"There's Jews at my table!"

After eating at a restaurant, Elliott Stein and his girlfriend were handed a bill that said "Jew Couple" near the bottom, as a table identifier used by the waitstaff. The slur also turned up on Stein's credit card statement weeks later.

"My grandfather went through all that in old-school Europe," Stein, a New Yorker and a regular at the restaurant, told the New York Post. "But that happened more than 50 years ago. You don't expect it to happen in 2005."

The server, identified on the check only as Karina, is no longer working at the restaurant, general manager Malia Wells said Wednesday. Wells wouldn't say if it was because of the incident.

This reminds me of a line from the movie "As Good As It Gets" starring Jack Nicholson. He's an obsessive-compulsive writer who eats daily at a nearby diner. One day his world turns upside down when there are "Jews at his table". Pretty funny movie--didn't know it was based on real life.