Sacre bleu! Waiters fired for being French?

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three former waiters at New York's posh 21 Club, where a hamburger costs $30, have filed a $5 million discrimination lawsuit saying they were fired for being French.
In a civil suit made public on Monday at Manhattan Supreme Court, the three men, Rene Bordet, 68, Jean Claude Lesbre, 63 and Yves Thepault, 68, said the restaurant's management falsely accused them of drinking wine on the job and "created and fostered an environment rife with anti-French sentiment."
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The suit also said that management of the restaurant "made fun of Bordet's French accent" and "expressed glee" that " President Bush hated the French."

Relations between Washington and Paris became strained in the run up to the war in Iraq, with some restaurants changing the name of French fries to "freedom fries."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050621/od_nm/odd_waiters_dc;_ylt=ArPPo0JWboVDijzsg3K_wN.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-

no more thirty dollar burgers for me...

Especially since the US military leadership intentionally jeopardized the lives of several French pilots when their flight of fighters asked for refuge from a freak storm that ran down their fuel to dangerously low levels.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread146819/pg1

Sacre mille diables! :mad:

Not to worry, I'm sure Senator "Freedom Fries" Jones will make a personal phone call to the 21 Club and request their reinstatement. :eyes:

ages but used the drinking bit as an excuse. You would think the 21 Club would want French waiters to give the restaurant a touch of class!

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