Sometimes patrons will leave a nice note at the end of their receipt if they had an extra nice dinner or were feeling extra caring. But Khalil Cavil, a waiter at Saltgrass Steak House in Odessa, Texas received the opposite last Saturday night when a table left a bigoted message at the bottom of their receipt. The patrons circled Cavil’s name on the top of their $108.73 bill and wrote: “we don’t tip terrorists.”

Cavil, a 20-year-old restaurant server, said his heart dropped when he read the note. “My heart just dropped, I didn’t know what to says or what to think in the moment but there’s hurt there,” Cavil said. Cavil isn’t a terrorist, and in fact, he is not Muslim like the patrons assumed because of his Middle Eastern roots. Cavil is a Christian. READ MORE


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