Two Smoothie King Employees Fired After Refusing To Serve Man In Trump Hoodie

Two Smoothie King labor person been fired aft refusing to service a man wearing a President Donald Trump hoodie.

Erika Lindemyer and her husband, Jake, went to nan smoothie franchise’s Ann Arbor, Michigan, location and were denied work by 2 labor who said they were uncomfortable because of nan Trump hoodie, according to a video Erika posted online connected Sunday.

In nan video, Erika told 1 of nan employees, “We were conscionable wanting a smoothie, and you virtually looked astatine us, and I asked you if everything was okay, you said we don’t consciousness comfortable serving you because of my husband’s hoodie. That is discrimination.”

“Okay, well, person a awesome day,” nan worker said back. The different worker said, “Trump discriminates us.” Both labor appeared to beryllium group of color.

“That has thing to do pinch america wanting a smoothie,” Erika responded. Jake past said, “Good luck maintaining your employment.”

When Jake told 1 of nan labor that favoritism is simply a crime, nan worker said, “We person nan correct to garbage service.”

“Not owed to governmental views, though,” Jake replied.

Erika’s video sewage 4.5 cardinal views on Facebook successful 2 days and was shared crossed societal media.

Smoothie King responded to nan incident Monday, writing in a connection shared to societal media, “As a brand, Smoothie King is committed to ensuring our stores are a spot free of favoritism of immoderate kind, wherever each impermanent and squad personnel is treated pinch attraction and respect.

“Following an investigation into an incident involving a impermanent who was refused work astatine a franchised location successful Michigan yesterday, nan franchise proprietor has taken contiguous action and nan 2 labor progressive are nary longer pinch nan business.”

Smoothie King said corporate, on pinch nan franchise proprietor of nan Michigan location, has reached retired to nan customer to apologize.

“The section proprietor is besides taking further action and enforcing mandatory retraining for each labor that outlines our impermanent acquisition standards,” Smoothie King wrote.

In a abstracted video posted connected TikTok by a woman claiming to beryllium an employee, she said her co-worker told nan female that her husband’s Trump merchandise was making them “uncomfortable.”

“I told them…I said, ‘We person nan correct to garbage service. Have a bully day.’ They did not want to perceive to that,” nan woman said.

She besides posted different video showing her position of nan incident, successful which she tells nan couple, “We’re not serving Trump supporters.”

Erika celebrated nan news of nan 2 employees’ firings by commenting connected Smoothie King’s connection pinch a musculus emoji, bosom emoji, occurrence emoji and an American emblem emoji.