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I saw her on Larry King last night.

Quit being playing a victim just because someone 'dissed' you at a restaurant. I get shitty service at all those restaurants. What do you expect for a $6.95 meal?

Girl, you are the mother of a multi, multi, multi-millionaire comedian. Surely you can afford to go anywhere you want.

Go to Spago if you want someone to kiss your ass from the second you walk in the door.

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I had a similar experience at an Applebee's in Connecticut once. OK, it was slightly different in that I was a rather refined looking caucasian male wearing a business suit. I was seated, then nobody approached me for over twenty minutes. I just simply got up and left. It was their loss, since I was the kind of customer they love: thirsty, hungry and ready to spend my entire per diem in one meal. Plus I'm a great tipper when I'm not spending my own money.

So I'd like to say to Mrs. Rock that sometimes restaurant employees are just incompentent idiots.

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Folks, if Cracker Barrel didn't have a reputation for doing this, I would agree with you that she's is just whining about poor service. Google it, you'll find a ton of articles about how Cracker Barrel discriminates based on race and sexual orientation. I know USA Today did an article on this a few years back. I will not eat at Cracker Barrel and I have no problem telling everyone about it in hopes to stop someone else from going there too.

Here's my problem with them, they throw money at it and don't try to retrain anyone. Denny's put all their employees through sensitivity training and tried to put some positive PR on their situation with discrimination. Cracker Barrel settles out of court a majority of the time. When I found out they were firing employees just because they were gay, that's when I decided to boycott and I haven't been to a CB in over 10 years now.

Please stop eating there! Just because it's never happened to you doesn't mean it's not happening.

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Yeah, I am white and have gotten crappy service at Cracker Barrels too. It took them 30 minutes to bring our drinks and the orange juice was kinda frozen and the eggs weren't cooked the way we asked.. plus they were cold. I also had problems at Applebees (dirty silverware/long time to wait for service), and so far, I have never seen a manager yell at the waiter. They just come out, apologize and then give you a gift certificate or offer you the meal free or something if they do anything at all (cracker barrel didn't). Personally, I would be embarassed if the manager chewed out the waiter in front of me. Then again, I am worried about getting herpes from the spit that the waiter will inevitably put into my food.

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Gotta add my $.02: the woman who plays the mom is perhaps the most underrated actress on TV. She does more with her face than most actors do, well, at all. And this is coming from a white, 38-year-old male. Give this woman an Emmy--she deserves it!

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@1 0 I'm not sure what her son's income has to do with anything. If she wants to eat at Cracker Barrel or Mickey D's, she should be able to do so and get good service.

However, I wouldn't file a lawsuit because I wasn't served for 30 minutes (I would have left after 10 or 15 minutes). Maybe she's doing this because they have such a bad reputation for this and they didn't respond to her complaint. At some point, corporations have to become reponsible for their behavior and high-profile incidents like this may enforce a change.

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I'm not white and when I came to this country a few years ago I went with a lot of white friends on a trip to Florida and on the way many of them decided that we should have breakfast at Cracker Barrel and I since I had never heard of it before I laughed at the name.

When we went in I thought: "Now I understand why it's Cracker Barrel", just as a joke. I was the only non-white person there and it felt a bit weird but nobody really cared. We had to wait almost half an hour to be seated and it wasn't just us. I guess they wanted people to browse their store first.

As for the food: meh.

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I didn't read the above comments since this is closer to home for me. I'm from SC, and it is common knowledge that Cracker Barrel tends to hire people that are intolerant of blacks. Denny's used to have the same problem, but I think they have worked their issues out.

I'm alarmed by this story because this is common knowledge in the black community in SC--so much so that several groups have a long standing boycott against this restaurant. This boycott has expanded throught the southeastern US--at least--through HBCU campuses. I find it hard to believe that this lady, and her supposed entourage, didn't know this, and were looking for publicity.

Not that she was wrong to go there, but, to use a weak analogy: "If you tell a gossip a secret, who's at fault?"

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