Asian Customer Receives 'Racial Receipt' From East Hampton Cafe

An Asian customer received a “racial receipt” from the Golden Pear Cafe in East Hampton last week, the customer told the Angry Asian Man blog.

A man named Warren sent a photo of his receipt to the blog, which shows that under Check ID, which is the space used to enter the customer’s name, the waitress, Karina, instead wrote in “CHINO.”

Warren wrote to the blog that upon seeing this, he confronted the manager, Christina, who “confiscated his copy of the receipt and tried to defend Karina instead of offering a genuine apology.”

According to Warren, Christina had Karina speak with him to make amends, but “Karina instead tried to defend herself as well.”

“Neither Christina nor Karina believed Karina had done anything wrong, and that was a huge cause of concern for me,” Warren said, according to the blog. “Karina and Christina both said they write racial descriptions on receipts to describe customers ‘all the time.’”

The Golden Pear Cafe, which is located at 34 Newton Lane, has yet to return Patch’s calls for comment.

Patch readers have chimed in the incident, with some arguing that “Chino” is not a racist term.

“Chino means Chinese in Spanish,” one reader wrote on the East Hampton Patch Facebook page. “Maybe the Asian customer felt offended because he wasn’t Chinese but it doesn’t mean he was being discriminated against.”

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