A Virginia waiter has been canned after giving a couple a receipt calling them the N-word.
The horrified customers were celebrating their anniversary at the Crazy Crab in FairFax on Saturday when their receipt had the racial slur typed at the bottom next to the phrase “poquito poquito,” Spanish for “a little bit,” they told Fox 5 DC.
The female diner said she was “shocked and in disbelief” upon making the vile discovery.
“I really could not process what was happening in that heat of the moment,” she told the outlet, speaking anonymously and noting that she and her partner are Vietnamese and Hispanic.
“It was just shocking and upsetting. I’m very angry with the situation overall.”
The diner claimed the waiter and restaurant management initially brushed off the incident when she confronted them about it.
After no action was taken, the woman’s best friend posted the troubling receipt online — prompting management to finally fire the employee, who had only recently immigrated to the US from Asia, the outlet said.
“I’ve been to this Crazy Crab multiple times,” the victim’s friend, Soncerae Long, told the outlet.
“I’ve recommended this place to my friends. I’ve taken my mom. It’s just disappointing.”
Crazy Crab manager Rez Choudhury told the Atlanta Black Star the waiter likely learned the N-word from back-of-house staff while “goofing around” and then entered into the system without realizing it would print on the customer’s $133.87 check.
Choudhury said there was “no excuse” for the waiter’s alleged behavior.
“We are deeply, deeply sorry,” he told Fox.
“We are deeply apologetic about this whole incident. We have no words to express how remorseful we are.”
