A Pret a Manger sandwich shop.
An African American cashier Wednesday filed a discrimination suit against the sandwich shop Pret a Manger, alleging that her co-workers and manager used the N-word around her unceasingly and that, rather than stop its use, her manager made excuses for it, telling her, “People don’t mean anything by it. We all grew up in the ‘hood.”
“Jairo’s gonna make the [N-word]s work like Mexicans,” the plaintiff and former cashier at Pret a Manger’s 60 Broad St. location in Manhattan claims she heard a co-worker say at one point during her six-month stretch at the busy outpost.
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