An Ohio couple ordered a pizza and was horrified to open the box to find its pepperoni arranged as a swastika, according to a report.
Jason Laska said he had picked up the pie Saturday night from a Little Caesars shop in Brook Park and brought it home, WJW-TV reported.
“[My wife] turned and asked me, ‘Babe, did you order this, did they make it for you?’ And I turned around and looked at it and I could see the shock on her face and then my jaw just dropped,” Laska told the outlet.
The couple called the pizza joint, which had just closed, to complain and received a response the following day from the manager.
“[The employees] told him that it was supposed to be an internal joke that they were playing on each other and the other employee, and the pizza was never intended to go out,” Laska said.
The manager told them that employees involved were let go, but the couple said they never plan to return to the store.
“We are the type of people that support the diversity in our country, we embrace and love it. We just want to see this hate stop,” Laska’s wife, Misty, told WJW-TV.
Little Caesars confirmed in a statement that the chain fired the employees involved in the offensive incident.
“We have zero tolerance for racism and discrimination in any form, and these franchise store employees were immediately terminated,” a spokesperson told the outlet. “We’re deeply disappointed that this happened, as this conduct is completely against our values.”