Al Roker - Taxi driver snub was racially motivated

[jamil]

 

[17 squirrel]

How triffling it is that a NYC taxi passes them up and it makes national news.
It happens everyday and it doesn't make national news.. I've had it happen to me and it didn't offend me..
Al needs to get over himself. Someone should tell Al ' welcome to the big city '

 

[Kutnupe14]

Hey! You assumed the demographic, I didn't put it on you. (we're all adults here, we know what is being said) Yes you do get service based on the perceived odds of a return. I am talking white, Spanish and black waitresses/Servers alike. They all know what tables will pay out and what tables won't, at least they think they do.

Look, don't kill the messenger. I just report what lifelong restaurateurs tell me. I am certain that cabbies have assumed the same presumptions. It's pretty bad that in the 21st century Kutnupe14 has to be profiled but hell "Ain't that America". If it's any consolation you should see me trying to get service at 38th street McDonalds. life's tough all over!

I'm not blaming you, not a bit. Honestly who doesn't know that black people have a rep for not tipping? Anyone? I've been told as much many times. No need to neuter your talk bro, we're all adults here, and I have thick skin.

 

[Kutnupe14]

How triffling it is that a NYC taxi passes them up and it makes national news.
It happens everyday and it doesn't make national news.. I've had it happen to me and it didn't offend me..
Al needs to get over himself. Someone should tell Al ' welcome to the big city '

He's part of big media, of course he will get attention.

 

[17 squirrel]

He's part of big media, of course he will get attention.

Mabe to you he's big media, but not to me. His taxicab issues will flame out quickly.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Hey! You assumed the demographic, I didn't put it on you. (we're all adults here, we know what is being said) Yes you do get service based on the perceived odds of a return. I am talking white, Spanish and black waitresses/Servers alike. They all know what tables will pay out and what tables won't, at least they think they do.

Look, don't kill the messenger. I just report what lifelong restaurateurs tell me. I am certain that cabbies have assumed the same presumptions. It's pretty bad that in the 21st century Kutnupe14 has to be profiled but hell "Ain't that America". If it's any consolation you should see me trying to get service at 38th street McDonalds. life's tough all over!

My white nieces and nephews received poor service while my wife and kids and I who sat at the next table received good service.

 

[singlesix]

Hey! You assumed the demographic, I didn't put it on you. (we're all adults here, we know what is being said) Yes you do get service based on the perceived odds of a return. I am talking white, Spanish and black waitresses/Servers alike. They all know what tables will pay out and what tables won't, at least they think they do.

Look, don't kill the messenger. I just report what lifelong restaurateurs tell me. I am certain that cabbies have assumed the same presumptions. It's pretty bad that in the 21st century Kutnupe14 has to be profiled but hell "Ain't that America". If it's any consolation you should see me trying to get service at 38th street McDonalds. life's tough all over!

So you're suggesting crappy service at McDonald's is based on race?

 

[You'll shoot your eye out]

I'm not blaming you, not a bit. Honestly who doesn't know that black people have a rep for not tipping? Anyone? I've been told as much many times. No need to neuter your talk bro, we're all adults here, and I have thick skin.

AAAAAAAhhhhhhh! You said it! Right out loud! Yes, we are adults, bit apparently I have "white privilege" and so do need to "neuter your talk bro". Now you barge in and DENNY my political correctness......... I don't know how to respond except that it's very Denny of you.

My white nieces and nephews received poor service while my wife and kids and I who sat at the next table received good service.

This is exactly correct. Young people won't tip as well and don't even have the means to tip like older more established people do. It's not racial demographics but financial demographics. It could be black people just the same as young people. neither are as likely to pay out for service. Not skin or age but who traditionally is loose with money.

 

[You'll shoot your eye out]

So you're suggesting crappy service at McDonald's is based on race?

OK....... I guess it was a stupid thing to say at that.

 

[jamil]

Now hold on. I think we're over applying the Denny rule here.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

This is exactly correct. Young people won't tip as well and don't even have the means to tip like older more established people do. It's not racial demographics but financial demographics. It could be black people just the same as young people. neither are as likely to pay out for service. Not skin or age but who traditionally is loose with money.

And as Kutnupe said he tips well (I have no reason to not believe him) my niece who was paying for the table tips very well also. She worked her way up from waitress to general manager while her husband was going to college to be a pharmacist. Trust me she tips well, as do the rest of my family. Half my family has worked in the restaurant biz and knows what it's like. We tip good for good service, great for great, heck usually good for even fair service. And the waitress will know why we didn't tip for **** service.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

 

[Timjoebillybob]

And those of us in that demographic often receive comparable service based on that assumption. It occurs, at least for me, so often, that I don't eat at middling restaurants. And when I tip it's always in the 25-30% range.

I'm not blaming you, not a bit. Honestly who doesn't know that black people have a rep for not tipping? Anyone? I've been told as much many times. No need to neuter your talk bro, we're all adults here, and I have thick skin.

He stated demographicS, plural. There are quite a few that have a rep for not tipping, tipping poorly. Young, old, blacks, single mom with multiple kids...

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I have not been picked up in bars by smoking hot chicks of all races. To whom do I complain?

 

[17 squirrel]

Yourself on the bad decisions on what bars you frequent.

 

[ArmedProgrammer]

I have not been picked up in bars by smoking hot chicks of all races. To whom do I complain?

Your parents...

Fortune may favor the bold... but genetics are a crapshoot.

 

[Kutnupe14]

He stated demographicS, plural. There are quite a few that have a rep for not tipping, tipping poorly. Young, old, blacks, single mom with multiple kids...

Which have you heard MOST often? "Old people don't tip?" "Single mothers don't tip?" C'mon Timj, we all know.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Which have you heard MOST often? "Old people don't tip?" "Single mothers don't tip?" C'mon Timj, we all know.

From my family members who worked as waitresses, young people. From the pizza drivers I worked with the same. Heck we liked the runs in black neighborhoods they tipped decent.

 

[1775usmarine]

Safe space the new word for segregation.

 

[IndyGal65]

I hope this is true.....

I mean.... I don't hope this is true....
BUT I hope Big Al is not pulling a brian williams/hillary clinton and inserting himself to be part of the story.

I was thinking the same thing.

Several years ago (probably 20 now), me and several of my friends (who happen to be gay), went to the Pizza King in Avon for some grub and suds on my birthday. It was later on a Friday night, and it appeared that the local high school football team and cheerleaders were at the restaurant too. Unfortunately, we were all heckled pretty bad by a few of the football players and ended up leaving. I was pissed as hell, but sometimes stupid people act like idiots. We didn't form a "gay lives matter" group or demand that the kids working that night be fired. We just chalked it up to a bad night. Sometimes, sh** happens. People need to put on their big girl/big boy pants and move on.