The white owner of a Buckhead restaurant told jurors at the start of a federal race discrimination trial on Monday that he has no memory of directing his staff to ask a professional basketball player and an Atlanta lawyer, both African Americans, to surrender their seats to white women waiting at the tavern bar.
Greg Greenbaum, who owns The Tavern at Phipps, also denied that he had told one of the restaurant’s operating partners, “If we have blacks at the bar, then black thugs are sure to follow, and it will kill business like it did in Buckhead.”
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