Fire & Vine Pietermaritzburg

Fire and Vine Pietermaritzburg Racial and economic profiling

"What a horrible experience I just had at Fire and Vine. The big white guy (I think he's a manager or something) is a rac*st who demanded we move from our table because he said he had "important people" he wanted to put in our table. He then continued to tell us that he's then going to force us to leave. When we told him we don't want to leave as we had already placed our orders and were having our drinks, he then snatched our drinks and said, "leave my restaurant, after all you can't afford to pay for anything here." And I responded by saying, "excuse me! Where do you get the audacity to insult us like that? Who said we can't pay for our own food? You cannot insult us like that, times have changed, I will speak up for myself." He then said, "get up and leave, I have important people I need to put in this table." I then said, "it is so unfortunate that you say that when your biggest clientele is 'black people,' the very same ones you look down upon." And he said, "Leave! I will cover your bill." We were so embarrassed, we felt so little and looked down upon. Then after a little while he came out with who I believe was the owner. He then said we accused him of being " a rac*st"I was livid, no one accused him of being rac*st, I only called him out for saying "you can't afford those drinks, I will cover the bill for you (causing a scene for everyone to see)." All in all, our experience was traumatic and we honestly felt like we were profiled economically and racially. This said "manager/ white guy" also disrespected the stuff in front of us..I wish the management held their abusive employees accountable! Also, I will be escalating this!