Video summary
The video addresses a serious controversy surrounding the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain following allegations of racism and food tampering within an alleged private Facebook group of its employees. An ex-employee named Yanana Rose claimed that a group with over 400,000 members discussed mistreating Black customers, including specific acts like spitting on their food, licking fingers after touching rolls, and generally degrading service. These unverified social media posts quickly sparked significant online outrage, leading to calls for boycotts and accusations that the collective group consisted of "demonic souls" who agreed to sabotage the dining experience for people of color. The host expresses deep concern over these claims, noting that while he hopes they are false, the allegations suggest a systemic issue where staff feel emboldened to mistreat customers due to perceived lack of oversight or ethical standards.
In response to the backlash, Texas Roadhouse issued a formal statement reaffirming its commitment to treating every guest with respect, dignity, and care, explicitly stating that it does not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or any form of mistreatment. However, the host and his guests question the authenticity of this corporate response, suggesting that such statements often come from front-office management rather than the actual cooks and servers on the ground. The discussion expands beyond this specific incident to broader concerns about food safety in chain restaurants, with anecdotes shared about finding foreign objects like condoms in chicken batter and hearing stories of employees complaining about wait times by spitting on food or running it over with a pen. The speakers argue that customers often bring these issues upon themselves by being demanding or rude, which allegedly encourages staff to retaliate, though the host maintains that no restaurant should ever resort to such behavior regardless of customer attitude.
The conversation also touches on the preference for Black-owned establishments where owners and staff are more invested in providing genuine hospitality and better food quality. The hosts recount experiences at various restaurants, contrasting the opaque environment of chains like Texas Roadhouse with places like Waffle House or specific Black-owned spots where customers can observe the food preparation process directly. They emphasize that while some chains offer a certain aesthetic appeal with large plates and minimal food, this often comes at the cost of quality and safety. The video concludes by urging viewers to be cautious about where they dine, suggesting that if a restaurant cannot provide proper service and respect, customers should support local Black-owned businesses instead. Ultimately, the segment serves as a wake-up call for the industry, highlighting the need for better staff management and a return to ethical practices in food service.
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Yeah, we on TV.
>> Guys, I'm I'm getting some disturbing
news coming in. People sending this to
my inbox. I want to talk about it right
quick with my fellow people, guys. Uh
and and you know me, I'm for all people.
I want to start off by saying that, but
this here has to stop. Um Texas
Roadhouse is under fire over alleged
racist Facebook group. What is What is
the controversy? On Sunday, an ex uh
user claimed that a um Facebook group
allegedly made up of the Texas Roadhouse
uh service included discussion about
spitting in black customers food. Uh
this is something that really boil my my
blood when I heard about it. And I just
don't want to even think of what what
could be happen. That's why you got to
pray over your food. OG, you there?
>> I'm here. You got to pray over
>> I'm not OG. I'm not I'm not in the mood
for that today.
I'm not in the mood for that today.
>> Why are you Why are you eating in Texas
Roadhouse any damn way?
>> Oh gee. Texas Roadhouse is a chain that
we use here and it's a pretty good
restaurant. You get free peanuts. You
can eat peanuts in there. They give them
to you for free.
>> Monkeys eat peanuts. Who in the hell
want a peanut?
>> OG. I'm just telling you, you could get
you some peanuts in there and a good
steak, but I don't know what they doing
to the steak. Now, at this particular
place, and I believe it was in Houston,
it said Texas Roadhouse, a popular
American steakhouse chain, is facing
online backlash after uh unverified
social media post alleged that employees
were part of a large private Facebook
group where users discusses mistreating
black customers. On Sunday, exus user uh
Yanana Rose claimed that a Facebook
group with more than 400,000 members
alleged alleges made up the of the
servers of Texas Roadhouse and Logans
included discussion about spitting in
black customers food and about forming
uh forms of mistreatment. She claimed
they are also licking their fingers and
touching the rolls. I want this to be
fake news so bad, but apparently it's
not. The post was later amplified by the
accounts including uh uh Fear Book Buck
and quickly sparked outrage online. One
use on X wrote, "So don't eat the Texas
Roadhouse if you're a person of color.
Got it. Apparently, there's a group of
Facebook with 400,000 members and they
have agreed to spit in the food as the
collective dis uh uh uh disgusting uh
demonic souls." And so OG uh what do you
think when you hear about stuff like
this? I thought we would pass this. I
thought blacks and I thought whites and
I thought Hispanics and I thought all of
these people, the all of the Asians and
everybody over here in this melting pot
were being honest. We got good managers
in these restaurants watching what's
going on, making sure that everybody's
ethical in there. Is that not what we're
dealing with here?
>> Uh, you better watch the videos.
