Yes, sadly you are right. Not racist, just an observation. I had an entire section filled by a group/family or something of all black people. They were there for 2 1/2 hours and pitched a FIT when finding out that gratuity was added to a group their size. So they argued with the manager for seperate checks so gratuity wouldn’t be included and then left me zero dollars for a tip. I had no tables except theirs for three hours and with my hourly wage I made a total of $6.60. I was praying the stereotype I had heard of wasn’t true, but the other waitresses were giving me sympathetic looks the whole time.
I quit that night because I felt like my manager should have agreed to give them seperate checks, but since they were obviously together, the group policy should have applied. He was intimidated by them though, I could tell. So I told him to shove it and left.
I wasn’t going to post this but...my wife and I used to own 4 Pizza restaurants. We had several customers that our drivers, even the one AA delivery guy, would not deliver to. You can guess which customers those were, right?
Finally, after getting yelled at and threatened by two of those customers, I paid the drivers out of pocket. But, I took them off of my mailing list, which is where I gave the discount coupons. Soon afterward, they no longer called us. I guess they drove to Caesar’s. {yuk}
Good for you, ar.You should seek reparations ;)
I usually tip 20% or more, because I know there is always someone stiffing the wait staff.
If the service is nominal, I still leave only 15% as a minimum.
They work hard for the money.