Reply #13: Dennys. Emeryville.....

[Bennyboy]

First the set up. In Sacramento in the early eighties there was a racially motivated shooting at a Carrows in downtown Sac. White guy kills black people.random race shooting.

After a concert and stay over in SF we stopped, as was our custom at the time, at the Denny's in Emeryville. There was a huge group of black people there, just fresh from church, all dressed to the nines, ties on the men and hats on the ladies. they were there way before we were and had not recieved their meals when we walked in.

We sat down, the server took our order. Not long we had our meals. The black people stil did not recieve theirs. We finished our meals and I stepped to the cashier to pay. the matriarch of the black family also stepped to the cashier and asked for the manager.

She told him what lousy service her family had recieved (they still had not recieved their meals)and how she felt that she might have been a victim of racial insensitivity. She pointed out he we had good service as did other customers that were seated after they were and all that.

Finally the manager told her "If you don't like the service here, maybe you can go to the Carrows in Sacramento".

I did not eat at Denny's for a long time until they publically denounced their racist policies.