File photo Image: Shutterstock/Sbo.ow-j File photo Image: Shutterstock/Sbo.ow-j A DUBLIN STARBUCKS outlet has been ordered to pay €12,000 compensation to an Irish customer with Thai heritage after an employee drew ‘slanty’ eyes on the woman’s matcha tea latte cup.
Baneham stated that the drawing depicts ‘slanty’ eyes which he said is “clearly a reference to race”. Baneham stated that the Starbucks firm did not take reasonably practicable steps to prevent the act of harassment and is vicariously liable.Baneham described Foley’s account of, what he called, the racist incident’s impact on her as ‘compelling’ .In her evidence, Foley told the WRC hearing that she was “shocked and nervous” after the Starbucks employee showed her the latte cup with the slanty eyes as a way of identifying her for the collection of her latte.
Foley told the hearing that she does not like confrontation and that after receiving the latte cup, her boyfriend approached the counter and spoke with the supervisor, who came to apologise.A legal representatives for the Starbucks outlet put it to Foley that an American band called ‘Slants’ had sought to re-appropriate the depiction of eyes in the same way that ‘queer’ had been re-appropriated by the LGBT community.
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