My wife was a waitress for years. In our area (New England) the Hispanic customers have gotten better as they integrated into the middle class. Foreigners suck because tipping is not normal.
And yes, black customers are the worst tippers. And no one has ever explained that because it seems universal—not depending on the region or type of place.
I have a black female friend, let’s say her name is Jean. I met her a couple hears ago. Very attractive, well dressed, intelligent from a good home. Never married, in her 40s.
She told me when we met that when it comes to men, she prefers cream than to drink it black. SHe has black male friends, but when it comes to dating going out etc. it’s always with white men.
Okay, so we’re not dating, but she would call me two to three times a week to meet for a drink that usually led to dinner, that always led to me paying for it.
I didn’t mind, but I started to take note that she was always the one asking me out, and yet she never offered to pay.
Anyway, one day I was at the bar at the restaurant we frequent, and got to talking to the bartender who I’d known for many years before I had met Jean. I asked her if Jean ever paid for the meals she had when she was with friends.
I was kinda shocked to learn, that she didn’t and almost never tipped. Zero.