A Black family vacationing in the Bay Area of California last week said their trip took an ugly turn after their visit to a restaurant ended with a racial slur being typed on their receipt.
Whitney Washington told KTVU that she and her family were the only Black customers at the Pica Pica Arepa Kitchen in San Francisco when they visited the restaurant on Aug. 12.
Their visit was fine until they got the receipt for their food orders.
On it was printed, “Here n****s.”
“My daughter is actually the one who notices in the upper right-hand corner that it says what it says. ‘Here the N-word,’” Washington said.
Right away, Washington said she visited other customers’ tables to compare her receipt to theirs and check whether this was a restaurant-wide error or a targeted incident.
“We were the only Black people in the restaurant,” Washington remarked . “She showed us her receipt, and in the same spot where ours said, ‘Here the N-word.’ Hers only said ‘here,’” Washington added of one patron’s receipt.