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The article clearly laid out what they were talking about when they said 'Canadians.' They meant black people (read racial slur here) are cheap and don't tip.
by mhurron 13y ago
The article clearly laid out what they were talking about when they said 'Canadians.'
They meant black people (read racial slur here) are cheap and don't tip. They didn't mean people from the Great White North.
- RogerL 13y agoThe point was that both groups do not tip as well as other groups. 'Canadian' is substituted for black just to avoid having to say what they really think. IOW, the server would say the same thing if it was a table of Canadians.
- arbutus 13y agoIt's referring to both. It says in the article that Canadians are also thought of as leaving low tips, and it's presumably easier to get away with calling black people Canadian than the other way around.
- taway2012 13y agoNo, they did (last phrase of quote below). "So now we have a restaurant industry where African-Americans are demeaned as “Canadians”, in reference to another group which is considered by US servers to be low tippers."
- TwiztidK 13y agoI assumed that they were saying that Canadians didn't tip well and waitstaff used that as a euphemism for anyone they don't expect to tip well. That's just the way I read it, I could be wrong.
- dionidium 13y agoThat's what the article said, but I don't think it's true. I've heard this substitution many times and not always in restaurants. I don't think anybody is actually thinking of Canadians when they say it. I think they're just substituting a code-word they can safely use in public to communicate racist sentiments. I know what I mean, you know what I mean, and we have plausible deniability if an unsympathetic party overhears us.
- sharkbot 13y agoActually, the article specifically mentions Canadians as poor tippers: "So now we have a restaurant industry where African-Americans are demeaned as “Canadians”, in reference to another group which is considered by US servers to be low tippers."
- jlgreco 13y agoI expect that most people in the industry are probably unaware of how actual Canadians tip. Frequently encountering Canadians is probably a pretty geographically dependent thing.
- hackula1 13y agoCan confirm from the south here. No idea about real Canadians but "Canadians" pretty much never tip in my area. I was shocked when I first heard this, but I have friends who have been in the industry for years and it seems to be nearly universal. I asked a couple black friends about it once and they pretty much said it was just a cultural thing and they were not taught to do it as kids.