A Greggs delivery driver is suing the bakery chain for racism after a colleague compared working for them to slavery.
Louis Richardson-Cuffe - who is black - claims he was repeatedly harassed while working for the popular high street brand.
He says he was discriminated against by a colleague who said 'working for Greggs is like black people in slavery'.
Mr Richardson-Cuffe also claims he was treated differently to other drivers because he was not offered free coffee when he made a delivery while his white colleagues were.
He is taking Greggs to an employment tribunal which will decide whether Greggs was guilty of racial discrimination or harassment.
It comes a week after one worker claimed she was fired for exposing the high street chain - after posting a video on social media showing six bags of fresh food going into the bin.
Mr Richardson-Cuffe's case - which is denied by the bakery - was outlined at a preliminary hearing held in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
As part of his claims he alleges white drivers were qualified quickly by Greggs despite having accidents.
The driver says on one occasion he was not allowed free coffee from a store in Ipswich although it is company policy that all drivers are entitled to a complementary drink.
Mr Richardson-Cuffe says that white drivers were given coffee but he was not and says he was even told he 'should go get coffee from elsewhere or pay for the coffee' instead.
When he complained about the coffee incident, he was told to go home, he alleges.
The tribunal also heard his claim that in the autumn of 2019 a fellow driver verbally abused him and said 'they had to get rid of 'em all'.
Mr Richardson-Cuffe told the tribunal he believed the colleague meant 'they wanted to get rid of black people'.
The hearing was told that in January 2020 another fellow driver said to him that 'working for Greggs is like black people in slavery'.
Less than two weeks later Mr Richardson-Cuffe was sacked for gross misconduct. However, he claims he was dismissed because of his race.
He also states he was called an 'asshole' during the subsequent disciplinary review hearing, a comment he believed to be 'malicious and racist'.
He told the tribunal an Employee Performance Log had been 'manipulated' in order to dismiss him and noted a number of aspects he believed to be untrue.
At the preliminary hearing, legal representatives of Greggs noted the 'extremely wide-ranging allegations against over 20 different colleagues', adding: "They worked at different sites, and it is highly implausible they were all acting in a discriminatory fashion towards [Mr Richardson-Cuffe]."
A number of other allegations by the driver were dismissed at the preliminary stage as they had no reasonable prospect of success.
A full hearing of Mr Richardson-Cuffe's claims will be held in May.
