Restaurant Owner Falsely Accuses Black Couple Of Refusing To Pay: Video

A South Carolina restaurant is facing backlash after the owner falsely accused a Black couple of refusing to pay for their meal.

In a now-viral video, Christopher Phillip Wallman Jr., owner of The Grill, a restaurant in Manning, South Carolina, announced his false accusation to all of his customers in an apparent attempt to embarrass the couple.

“I want everybody to hear this now. This lovely couple has ordered $137 of food that they’re refusing to pay," Wallman said.

The couple shut down the allegation, saying they were only asking that the fried pork chops they sent back to the kitchen be removed from their tab. The customers said the pork chops were "fried hard," so they decided to order another item off the menu.

“If we pay $140, we want our food cooked right, that’s all,” the husband, a Black disabled veteran, said.

The owner continued to loudly claim that the couple had "complained about every single thing."

“This is what I want from y’all," Wallman said. “I will not be bullied by customers in my own restaurant. We want you to walk out the door and never come in this restaurant again.”

The couple agreed that they weren't planning to return to the restaurant after how they were treated.

Social media users flooded the comment section of the viral video supporting the couple.

"I’m sorry that is pure racism," one TikToker wrote.

"He’s so unprofessional it’s embarrassing," another chimed in.

Others pointed out that the owner appeared to realize at the end of the video that he had wrongly called out the couple, who were only asking for pork chops they had never eaten to be taken off their receipt.

"The awkward silence when he realized they were right," one person commented.

"He tried to embarrass them but got embarrassed himself," another wrote.

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