Posted on 06/04/2019 7:39:03 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
Two Smoothie King stores in Charlotte, N.C., have been closed until further notice after racial slurs were allegedly added to customers’ receipts.
The incidents reportedly took place at two different Smoothie King stores within hours of each other on Sunday.
The first incident allegedly happened around 2:30 pm, according to a photo of the receipt that was shared on social media. In the photo, the N-word is written as the customer name.
“I thought it was very disrespectful," Calvin Caldwell, the customer who received the receipt with the racial slur told WSOC-TV. "I thought it was very rude, especially since I'm a paying customer, and I'm a loyal customer because I come to Smoothie King often. I thought it was in bad taste and completely inappropriate to use that kind of language."
The second incident occurred at 6:15 pm Sunday evening to customer Tony Choi, who wrote about the experience on Facebook, the Miami Herald reported.
“I was just in this Smoothie King with my kids. Instead of asking for my name. Zack H. thought it would be funny to put ‘Jackie Chan’ as my name. Being Korean, I find this very insulting. But the 3 employees working there at the time couldn’t stop laughing about it,” the post read.
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Smoothie King released to WBTV News regarding the two incidents Sunday night:
“Today, two instances happened in our Charlotte franchise stores that are totally unacceptable and go against every value that we stand for. Two of our team members wrote inappropriate, racial remarks about our guests. We have zero tolerance for any action where a guest is disrespected, and we have taken immediate and decisive action. As of tonight, both team members involved have been terminated. Both stores will be closed until the franchisees and their respective teams complete further training on our standards and to ensure that nothing like this occurs again. Additionally, we are continuing our investigation to insure that any individuals involved in these situations have been terminated. This behavior does not in any way reflect our company’s commitment to creating an open and welcoming environment, and for that we sincerely apologize. Our senior management team is taking additional steps to reinforce and retrain all of our franchisee and store-level employees of our inclusivity policies and best practices.”
That changes things.
Obviously more lying bullsht fraud by innerested anonymous parties.
No description.
Fox has a new cartoon show called Bless the Harts it looks completely offensive toward Southerners. Fox must pull this show for many reasons.
Faxed from a Kinkos in Texas?
Added by whom?????
Hoax!
Fake News!
Creative racism by the left wing and their mediots~
What morons! Anyone with a lick of sense knows that Chan is Chinese. The typical Korean is Park.
I doubt that the typical Smoothie King employee in North Carolina would understand or care about that. :)
Would that be offensive to the Canadian / somehow "racist?"
Regards,
Where is the stick-figure OH NOOOOES meme?
Closing down a shop because of this? Good God.
Geesh, nothing is worse than “racism” the way all THESE nincompoops behave any time some minor incident happens. They could have a bro kill someone in the shop, but they’ll open up as soon as the police leave. But little remark? SHUT IT DOWN!
“Attention Caleb: please report to the electric chair at once!”
It might be fake, but even if not, the real issue is the ludicrous absurd overreaction of everyone including the owners.
BTW, if this is real, then there should be no problem identifying the perps. Fire them if you want. DONE. Why is this a big production?
Exactly.
Commie libs are against the death penalty unless it involves “racism”. They want anyone with any perceived slight to pay through the nose for the smallest thing.
None of these “receipt” racism cases have been proven to be true. Why does anyone think that this one will be any different?
The employees names are right on the receipts.
How stupid would anyone have to be ?
The article says both employees were fired.
The receipt formats look slightly different between the 2 stores. Maybe that’s just due to using different receipt printers? A difference in ink or paper?
They are also franchised locations so they may use different point of sale systems?
It’s interesting that they decided to close the stores rather than just firing Caleb and Zack H.
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