Black and Brown patrons alleged that the manager who happens to be Hispanic himself at the Riverfront Pizzaria Bar & Grill in Milwaukee at first had refused them to dine-in.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
May 15, 2022
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Both Jarod Little, who is Black and Yussef Morales, who is of Puerto Rican descent posted on social media that on Saturday, May 14, 2022, they went to the Riverfront Pizzaria Bar & Grill with a party of about 15 people (3 females and the rest males) to celebrate Little's 37th Birthday, but the manager at the restaurant who happens to be Latino, at first refused to accommodate the group and told them that the restaurant was expecting other groups soon, which none arrived within the 45 minutes of waiting. Little noticed that a group of about 20 White people were just living the restaurant when he arrived and most of the place was empty. One of the restaurant staff members began to prepare tables for Little's party group, but the manager came over and stopped the restaurant worker from finishing grouping the tables together.
Little's party group was later seated to dine-in and still no one else was coming in to the restaurant. Two other invitees of Little's group arrived two hours later and the group didn't notice anyone else entering the restaurant since 7:00p.m.
One thing for sure, Little and his group noticed that they were experiencing slow restaurant staff and food service while they were there. Little told Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) when contacted that the group intended to spent more then $1,000 at the restaurant for drinks and food on his birthday celebration, but the slow service and the manager's attitude towards them only resulted with at least $500 being spent by Little's birthday group.
Little frequents the restaurant for lunch in many occasions, since he works close to it and several weeks ago he asked the owner of the restaurant, if it could accommodate Little's birthday group and the owner Arturo Napolos told him yes. But after the latest experience with the restaurant manager, Little won't be going back soon nor would he recommend the restaurant to anyone, in other words, the Riverfront Pizzaria Bar & Grill, 509 E. Erie Street gets a bad review with no stars.
Morales posted in his comment thread, "...it was bad. We got there and it was my guys bday and they looked at us, had some new guy say it was a 2 hour wait. After we argued they sat us down, no one came in for 30 min, they ask for drinks, they did not serve us a thing until we sat for an hour and I asked what was up. All servers just standing around serving everyone else. It was just a weird sucky feeling. We sat patiently and still got treated last. It was just a bad experience."
Both Little's and Morales' Facebook posts have been included in the article.
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