A Black Pizza Hut customer received her pizza with a side of racism after text messages showed an employee going on a tirade after delivering an order on Friday.
Shirae Bledsoe said she and her roommates ordered online from Pizza Hut in Lexington, Kentucky, and unknowingly left a 9-cent tip for the delivery driver, WKYT reports.
The Black woman said the employee was enraged at the tip and began calling them while shouting racial slurs. The race of the delivery driver is unknown.
Bledsoe posted about the incident on Facebook.
"So me and my roommates ordered a pizza today online for the first time and wanted it to be delivered. Apparently we left a .09 cent tip and we didn’t know and the delivery driver called and disrespected us and told us she wasn’t going to deliver our pizza and we had to pick it up and then wouldn’t stop texting my roommate's phone," the post read.
"I am so disgusted right now made me [lose] my appetite for those of you who [live] close to campus don’t go to the pizza hut on Waller Ave. they like to spit in people’s food," the post continued.
In the post, which has been shared more than 2,000 times, Bledsoe shared the alleged text messages from the driver.
"Was that good food?? Best believe it was spit in," a text message read.
"Everyone knows what to do when that address and number come up. You f**ked with the wrong food place n****rs," another message read. "[You're] the type that should be hung."
People commented on the Facebook post requesting the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department to look into the driver's claim that she spat in their food.
Pizza Hut released a statement after the incident.
“We were shocked by the driver’s text messages but have no reason to believe anyone’s food was actually compromised. Nevertheless, the driver’s threats and language are completely unacceptable and she has been terminated as a result,” the statement read.
A person left a comment under the post saying the employee has since been fired, however, Pizza Hut has not yet confirmed her employment status.
Pizza Hut isn't the only pie franchise embroiled in racist headlines. Competitor Papa John's has been riddled with racism claims after founder John Schnatter was caught referring to Black people as n****rs in 2018, as Blavity previously reported.
Most recently, Schnatter was spotted at a Trump rally in Lexington back in November. People on social media, unimpressed and not surprised, took to Twitter to drag the former CEO.
