This could be an authentic story.
The note on the receipt passes the irrational, illogical, and Leukophobia tests.
There is also disjointed thought, spelling and grammatical errors, a hint of ebonics and the telltale “talk to the hand” meme.
Anything to stiff a guy out of 25 bucks.
Hell, they wouldn’t have paid for dinner either if they though they could get away without getting arrested.
Maybe the white couple asked the waitress for the check because they were in a hurry.
Maybe the waitress did not like the white couple and gave them the check first to get rid of them.
Just more victims of this rasis society. They should have complained to the management. “We be treated bad. Don’t you feel us being dissed.”
Almost all of my students (and I taught at an all girl college) say it’s very very seldom that they ever get tips from “blacks.”
I’ve seen a table of six “blacks” find one thing wrong with one of their dinners (imaginary or otherwise), and they all get up and walk out refusing to pay for anything. The waitress at that table said that that occurs frequently with “black” customers.
Mrs POF and I had a delightful lunch yesterday at one of our favorite spots, Mezza Luna in Princeton-by-the-Sea. We got seated and, wouldn’t you know it, another Caucasian couple got seated next to us a couple minutes later. They got their menus first AND, got their water first, AND their orders taken first, too! (that’s true) Boy, I was SO steamed that I was going to immediately write a note to our waiter complaining about the obvious racism, but then I stopped and realized WE WERE ALL CAUCASIAN. I was dumbfounded and flummoxed. What to do? Was it veiled racism by the Italian waiter?
Well, the bread arrived quickly as did the water, then the outstanding food (Insalata Mista with grilled Salmon), then more water, more bread — all by the most pleasant waiters ever.
We never gave it a second thought and left a generous tip.
Even Black staff do not want to wait on Black customers. For so many examples the Black customers have numerous requests for additional service, always additional attention...And so many, many times resulting in no tip.
Stereotypes have their 'birth' because of a cultural behavior, common experience of different races/genders/ages/religions/ethnics.
In the premise set forth in this article IMHO...this couple has a chip on their shoulder, discerns injustices all around their lives. One cannot really 'win' with a couple as depicted, just provide great service, expect nothing and roll over to the next seating.
The black couple simply got tired of waiting...for the waitress to slight them so they just went ahead and did it for her.
I now think all these things are fake, because every one I’ve heard about has been.
For the record I ALWAYS start at 20% and work my way down if I get lousy service.
I treat waiters or waitress with respect and I don’t make any special demands or disrespectfully order them around.
Anyhow, it seems to me the couple was looking for ANY EXCUSE not to tip the waiter.
That was pretty crummy what they did. Ridiculous!
Bullsh*t.
Perhaps time has come for whites to start playing the racist card when we go out to dinner at a restaurant?
Just my experience.
There a low tip and good tip what she did was just theft of service. The waiter will be taxed as income of 15% even if no tip was recieved.
Cheapskates. Any excuse will do.
these people would be offended that paper is white and ink is black
So many of these are hoaxes, I don’t believe this one either.
And I have been a server, whites tip just as bad as blacks, so this is not a race thing.
The real “racists” didn’t want to leave a tip for the white waiter.
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PS- If this couple ever goes to this restaurant again their service won't be as nice as it was this time.
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They didn’t go to an all black restaurant?
We did once, and got the stares of death. Needless to say, we quickly left. There wasn’t time to leave any tip.