The Duke’s Original Roadhouse restaurant in Gramercy Park is run like a real life roadhouse — with a Boss Hog manager whose perverted texts reduced one female bartender to tears, according to a new sex harass lawsuit.
“You feel dirty — absolutely. You feel sick inside,” brunette beauty Sujeilee Ramos told The Post of an alleged campaign of smutty texts from supervisor Sean Salinas, complete with links to porn videos and photos of his own genitalia.
Ramos, 36 — who acts under the name Sujeilee Candele, and has had bit parts in “Spiderman 3” and “Pride and Glory” — says in her suit that if she didn’t respond “politely,” Salinas would give her fewer hours.
“I have seen some of the most bizarre things as an employment lawyer, but these text messages top the chart,” Ramos lawyer Matthew Blit said of the texts, in which Salinas often slipped into bizarre, scatological baby talk.
“I like my little Irish peepee,” Salinas told her in one text, according the suit filed by Blit and law associate Justin Clark.
“He is cute and [at] least he is not an ugly peepee.”
The suit seeks unspecified money damages from Salinas and the restaurant’s parent company, Branded Restaurant Foods, LLC, which also owns another Dukes in Murray Hill, along with Big Daddy’s and City Crab.
“She’d answer LOL — it looked to me like two consensual adults going back and forth with silly banter,” counters Branded managing partner Michael Schatzberg.
When confronted, Salinas told him, “We were laughing and having fun. In hindsight, we probably shouldn’t have done it, but it was all just silly stuff,” Schatzberg.
On the day that Ramos finally sent Salinas a text asking that he please stop texting her, his response was to text back “OK,” and ask her to work a busy Saturday shift, Schatzberg said.
“We take this stuff very seriously,” Schatzberg added. “If it’s truly harassment.”
It was definitely harassment, Ramos insists in her suit.
“Fear and desperation is paralyzing,” she said of having stayed at the job three weeks. “No one deserves to be treated that way.”
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