On Christmas Eve, few of my friends and I went to our tradition for the San Francisco Gay Men Chorus Christmas Eve concert in Castro Theater. To continue our joyful night, we went cross the street, with a reservation, to be dining at Café Mystique, which turned out to be a very unpleasant experience. There were total 9 of use, arrived the restaurant before 8:30pm. We were told to be waited for our table, right outside of restaurant door. Few of my friends needed to use the restroom and went inside to do so. The restaurant personnel at the door, single-handedly only stopped one of my friends, L, who happens to be an African America. She told L, the restroom is only for the customer. Needless to say, L responded her: “I am a customer, waiting outside with the group for our table”. But she replied: no, you can’t use our restroom. That person is a white woman, she stopped the black person for the group of them wanted using restroom. That has made my L totally upset (I would be too!). He did not want to eat there anymore. To maintain the mood for the rest of friends, I convinced L to stay and tell him, I will need to speak to the restaurant manager. To protect our food and service, L asked me not to confront her until the dinner was served, which I did. After the diner, I went to that woman, asked if I can speak to the restaurant manager. She said she is the manager. I pointed out to her, the way she treated my friend was wrong, she needs to apologize to L. Only thing she said to me was “I did not know he was a customer”, even she later served our table and clearly saw L was seating with the group. She refused to apologize. In the culturally integrated city of San Francisco, especially in the district of Castro, the restaurant manager is still practicing discrimination, that is very shameful, and totally unacceptable. She should not be allowed to work in our community!