"Literally threw my family out": Kumar Mangalam Birla's daughter faces racism at US restaurant

Ananya Birla, the daughter of Aditya Birla Group's billionaire chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, has slammed a US restaurant for being "racist", saying the Italian-American dining place in California "literally threw" her and her family out of their premises. The singer and artist took to Twitter to share her ordeal on Saturday, saying "this is not okay". The Scopa Italian Roots restaurant is an Italian-American dining place by chef Antonia Lofaso in California.

This restaurant @ScopaRestaurant literally threw my family and I, out of their premises. So racist. So sad. You really need to treat your customers right. Very racist. This is not okay.

— Ananya Birla (@ananya_birla) October 24, 2020

We waited for 3 hours to eat at your restaurant. @chefantonia Your waiter Joshua Silverman was extremely rude to my mother, bordering racist. This isn’t okay.

— Ananya Birla (@ananya_birla) October 24, 2020

In a tweet, Neerja Birla also lashed out at the restaurant for ill-treating them. "Very shocking... absolutely ridiculous behaviour by @ScopaRestaurant.  You have no right to treat any of your customers like this," she said. "I have never experienced anything of this sort. Racism exists and is real. Unbelievable. @ScopaRestaurant," their son Aryaman Birla also tweeted. Rannvijay Singha and Karanvir Bohra also came in support of Ananya Birla and condemned the behaviour by the restaurant. Ananya, the eldest child of industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and Neerja Birla. Ananya Birla is also the founder of Svatantra Microfinance, a company that provides microfinance to women in rural India.

Very shocking ..absolutely ridiculous behaviour by @ScopaRestaurant . You have no right to treat any of your customers like this. https://t.co/szUkdxAgNh

— Neerja Birla (@NeerjaBirla) October 24, 2020