A customer wearing a Trump “Never Surrender” T-shirt was emboldened to hurl racist insults at employees at 5 Guys hamburger restaurant at 2480 U.S. Highway 6 in Grand Junction on the evening of Election Day, Nov. 5, calling them “beaners” and “f*cking invaders” as they filled his order.
Aiden Renova, who worked at the restaurant and was present during the two minute-long confrontation, told KJCT that the man came into the establishment on election night to pick up an order and then asked one of the employees for whom he was voting.
“That‘s kind of a weird thing to bring up to someone [who’s] making your fries,” Renova told KJCT.
The employee replied that he voted for Kamala Harris. The man then called the employee a racial slur under his breath, and that’s when the employee pulled out his phone to record.
The incident was posted to “X” (formerly Twitter) and can be seen here.
A fuller report about the incident was published by The Daily Sentinel on November 7. It says Mario Quijano was one of the employees who video recorded the encounter. The Sentinel also says the woman who accompanied the man who insulted the employees is “associated with [Community Hospital] through their work with one of the hospital’s clinics.” The day after the incident, Five Guys fired the employees who had been harassed, essentially capitulating to their racist attacker who told employees in the video that he was going to get them fired.
Renova posted the following video on Instagram the next day with his account of the incident (WARNING – Profane speech):
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Disturbing. Makes me so disgusted. I want nothing to do with Community Hospital so long as they employ this woman in the video who is beyond smug. The racists come out of the woodwork. Pathetic!
Just as expected, the Trumpsters are making the nasty little racist dude out to be the victim.
Racist dude started it, asking the employee who he voted for, and then called him a slur; he most likely thought the young man would just take it.
Employees mocked the racist, as everyone should. He lost his sh1t because, like all Trumpsters, he could dish it out, but definitely not take it.
Racist went into a rage because he realized that even though Trump won, nobody has to put up with his racist bullsh1t, just because he’s an angry white man.
Just because Trump won, doesn’t mean good people aren’t going to fight back when racist Trumpsters* decide they want to throw down.
(*tautology)
Fired?!
Unbelievable!!
Will be contacting 5 Guys HQ & boycotting in meantime…
Oh brother…the video helpfully leaves out everything that led up to the verbal altercation.
Now we get to rely on “the sentinel” to tell us what the guy in the t-shirt said to begin with and how racist he is. Why didn’t they interview “the guy”?
The “employee” was deliberately and loudly taunting the customer and should have been fired. He claims to be a parent. Too bad for his kid.
Pro-tip for “the guy”…don’t lose your temper in public.
I predicted you’d simp for the racist a$$hole who went on the rant.
I love being right.
They were fired for not being ‘model victims’ – from some POS that feels like Are there for him to abuse, including his wife, who, according to Reddit has been threatened by him publicly, and also, apparently the police know him from his bad behavior . This dude is clearly unhinged and in the wrong, Who threatens people like that at their place of work? Those people are working for a living. They’re not there to be abused. I’m proud that they didn’t just roll over for abuse like the abuser intended and wanted . I hope some lawyer takes their case.
The terminated employees will benefit from contributions to tide them over until they find new employment. Sounds to me as if the verbal threats and harassment based on national origin constitute hate crimes (committed by the guy in the “patriotic” shirt). Could the perpetrator have been encouraged in his hate criming by The Former and Future Guy?
Oh yes, The Former and Future Guy, in addition to encouraging violence against women, encourages violence against sexual minorities, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, and against anyone who disagrees with Him. Sounding like a psychopath? I have not examined Him, so I cannot make a diagnosis.
I went to a five guys in another town, wasn’t impressed. Haven’t been to this one, and I most certainly will not now.
Why? Because they don’t like racists?
Because they serve them.
I was mistaken. Apologies.
Will never visit that restaurant.
badhatharry storms in to defend the racist Trumper in 3…2…1..
*alternate: badhatharry claims the dude’s “not a real Trumper”.