11 women hit Chili's teen staff in the eye, yank her hair as she refuses to seat them together due to Covid-19
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA: A teenage hostess revealed that she was physically assaulted and injured by a group of 11 women at a Chili's outlet in Louisiana after she told them to maintain social distancing at the restaurant. The teenager, Kelsy Wallace, 17, a former hostess at the Chili's eatery on Consitution Avenue in Baton Rouge, said the incident had taken place on Sunday, August 9.
While speaking to WAFB, Wallace shared, "I couldn't believe, like over two for 25s, and three for 10s, I got attacked." The Chili's restaurant has a policy where large groups of people are not allowed to sit together in their chain of restaurants given the coronavirus regulations. Wallace had added, "My general manager and my other managers tell us we cannot sit a table bigger than six because of the corona[virus]. We are supposed to separate them." While Wallace tried to explain the same to the group, they become irritated and agitated with her.
"And they got upset, so the first thing I did was go get my manager," Wallace, who is a straight-A student, revealed. She then got her manager and stood behind them while the group of 11 began to hurl nasty insults at her. Wallace shouted back at the group which is when they attacked her. "But then one girl come and she just hit me; we just started fighting. And all everybody who they was with just started hitting me, and the lady who pushed me first, she takes the wet floor sign, cocks back, and hits me with it in my eye," she shared.
The Baton Rouge Police Department arrived at the scene shortly after, by which time the women had already fled the scene in their cars. As a result of the manhandling and assault, Wallace received stitches above her eye and had a bunch of her hair yanked from her head. The teenager also had some broken nails from the altercation. The girl's grandmother, Lorrain Byrd, is said to be very shaken up by the ordeal. Byrd said, "I couldn't believe they would do or act like that, and then I mean, grown women, to fight a 17-year-old child at her job, who's trying to work to get her graduation things together so she can go off to college." The teen added, "I was just trying to follow the rules and make sure that I wasn't going to get in trouble. Like this is just overwhelming. I just cannot believe that this happened to me of all people." She shared how she has no intention whatsoever of returning to the restaurant.
A spokesperson from Chili's had released a statement that read, "We care deeply for every ChiliHead and are disappointed by the incident that took place at our Baton Rouge Chili's on August 9. We do not tolerate violent behavior in our restaurants, and are taking this incident very seriously as the safety and health of our Team Members and Guests is our top priority."
"Following this unprovoked attack, we immediately provided medical attention to our Team Member and called the local police department who is looking into this situation. We have made several attempts to contact the impacted Team Member and her family since the incident to provide support, but unfortunately have not received any response."
A GoFundMe page has been started for the student.