She had everything a bikini-themed restaurant you wish - waitressing experience, motivation and a more than ample bra size 34D. But the beautiful melody Morales said she still was rejected for a job at Times Square's Hawaiian Tropic Zone - because she was the "ghetto". Morales countered, "I'm 5-foot-6. I am slim and slender. I got breasts. OK, I was perfect for the job." The restaurant is already reeling from $ 600 million federal court in October when four waiters said management looked the other way while a general manager sexually harassed and attacked them.
Discrimination was the only reason she did not get a job, "said Morales, a 21-year-old Upper West Side, whose father is Puerto Rica and mother is Dominican. Repeated trips to the restaurant, waiters will tell her that they were hiring, "she said. But leaders will always tell her that there were no openings. Finally, in June phone calls ignored by her mother, leaders called "Rick" and "Frank" spilled the truth, claiming the trial. Morales admits she has a Latin accent. But as an American citizen - New York-born and raised - she says her English is fine.
In addition, it was her dream, she says, carrying plates of the restaurant's signature crispy-chicken lollipops and hung beef while a bikini and sarong. Morales' attorneys, Derek Smith, said she is seeking $ 500 per day - or $ 130,000 per year - for each year, she could reasonably be expected to have worked there, plus PUNITIVE damages that could total more than one million dollars. Hawaiian Tropic Zone attorney James Rosenzweig said: "We are equal opportunity employer, and find this claim to be without value."
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