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My girls waitressed when they were in college. They never mentioned racial differences but they did point out that older folk were less generous.

May speak to current economics or depression blowback.

That's true jwalsh, I've never heard about it being a racial thing. I think it's a matter of what's inside. As I said, sometimes it's just the fact that people are unaware how little these folks make per hour because their bosses calculate the tips into their wage. If the tip is there they do fine, if they have good tippers, they do even better, and sometimes there's no tip or a small tip.

It's really a question of letting people know.

May speak to current economics or depression blowback.

Man, I could write a book on that. My grandfather (God rest his soul, he was a very good man) supported his entire family through the depression... he was 13 in 1929, and his Mother was widowed in 1930.

He was a financially successful man later on in life, but the depression never left him. As long as I knew him, he carried very large amounts of cash at all times. I mean like $2000. It was almost like a security blanket, if you know what I mean.

He was a generous man, but never wasted money either. He paid a very good wage to his employees, and was rewarded by their length of service to him. But he was tight as a drum in other matters.

He did always tip EXACTLY 15%.