General Evans Above Archive for Jan 07, 2012

Papa John’s Pizza: Now with racism

Jan 07, 2012 – permalink

I saw this in my Twitter feed earlier today and man, Papa John’s Pizza’s PR people are going to have to dance pretty fast to fix this one.

Customer Minhee Cho went to an NYC location Friday night to make an in-store purchase. On of the sales staff typed a note on the receipt so they could identify who the order was for. What did they type? “lady chinky eyes”

Really? On what planet is that an acceptable way to label a customer? How stupid, insensitive and racist is this employee? When the Huffington Post contacted the assistant manager, she said, “I apologize. I’m sure they didn’t mean any harm but some people will take it offensive.”

Some people? You mean the intelligent ones, right? It’ll be a real exercise in corporate spin to see how head office handles this one.