--- title: Burger King Receipt Calling Grandma a Bitch Ass Hoe Makes Her Cry description: And now we have our contenders for the Worst Person of the Year award canonical: https://time.com/9874/burger-king-receipt-profanity/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-25T16:10:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:19.685Z og:title: Burger King Receipt Calling Grandma a Bitch Ass Hoe Makes Her Cry og:description: And now we have our contenders for the Worst Person of the Year award og:url: https://time.com/9874/burger-king-receipt-profanity/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8ad53cc5fe5a47d/69868329e8524b44f06018f3/burger-king1.jpg?branch=production&width=600&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 600 og:image:height: 338 og:image:alt: burger-king1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Burger King Receipt Calling Grandma a Bitch Ass Hoe Makes Her Cry twitter:description: And now we have our contenders for the Worst Person of the Year award twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8ad53cc5fe5a47d/69868329e8524b44f06018f3/burger-king1.jpg?branch=production&width=600&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Burger King Employees Make a Grandma Cry By Writing Profanity On Her Receipt > Sponsored content. 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The woman — who only gave her first name, Lorel, to protect her identity — said she and her daughter-in-law purchased dinner at the fast food joint and then realized their receipt labeled them “bitch ass hoes,” WTVR [reports](http://wtvr.com/2014/02/24/profane-burger-king-receipt/). Lorel was so offended she had to fight back tears. “This is more than an insult. I mean calling you names on a piece of a paper, that will hurt somebody,” Lorel told WTVR. “I liked going there. But after this they won’t get my business anymore.” The Richmond resident noticed the profanity after picking up her order from the drive-through window and immediately asked to speak with the manager, who apologized. In the meantime, Burger King offered the following statement to WTVR: --- > “” --- No word yet on whether or not the culprits will be fired, but we’re pretty sure making a nice old grandma cry is the most fireable offense of all time. **Update: Burger King has fired the employee involved in this incident, and has offered the following statement:** --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/9874/burger-king-receipt-profanity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/9874/burger-king-receipt-profanity/"},"headline":"Burger King Employees Make a Grandma Cry By Writing Profanity On Her Receipt","datePublished":"2014-02-25T16:10:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:19.685Z","description":"And now we have our contenders for the Worst Person of the Year award","url":"https://time.com/9874/burger-king-receipt-profanity/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Food","language","Burger King"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8ad53cc5fe5a47d/69868329e8524b44f06018f3/burger-king1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8ad53cc5fe5a47d/69868329e8524b44f06018f3/burger-king1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"burger-king1","caption":"","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/9874/burger-king-receipt-profanity/","name":"Burger King Employees Make a Grandma Cry By Writing Profanity On Her Receipt"}}]}] ```