Pizza Place Denied Service to Man Wearing Expensive Pants: Complaint

CHICAGO, IL - A pizza place in the West Loop is the target of a complaint that states a man was refused service because of the pants he wore. 

The complaint states Parlor Pizza Bar, at 108 N. Green St., denied service to Antar Jackson and his wife on June 5 because Jackson’s pants violated the business’ evening dress code, according to an NBC-Chicago report. 

The pizza place may have thought Jackson’s $250 Vince-designed tailored wool pants were sweatpants because he was also wearing a baseball cap and white t-shirt at the time. 

But Jackson told NBC he believes the denial of service was less about his pants, and more about his race. Jackson is an African-American. 

Jackson said on the night in question, a security guard told him the pants were “too street,” and that’s why he was denied entry. 

A Parlor Pizza statement to NBC indicated the dress code rules indicate “athletic wear is prohibited under our policy and unfortunately, the gentleman in question was wearing sweatpants.”

Jackson said there were more than a few people dining at the pizza place that time that were dressing more “street” than he.
“Saw people in yoga pants, baggy cargo shorts, baseball caps,” he said. 

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