Eatery fires server who wrote anti-Asian slur on receipt

A New York City restaurant publicly apologized on Thursday and fired a waiter after an Asian customer was given a receipt on which an offensive racial term was printed.

Cornerstone Café on Avenue B in Manhattan’s East Village posted an apology on its Facebook page after an employee referred to a customer as ‘Ching Chong.’

The customer had paid for an order of steak and eggs to go.

‘This situation leaves me no choice than to terminate this employee for this unjustified act. It definitely does not reflect the way the Cornerstone staff or I think because of one individuals stupidity,’ the restaurant’s manager, who identified himself only as Rocco, said in a post on Cornerstone’s Facebook page.

An image of the receipt with the offensive words was posted to a separate Facebook account and went viral

‘This situation leaves me no choice than to terminate this employee for this unjustified act,’ the restaurant’s manager wrote in a Facebook post (above)

An image of the receipt with the offensive words was posted to a separate Facebook account and went viral. 

‘This just happened to my friend’s mother…right here in NYC!!’ the Facebook user, Ziggy Chau, wrote in the post. 

After Cornerstone’s apology, a number of social media users began calling for a boycott, but Chau pushed back. 

‘Everyone, let’s be civilized now. There are many people that are employed by the restaurant whose livelihoods depend on their jobs there and should not suffer because ONE IGNORANT employee thought it was ok to make a racist remark,’ Chau said.