I beg you not to come here. I literally beg. I came here after doing a mall walk with my mom and tried to order a salted pretzel and cinnamon pretzel. Meg let me know they did not have any salted pretzels yet, only not-salted, and I told her I could see one in the window and she looked and said she did not realize they had been baked and added. We both laughed and I said not to worry about it since it had only been about 10 minutes since they opened. I was walking away when I realized I was given an un-salted pretzel and I went back and asked if she could swap it for the correct pretzel. Meg then slammed the pretzel into the trash and rolled her eyes. I asked her what was wrong and she said "nothing" with attitude. A girl on the side, I later found out her name is Elaine, kept muttering insults like "stupid b*tch", "this is so damn stupid", "it's too damn early for this b*llsh*t", etc. I thought Elaine was talking about something else and that I was just misreading Meg's attitude so I just smiled and said, "sorry I just love my salt" and tried to order another pretzel as well. Elaine then shouted, "now she want another one too?!". Meg laughed and then spoke slowly and condescendingly, "do you actually know what you want this time or are you going to change your mind again. I was so confused and flustered and said, "I said salted and you said there wasn't any and I told you there was and we laughed about it remember?". She just shrugged and looked away and Elaine started yelling profanities and slurs at me telling me to shut up and walk away. It was SO shocking. I began to cry and told them I had worked at a mall food court before so I know they're probably stressed but to please not talk to customer this way. The workers began accusing me of doing things I did not do and started calling their manager telling them I did things, I did not. A male worker tried to comfort me and told me Elaine was in a bad mood and it wasn't my fault but Elaine started yelling at him and told him he's not management and she is, so to shut up and go back to work. I asked if there was something I did to upset them and said sorry if there was a miscommunication and Elaine began acting as if she were going to physically assault me. Meg then started accusing me of "scaring her" and said she doesn't know why I was yelling. I was so confused because I had NEVER raised my voice. Another customer that had been served 2 people above me and had witnessed the whole thing came over and asked if everything was okay. Elaine began yelling at her as well and then said she was going to report it to the police and ran off. Meg kept smirking and saying I should "go now" if I don't want to cause trouble. I was so confused because she seemed like a sweet girl at first. Mall security ended up having to get involved and he at first told me that I might need to get escorted out of the mall due to Elaine's accusations. Luckily there were witnesses that all confirmed that I was nothing but nice and only cried and NEVER raised my voice. They also confirmed Elaine was aggressive, verbally abusive, and encouraged the other employees to attack me though I had done nothing to provoke them. The mall security later told me he believed me and that he had heard complaints about Elaine before so it was not really surprising. I reached out to Auntie Anne's about what happened and they said they would look into it and follow up but they never responded though I followed up multiple times. I am so disappointed Elaine would attack another woman of color with racial slurs and such aggressive nature. I hope she has changed, though it is not likely. read more