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Chili's apologizes after manager takes vet's meal
Source: CNN
Chili's apologizes after manager takes vet's meal
By Azadeh Ansari and Shawn Nottingham, CNN
Updated 0137 GMT (0937 HKT) November 16, 2016
(CNN) - US Army veteran Ernest Walker went to his local Chili's restaurant for a hamburger. Instead, he was denied a meal after an altercation over his service record. The chain has since apologized.
Chili's has a policy of providing veterans a free meal every Veterans Day.
Walker said he was disrespected at the restaurant's Cedar Hill, Texas, location when a man wearing a Donald Trump shirt interrupted his meal and challenged his service record, the veteran posted on his Facebook page.
"He said he was in Germany, and that they did not let blacks serve over there," Walker said detailing what sparked Friday's incident.
The man eventually got the restaurant manager involved. The manager, after an exchange, took the meal away. A video of the exchange was later posted online.
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By Azadeh Ansari and Shawn Nottingham, CNN
Updated 0137 GMT (0937 HKT) November 16, 2016
(CNN) - US Army veteran Ernest Walker went to his local Chili's restaurant for a hamburger. Instead, he was denied a meal after an altercation over his service record. The chain has since apologized.
Chili's has a policy of providing veterans a free meal every Veterans Day.
Walker said he was disrespected at the restaurant's Cedar Hill, Texas, location when a man wearing a Donald Trump shirt interrupted his meal and challenged his service record, the veteran posted on his Facebook page.
"He said he was in Germany, and that they did not let blacks serve over there," Walker said detailing what sparked Friday's incident.
The man eventually got the restaurant manager involved. The manager, after an exchange, took the meal away. A video of the exchange was later posted online.
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Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/15/us/veteran-meal-restaurant-trnd/