PITTSBURGH — A woman has sued a chocolates-and-milkshake shop, saying she was fired for hiring a black woman instead of a white, “all-American girl.”

Officials with Edward Marc Chocolatier, which does business as The Milk Shake Factory, didn’t address the specific claims made in the federal lawsuit by 43-year-old Denise Beloncis, but they said they believe the litigation will be “successfully resolved.”

The woman said she was fired in November 2012, about three months after she was hired as the store’s general manager.

The plaintiff claims a supervisor specifically told her not to hire men and to hire “the all-American girl,” which the lawsuit described as blonde, blue-eyed and college-educated.