A Dairy Queen franchise owner in Zion, IL, has been accused not only of calling a mother and her children racial slurs but ‘proudly’ admitting to it.
Deianeira Ford posted about the incident on Facebook, saying that the owner had become belligerent after she asked for a $5 refund because she had not received all the food she ordered. According to Ford, the owner responded to the request by calling her and her children racial slurs.
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A police officer who arrived on the scene said that the man “proudly admitted” to using the slurs and said that he would “be happy to go to jail over the issue.”
However, the store owner, Jim Crichton, has denied the claims categorically.
“It’s 99 percent lies. This is blown so far out of proportion it’s stupid,” he told the News-Sun. “Her order was confusing, and I told her, ‘Here’s your money back.’ This is so far blown out of proportion.”
UPDATE: Chrichton did issue an apology on Friday.
“I take full responsibility of my actions,” he said in a statement. “As the owner of this restaurant, I should be a model for others. My actions were inexcusable and unacceptable.”
Dairy Queen also issued a statement Friday, calling Crichton’s actions “inexcusable, reprehensible, [and] unacceptable” and stating that the Dairy Queen location would be closed and would not reopen until someone else besides Crichton was heading it up.
