(Courtesy of Chelsea Shaw Twitter Page)
After dining at Krispy Krunchy Chicken, a University of North Texas student posted a photo of her receipt imprinted with a racial slur.
Communications major Chelsea Shaw took to Twitter on Tuesday (Apr. 17) to post a picture of the receipt from the restaurant that read “(ID #3088) Nigger” instead of her name.
“I need answers,” Shaw wrote on her account.
Appalled students and social media users chimed in on the conversation and tagged UNT President Neal Smatresk directly, hoping to gain some clarity.
Smatresk replied, “Our Mean Green family values respect and prides itself on inclusion. It is completely unacceptable and not who we are as a community. We acted immediately to identify the person responsible and that person has been terminated.”
Shaw originally approached management about the racial incident before tweeting the photo on social media and they responded “they don’t know” according to the UNT student’s tweet. The person responsible for the derogatory remark was a student worker, who typed the racial slur into the machine. The employee was immediately fired for their distasteful actions.
“We found out that it was not the cashier, it was actually the cook who did it. The cook came out and apologized to the manager,” UNT retail dining services executive director Bill McNeace told North Texas Daily. “The cook, though, his employment has been terminated. As soon as we found out, we let the person go.”
Shaw has “Demanded the closure of Krispy Krunchy Chicken” at UNT according to an immediate release from her attorney on Tuesday (April. 17).
