Calling Asians Racist Slurs on Fast Food Receipts is Now a National Trend

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Ever ordered something at Jamba Juice or Starbucks and been asked for your name? The process is supposed to help speed things up and make sure customers get the correct drink but now a third incident has been recorded where a fast-food worker called an Asian customer a derogatory and racist name on the receipt.

The first two incidents happened last month when two young Asian-Americans placed an order at a Chik-fil-A restaurant in Irvine, Calif. and along with their change, the employee handed them a receipt listing their names as "Ching" and "Chong."

And now on the other side of the United States in Harlem, a 16-year-old employee at a Papa John's pizza restaurant, identified an Asian-American customer on the receipt as "lady chinky eyes."

The woman who was the victim of last Friday's Papa John's incident went to Twitter shortly after she got her receipt. "Hey @PapaJohns just FYI my name isn't "lady chinky eyes," tweeted Minhee Cho, who just so happens to be the communications manager at ProPublica. She also included a picture with her tweet.

"We are very upset by recent receipt issue in New York & sincerely apologize to our customer. Franchise employee involved is being terminated," Papa John's tweeted soon after Cho's tweet went viral.

The owner of the store, Ronald Johnson, told NY Daily News that he was shocked over the incident and planned on having sensitivity trainings to make sure nothing similar ever happened again.

And the Papa John employees desperately need it because an assistant manager told The Post he thought 'the lady put it out there just to get some attention--some people like that type of attention."

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[slim 1,525]

The "victim." Really?

[Obama 2012 1,714]

people need to get thicker skin...

[Danno 1,228]

I'm not as good at math as some here but how many fast-food meals are purchased a day in the USA?

And we have a whopping three receipts with objectionable things scribbled on them...(1 or 2 might be copycatted by the customer).

This is how you know life really is Great here in America...... this is the substance of our downside.

[luckytxn 2,264]

I can just imagine the sensitivity training being just telling them to not do it in the future.

[slim 1,525]

Sensitivity training for a 16-year-old employee is likely to have great effect.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Sensitivity training for a 16-year-old employee is likely to have great effect.

uh huh. Won't stop him/her from going home and screaming racial obscenities on Xbox...

[slim 1,525]

uh huh. Won't stop him/her from going home and screaming racial obscenities on Xbox...

I wonder if mandatory name/address/photo would help with that?

[Obama 2012 1,714]

I wonder if mandatory name/address/photo would help with that?

the microchips in the wrists will certainly help with that.

[Darnell 8,478]

3 is not a trend. 29,000 over 90 days is a trend.