Man sues restaurant over no-cash COVID-19 policy
January 8, 2021 - Tampa resident Ra Nu Ra Khuti Amen Bey, 49, has filed a civil lawsuit against Darden Restaurants, the Orlando-based parent company of Olive Garden restaurants, alleging that a Tampa Olive Garden refused to accept cash as payment for a pickup order he placed in December. The management of the restaurant in question, located at 2801 E. Busch Blvd., cited the company’s new COVID-era policy of cashless transactions as its basis for denying service to Bey, a convicted felon who also goes by the name Bertram Andrews-Powley III and claims he is an indigenous member of the “Moorish Nation.” Bey’s lawsuit, filed in Hillsborough County, seeks $8,000 in damages.