Legal Insurrection – by Mandy Nagy
A gay waitress who claimed she had been stiffed on a tip because of her lifestyle is no longer employed by the NJ restaurant at which she’d worked, according to a statement posted on Saturday.
Dayna Morales, a former Marine and waitress at the Gallop Asian Bistro in Bridgewater, NJ, claimed last month that customers left a note on their receipt disagreeing with her lifestyle in lieu of a tip. The story went viral when bloggers and media outlets picked up on it after a message from Morales and a photo of the receipt were posted on a Facebook page.
But the customers in question later came forward to refute Morales’ story, providing their copy of the receipt and a credit card statement showing not only that they never wrote such a note, but that they tipped the waitress.
Gallop Asian Bistro posted the following statement on its Facebook page on Saturday afternoon, indicating that it has parted ways with Morales:
The Gallop Asian Bistro has taken seriously the allegations made by Ms. Dayna Morales, and those made against her. Despite news reports to the contrary, this is not a simple, straight-forward matter and we have conducted our own internal investigation. The results of that investigation are inconclusive as to exactly what happened between Ms. Morales and the customers that night. However, in light of the investigation and recent events, both Ms. Morales and Gallop Asian Bistro have made a joint decision that Ms. Morales will no longer continue her employment at our restaurant. We wish her well in the future.
Overall, this has been an unfortunate incident for Gallop Asian Bistro, our employees, and our customers. We are dedicated to providing excellent Asian cuisine and superior service. We have the utmost faith in our management and staff and we welcome the opportunity to serve our customers.
Before Morales’ claim had been publicly refuted by the customers, the restaurant initially stood behind the waitress. When the story first broke, a manager at Gallop Asian Bistro said, “We support Dayna 100 percent. She’s a wonderful person and a wonderful server, and we are extremely proud of her and the way she handled this situation,” reported NBC News4 New Yorkat the time.
Donations for Morales then started pouring in, according to CNN. Morales had indicated that she intended to donate the funds to the Wounded Warrior Project, while the restaurant planned to give matching donations to a local LGBT organization.
But once the customers came forward and Morales’ story was publicly refuted, the restaurant announced it would launch an internal investigation. Its statement this weekend indicated that the results of that investigation were “inconclusive.”
Last week, several news outlets reported that the Wounded Warrior Project could not verify that it had received any donations from Morales. Meanwhile, some of the donations made to a PayPal account set up in Morales’ name have been refunded, according to NBC News4 New York.
I guess now the people are creatively inventing scams just like the government and the banksters. Not that it is right but corruption filters down from above like a virus and infects people and precedes downfall.
Part of the problem here is there is no accountability for gov, people of specific orientations or races. Some are more privileged than others or are classified as “special” so they can’t be pursued via the law. The LGBTABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP community should be the ones out in front dragging her to the court to face justice for fraud and grand theft.
The restaurant should have FIRED her not decided to part ways as she lied flat out. The claim of the restaurant is there was inconclusive evidence on an internal investigation so now they are lying as well. If anyone has worked in the restaurant industry specifically as a server they understand and know that everything is tracked by that register. So your telling me that the restaurant does not have an account or an accountant that can track that $18 tip given to this fraud?
This is all to save face so they don’t wind up in the news as dyke bashing. The lying POS who dares to call herself a MARINE is not one by any means if this is the direction she has taken in life. She has forgotten the fundamentals of being a MARINE that’s honor, courage and commitment and above all helping the helpless.
Now the fact stands she has committed fraud in this case and international fraud since money has come from around the world to her via a paypal account. You don’t rob a bank or take money under false pretense of disease or persecution from others and go back the next day returning the money so that crime is wiped away. Look into the history of this piece of trash and you will find much more deceit and lies as it is the way she lives her life. Even claimed to have cancer at one point accepting money from co-workers at another restaurant. Good luck finding a job now with all that great press you have received.
Good to show that gays are just as likely to be pieces of crap and lying ones at that. I hold nothing against them but they(lgbt) always act SOOOO ‘better than thou’ and omnipotent.