The owner of the restaurant offered a statement, via Business Insider:
I would like to address the LeSean McCoy tipping situation and our role in it.
For starters, I take total and complete responsibility for sharing this receipt. It was not our server’s decision, it was mine. I am to blame.
I decided to take action after some serious thought. And while I’d like to apologize to Mr McCoy, I cannot in good conscience do so. I stand by my actions one hundred percent.
Mr McCoy and his three companions came into my place on Monday afternoon, and immediately the whole staff was excited. Mr McCoy is a skilled athlete and is one of our beloved Philadelphia Eagles. A true Philly legend and a sports hero. Understandably my staff was really pumped, especially on the heels of they terrific win the day before. (Go Eagles!).
Mr McCoy and his friend sat inside at a booth next to my management and next to me. They were given excellent service. Impeccable service. If anything, our server was a little nervous as was our food runner, because they are big, big fans.
He and his group, from the moment they sat down, were verbally abusive to our staff in the most insulting ways. The derogatory statements about women and their sheer contempt for the staff serving them wasn’t the end, however. After Mr McCoy and his group left I looked over and saw their server, my friend, with his head bowed down and with a very confused look on his face. I took the receipt out of his hand and I couldn’t believe that anyone could be so callous. Mr McCoy had left a .03% tip for our staff. Our staff that was beyond excited to see him walk into our burger joint and was excited to serve him. That’s twenty cents on a tab of over $60. Twenty cents that our server has to split with the food runner and the bartender. Two dimes from an insulting multimillionaire.
I bet Mr McCoy is usually an awesome dude. And everyone has their bad days. But I’m from Philly and have had the pleasure of meeting many of our bad ass sports heroes. Ron Jaworski I met as a kid and I love. Iverson I loved. Mike Schmidt! You name ’em. I love all of our athletes past and present. Hometown heroes who treat those below them with some respect. And maybe Mr McCoy was having a “bad day” after his big victory all that, but the reports of him receiving “bad service” is a complete slanderous lie, and my crew here is better than that and deserves better than that.
At the end of the day, I did what I felt my heart told me to do. And I don’t want anything from Mr McCoy, but…maybe an apology to his server who gave him excellent service would be cool.
Again, I am the owner and I take full responsibility for my actions. Eagles fans, I feel ya. Id be pissed too. But a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do and stick up for his friends.
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That chick that sets the pendulum in motion and gets smacked in the beak is the result of kids not playing outside where they can learn about the laws of nature and physics first hand. That sort of thing just does not translate well via TV, iCrap or video games.
Sean McCoy’s insulting low tip to an excellent server is just so typical of the arrogance and self-entitlement of star athletes (as well as other “stars”) clear down to the high school football level.
When will fans get tired of these brainless, overpaid savages and their mega-bucks team owners, and stop handing their paychecks and tax monies to them?
The men, especially, should rebel and boycott these teams- and form their own neighborhood teams of guys they know and who are worthy of their loyalty. I’ve never been much a sports fan, but as far as I can tell, sports were a lot more rewarding for the guys, both players and fans, when the players were guys from the nabe, who they’d grown up with and who formed the first teams back in the late 19th century. And maybe the spectators could stop being spectators, and be players, even if inept compared to the “pros”. Recover the spirit of the sport and relearn sportsmanship.
Black people don’t hardly tip at all. When they do, it’s usually a pittance. Any honest person who has waited tables for a living will tell you that. It’s not PC or popular to say it, but it’s true.
LeSean McCoy is black and left a tip so puny, it was an insult.
And everyone is up in arms over this shit? Please…
I’m gonna have a heart attack and die from not surprise.
The way I see it, McCoy is such a dumb nigger that he thinks 20 cents is 20%.
LLPOH was right, whites are descended from bears