When I was a bartender during college to pay for my tuition, some of our waiters would call in sick and I would do double-duty for a certain well-known bar-resto.
From my experience alone and I know I’m gonna get burned here, blacks are just damn cheapskates. Not in general, but in most cases, they just pay for the meal itself and they bitch almost about everything. I mean, we were paying the host or maitre’d just NOT to have them seat in our area but pass them to another waiter’s area.
One time she told me: "I don't know why, but black customers always leave $2 tips, no matter what the bill is."
I don't think it's race, just culture in the US.
And yes, it's true about black customers complaining a lot, so they can get "free" meals. After they've eaten everything on the plate.
This scenario came up several times: A family would come into Sizzler, order one steak, and one salad bar on the side. Of course, then the whole family would help themselves to the salad bar with the one plate. When the manager confronted them they would always say the same thing: "It's because I'm black, isn't it?"
The manager would say: "Nope, we have plenty of white people that do that too!"
I wonder how black wait staff fair with black customers?