210. Is It Okay for Restaurants to Racially Profile Their Employees?

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🗓️ 25 June 2015

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We seem to have decided that ethnic food tastes better when it's served by people of that ethnicity (or at least something close). Does this make sense -- and is it legal?

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1:42.0	Hey, Levitt, pretend for a minute that you've decided to open up a restaurant. Can you imagine that?
2:00.4	Sure. Easy, easy to imagine something like that.
2:03.7	Would you enjoy it? No, I would hate it more than anything. But you can imagine. You can at
2:08.4	least imagine it. I can imagine. Yeah, I can. What kind of food would you serve? Probably fast food
2:14.4	because it's my favorite kind of food. I think that's what I would probably open. Could you imagine
2:19.5	opening like something with an Asian cuisine? Yeah, there's a really great Asian restaurant
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