Happy Birthday! Have some racism from Elmwood Cafe!

[randomness]

Particularly for friends in the Bay Area.

"Scram!" eh?

Guess that's one place I won't be going to next time I'm in Berkeley.

http://wkamaubell.com/2015/01/happy-birthday-have-some-racism-from-elmwood-cafe/

Comments

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just wow.

I'm going to repost that page on my facebook page, to hopefully get the word out that in late January, 2015, racism is still rampant, even in a place that likes to claim they are openminded and liberal. Gah.

(I stopped reading the comments at the &*$% who claimed the waitperson was likely coming to a correct conclusion, that it really did seem like a "person selling something" and not racism. )

[merlinofchaos]

Even if the waitperson had come to the correct conclusion, that's now how you handle it.

This is:

Waitperson: "Excuse me [customer], but is this person bothering you?"

Customer: "No, he's my husband. Why would there be a problem?"

Waitperson: "Oh, I'm so sorry to have intruded, I thought he might be trying to sell you something. We get a lot of that in here, but I see I was mistaken! Have a great day!" *walks away*.

It's not really complicated.. If there's a problem you've gone the step of making sure your customers know you'll handle it. If there isn't a problem, your customers know that you'll treat them well.