NEW DELHI, Oct 26: Ananya Birla, the daughter Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla has accused a California-based restaurant in the United States of practicing racism.
In a Twitter message, she claimed that the Italian-American dining place in California “literally threw” her and her family out of their premises. “This is not okay.” She said.
“This restaurant @ScopaRestaurant literally threw my family and I, out of their premises. So racist. So sad. You really need to treat your customers right. Very racist. This is not okay,” the singer and artist daughter of the billionaire father said.
The Scopa Italian Roots restaurant is an Italian-American dining place by chef Antonia Lofaso in California.
“We waited for 3 hours to eat at your restaurant. @chefantonia Your waiter Joshua Silverman was extremely rude to my mother, bordering racist. This isn’t okay,” Ananya said in another tweet.
Her mother Neerja Birla, an educationist and mental health activist, also lashed out at the restaurant for ill-treating them.
“Very shocking… absolutely ridiculous behaviour by @ScopaRestaurant. You have no right to treat any of your customers like this,” she said.
“I have never experienced anything of this sort. Racism exists and is real. Unbelievable. @ScopaRestaurant,” her son Aryaman Birla tweeted.
(Manas Dasgupta)