Editor’s Note: This post has been updated:
By now you’ve probably seen this viral video from Twitter user @Masudaliii accusing employees of a Minneapolis area Chipotle of racism after the crew members, many of who are white, asked @Masudaliii and his friends, who are black, to prove they had money to pay for their food before they’d prepare it:
Can a group of young well established African American get a bite to eat after a long workout session. @ChipotleTweets ?? pic.twitter.com/Sj8RaeINj6
— Masud Ali ? (@Masudaliii) November 16, 2018
According to Chipotle’s Twitter account, the manager was fired over it:
The manager thought these gentlemen were the same customers from Tuesday night who weren’t able to pay for their meal. Regardless, this is not how we treat our customers. As a result, the manager has been terminated. -Shaq
— Chipotle (@ChipotleTweets) November 17, 2018
But users quickly pointed out to Chipotle that @Masudaliii has a history of stiffing restaurants on the bill, which he’s bragged about in now-deleted tweets:
This has a couple million views and tens of thousands of retweets, when it’s very, very obvious what’s actually going down. https://t.co/YVCiq6g6m8
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) November 18, 2018
Yes, I bet the chipotle with the black employee refused to serve black people.
I bet when the employees say “we’ve seen you twice before” and demand payment upfront, it’s definitely not because you’ve robbed them before.
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) November 18, 2018
Screenshots, how do they work?
And he didn’t delete that before people saw it. He’s proud of scamming them. pic.twitter.com/fbI6oayvwt
— Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) November 18, 2018
More the deleted evidence here:
He's deleting evidence so keep these floating around https://t.co/YqNITRyC0ahttps://t.co/6O5Q0HiwjPhttps://t.co/ihqq0LV9Jkhttps://t.co/fv1qK7zRHChttps://t.co/izT0YaVAkbhttps://t.co/LJrdHtDaZJhttps://t.co/2AQzvspVJqhttps://t.co/MOan1CEoQO
— Sardonic (@__sardonic) November 17, 2018
Over to you, Chipotle:
@ChipotleTweets you better give that girl her job back
— 24/7 HipHop News (@BenjaminEnfield) November 18, 2018
Thankfully, they’re looking at this new information now:
Our actions were based on the facts known to us immediately after the incident. We now have additional information which needs to be investigated further. We want to do the right thing, so after further investigation, we’ll re-train and re-hire if the facts warrant it.
— Chipotle (@ChipotleTweets) November 18, 2018
And hopefully it costs Chipotle a lot of money to make things right with the fired manager, because that’s not how you should treat your employees:
Ask her how many zeros she wants on that check. https://t.co/ECwwJn09Fw
— Carl Gustav (@CaptYonah) November 18, 2018
Update: She reportedly was offered her job back:
Chipotle offers manager job back after firing her because a shoplifter called her racist. But she'd have to be crazy to accept–chipotle KNEW the guy admitted to stealing and aided with online bullies over her anyway. Similarly situated wrongfully terminated mgr got $8M judgment. https://t.co/qtciR441Y1
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) November 19, 2018
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