Two Burger King customers tell Spanish-speaking manager to ‘go back to Mexico’

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“Guess what ma’am? I’m not Mexican,' said Ricardo Castillo, who is of Puerto Rican descent. 'You’re being prejudiced and I want you out of my restaurant right now.”

A heated exchange between two customers and the manager of a Florida Burger King who spoke Spanish in the restaurant was caught on video and viewed 22,000“Go back to Mexico if you want to keep speaking Spanish,” a woman is heard telling the manager as she is seated with her meal and another woman.

“When I heard ‘You cannot speak Spanish in public,’ I grabbed my phone and I was like, ‘Hold up,'" said customer Neyzha Borrero, who recorded the exchange. Castillo said later that he had had been speaking Spanish with an employee. The women said they had a complaint, but he didn't know what it was about,“I can’t believe that at this age there’s still people like that,” Castillo said in an interview withBurger King said the owner of the Eustis restaurant is “looking into the matter.”

 

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Poor Grandma. You can’t take her anywhere without her embarrassing herself.

trumpeffect

More race baiting by NBC.

Good for him I'm glad he stuck up for himself told them to get lost.

This may sound horrible but I don't care. My only solace is that many of these racists are older and will be dead soon. I'm sorry but if you marginalize people who are serving you and try to make them feel inferior for who they are then I have no sympathy for you.

FoxNews is destroying the country

This bigoted generation will be dead soon. We’ve got that going for us.

Trump’s America

Ugly American reputation is unfortunately alive and well in America today.

I am so sick of this racist bravado! Hopefully they have some nice white supremacists working in the home she’ll be entering soon to finish out her golden years.

These two old scumbags didn't deserve an explanation about his ancestry. Just show them the door.

i truly understand him... bravo for him!

Would it have been OK if he was speaking French in an upscale French Restaurant ? ?

Thank you Trump for inciting hate.

He just handle perfect ! Muy bien hecho Ricardo castillo you did the right thing !!!

Good throw them out!!!!!!!

So we all know “American” in NOT a language, & moreover, the United States, which includes Puerto Rico & 15 other territories, has NO official language. If u missed that before, u know it now. Also, multi-lingual ppl have higher literacy levels. But the video already showed that

First of all you should never insult the person who prepares your food. They have the ability to do a lot of disgusting things to the food you’re about to eat. As she was leaving he should have told her, hope you enjoyed the loogie under your hamburger patty. Have a nice day.

“The trump Effect”. Emboldening people to vocalize their hatred, bigotry, and racism. It’s the only “promise” he’s kept.

Florida is a Spanish word.

joy31608

You know someone has 🥇Ignorance Level the second they say “You’re in America, you should speak American...”

BurgerKing had better not do anything to this employee. If they do, he should sue for a hostile work environment. Good for him!

Making America Great Again. Wow! Smh

I’ve been told to leave my country 3 times since the election, I can trace my family bk almost 300 yrs in the area I live

Vile and evil people!😡

Literally no point in arguing with 2 gals who are about one step away from a broken hip and the gates of Hell. They’ve been racist their entire lives - should have just told them to leave for said being racists and call the police.

A case study on how NOT to handle a bad customer 😂

When those tables turn....

It’s freaking ridiculous that he wasn’t even speaking to them he was speaking to an employee it’s none of their damn business. And people need to remember before the Europeans came to this country it was Hispanic and red blooded American Indians. There is no national language

I wish someone would try to pull this on me. I ain't the one lemme tell you

Florida?

iMaGiNe expecting a service then degrading the people who do it

These women are just hateful. Stay home and order in.

Moroni imbeciles who follows trump.

Sounds like there was plenty of rudeness to go around. It's not polite to speak a foreign language in the presence of those who don't speak it, but if the employee didn't speak English, I understand. That might bring to light another issue that needs researching. Why no English.

Puerto Rico has the highest percentage of people who speak Spanish than in any State or other (U.S.) Territory.

If they believe in heaven they will be surprised when that brown hued angel asked why they should be allowed entry.😆😆😆

NBCLatino Like I always tell all my people, especially the legal ones who think they’re special.... it doesn’t matter. Legal or not we are all illegal and Mexican. Even those born here. Get used to it cause it’s just getting worse.

NBCLatino I live this every day since I started school. I’m 40 now. And I’m just numb to it. It actually makes me sad to hear how ignorant people can be... and sadly my kids go thru this at school with other kids and teachers. TEACHERS! Stores, work, anywhere...

He handled those two horrible human beings under pressure with such dignity good on him

I hear foreign languages in public all the time. Not sure how it's any of my business, let alone police it. Unilingualism is nothing to take pride in.

