Good excuse not to leave a tip?

[BeeBoop]

Saw this on reddit.

http://i.imgur.com/z1Lq3EI.jpg

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Check your Privilege.

 

[phucheneh]

No one 'made it a racial thing.' Other than the guy who wrote on the receipt. Hope someone happened to put their cock in his food.

 

[BeeBoop]

lol, that's what it looks like. He said in the note that his service was GREAT! Maybe, just maybe the other couple ate faster? hah

 

[UglyCasanova]

No telling the situation so who knows. Not trying to sound racist but I've waited tables for many years while in school and even the black waiters hated getting black tables.

To be honest, it's not really a race thing but more of a socioeconomic class thing that we could spot and tell who would tip or not. Sometimes I would be suprised, but I became pretty good at ball parking it before I even introduced myself.

That said, I absolutely despise the tipping system. It should be eliminated a people paid actual wages.

 

[shortylickens]

Yet another time black people perpetuate their negative stereotypes AND blame somebody else for it.

Oh well.

 

[Berliner]

Do not stereotype (thyself).

 

[BeeBoop]

163$ for a table of two. That must have been some fancy meal. How do you even spend that much on food? Assuming it was a high class restaurant, I would assume anyone walking in had money to tip no matter what they looked like.

 

[motsm]

They clearly meant always "trying to make it a racial issue..."

 

[KentState]

Is it racist to stereotype someone not of your race as a racist without actual proof?

 

[postmortemIA]

it is just what it is - an excuse. Hmmm I don't want to tip, but service was good - lets just play race card.

 

[Raizinman]

Appears to be someone who was just looking for a reason not to tip.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Most likely is was Al Sharptons bill.

 

[pauldun170]

I'm biracial.
When I'm with friends\family of color A service is all smile and courtesy.
When I'm with friends\family of color B service is deliver with cold apathy. The look of disgust that we are even in the joint.

I have spent most of my life overtipping just to prove a point that just because the table is filled with black folk doesn't mean anything.

Whether its at a restaurant or just trying to pay for some merchandise at a check out counter....if you are not the right skin tone or you are with folks with a little brown you get cold reactions. The white person in front of you gets all the smiles and and have a good day.

Bring a caucasian and everyone is magically friendly.

Since my race is hard to figure out just by looking at me I fall have to make sure I establish I am "accent free" to get any sort of friendly interaction. If the other person speaks first its usually "Look at this illegal immigrant" attitude. If I speak firt with the "New York\Long Island accent" treatment is completely different.

Whats awesome is that my kids have completely different complexions with my oldest having my complexion and the youngest basically looking like aryan nation.
If I'm out with just the youngest I get a lot of suspicious stares like I kidnapped him. If I'm with the oldest I get ignored. If I'm with both of them people tend to go into seizures.

Going back to the OP....those asshole are just making it worse for the rest of us. All that note does is further the notion that blacks aren't going to leave a decent tip.

Took me 20+ years to finally get my mom to leave an appropriate tip. These folks are just going to sabotage all that effort.

 

[Kaido]

Did they consider that maybe the other couple finished eating before they did, which is why they got their check earlier?

 

[Captante]

"Do not assume because we are young and black a tip will not be left"


Apparently it would have been a safe assumption.

 

[SparkyJJO]

"not making a racial issue... but we're making it a racial issue. And don't assume because we're black that we won't leave a tip... but we aren't leaving a tip, despite great service except the very last thing at the end."

Yeah... A+ on that race card play

 

[Strk]

I'm biracial.
When I'm with friends\family of color A service is all smile and courtesy.
When I'm with friends\family of color B service is deliver with cold apathy. The look of disgust that we are even in the joint.

I have spent most of my life overtipping just to prove a point that just because the table is filled with black folk doesn't mean anything.

Whether its at a restaurant or just trying to pay for some merchandise at a check out counter....if you are not the right skin tone or you are with folks with a little brown you get cold reactions. The white person in front of you gets all the smiles and and have a good day.

Bring a caucasian and everyone is magically friendly.

Since my race is hard to figure out just by looking at me I fall have to make sure I establish I am "accent free" to get any sort of friendly interaction. If the other person speaks first its usually "Look at this illegal immigrant" attitude. If I speak firt with the "New York\Long Island accent" treatment is completely different.

Whats awesome is that my kids have completely different complexions with my oldest having my complexion and the youngest basically looking like aryan nation.
If I'm out with just the youngest I get a lot of suspicious stares like I kidnapped him. If I'm with the oldest I get ignored. If I'm with both of them people tend to go into seizures.

Going back to the OP....those asshole are just making it worse for the rest of us. All that note does is further the notion that blacks aren't going to leave a decent tip.

Took me 20+ years to finally get my mom to leave an appropriate tip. These folks are just going to sabotage all that effort.

While your experiences definitely suck, the people who wrote the note didn't get that. They even said that the service was great. Their gripe was a late check. As far as we know, they kept chatting away, getting drinks and shrugging away the waiter.

 

[BeeBoop]

Reddit took down the topic from the front page. Maybe it was a troll post?


Edit:
Okay, I found it. Reddit just took it off the front page.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2w0lvf/my_friend_one_of_the_nicest_people_i_know_waited/

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[madoka]

While your experiences definitely suck, the people who wrote the note didn't get that. They even said that the service was great. Their gripe was a late check. As far as we know, they kept chatting away, getting drinks and shrugging away the waiter.

Or the other couple specifically asked for a check. Often I don't get a check unless I ask because the servers don't want to give the impression that they are rushing me.

I get the impression that if the no-tippers got their check before the white group, then their complaint would be that the waiters were racist for trying to rush them out of the restaurant.

 

[Markbnj]

163$ for a table of two. That must have been some fancy meal. How do you even spend that much on food? Assuming it was a high class restaurant, I would assume anyone walking in had money to tip no matter what they looked like.

It's a little on the high end, but nowhere near "How on earth did you do that?" territory.

 

[phucheneh]

Reddit took down the topic from the front page. Maybe it was a troll post?


Edit:
Okay, I found it. Reddit just took it off the front page.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2w0lvf/my_friend_one_of_the_nicest_people_i_know_waited/

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What do you mean 'Reddit took it off the front page'? Am I confused on how Reddit works?

I assumed it was the same as imgur...'front page' denotes the most popular stuff...nothing gets 'pulled'...it just happens naturally...

 

[BeeBoop]

Honestly, I'm not sure how it works either. I just know the most popular makes the front page. The mods decide if it stays I'm assuming. Since there is no way to prove that the topic is legitimate, they probably took it off the front page.

Edit:
So the guy posted a pic of the actual receipt. Here it is.http://i.imgur.com/d6rFC1Z.jpeg

Edit
Reddit has moderators for each section and there are rules to what you can post.


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[DCal430]

Or the other couple specifically asked for a check. Often I don't get a check unless I ask because the servers don't want to give the impression that they are rushing me.

I get the impression that if the no-tippers got their check before the white group, then their complaint would be that the waiters were racist for trying to rush them out of the restaurant.

Or this person is upset because they specifically asked for a check and the waiter ignored their request.

 

[drebo]

Maybe, just maybe, the other table ASKED for their check.

Stupid fuckers be stupid.