Four employees of a Georgia sandwich shop were fired after making a noose with bread dough and filmed themselves playing with it.A video posted on social media of workers at a Jimmy John restaurant in Woodstock shows an employee draping the loaf of bread dough over another’s neck and pulling it. The other workers watch and laugh. A “Happy 4th of July” banner appears at the bottom of the video. The workers shown in the video appear white.
In Woodstock, GA in a Jimmy Johns, some white employees made a noose, look at the DETAILS in the fucking knot dough used for sandwiches. Crazy. They did it before…. pic.twitter.com/HylIMFvxxF
– X (@napkingcolejr) July 5, 2020
The Telegraph of Macon reports that the clip was published on Snapchat and then shared on social media, receiving thousands of views. Customers threatened to boycott the sandwich shop about the incident, calling the video hateful and racist.
Jimmy John’s condemned the video in a statement on Twitter.
“We have no tolerance for racism or discrimination in any form,” the company said in the video, shared by a Twitter user on Sunday. “The franchisee took immediate action and the employees were laid off. The actions seen in this video are completely unacceptable and do not represent the Jimmy John brand. “
