A Tennessee man who was accused of using a racial slur on a receipt at a Red Lobster restaurant last year is suing the restaurant chain and the waitress who cashed in on the incident after she posted a copy of the receipt on the Internet. Devin Barnes, 21, claims he never wrote the racial slur on the receipt, and that the negative attention he received as a result of the way Toni Christina Jenkins - the waitress who claims to have received the slur - publicized the incident is slanderous. In Barnes' suit, filed in Williamson County Circuit Court, he claims Jenkins slandered him by misusing his personal information, and that Red Lobster's 'willful and malicious ... omissions to act' by failing to prevent Jenkins from using his name and information 'to gain publicity and money' has caused lasting damage to his reputation.
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Red Lobster waitress Christina Jenkins posted a picture of a check she received last month with 'none n*****' written on the tip line
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Devin Barnes, the 21-year-old customer she was serving, says he didn't write the racial slur
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He even hired a forensics expert to evaluate his handwriting who found no connection to the handwriting on the check
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Mr Barnes has now filed a $1 million lawsuit against both Jenkins and Red Lobster
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