A waitress asked some black teens to prepay for their meal. A fellow diner wasn't having that
(CNN) An IHOP restaurant in Maine retrained its employees after a waitress asked a group of black teens to prepay for a meal.
The eatery in Auburn, about 40 miles north of Portland, closed on Thursday for employee training and the waitress was disciplined, according to IHOP spokeswoman Stephanie Peterson.
The controversy started over the weekend after a waitress at the restaurant asked a group of black teenagers to pay for their meal beforehand.
This was witnessed by a person at a nearby table who wrote about it on Facebook.
"I heard them order their food, and they were respectful and were not loud or rude etc. We paid and sat there for a few minutes and I heard an employee tell the table that they were going to need to pay upfront and that it was 'a new generation thing,' Avery Gagne, who is white, wrote in his post, which was shared thousands of times. "I called over the group and asked them if they were seriously being asked to pay upfront and they said yes. So my father, mother and I stood up and began to question why this was happening."
Gagne went on to write that he felt the teens' race was an issue because the waitress immediately brought it up when trying to explain the situation.
"The woman took it upon herself to make this group of teens pay for their meal upfront because she considered them 'high risk.' I don't care who has walked out on your establishment. That does not give you the right to determine who you believe is going to or not," Gagne wrote. "My parents and I did not pay upfront for our meal, none of the tables around us prepaid for their meals. The fact that she stated 'it's not because of their color' proves it all."
The restaurant's management took to social media, too, and offered an apology.
"Everyone has been made aware of these inexcusable actions and reminded how we handle matters correctly in the future," read the post on IHOP Auburn ME's Facebook page. "We have rectified the situation and can guarantee this is not what we condone to go on within our restaurant."
The waitress' actions weren't racially motivated, manager Melvin Escobar told the Sun Journal newspaper, and added that the restaurant had been having problems with teens walking out of the restaurant without paying for their meals.
IHOP President Darren Rebelez also apologized, saying in a statement to CNN that the restaurant chain has "zero tolerance for actions that are or allude to discrimination of any type."
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Christian Ross
This seems fake I've never been to an IHOP where the employees are capable of more than grunting and over cooking my eggs
Andrew Baker
>and they were respectful and were not loud or rude etc. Why do these reporters always bury the lead?
I went to cracker barrel once with my family (we are black) and they refused to seat us. We were only allowed to sit in the porch area huddled around the little checkers table :(
Ayden Morgan
well it's not called nigger barrel
Robert Robinson
Don't waitresses do this when changing shifts?
Caleb Young
kek
Alexander Ross
Toppest fucking lel
Jason Thompson
You know it's a gud joke when you laugh and don't care if you feel bad about it.
Once saw a Whataburger worker refuse to take the order of a black guy, and he was an actual not nigger uni professor.
Samuel Evans
Small restaurant owner in East Atlanta here.
I can't say I agree with the restaurant, and racism is never justifiable.
Having said that, one of the biggest problems we have had in the past 5 years are young black kids who come in, eat and then run out the door. It happens very frequently (once a week) and there has been absolutely nothing we could do about it. The police just take a report and then nothing ever happens.
I'm half black, and I'm at the end of my nerves with these kids just openly stealing from us without consequence.
Something needs to be done. But probably not the way this restaurant did it. They'll lose all their customers.
Dylan Cox
Just put up a cross outside your restaurant, if they are reminded of Christ, their desire to commit sins will go away. Also make sure to light it on fire at night, to increase visibility.
Jaxson Ross
>and racism is never justifiable. lol
Zachary King
Who's that?
Asher Smith
> Something needs to be done.
Restaurants which have a lot of ni… customers dining-and-dashing on them ought to implement a pay first policy for everybody.
I’d also suggest surveillance cameras in the parking lot to catch the license plate of the ni… customers who skipped out on the bill.
I worked at a place which operated like a casino: the house always wins. If there was money missing or someone didn't pay, we would have to pay for it ourselves. I live in a third world shithole but I wouldn't be surprised this is the case for some US establishments since state law is pro-corporation more often than not.
Ayden Sullivan
>racism is never justifiable Isn't racism the natural reaction of simply judging before all the facts are in; making the assumption that because the vast majority of your race is shit you could be too?
I'm not saying lynch them all, but around blacks don't relax until you know them.
Sebastian Jenkins
World famous Five Smokes, pictured here smoking four cigarettes.
John Gray
>and racism is never justifiable Says the inept cunt getting stolen from and not doing anything about it.
