

they could just add an "E" to the end of their name.

[Xipe Totec]

33. Brilliant!

[demwing]

36. 803-794-4008

The ph# on the shirt....just in case you want to call and share your "appreciation"

[tawadi]

42. That's just tacky

[jsr]

43. It's just "a witty and comical statement"

http://www.tacocid.com/

[sulphurdunn]

44. Please remember

that this is the land of Strom Thurman, Lindsey Graham, Jim DeMint, Mark Sanford and Nikki Haley, a virtual Madame Tussaud's rogues gallery of wax idiots dating back to the days of slavery. And, less anyone considers my comments impertinent, we can also fight a duel. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that this is the state that fired the official shot that started the Civil War and is still proud of it, and I'm speaking as a Virginian. Does anyone really expect anything less from the plantocracy of this state.

[Mr.Bill]

45. That wouldn't go over well

in California.

[SwankyXomb]

46. They've already been yelp-bombed

http://www.yelp.com/biz/taco-cid-west-columbia

[Brigid]

52. One commenter said he went there and saw cockroaches!

EEEWWW!

[dembotoz]

47. well lets see, taco bell lusts after the young male demograhpic

would late teens and early 20's kids find the shirts fun?????


i am the father of 2 in that demo

both are liberal dems

but i think both would like an outrageous shirt like that.

just the truth

[lunasun]

50. cribbed the design from the “Offensive Obscene & Sex Related Tees”

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

51. Well

no one ever said you have to have brains to own a restaurant....