African Americans are notoriously bad tippers. Sorry, I really don’t mean to be racist, I think it’s just a wired cultural thing.
I have been a server, and you are correct as a general statement. I will add they act as though they are entitled.
It's not racist, it's just an observation.
Ask pretty much anyone in the restaurant industry.
Went to a restaurant in December with the family. Group of AA young people behind us. They left before us but we had already paid and waiter had already retrieved our receipt. Husband took the kids to wash hands so I was the only one at the table. Waiter comes up to me and says that we left more for our $30+ meal than they did for the $100+ meal.
Back when I was a waiter at Pargos in Nashville I did not notice this but...my wife’s waitress work at TGI Fridays in Columbus, Georgia is different. She gets stiffed or undertipped by Blacks constantly.
Many go in with an attitude and don’t accept the first table offered as if they are a Rosa Parks wannabee. Then they send food back because the decided they didn’t like it (after eating 90 percent of it) and are always cruising for complimentary dessert or appetizers. Even the Black wait staff don’t like Black customers.
Yes, sadly you are right. Not racist, just an observation. I had an entire section filled by a group/family or something of all black people. They were there for 2 1/2 hours and pitched a FIT when finding out that gratuity was added to a group their size. So they argued with the manager for seperate checks so gratuity wouldn’t be included and then left me zero dollars for a tip. I had no tables except theirs for three hours and with my hourly wage I made a total of $6.60. I was praying the stereotype I had heard of wasn’t true, but the other waitresses were giving me sympathetic looks the whole time.
I quit that night because I felt like my manager should have agreed to give them seperate checks, but since they were obviously together, the group policy should have applied. He was intimidated by them though, I could tell. So I told him to shove it and left.
**African Americans are notoriously bad tippers.**
Only 20% of African Americans are bad Tippers..
79.9% are NON tippers.
Driven taxi (sporadically) for 35 or so years.
You forgot French Canadians. The WORST! I used to bartend at a place near an airport in upstate NY. Whenever FC’s would walk in the waitresses would argue over who got them. Cannot stand those people.
>>African Americans are notoriously bad tippers. Sorry, I really don’t mean to be racist, I think it’s just a wired cultural thing.<<
Absolutely correct. I took summer jobs in university and college, including waitering and bartending...blacks are the worst tippers. Most of the time, they DONT TIP.
yeah, yeah, I’m racist (rolls eyes)
No tipping in Europe either.
I worked in a restaurant for a few years and it’s true that AAs are the worst tippers. Also the worst for trying to scam free food and for running out on the bill. I never saw anyone else do either of those things the whole time I worked in a restaurant. Next is church ladies, I assume because most of them never worked much of a real job(?). Any big group generally is not going to leave a good tip. Every server in the restaurant would tell me not to seat “certain people” in their areas - even the AA servers would say this!
I have to say though, that I know AAs who tip generously because they are aware of the stereotype and hate it.
I also have to say - I saw AAs get bad service because a bad tip was expected. Sometimes it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. The server has decided they won’t get a good tip, so why bother. The AA gets bad service, so they don’t tip or don’t tip well.
I make it a policy never to tick off the person who has control of my food.