Papa John’s fires cashier for racist receipt comment

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Papa John’s Pizza fired a cashier at one of its New York restaurants and apologized to an Asian-American customer for a receipt that identified her as “lady chinky eyes.”

“We were extremely concerned to learn of the receipt issued in New York,” the company said in a statement posted on its Facebook page Saturday.

Minhee Cho, a communications manager at nonprofit investigative journalism group ProPublica, posted a photo of the receipt on her Twitter account Saturday morning and by the afternoon it was picked up by a local newspaper.

Along with the receipt, Cho tweeted “just FYI my name isn’t ‘lady chinky eyes.'”

The receipt had been viewed online almost 200,000 times by Sunday afternoon, according to the counter on the Twitpic page.

Cho did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment, but her boss did.

“This blew up far beyond Minhee’s expectations,” ProPublica spokesman Mike Webb said in an e-mail. “She has reporters coming to her apartment, and that’s annoying. So she wants it to blow over and she has nothing more to say.”

Cho was a customer Friday night at the Papa John’s on Broadway in Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood, according to the receipt.

“This act goes against our company values, and we’ve confirmed with the franchisee that this matter was addressed immediately and that the employee is being terminated,” the pizza company said. “We are truly sorry for this customer’s experience.”

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6 years ago

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whitecrane
11 years ago

This action was humiliating.Hope it will never happen.

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12 years ago

This is very humiliating action especially to our races in United Stated. We should respect to other ethnics if we want to be respected.

Bryan

newageluddite
12 years ago

Take care who you gratuitously insult. They may be a communications manager at a nonprofit investigative journalism group. I love when karma(metaphorically speaking, Mike) runs over another person’s dogma.

Reply to  newageluddite
12 years ago

LOL! I too hate when that happens newageluddite 🙂

Erin N.
Reply to  newageluddite
12 years ago

I couldn’t believe that! The universe has a kick a** sense of humor.

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