>> No,
you better watch the videos. But I mean
as as a people actually we we bring that
on ourselves. We go in these places
especially you get some of these people
that really ain't used to nothing
instead of like if if the food ain't
prepared right. Okay. You may have a
concern but when you go sha na on
somebody I want my stuff right and this
ain't look calm down. They ain't brought
our food. You taking too long man
spitting the food.
run the penis over it and out all that.
>> Oh, G. I'm going to tell you about
something that happened to me, man.
Shout out to my partner. He don't know
exactly who he is. I don't think I've
ever told this story on here, but I
might have told you about it one time. I
was down in Atlanta. It was people that
look like me that did me like this, man.
I drove up to the uh drive-thru at the
McDonald's. You know, this is about in
2008.
And um when I get to the drive-thru in
Atlanta, Georgia, actually in
Montgomery, I got to the uh I got to the
drive-thru window. And when you get to
the first one, you don't get to the
window first. You get to the first
little old uh recorder there, the little
whatever that damn thing is. You may I
take y'all out of the supposed to say it
like that. May I take y'all, please?
That's not what happened. I get to the
window and I say, "Hey, y'all there?"
And I hear I said, "Hey, uh let me get a
number three." Uh, and I don't, you
know, and number three with no one. You
know what that know what the person
said, man? What you want on that thing?
I said, what? I said, what? What?
What you want on that thing? What you
mean, what you want on that thing? It
didn't sound like right, OG. So, I I
told I told Miss Jamaica at the time, I
told my wife, I said, "Hey, will you
talk to him?" I had my partner in there.
Uh, she said he he want number three, no
onion. That's that that's that quarter
pounder. He said,
"We I know you were going to say that."
I said, "What?" I said, "Drive off,
man." I didn't even go to the damn
window to see what that was, man. OG,
you got to be careful at these
restaurants. You don't know who in there
working, what they doing in there. Just
a few weeks ago, I reported I don't
think you was on here. A they found a a
whole It might have been you XM found a
whole condom in the dang chicken
>> wrapped up in in in the in the batter.
>> In the battle in the chicken in the They
went to bite it and all the the the the
rubber the come out the Trojan.
Man, y'all better leave the folks alone
about this food. Man, you go in there,
man. Let me tell you something. You best
to cook at your house. See, y'all don't
understand. Man, listen, man. You're not
making no food no more. Grandmama and
them used to make watermelons and all
type of greens. Y'all ain't never picked
no purple hood peas.
Y'all ain't never went out and dug no
potatoes up. You ain't never done
nothing. So you running around here and
they processing your food and they can
do whatever they want to do to you.
Farrakhan talked about this in 2010. We
need to grow our own food, buy some
land, but that's too hard of a You come
from that, but you steadily running up
in these restaurants asking, "Can you
get this, can you get that?" And guess
what? They spitting in it a lot of
times. They doing things to it unheard
of. A lot of time you talking back with
like OG said with that chen type
attitude. I don't want you. You took too
long with this and oh, it's cold. Make
it again. Okay. Okay. OG, it's cold.
make it again. Okay.
>> And come back steaming hot when you
biting. He sat there looking through the
mirror, looking through that glass,
laughing at you.
>> Oh, gee, you done talked bad to the
waitress. And that's his old lady.
That's his old lady. You I ain't going
to tip you nothing if you don't get my
food right.
>> You better eat at Subway Sub where you
can watch everything that they put on
there.
>> I like that what you just said. How
important is it to go to restaurants
where you can see them preparing your
food? I like those kind of restaurants.
>> Yeah. Yeah. That that Benny Holland
started that.
>> Yeah. Well, you can look through and see
them. What they doing? I like that's
Waffle House. I sit right there on the
cur on the corner right there. Look at
them.
>> Oh, come on. Wa. My boy just asked me
yesterday, "Y'all ain't got no Waffle
House." I had one of my my my boys out
here from uh South Carolina, New Jersey,
and he was like, "Bob, y'all ain't got
no Waffle House out here? Still you try
to pay somebody $2 an hour in California
to be
>> Oh G. But you sit there and you watching
them. I said, "Make that old bacon extra
crispy or make that old burger or make
that old steak a little bit done or make
that old toast a little bit browner."
You can see everything they doing. The
girl stands over to the side. She say,
"I want two eggs. Order this or order
that." And I'm like, "Wow, man." Like I
I enjoy the way the Waffle House got
they set up. You can see everything
that's going on. But at that Texas
roadhouse, you can see the roads where
they put them up there, but I can't see
what they doing back there exactly. So,
this here is not good, guys. I don't
know who it is over there that caused
this problem, but this is the statement
they sent back. OG, I want you to tell
me if you believe what they have said
back. Here it is. The the statement said
the Texas Roadhouse, we are committed to
creating an environment where every
guest is treated with respect and
unreasonable hospitality. We do not
tolerate discrimination, harassment, and
mistreatment of any kind. And we expect
our uh roadies to treat every guest with
dignity and care. Our commitment to the
communities in which we serve remain
unchanged, providing legendary food,
legendary service to every guest who
walks through our doors. What do you
think of that, OG?