Everytime these two old women say Florida...they are speaking Spanish, or haven't they noticed. Most names of cities, bodies of water, beaches and so on are either Spanish or Native American. Pls tell me why these ignorants dont know this? Ugh

What can you tell them? ... 'Get off my face redneck, go back to your truck house'

Just your average Day in America, how many times do I have to say this Racism is alive and well, it Never died or went away especially with people from these old biddies generation, we just get to see it on a daily basis now, because of Modern Technology...

SpeakBilingual everyone who knows spanish, please speak it exclusively in public. Perhaps it will drive them completely INSANE.

$100 says these two old ladies regularly consume Fox News

Trump is not the only stupid one.

Why do ppl continue to put every latin/Hispanic in the same basket? It’s like saying every English, German, Swede, Slovakian & whatever have no distinction, they’re just white - plain & simple, they are alike. Whatever one of them does, good or bad, is attributed to all of them.

I live in Orlando and tomorrow I’m going to drive to Eustis and shake that manager’s hand.

Trump is to blame for this type of shit ......

He handled it pretty well. Kudos to him.

Ignorant people!! Shows what education she has. NONE!!

This is Trump’s America

The ladies are living proof of that Trump world is boosting the split

We need one language to unite us!

Must be from the villages! Old biddies need to stay home with that hate! embarassed

How rude. Eating meat make you be this way.

BurgerKing can we get a woke commercial about people speaking all different kinds of languages in your restaurants? Asking for a friend

Wow. WOW!

Listening to that old bag say ignorant hurt my brain

It’s unfortunate that some many people encounter racists these days. Life is hard enough for most people these days, making a living isn’t easy and then to be judged for no reason. And when will people understand America has no official language!?!? 🤷🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

The person who recorded this sucks. Stand up for the manager instead of trying to be a celebrity.

Welcome to Trump country.

Great! For all those ignorants, the United States doesn't have official language. (Investigate it) . We are free to speak the lenguaje we want around others. Speaking Spanish is not offensive being rude as the ladies is.

Glad the Manager kicked their butts out.

NBCLatino

Terrible

I would've told her...cómete tú pinche Whopper y tus pinches papás fritas y vete a chingar tu madre, ma'am.

Deport those old bags. I don’t even care where they are deported to.

White trash from Florida, no way?

NBCLatino realDonaldTrump this is your fault and I’m a conservative.

He is my hero throw them out

The ladies should know it was the USA who invaded Puerto Rico in 1898. The US should stop playing empire if it doesn’t want more brown people coming.

They were lucky I was not the Manager, he was too nice to them.

Old ignorant assess

Afuera par de brujas!

👏👏👏

He said, stifle yourself Edith. Get out!

Two deplorables.

Trump voters, no doubt.

Bigots gonna bigot. Smh.

HasleyPitman Seriously? Just stop telling hispanics to move to another country. It is not illegal nor a crime to speak Spanish in the U.S. You can't get arrested for speaking a foreign language in this country. Racists dont even respect the pledge of allegiance. READ IT AND APPLY IT

Good. For. Him!!!

my fear is America will never be the same after trump ….. racism is exploding ...im just happy cameras are rolling to expose them … im just waiting to say something if I see this …. im waiting

Old white racist women.

It use to be considered rude to speak another language when in the presence of others. Now its not only rude but racist to ask them to speak the common language. I don't condone what he did but you should respect others if you want respect. Works both ways

More dim-witted _________

BurgerKing where you at?

Good for that manager!

Good for him. Racist old bats.

Well of course it’s a baby boomer

BurgerKing

So some Franchise Freak named, Dick Cah-stee-ah OWNS Burger King? Who goes to these sewage holes? Why would anyone darken the doorways of these toxic septic tanks? People; stay AWAY from these sludge pumping stations. HATERS are running those garbage troughs!

Trump supporters no doubt

Now, if these two twats were cops.......

So sick of this Yrump inspired hatred

Working WhileBrown ...

Maybe BurgerKing can do the right thing and publicly humiliate these racist women Not only towards one of their employees - but any other person who would be repulsed by seeing this, if eating there!!!

Once again Florida.

Tired of these white people’s ignorance

Exactly! Let them know we been citizens BY FORCE since 1898

It is basic human decency to speak English outdoors, when you are in America.

All I can tell myself is that every day thousands of old bigots are dying off.

Meanwhile, he lost half his customers.

Good for him

I guess her racist nickname is Fast Food Fiona.

The only better than a racist is a self-owning racist.

🤣 got to love the slightly elderly racist ladies. It's so dumb. He did the right thing

hate each other, slaves.

EnemyOfThePeople

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