Black Tips Matter

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[zencycler]

AutoCorrect got me again, analogy nut allergy.

[zencycler]

A tale of two BLM buttons.

One worn by a stranger sitting near you on a bus.

One worn by a waitress serving your table.

In both cases they are a captive audience.

So the difference between us boils down to this:

I might say something to the person on the bus, or I might not. But I would not say something to the waitress, because you and I have a different view of the role of the customer in a private business in this regard.

I don’t think my role as a customer gives me power to try to dictate to a business what values they should have, or how they should run their business, or what they should allow their employees to wear, or what kinds of wedding cakes they should bake.

You apparently think your role as a customer makes you some kind of tyrant over the business, just like the gays who want to tell the baker what cake they must bake.

[zipper]

I don’t think my role as a customer gives me power to try to dictate to a business what values they should have,

That is a distorted view of the business-client relationship. Realistically it’s called feedback, an essential part of a healthy business’s ability to stay competitive. The message from the customer is don’t thrust a political message in my face when I eat there, I just want to have dinner with my companion, and maybe a drink or two. As for the tempers flaring, of course that is not preferred but we don’t know what really transpired between him and the second employee, or between him and the server in the first place. Many BLM supporters (particularly young white females, it seems they’re the worst) have a chip on their shoulder, which is why they serve politics along with the food in the first place. The manager hopefully got the message, in no uncertain terms. If he or she is smart the restaurant will enforce the policy (or write a new one) against political messaging buttons on server uniforms.

[political1]

People don’t have to tip if they don’t want to. There are some places that have gratuity added automatically, which I think should be illegal.

[zencycler]

“As for the tempers flaring, of course that is not preferred but we don’t know what really transpired between him and the second employee, or between him and the server in the first place”.

Thank you for addressing the narrow point that I have been making. We can agree on the above. There is certainly some things that we don’t know, as you said, and while I stick to my point generally, I would concede that there might be some extreme circumstances that I might speak up in a business as well. On the surface that did not seem to me be the case here, but as you said we don’t know everything.