Papa John's Apologizes For Receipt's Racial Slur

(CNN) -- Papa John's Pizza fired a cashier at one of its New York restaurants and apologized to an Asian-American customer for a receipt that identified her as "lady chinky eyes."

 "We were extremely concerned to learn of the receipt issued in New York," the company said in a statement posted on its Facebook page Saturday. Minhee Cho, a communications manager at nonprofit investigative journalism group ProPublica, posted a photo of the receipt on her Twitter account Saturday morning and by the afternoon it was picked up by a local newspaper.

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