Anti-Asian Fast Food Receipt Racism One Incident Away from
TrendS  Whoops! Mix-up at Papa John's! "Hey Papa John's, just
FYI my name isn't 'lady chinky eyes.'"" ProPublica
communications manager Minhee Cho helpfully Tweeted on Saturday,
posting a photo of a receipt with "lady chinky eyes" listed as
the name. Guess the real Lady C.E. won't be getting her pizza.
Cho, of course, is the third Asian-American fast food customer
in the last two months to be the recipient of receipt-based
racism—in December,a Chik-fil-A employee gave two customers
receipts listing their names as "Ching" and "Chong."—which means
we're all one more racist receipt-name away from a full-blown
trend. (Keep an eye out and email us if you've got any good
weird fast-food receipts.) The Papa John's cashier, meanwhile,
has been fired, and the store assistant manager offered this
explanation to Gothamist:  "It's a busy place, and it was a way
to identify her and her order. You know, we do stuff like that
sometimes. We'll write ‘the lady with t