An Australian restaurant fired one of its staff after using the word “niggas” on a receipt given to a black man, a media report said.
Rutendo Ruth Muchinguri had posted a photo on Facebook of the receipt her husband Nicholas received from the store. In her post, Ms Muchinguri said: “My hard working black husband went to your Collins St store to have lunch with his friends and this is a photo of his receipt for the order.
“It is so disappointing that in a place where my husband spent his hard earned money, he received this sort of disgracefully discriminatory treatment. It’s exhausting that in 2017, in a modern and multicultural society some of your staff remain insensitive to the impact that this insidiously nasty and vile word has,” she had said, adding: “Come on, you can do better. This is not OK.”
A spokesperson for the company told Guardian they were “disappointed and saddened that Nicholas Muchinguri was treated in this manner by one of our employees” and said “it is not behaviour or language that we support or condone in any way and does not reflect the values or culture of our business”.
On Saturday, Ms Muchinguri had posted on social media that the family was disappointed by the initial response from the restaurant group, which she said “was more concerned about its public image than the hurt caused”. The restaurant, which is owned by celebrity chef Neil Perry, was dismissed shortly afterwards.
