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re: What's behind racial differences in restaurant tipping?
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:42 am to Tyga Woods
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:42 am to Tyga Woods
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They all had water to drink
What's your point?
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Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:42 am to Tyga Woods
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I was at Deanies a few months ago and a party of 7 black people sitting next to us split a seafood platter . They all had water to drink
That just sounds fiscally responsible.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:43 am to Pecker
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:44 am to Pecker
Had a girlfriend in college working as a server at Applebees. She made no money 
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:44 am to Pecker
As a former restaurant employee, it's true in most all cases. When I was a server, I still gave the same service no matter what but there were others that you could tell were just phoning it in.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:44 am to CoachDon
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If I get exceptional service it's 25-30% of the bill. If I get average service it's 15%, and poor service get's whatever the wife says - lol
exact same thing for us. my wife spent her entire college life working in the restaurant industry. So i always get the final tip % okay from her. Sometimes I will have sympathy for waiters or bartenders when she says, "nah, frick them. 1-2% at most" and give them a couple bucks, because i feel bad about how she treated them.
This post was edited on 8/29/18 at 10:45 am
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:44 am to Displaced
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I agree and welcome the resulting price increase.
nah, i don't think they would increase by much, if at all. if they did, people would just stop eating out, which is probably a good thing
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:45 am to Pecker
My wife was a server at Outback while in college, even her black co-workers got mad when they were given a black table...LOL
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:45 am to CoachDon
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I would also say, that in this day and age where "WHITE" is the enemy of the left and their sheeple, blacks automatically tip low to a white server vs. black.
I have an Ethiopian friend who serves at Cheesecake factory in ATL, she said they sometimes separately equally distribute black customers among the servers to equally divide out the shitty tips. Rather than just assign that table to the next server up
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:45 am to Masterag
That's just naive, but irrelevant as it will never happen in America.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:46 am to Pecker
The solution is simple.
Get rid of the concept of tipping.
Get rid of the concept of tipping.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:47 am to Pecker
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What's behind racial differences in restaurant tipping?
White people generally have more disposable income.
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Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:47 am to Displaced
Water is free
Lots of restaurants do mid week deals to get people in the door to drink. The last thing a server wants is 8 people ordering water on an already cheap tab
Lots of restaurants do mid week deals to get people in the door to drink. The last thing a server wants is 8 people ordering water on an already cheap tab
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:47 am to Pecker
I once saw a black server flip the frick out on a hostess for giving her all the black tables.
The black server used words I cannot.
That's when I realized that it was true.
The black server used words I cannot.
That's when I realized that it was true.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:47 am to Pecker
When I was waiting tables during my college years we called a table with black people a BT short for black top. No servers wanted BTs it didn't matter if the server was black or white. I would say at least 80% of the time tips would be less than 10% of the tab. Pentecostals were just as bad at tipping. And yes if you aren't going to be a good tipper you won't get as good service. This was 20 years ago though so maybe it isn't as bad now.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:47 am to NYCAuburn
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I have an Ethiopian friend who serves at Cheesecake factory in ATL, she said they sometimes separately equally distribute black customers among the servers to equally divide out the shitty tips. Rather than just assign that table to the next server up
This happens at a lot of places
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:47 am to Masterag
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the solution is to pay servers a competitive wage and not compel patrons to subsidize your restaurant while bending us over with $15 cocktails and glasses of wine.
eating out is already outrageous, they can afford it.
Overall, profit margins at restaurants are not great. Start up is expensive and turning a profit to begin is impossible. Restaurants also have the highest fail rate of any business in the country.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:47 am to Pecker
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1) Studies show that black people do indeed tip less
No fricking shite
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2) Black people get inferior service because they are black and there exists a stigma that they tip less
No fricking shite
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3) the Washington Post thinks that they tip less because they simply haven't been told they should tip more (than sometimes nothing at all)
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4) Point #3 is based on a study that showed that white people on average think a suitable tip is 14.5% and black people on average believe that number to be 13.4%. That 1.1% difference in appropriate tipping expectations is supposed to explain the disparity
No way there is ONLY a 1.1% difference. Perhaps they "think" that but they certainly dont action that
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5) The solution is simply to get the word out that a tip should be more
Yeah. That won't work.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:48 am to Displaced
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They all had water to drink
What's your point?
The server waited on 7 people for an hour and was tipped as if she waited on 1 person. Theme of the thread, right
Posted on 8/29/18 at 10:48 am to NIH
That's not on the customer though.
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