Posted on 04/01/2025 5:54:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A restaurant server who works in the Los Angeles International Airport was rattled after two customers left him a racist message at the top of their receipt.
“No tip for illegal,” read the handwritten note. “Go back to Mexico.”
Guillermo Ortiz, who works at the Planet Hollywood in the Tom Bradley International Terminal, said it was toward the end of his shift on March 21 when he waited on the couple.
Ortiz told KTLA’s Carlos Saucedo that he thought everything had been going just fine with the two customers until he brought out their check.
“The way they were looking at me, you can tell when something is not right,” said Ortiz.
The couple was already gone when Ortiz saw the note, and since they paid in cash, there was no trail left behind to track them down.
Ortiz said he thinks the current political rhetoric on immigration has emboldened this type of behavior.
“This is happening because of what’s happening with President Trump right now,” said Ortiz. “I think that’s the reason people are acting like this.”
Despite whatever the customers intended by leaving that note, Ortiz said it does not diminish the work he does.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Maybe if this waiter spoke English like a native and did not look like an illegal, he would get better tips.
notice how the person never mentions the real status of the server...
As someone who spent some time waiting tables in his youth, I can confirm (anecdotally, but the consistency was remarkable), that this is absolutely true. But beyond that, they also often seemed to go out of their way to be the most demanding, difficult, inconsiderate, and condescending customers, by far. They were so consistently miserable that even black waiters and waitresses didn't want anything to do with them.
It riles me that people would let the so-called illegal wait on them and then at the end suddenly decide they are unhappy with the situation and not tip.
If you get the service, tip. If you don’t want to tip a _______, don’t let them serve you, go somewhere else.
That being said, seriously? Assuming an Hispanic person is illegal in LA?
One more question to add.
Did this really happen?
“it’s not racist to oppose illegal immigration”
“No tip for illegal,” read the handwritten note. “Go back to Mexico.”
Exactly, the Left now uses “racist” and “facist” to mean anyone who doesn’t support $1 trillion being stolen from the taxpayers to support thousands of NGOs and “charities” each paying their officers hundreds of thousands of dollars, in order to help them raise more money from donor contributions, so they can pay themselves even more to have zoom calls and stand in the street with signs once a month, and make everyone else freeze in the dark waiting for the windmill to start turning.
Illegality is a law breaking status, not a race.
The author is racist by implying otherwise.
I think the author does not understand the definition of “racist.”
Mexican is also not a race. It is a nationality. The Jewish President of Mexico, for example, is not genetically a Latino.
Is the Server in fact an illegal alien?
If so, deport his ass!!!
no trail left behind to track them down.
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thats a threat.
track them down for what ?
How would they know the waiter was illegal? This doesn’t pass the smell test.
I like tipping in cash which may be very well what happened here. As a rule it may be better to just tip with your credit card.
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for what ?
a media instigated suicide by police doxxing ?
a keying of their car ?
a prosecution
by simonsaysboarsberg ?
for what ?
a media instigated assassination by police doxxing ?
a keying of their car ?
a prosecution
by simonsaysboarsberg ?
So much wrong here...
1. No evidence this is racism. Illegal immigrants aren’t a race, they are humans involved in criminal activity by violating immigration laws.
2. The restaurant is closing permanently Saturday - so what an appropriate time to try a hoax like this.
3. Tip was automatically included anyway.
4. We don’t know anything about this so called interaction, other than the receipt.
Exactamente.
Exactamente.
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