Posted on 11/26/2013 12:06:48 PM PST by Phillyred
A television news report sheds doubt on a gay New Jersey restaurant server’s claim that a customer denied her a tip because of her ‘lifestyle’ by producing a receipt that indicates otherwise.
NBC 4 out of New York reports that it has an original receipt and credit card statement produced by family members who ate at the restaurant that night and insist they did leave a tip and did not scrawl on their receipt: “I’m sorry but I cannot tip because I do not agree with your lifestyle.”
The story gained national attention after Dayna Morales, a former Marine and employee at Gallop Asian Bistro in Bridgewater, Somerset County, N.J., sent an image of a receipt with the writing to the organization Have A Gay Day, which posted it on the group's Facebook page.
"Tips" then poured in from across the country, and Morales told CNN that she received more than $2,000.
MORE COVERAGE Andrews calls for independent oversight of railroads One woman's personal annual food drive But NBC 4 said it contacted a family who said the server showed, what appeared to be in their eyes, an altered copy of their original receipt. The family members said they are not anti-gay, and, in fact, voted against Chris Christie for his stand on same-sex marriage.
The husband and wife, who asked to remain anonymous, have a receipt printed at the same minute, on the same date, for the same $93.55 total - but with an $18 tip. The couple also produced a Visa bill confirming they were charged a total of $111.55 by the restaurant and believe their original receipt was doctored.
Said the wife: “We would never leave a note like that."
The woman told the television station the check had been "doctored up" and the couple was tolerant.
"I think there's enough hate and intolerance in the world that to create it when it wasn't there is shameful and dishonorable," she said.
Morales, however, is sticking to her story.
The server told NBC 4 that she didn't forge the hateful note.
"That's not my handwriting," she said. "I don't know."
Morales has said she was stunned by the incident.
In her message to Have A Gay Day, which the organization posted on Facebook, Morales said: "NEVER in a million years did I think this would happen."
The restaurant says it is looking into the incident.
Shortly after the image of the receipt surfaced, general manager Byron Lapola wrote a message of support for Morales on Gallop Asian Bistro's Facebook page, according to news reports.
That post was no longer visible on the page this morning.
Isn’t the firing of Alec Baldwin enough?
I had a feeling this was one of those fake noose stories from the get go.
Have any of these stories not been proved to be false?
They’re not seeking acceptance anymore.
They’re seeking supremacy.
A profitable scam, but unlikely to work more than once.
At the same time, the written explanation of why the tip is declined are obviously written by a right-handed person. They are much too neat and smooth-flowing to have been written by a lefty.
My business partner is a lefty. I've been looking at his handwriting for fifteen years. I've watched him sign numerous credit-card receipts in restaurants.
Truer words have never been spoken. . .
How's that "tolerance" workin' out for ya ?
Is the Pope an Argie?
What about the one in Kansas? I called BS on that one as well.
Copycat fake outrage. Same scam has been perpetrated by a number of black servers.
What server comes to your table and says “may I take your order? And by the way, my sexual orientation is______.” How would the customers ever know that piece of info?
Where there is no bigotry, special-interest group members concoct some to generate outrage, sympathy (and a few bucks) from the gullible and, in general, ‘advance the (gay) cause’. When will America wake up?
Well, at least it wasn’t scratched into the server’s car...
The thing is, if a conservative pulled this type of thing (I’m refusing to tip you because you wore a cross, or something similar) and it turned out fake (unlikely), we’d be up in arms to ensure that the person was fired.
Liberals, on the other hand, operate under the normal double standard - THIS might have been fake, but it’s an accurate portrayal of the hard life that gay people have every day.
Double standards; if it weren’t for them, liberals would have no standards at all.
She saw and liked that a black waitress who received no tip with the “N” word written across the receipt receive $10,000 from concerned, good-hearted people across the country. Guess the gay girl pulled her “gay” stunt before it was revealed that the black waitress lied - she herself wrote the “N” word on the receipt.
No sympathy whatsoever. Hope they both go to jail.
Having been recently waited on by a pre-op tranny and a flaming gay (not at the same time), I can tell you that sometimes it's pretty obvious. (Both got good tips, BTW.)
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