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Re:I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with ha... by tptacek on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:49PM (#16760438)
Denny's lost a $54MM lawsuit over, among other things, refusing to seat black people, including a collection of black Secret Service agents, or deliberately forcing black people to wait longer to get a table, or, in some cases, requiring black people to pay more for their food.

So, no, even if we (weirdly) stipulate the idea that creepers are a protected class, the Denny's situation is not comparable to what's happening here.

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Re:I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with ha... by busterarm on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:51PM (#16760445)
I'm not at all stipulating that creepers are a protected class, I'm saying that the tipped food service industry has a racism problem and this is a really easily gamed system that people will think they can exploit to make more money than their coworkers.
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Re:I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with ha... by pnutjam on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:05PM (#16760538)
Your sort of concern will be easily handled on a one off basis. It's pretty easy to notice.
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Re:I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with ha... by busterarm on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:43PM (#16760759)
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43dybb/the-shitty-reality...

"In 2015, the Washington Post examined tipping culture in the US restaurant industry. Looking at a survey of 1,000 servers, 34 percent responded that they believed black diners to be "very bad" tippers, in comparison to white diners who 98 percent believed to be "average" or "above average" tippers."

"In the first study where white servers believed black diners were "very bad" tippers, over half of those who responded said they "don't always give their best effort when waiting on black customers.""

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Re:I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with ha... by busterarm on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:06PM (#16760544)
...and yet racism among servers is still a problem.

I absolutely loved your optimism and single-step, hand-wavey-approach to solving racism, though.

"In a world where nobody's racist, nobody will be racist! It's perfect!"

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Re:I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with ha... by pnutjam on Thursday April 05, 2018 @11:41AM (#16765888)
My point was that a server who constantly drops black diners on the manager is going to get noticed by the manager. He should do his job and manage things.
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Re:I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with ha... by ahhhhyesyes on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:02PM (#16760517)
victimology and the oppression hierarchy make for incredibly amusing logical inconsistencies. the amusement is compounded when it’s aimed at ensuring people are never even remotely uncomfortable
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