A teen Chili’s hostess was attacked by a group of women after she explained to them about the restaurant’s COVID-19 guidelines in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Kelsey Wallace,17, worked at the Chili’s restaurant on Constitution Ave and said she tried to explain to a group of more than 10 women that she couldn’t sit them together due to the pandemic. Wallace told WAFB, “My general manager and my other managers tell us we cannot sit a table bigger than six because of the corona[virus]. We are supposed to separate them” but the women decided to attack the teen after she went to get her manager.
After she brought out her manager to explain the restaurant’s new policy due to COVID-19, the women and Wallace began to argue with each other, leading up to the assault.
“But then one girl come and she just hit me; we just started fighting. And all everybody who they was with just started hitting me, and the lady who pushed me first, she takes the wet floor sign, cocks back, and hits me with it in my eye.
“I was just trying to follow the rules and make sure that I wasn’t going to get in trouble. Like this is just overwhelming. I just cannot believe that this happened to me of all people.”
When officers from the Baton Rouge Police Department arrived at the scene to make a report, the women already left in their vehicle, and Wallace was transported to a local hospital. She received stitches above her eye and sustained broken nails along with torn hair from her scalp.
The straight-A student worked at the restaurant since June to earn extra money but now she has resigned from her position due to the incident.