A black server at a Cracker Barrel restaurant near Nashville is accusing the company of retaliation, claiming she was fired after she complained that co-workers were insulting her with slurs like “burnt biscuit,” according to a lawsuit filed last month.

Roberta Mendez – a longtime server who was hired at Cracker Barrel in 2015 – alleged she was treated less favorably than her white counterparts, according to the suit, which was filed in the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

White employees at the restaurant regularly called her “nappy headed n—–,” “burnt biscuit,” “monkey” and “b—-,” and Mendez was also physically pushed and hit at work, the complaint said.

A black server at a Cracker Barrel restaurant near Nashville is accusing the company of firing her for report

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