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The manager of a takeaway selling food for people trying to lose weight has been sacked for calling a customer a “fat ***t”.

Katie Tilsley got into an argument with a punter over some green beans, which escalated as shocked staff and customers looked on.

Ms Tilsley claimed the man had been aggressive and swore at her during a heated exchange.

She was sacked by text by owner Cain Wynne, who told the Daily Post he had “never seen anything like it” and stood by the decision to dismiss her.

The customer, who asked to remain anonymous, claimed the row broke out over a food order, and that her comments had shaken his dieting confidence.

But Ms Tilsey said she was called a "slag" in the row. She said she was demanding unpaid wages from the owner, and that she would take legal action if necessary.

Ms Tilsley said: “Cain said to me he didn’t care what happened, I needed to apologise. I said ‘No, you don’t know the full story’. Then I got a text saying I was sacked and (he was) asking for the keys.

“A man would have punched him for speaking the way the customer did to me but I can’t do that because I’m a woman.

“So I suppose I should just take it should I? I won’t stand for it. I admit I called the guy a ***t. I admit I shouldn’t have done it.

“I shouldn’t have been sacked by text - it is unprofessional.”

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The customer says he had asked what types of beans were in his meal when the row was sparked.

“I asked her what the beans were as I ordered green beans,” he said. “She said ‘I don’t f***ing know, I can’t f***ing see’.

“When I told her she should know she started kicking off and telling me to shut my f***ing mouth.

“Then she called me a fat ***t. The staff were shaking their heads and it’s knocked my confidence back 10 steps.

“I should have walked out but she should have dealt with it better.”

Mr Wynne, who says Ms Tilsley was paid £600 per week in her role at Skinny's in Wrexham, said he will pay her up to the point she was dismissed - around £300 - if she stops commenting about him on social media - and says he has already left £150 with a friend of Miss Tilsley’s.

He told the Daily Post: "I think anyone with half a brain would know you can’t say that to a customer.

"I have never seen anything like a manager calling a customer a fat ***t.

“I am a local guy trying to get on. We are doing really well and we are going to open another branch in Chester.

“She was sacked by text but in the circumstances it’s irrelevant how I sacked her.”