Five Black women who say they were refused service at a Denny’s in Pennsylvania last year due to electrical issues in the restaurant are suing the company and the franchisee for racial discrimination, alleging that when they went inside to use the restroom, they saw customers receiving polite and orderly service and no lights flickering.

All of the customers in the restaurant were white.

The five women, who had traveled from New York, were planning to have lunch on Jan. 14, 2024 when, as they entered the Denny’s in Bloomsburg, a white hostess cut them off them in the vestibule and denied them entry and service, telling them that the lights in the restaurant were “flickering,” according to their lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania on Nov. 5, and obtained by Atlanta Black

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