"I don't believe in tipping, 'cause it's RACIST!"
Okie doke.
Posted on 01/19/2017 6:01:07 AM PST by RummyChick
The owner of a popular burger chain said he will stop customers from tipping his staff because the practice has a 'racist' history. Danner Meyer, the CEO of Shake Shack, revealed that tipping customers stems from the American Civil War when the government accepted a petition to allow restaurants not to pay its staff. To get around new slavery laws, customers were advised to leave a small payment for servers so that no-one could argue that they were enslaved. Most waiting staff at the time were African-American, Meyer said.
Shake Shack is one of the most popular burger chains in the US, and is fast becoming a hit in the UK as well with five restaurants in London and one in Cardiff. In the US, it's accepted that customers should tip up to 20 per cent for every meal - but Meyer points out that in other cultures, it's very different.
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So sorry BLM..it's racist to tip you if you are a waitress!
Never heard of “Stake Shack.”
Shake Shack is not the type of place where you tip. The article makes me laugh because blacks don’t tip. Sounds like an excuse to normalize cheap behavior based on racism.
I suspect he didn’t bother to ask his wait staff if they felt racially discriminated against.
Sounds like BS to me.
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tipping customers stems from the American Civil War when the government accepted a petition to allow restaurants not to pay its staff....
I’m sorry, but this sounds totally fake. I’m betting that tipping was prevalent well back to the Gold Rush if not before.
And? Is it in the top 20? By what standards? Literally have never heard of it.
Burgers are racist!
I don’t care.
I’d tip anyways.
It’s a free country and it’s no business of the establishment what the waiter or waitress gets as a tip.
I don’t want THEM (the management) taking it.
Don’t worry, with an idiot like this running their business you won’t be eating at one soon. I just wonder if it is too late to short sell their stock.
"I don't believe in tipping, 'cause it's RACIST!"
Okie doke.
I guess. I never even knew about them in the first place.
Sounds like the SS wants you to add your tip the check so the bosses can skim tips. Has happened before. IMHO
this article says it comes from Europe, Great Britain, etc.
http://www.foodwoolf.com/2010/08/history-of-tipping.html
Tip the waitstaff in Osaka, and they will feel insulted.
One would think that liberals, being cultural relativists, would argue that tipping is a cultural act and should conform to the local culture, but that also goes against the other aspect of liberalism, that anything done by commonplace American culture is inherently corrupt, and should be eschewed and replaced by anything liberals say should be the commonplace culture--to be changed at any moment by what liberals decide at that moment should be the commonplace culture.
So tipping is only done in America?
These guys need to get out more.
This is a lie. A LOT of wait staff were white. Cooks might be black. No, this is just more liberal crap.
They have great burgers!
Then don’t allow your employees to put out the tip jar. Problem solved.
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