McDonald’s fires owner of two Victorian restaurants after video of alleged racialised rant goes viral

Comments in video were ‘unacceptable’ and ‘do not reflect the beliefs of the company’, the fast-food chain said

McDonald’s has fired the owner of two of its restaurants in Victoria after he was filmed in an alleged racialised verbal attack on an Aboriginal family that went viral on Twitter.

Robert Vigors, who owned McDonald’s in Mildura and Irymple, was filmed in a confrontation at a family home in Mildura that was posted on Twitter by a family member.

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