Owen Bailey
How do I get such a hot and spicy based anti-black girlfriend, Veeky Forums?
Elijah Perez
>he wants an IHOP waitress gf lowest standards i've ever seen
Leo Sanchez
>racism is never justifiable
Fuck you and your weak pussy ass.
Justin Brooks
Eh, I can go lower. Peg leg, hook hand, eyepatch. I don't discriminate. ..Except against black people!
Thank god white women only date black guys now. There's literally no excuse not to have a cute asian gf at this point.
Jordan Davis
I've heard that the waitress is responsible for the bill if diners dash on them (which may explain why this one wanted to be paid up-front) but I don't see how that would be legal?
On the other hand, there's such a high turn-over rate in the industry that most waitresses probably just quit and storm out.
Adrian Howard
Gonna agree with Make it a "pay first" restaurant for EVERYONE. Problem solved.
Brandon Russell
Mainefag here, that sounds like something that would happen in Auburn. A lot of refugees from Somalia live in that area and the whites can’t stand them. Me, I love the refugees, they’re always way nicer to me than French-Irish trailer trash.
That being said I could have sworn this very same news story happened last summer or something. I thought it was clickbait when I saw the headline because I sincerely thought that they recycled an old story
I worked in a theater for a while. The amount changed but unless the register was off more than 11 USD you were in the green. Obviously being off too many times caused suspicion though. Similar in room-service for hotels. You are not held accountable for small amounts of money missing, and larger amounts reportedly immediately are considered theft by the customer not your responsibility.
Zachary Moore
Absolutely correct. If you're having trouble with youth, make the normal young people pay up front. Don't persecute the blacks.
Hudson Diaz
>They'll lose all their customers bullshit! that is the kind of restaurant I want to go to.
on a almost similar topic, I've been wanting to open a "mexican restaurant" and the name would be "El Mexican Restaurant" and only white servers would be working the front of the house, wearing medium to large sombreros (servers choice). and they would use mexican words that are learned on sesame street mixed with american words or as some would say "english". it would be really good food because I can make some mean mexican fair. and because the back of the house would be staffed white too. but this generation is a bunch of pussies and wouldn't be able to handle the racism. fuck this life we live! the racism is killing me
ever since I was little, I found it odd that you could eat food at a sit down restaurant without paying in hopes that you pay after your done. one of the only times you pay after using what you want. I still find it odd and don't mind that this waitress did what she did. especially if she has seen young blacks D and D in the past. the world is changing and we may soon have to look black people in the eye as we pass them in public. I dread that day
Jeremiah Powell
>the world is changing and we may soon have to look black people in the eye as we pass them in public
Somalis are pretty nice actually and they mainly keep to themselves. Turks however are loud as hell and I can't stand them, they are also rude.
Levi Collins
>be in japan >everybody is polite and minds their business >encounter one black guy in a sea of millions of asians >he bumps me and says "watch the fuck out"
Brody Rogers
How about food media politicization? That’s a bigger issue. If you have a few individuals in the industry with prejudice, yeah, that’s life. If you have the entire media coverage of the topic saturated with SJW garbage, that is a much larger issue.
Ethan Miller
>be in the south getting into having a couple beehives this year and join the Memphis Bee Association >get assigned an old black guy a couple miles away from me as mentor >invites me to use his equipment to construct my hives and shows me how >tells me I can use his equipment anytime >invites me over to see him work hives >offers to come over and inspect my hives once they're established to make sure everything is going right. >established a 2 acre community garden where he taught poor whitetrash and nogs to grow their own food in plots. >b-but muh niggers are bad kys. That guy is superior to 99.9% of any Veeky Forums poster.
Austin Roberts
That guy sounds pretty based, but generally blacks are trash.
Gabriel Smith
0.01% of dindus are actually worth our time. big whoop. doesn't mean I'm going to change my thinking on their entire race. I still wouldn't eat his honey if I knew it was his. I bet he doesn't put his face on his packaging, now does he
Tyler Hughes
you should have to prepay regardless. one time my faggot cousin threw a fit because his dad is conservative and my cousin blows everything out of proportion and threw his plate on the ground and stormed out. it was thanksgiving and now the country club wont have either of them again. having a card on record prevents malicious cunts from damaging stuff or ditching the check.
Tyler Morris
What is the exception not the rule, Alex?
Ryan Nguyen
THIS. This also solves the tipping issue. Pay for the meal beforehand. ONLY the meal. Expecting more money AFTER they've already been paid is just asinine