>> I think that's bold. That ain't the cook
didn't say that, did he? That's the
front office. The man that wrote that
don't even know how to cook.
>> Oh,
>> even been to the restaurant.
>> Oh, gee. I'm talking about these folks
are doing the most, man. And guys, all
this is alleged. So, don't don't come
for me. I just see this allegedly.
What's going on over here with all the
stuff in my video I just said because I
don't know why y'all gonna get mad at
me. People are complaining.
>> People in the restaurant been putting
boogers in your
>> Oh, Lord. Oh, J. If you don't stop it,
man.
>> Oh, just stop. No, nobody's doing that.
They don't even say that no more. People
don't talk like that no more. You
talking from the 70s, man. No.
>> Uh uh. Putting ear wax in your salad.
>> Oh, man. Come on, man.
>> Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
>> I watched that.
>> But just like you said from the
beginning, be yourself and shop with
your own. Quit going to these folks
expecting something different than what
you got. It's it's but it's y'all and we
learned that from the south that white
folks water is colder than yours. They
grass is greener.
>> They more polite.
>> So I got I got to go over here and eat
here because they got some good food.
>> They ain't going to give you the good
food. They going to give you the ugliest
steak they can get. Man, I I'm talking
about I don't even like them. Me and you
had this conversation when people done
tried to take me over to Crest Stations
in Beverly Hills. I done went over there
with them. Shout out to my boy Kenyatta.
But when it come down to it, man, that
big old white plate with that damn
little old piece of food in the middle
with that little old green uh little old
decoration decor. I don't want that
mess. I want something in that
styrofoam, man. That when you open it up
and it's a blackown business and they
didn't get nothing but that old
styrofoam. They don't they ain't give
you no plate. They don't give out
plates. And when you open it up, poof,
it's full to the rim. All kind of stuff
you can eat. And I'm saying that to say,
man, why do y'all keep playing games
like y'all? Y'all not over there with
them like that. You think that make you
look cute cuz you get dressed up on
Valentine Day and you take her out there
and y'all get that big old white plate
with that little old bitty food in the
middle of that place. That's the worst
thing ever.
But the women love it. So y'all tricks,
y'all. A lot of y'all tricks done it. I
seen you.
>> Yeah, it's a lot of tricking going big
tricking going on on these days. And
then you come back to me and play tough.
I don't want to hear your tough talk.
You over there buying them big plates
with the little bitty food in the middle
with the little grass around the trim. I
know you're doing it. Now, Texas
Roadhouse is wrong for what they done.
But at the end of it's a wakeup call if
this is alleged, if this is true and if
what people are saying on this article
that is wrote by um uh oh Henderson
Times that's yeah
>> time doing that too. They Man, come on.
OG, don't do this, man. Don't you Oh,
that pops ain't got nothing to do with
this, man. Don't do that. They doing it
up there at Crest Station then. So,
don't do that. Don't Don't talk about
No, don't look. We had one mistake with
this.
>> They They doing it big at Crust Station.
Whatever.
>> No, man. We got to do better, bro. I
mean, if anybody's doing this, guys, all
these restaurants, I don't have nothing
against you, but if you got Make sure
you dealing with your staff correctly,
man.
We don't have time for to play no games,
man. If I find out something, I'm I'm we
talking about it. And I'm telling you
that now, man. So, people are not happy
with what they're what this article is
reading and what these people are
saying. 400,000 people on the damn
Facebook talking about it. You don't
think that's enough? Well, that's
horrible, man. Y'all get your house in
order over there, man. Before I come
over there, me and OG going to be
standing outside of there. You don't
want that.
>> And let me tell you a funny story. the
first time. Uh then recently I went to
South Carolina. I hooked up with with
some of my guys Mega and Beast and and I
go to South Carolina. So they asked me,
"Hey OG, you you want to get something
to eat?" And I I said, "Yeah, man." I'M
LIKE, "COOL. WHAT?" So they take me to
Texas Roadhouse.
>> Oh, man. Oh,
>> we roll up in Texas Roadhouse and all
these Yankees up in I said, "Well, bro,
y'all ain't got no place else."
>> Oh, I know you said it. I know how you
are. They better get it together.
>> You ain't got So then they introduced me
to Nigel. Nigel's a black in South
Carolina. Shout out to Nigel.
>> Shout out to Nigel.
>> Nigel got Oh, remember we just thought
you I don't eat steak and I don't like
to be AROUND YANKEES. I NEED
>> THEY TOOK YOU TO THE I I know you ain't
lying when I had you in Vegas. You took
me to that sorry black restaurant that
you took me to where you thought you was
really showing me the way. Man, it was a
horrible restaurant. I'll never forget
it. Go ahead. Yeah, the one you took me
to that you met that person at the
Magic. You remember that?
