Rachel Tucker contacted her attorney after HBO star Zach Erdem allegedly threatened to call the police on her at his 75 Main restaurant.
Rachel Tucker, a curly-haired woman visiting 75 Main with her homegirls in The Hamptons, New York, said she felt humiliated after restaurant owner and HBO star Zach Erdem allegedly forced her to move tables because her “hair was too big.”
According to the woman who spoke to The Shade Room Investigates, the owner was summoned after a white family sitting at a table near her complained her hair was in the way. “As soon as I sat down, within five minutes, a man came over to me and said, ‘We have to move you because your hair is too big, and it’s in the way of the table behind you,’” she said.
Tucker’s family owns a home in the Hamptons, and she was enjoying a day out with her visiting friends, who are white. She said she’d never run into an issue during past visits to the restaurant; however, this time, she claimed Erdem asked her to move to a table in the back of his restaurant near the loud DJ booth. “We couldn’t hear a thing,” she said before her party was moved to another table outside.
“I am not racist,” Erdem told TSR and proceeded to inform the outlet of his Black colleagues and Black girlfriends, stating, “I’m always with the Black people.” He denied commenting about Tucker’s hair being too big but claimed her hair was close to the complaining party whenever she backed up. “The guest was very uncomfortable,” he said. The 75 Main owner allegedly told a manager at the restaurant to cancel Tucker’s payment. “I hope it will make her happy,” he said.
Source: Black Enterprise
