Waiter writes ‘Ching Chong’ on Asian diner’s receipt, gets fired

“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 individual’s stupidity,” the restaurant’s manager, who identified himself only as Rocco, said in a post on Cornerstone’s Facebook page.

The controversy began after a Facebook user named Ziggy Chau, shared a photo of the receipt, which reportedly belonged to a “friend’s mother.” Later, after Cornerstone issued its apology, Chau also tried to calm people calling for a boycott or protest of the restaurant.

“Everyone, let’s be civilised 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.

“The main reason for the original post was to ask everyone (especially Asians) to SPEAK UP and to IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN RACISM. Social media is very powerful,” the post also read.

Check out his original Facebook post here.

The incident was just the latest episode of restaurants allegedly using slurs to refer to customers on receipts in recent years.