>> No, that's the you I took you to Grits
to
>> Gritz was the good one. Gritz is good.
>> You You and the boy got
>> No, Grits was good. Grits was good. But
I'm talking about that other one you
took me to where the cook came out. He
wasn't even black. The cook was a white
boy. He come out there trying to talk to
us. The food wasn't done right. We
didn't even eat nothing.
>> The cook was a a transit. They got him
off the street the day before that. That
That was the thing. Boy, I I ain't never
went to another RESTAURANT WITH YOU
GOING.
>> THAT WAS IN VEGAS, MAN. I'll never
forget how you wor That was the worst.
>> Listen, man. Guys, make sure y'all like,
subscribe to the channel, man. Again,
the Texas Roadhouse, man, y'all owe us
some we we need to understand what y'all
doing out there. If y'all not going to
serve us correctly, we're not coming.
And at the end of the day, black own
restaurants, y'all need to publicize
more. If y'all want to uh be focused, if
y'all want me to speak out, I'm going to
say this right now. If y'all want OG to
tell us how good your restaurant is and
y'all want us to go, we going to start
us. Shout out to Keith Lee. Me and OG
going to pull up. If y'all say y'all
want us to come to y'all restaurant and
y'all black own restaurant and y'all
y'all want us to come and we gonna do
the show there and y'all gonna show us
love. Y'all put y'all put the budget
together. We'll pull up.
>> What's the name? What's the name of the
restaurant we went by over by the
airport that day? We went to She from
Mississippi.
>> Where what what city was we in?
>> We was in We was going over BY THE
AIRPORT.
>> OH SHOOT, MAN. That was That's a good
restaurant. That boy out of Mississippi.
I forgot the name of it, man.
boy. But yeah, the young lady, the
owner, everybody there. They got two of
them. One in Yeah. Frisco now. Yeah.
That sister there. Yeah, man. I forgot
the name of it. But I get it. I have it.
>> You know the Roadhouse, but you don't
know their name.
>> Yeah. The Roadhouse had an article come
out.
>> The Road House.
>> This is This is They don't We
don't remember nothing about each other.
>> No, no, no. It wasn't that, man. I tried
to take you over there every time. Stop
playing, man. I
>> you know about Papa do and the Texas
road but the good old black
>> No, I was at Kitchen and Cocktail
downtown the other night. My family go
over there. That's some brothers on
that. So it it's it's a lot of nice
restaurants that that that we got I put
in the door.
>> We went to we went to the one that love
to brothers remember
>> with the brothers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, Brothers is uh uh that's my
partner. Um uh that's what's his name?
Uh he been on my show a lot of time.
>> Okay. uh um him in BC and and and Ricky
I believe his name Ricky Booker. That's
my dog. He came over and put the he set
the setup and he the only him and uh my
partner Jango Derek the only two set the
whole setup in on Boss Talk set and fed
Ricky Rick Ricky and uh Derek Jango Der
who Derek he came in and fed the guest
yesterday man. We fed uh them. We fed
eightball MJG Scarface. We fed a bunch
of folks over there man. ESG man. And
one thing about Boss Talk, all y'all
don't see the behind the scene, but the
boys eating over there. When they come
over there, we giving them home-cooked
meals or black own restaurant meals.
That's what y'all don't understand. That
why they y'all get why they come on Boss
Talk so much? Them hungry. Y'all
didn't know that, did you? See, that's
something you didn't know. They come on
the show, they get to eat. OG eat a
plate every time he come down. OG,
that's the first time you came to my my
uh show. Uh uh uh Charles White left his
plate trying to get out of there, didn't
they? They didn't know that. this the
behind the scene they don't get to hear.
But there there's a whole uh there's a
whole cooking thing we do to where we we
give our guys home-cooked meals over
here. A lot of times OG several times
we've Am I telling the truth OG?
>> I DON'T YOU KNOW IT CUZ you man
make sure you get me a vegetable plate.
>> She make a a mean.
>> She make a mean plate.
Put it down.
They don't understand the love, man.
That's why we when we do link with
people, it's a real relationship. And we
love everybody that come through and
show us the love they show us. So, man,
we we down home down here, man. So, if
you want to run over there and get that
or you can come over here and get this.
Yeah, I'm just going to leave it there
like that, guys. But y'all be careful
these places y'all go to and eat cuz you
never know what's going on in the back.
Boss Talk 101, man. Listen, guys. And if
you're still watching, uh, the Kiwan
White trial started and, uh, they they
they trying to pull a a flea flicker
where you throw the ball back cuz you
thought they were going to throw it,
then hand it off and it's going to be a
hell of a hell Mary. Y'all better watch
what's coming on with this trial, man.
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