Now I am not racist, but things like this make people like me think about the subject more…
I was at Burger King today in Gary, In. down the street from the Loves and Petro truck stops. I went in to order the 10 piece chicken nuggets, the 2 for 5 special and had coupons for free fries and onion rings. So I made my order, not thinking that I was the only whit person there besides the one I went in there with. After my nuggets came back, I asked for some BBQ sauce to go with my nuggets, they said they didn’t have any and blew me off. So after I took my tray to the table, I went back and asked for some ranch instead, they said they didn’t have that either. So I asked what they did have? They offered me some Zesty sauce and/or Buffalo sauce. I don’t normally like Buffalo, but I said I would try one of each.
After that there was a rush of people come in while we were eating. After we got done eating, I went back up to the counter with the two free ice cream cone coupons we had. Now these coupon came in a book that I bought from another Burger King like last week or so.
Anyway; while I was waiting for our ice creams, another guy was waiting before me for his meal. His order came up with something or other and also some chicken nugget with BBQ sauce, then the guy asked for some Ranch, the guy behind the counter looked for the Ranch sauce but didn’t see any, so he went to the back and got some; but 5 minutes or so ago the same guy told me there was none. The customer that he went to go find some for was also black.
I never said anything, and I don’t think the guy behind the counter realized that I was observing all this. I thought about saying something to Burger King Corp, but not sure if I will or not. You know if it was the other way around, shit would have hit the fan! Why is it that the ones who cry racism the most seem to be the racists?
Anyway; it turned out I had some BBQ in the truck from McDonald’s and I had already went out to get it, so it wasn’t a big deal to me. Though I somehow feel like it should be a big deal to me???
On a good note, if I hadn’t got the Buffalo and Zesty sauce, then went out to my truck to get the BBQ I saved from McDs; I then wouldn’t have mixed them all together and discovered a new flavor sauce that I actually kind of like better then the BBQ and/or Ranch 🙂 So one can turn a negative into a positive and their racism only lead to my new discovery and maybe a new not-so-secret recipe 🙂 I don’t know if it was contentious or uncontentious, but it was unprofessional either way. I am sure Burger King would NOT be too happy about their actions. Most things don’t bother me, but this one kind of did.