Waitress come underfire after tweeting wish to ‘kill as many Mexicans as I could in one night’

US: A Greeley restaurant waitress, Megan Olson who was reputedly angry that a customer didn’t leave a tip, has been fired after she took to Twitter to vent her anger earlier the month. Olson, with the Twitter name “megatron” posted the irritating message on her Twitter page which drew massive criticism from social media users and residents who said her comments were racist.


Some residents posted copies of her tweet on Texas Roadhouse – Greeley’s Facebook page.

One message read:

“A violent and racist employee is very bad for business. Please send her packin’.”

According to company spokesman Travis Doster;

“Our managing partner was actually mowing his lawn when he was alerted,” “He immediately rushed to the restaurant, met with the employee who posted this disgusting tweet and she was terminated.”

In a phone conversation with Denver7, Doster said;

“this type of offensive, discriminatory language has absolutely no place at Texas Roadhouse.”

The swift response by the restaurant was hailed by several residents.
 One resident Cristobal Garcia said;

“I think Texas Roadhouse did the responsible thing in letting her go,”

“A friend showed me the tweet,” he said. “I tried to take a step back and asked, ‘does Texas Roadhouse know that this is happening?’”

Olson's neighbor Willie Grantham said;

“I was offended by it,”  “As somebody who’s worked in the restaurant industry most of my adult life, I understand getting angry about customers that don’t tip.  But you can’t back it down to race.”

Grantham added that Texas Roadhouse did the right thing.

“If you’re going to go on social media that brightly and say what she said, you need to be removed from that position.”

Olson later took to her Facebook page to apologize;

“I wrote hurtful, inconsiderate, insensitive and careless words and I understand the amount of people I have offended by that. There are no excuses for what I have done. I sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, apologize to everyone for my momentary lack of judgment. I want you all to know that I do not actually feel this way.”

Olson mentioned that she had been fired and said, “I can promise you that nothing like that will ever happen again.”