US pizza company Papa John's has issued an apology to a New York woman of Asian descent who was given a receipt that referred to her as “lady chinky eyes.”
Minhee Cho, a communications manager for the journalism site ProPublica, posted a message with a photo of the offending receipt on her personal Twitter account after visiting one of the chain's restaurants.
“Hey @PapaJohns just FYI my name isn't ‘lady chinky eyes,'” she wrote -- prompting outrage on the popular microblogging site.
The message itself was retweeted some 500 times and the photo quickly garnered over 150,000 views -- hours later that Saturday, Papa John's posted an apology on its Twitter and Facebook pages.
Minhee Cho, a communications manager for the journalism site ProPublica, posted a message with a photo of the offending receipt on her personal Twitter account after visiting one of the chain's restaurants.
“Hey @PapaJohns just FYI my name isn't ‘lady chinky eyes,'” she wrote -- prompting outrage on the popular microblogging site.
The message itself was retweeted some 500 times and the photo quickly garnered over 150,000 views -- hours later that Saturday, Papa John's posted an apology on its Twitter and Facebook pages.
A federal lawsuit filed by a successful African-American businessman
against a Newport Beach steakhouse that repeatedly listed him on credit card receipts as "McStinkyNigger," "McNigShit" and "McCottonwood" was mutually dismissed, after the parties decided to settle.
No
terms of the settlement were revealed. However, you can guess any
payment to McHenry is going to be financially substantial. It is against
federal law for a public business to brazenly discriminate against a
customer based on race.
One would think that by this point in the internet's existence employees
responsible for putting customers' names on receipts might be aware
that putting a potentially offensive nickname is probably nowhere near
as hilarious as it initially seems. Yet, here we have a story of a
Chick-Fil-A in Irvine, CA where an employee allegedly decided to
describe two Asian customers as “Ching” and “Chong.”
The receipts were posted by a U.C. Irvine student who says his friend, a Resident Adviser at the school, had taken some of his students to the Chick-Fil-A, where the cashier didn't ask for the two customers' names.
The receipts were posted by a U.C. Irvine student who says his friend, a Resident Adviser at the school, had taken some of his students to the Chick-Fil-A, where the cashier didn't ask for the two customers' names.
When Alex dropped his clothes off at his dry cleaner for washing, he
received a ticket for when he returned to pick them up. He didn't glance
at the ticket until after he left the shop, and was surprised to learn
that an unknown employee had dubbed him “Asshole, Alex.”
At the bottom of the receipt you'll see the descriptions of the people dining, starting with "guy no hair." The funny thing is that they still mixed up all the food orders.
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