Published 14:16 IST, July 14th 2020

Good News: US waitress, who raised voice against racism, receives $82000 in tips

A waitress who escorted a Silicon valley entrepreneur out for racially abusing an Asian family has received $ 82,000 in tips from around the world.

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A waitress who escorted a Silicon valley entrepreneur out for racially abusing an Asian family has received $ 82,000 in tips from around world. According to international media reports, Gennica Cochran, a waitress at Lucia in Carmel Valley, California ousted Michael Lofthouse from eatery after he yelled racist abuses at Jordan Chan and her family who were celebrating a birthday.  

Soon after incident went viral on social media, people from around world started contributing to several gofundme ps set up in her name. One of ps named 'Big tips for everyday heroes’ has racked up maximum amount of money. Speaking to international media reporters she said that she would like to use money for yoga teaching. She added that she was keen on helping ors and was currently devising a way to send her $80,000 in tips on to or servers  

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Talking about incident, he said that she felt very protective of m, adding that she did what needed to be done. She furr said that it was first time since eatery opened after pandemic and she did t want her customers to have a ruined experience

Waitresses saved situation

video begins with a member of Asian family asking Tech CEO Michael Lofthouse to repeat what he said. Lofthouse appears to be sitting alone at his table who responded by saying, "Trump's gonna f**k you. You f*****g need to leave. You f*****g Asian piece of s**t". situation was saved by Gennica Cochran, who works as a waitress at Bernardus Lodge. This is what Cochran said, ”You do t talk to our guests like that. y are valued guests. Get out"! This video was first shared by Twitter account @JohnRizkallah. Furr, this tweet received 29.9K retweets and about 69.1K likes. You can check out video here

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14:16 IST, July 14th 2020