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Local News"Sexy Six" Fired Waitresses Hold ProtestBy Katie DeLong
WEST ALLIS - They call themselves the "Sexy Six." A group of waitresses claim they are out of a job because they're too old and not thin enough.
The women were picketing Wednesday outside a new restaurant on Highway 100 near Greenfield Ave. It used to be Pallas Family Restaurant.
The new place is called "Koozy's Bar & Grille" and is aimed at bikers.
Armed with signs that read, "Sixty is Sexy" and "Size Shouldn't Matter" the six women are ready for battle.
"You have to stand up for your rights and what you believe in," former waitress Vicki Lacher said.
Lacher is 50. She says she was fired because she is too heavy and because she is old.
Angie Hernandez is 34. "I'm no longer there because I'm not a size three," Hernandez said.
Three of the woman worked 10 or more years at the restaurant. All believe they're no longer working because they are either too old or too big.
"Did they say that or you feel they implied that," reporter Charles Benson asked.
"They implied it," said Lacher.
"How so?" Benson asked.
Lacher said, "They discharged all of us. However they did keep one server who is much thinner than I am, a pretty girl."
The women claim the new waitresses will have a new - skimpier uniform.
Lacher said, It's a very little skirt and barely covers your behind and a very tiny tank top.
"It's degrading," said Hernandez. "I would never go to work like that."
The new owners said they did get the woman other jobs and nearby Greek restaurants and that they never made any promises when the old place closed and the new one opened.
Lacher said, "These girls they think this is how they have to dress, how they have to look, in order to make good money and that's wrong."
The women have hired a lawyer and plan to file discrimination claims at the state and federal levels next week.
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