Posted on 01/14/2020 4:41:44 AM PST by simpson96
A chain restaurant known for good prices and generous portions opened a location here just a mile or so outside a predominantly black neighborhood on the edge of Memphis.
It quickly became very popular because it was a much nicer place than anything in that neighborhood, in a nicer area, and the folks living in that neighborhood came in droves. We didn’t even try to get in for three months, it was so crowded.
Just a little while after we visited, a sign appeared on the door - “A 15% gratuity will be automatically added to every check.” It was easy to get in after that. (Now closed)
Great graphic.
Yup
I worked for nearly a year as a food delivery driver for a restaurant chain. I can’t say that the stereo type of who tips and who didn’t, always held true for me.
I had some regular customers who were black and who were very good tippers. I had some regular white customers who never tipped a dime. And I had a mixture of both. The funny thing was our delivery area included both a rather upscale suburban area, a downtown business district and a rather low income, high minority, high crime area. But unless it was a customer I already knew, I couldn’t predict what sort of tip I might get or not get based on the address or the size of the order. I was sometimes surprised when I’d deliver to a city row house in not a very good area to a customer who was either black or Hispanic, and getting a rather nice tip.
I remember one very big delivery I made to a business, an order so big it probably should have gone through the restaurant’s catering department, over $300 worth of sandwiches, salads, soups and drinks. I had to lug four big bags of food plus another two, quite heavy with all the bottled drinks, and lug them up two flights of stairs. And then they wanted me to unpack every item as they checked off each item against the receipt which of course I cheerfully did. And knowing it was such a big order, I had carefully checked my self and packed extra plates, utensils and napkins before I left. After it was done, the woman (an older white woman) looked at me and said and quite curtly - “OK, you can leave now”. Not even as much as a thank you and no tip at all.
When I got back my manger and some of the other delivery drivers assumed I must have made out well on such a big delivery and were shocked when I told them I didn’t get any tip at all.
“White tourists from Canada and western Europe don’t tip either. Is that a slave thing too?”
Some reading I’ve done suggests tipping is optional in Europe. Some places tipping is even considered rude.
A guide...
https://wonderfulwanderings.com/tipping-in-europe/
Our Canadian cousins were surprised that we tipped by leaving cash on the table. It would get stolen before the server got it, they said. We did not follow up to ask how they tipped.
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