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Capn Circus
03/14/18 3:15:16 PM
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"Local manager Melvin Escobar says the restaurant had had problems with teenagers walking out without paying.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/03/14/ihop-maine-black-teenagers-pay-upfront/
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Kaname_Madoka
03/14/18 3:16:15 PM
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smh
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Squall28
03/14/18 3:16:31 PM
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Restaurants should have everyone pay up front tbh.
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RainblowDash
03/14/18 3:17:28 PM
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They spot a trend and wanted to do something about it.
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MacadamianNut3
03/14/18 3:17:51 PM
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Why is a waitress making this type of decision
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Anarchy_Juiblex
03/14/18 3:19:40 PM
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Statistics, confirmation bias, personal experiences, I'm just throwing out words because gamefaqs hates the spirit of free speech. Feel free to infer whatever you want.
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Muffinz0rz
03/14/18 3:20:10 PM
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Squall28 posted...
Restaurants should have everyone pay up front tbh.

yeah i've literally never understood why the standard is "consume first, pay later."

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-restaurants-have-you-pay-after-youve-eaten-vs-before-you-begin-the-meal

this is the closest explanation i could find but damn it's long
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Squall28
03/14/18 3:20:22 PM
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MacadamianNut3 posted...
Why is a waitress making this type of decision


Because the wait staff tend to get penalized for it
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eston
03/14/18 3:20:55 PM
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I've never been a fan of rolling consequences from one person's actions onto other, unrelated people. They may have had problems with teens dining and dashing, but unless it was these teens specifically they should not be treated differently from other customers.
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MacadamianNut3
03/14/18 3:21:59 PM
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Squall28 posted...
MacadamianNut3 posted...
Why is a waitress making this type of decision


Because the wait staff tend to get penalized for it

It was a good strategy I hope it worked out for her
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DifferentialEquation
03/14/18 3:23:35 PM
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MacadamianNut3 posted...
Why is a waitress making this type of decision


Why is it a big deal for an employee to take some initiative? One of my friends went out to eat when he had a broken arm, and the waiter made the decision to ask the kitchen to cut his steak for him and he appreciated it.
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UrCa1988
03/14/18 3:23:38 PM
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Muffinz0rz posted...
Squall28 posted...
Restaurants should have everyone pay up front tbh.

yeah i've literally never understood why the standard is "consume first, pay later."

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-restaurants-have-you-pay-after-youve-eaten-vs-before-you-begin-the-meal

this is the closest explanation i could find but damn it's long

Well, one of the more obvious reasons is they may try to find ways to add more stuff to your order. Finish dinner and the first thing they'll ask is "would you like anything for dessert?" and start laying out specials. You buy that dessert, maybe you want a coffee with it, maybe they upsell you to a cappuccino, etc. By the end of it you're paying more than you thought you would because you never got a look at the check.
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Anarchy_Juiblex
03/14/18 3:23:57 PM
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MacadamianNut3 posted...
Why is a waitress making this type of decision


She's probably tired of being stiffed on the tip and dine-n-dashed by teens. And blacks. And black teens.
She's also likely to suffer the consequences in some way for an unpaid bill. Being yelled at, reduced hours, "why didn't you watch them" etc etc etc

Of course she doesn't have the "power" to make the decision. It's obviously against IHOPs policy, against that store's policy, and that manager's policy. But it's not impossible to see why service workers "go rogue" in some situations.
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FrisbeeDude
03/14/18 3:25:44 PM
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Fire everyone who had to do with this call being made. It's fucking absurd
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sktgamer_13dude
03/14/18 3:26:51 PM
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Its one thing to tell the manager to watch that table closely because theyve had issues with teenagers, but its another thing to actively tell your customers youre profiling them.
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Anarchy_Juiblex
03/14/18 3:29:54 PM
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FrisbeeDude posted...
Fire everyone who had to do with this call being made. It's fucking absurd


Or . . . tell them not to do it again and don't piss away money because you have to retrain new employees.
In what world is people losing their jobs over minor, frivolous shit a better option?
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_RETS_
03/14/18 3:31:39 PM
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FrisbeeDude posted...
Fire everyone who had to do with this call being made. It's fucking absurd


Do you think it is fucking absurd for a store to lock up its black hair care products and not its white ones if the former is stolen at a higher rate?
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iron jojo
03/14/18 3:37:50 PM
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eston posted...
I've never been a fan of rolling consequences from one person's actions onto other, unrelated people. They may have had problems with teens dining and dashing, but unless it was these teens specifically they should not be treated differently from other customers.

So...every law
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DifferentialEquation
03/14/18 3:42:23 PM
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FrisbeeDude posted...
Fire everyone who had to do with this call being made. It's fucking absurd


You're being short sighted over something that would actually decrease racism. It's possible that some of the customers in IHOP are racists. If the waitress had the black teenagers pay up front, then the racist customers would have no reason to look at the black teenagers suspiciously (and thus improving race relations on the whole).
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MacadamianNut3
03/14/18 3:46:24 PM
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iron jojo posted...
So...every law

Help me out here because I want to make sure I'm not misreading this and thinking you just made some stupid as fuck comparison

You're suggesting that this policy should be applied to every customer and not some random teenagers, right? Especially given the effort that has gone into US laws to try to curb all forms of discrimination

I'm just wondering this after reading the post about hair products
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assassingriskel
03/14/18 3:52:10 PM
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Are we shocked the vast majority of people are racists that's just a fact
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iron jojo
03/14/18 3:55:36 PM
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MacadamianNut3 posted...
iron jojo posted...
So...every law

Help me out here because I want to make sure I'm not misreading this and thinking you just made some stupid as fuck comparison

You're suggesting that this policy should be applied to every customer and not some random teenagers, right? Especially given the effort that has gone into US laws to try to curb all forms of discrimination

I'm just wondering this after reading the post about hair products

Not sure how you came to that conclusion.
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MacadamianNut3
03/14/18 3:56:48 PM
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iron jojo posted...
Not sure how you came to that conclusion

I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, that's how
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GiftedACIII
03/14/18 3:59:32 PM
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iron jojo posted...
eston posted...
I've never been a fan of rolling consequences from one person's actions onto other, unrelated people. They may have had problems with teens dining and dashing, but unless it was these teens specifically they should not be treated differently from other customers.

So...every law

He is literally lying out his ass. He supported the hotel who accused single dads of being pedophiles for having their daughters with them
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pick4six
03/14/18 4:06:43 PM
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So fucked up, happened at Dennys too.
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eston
03/14/18 4:07:43 PM
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GiftedACIII posted...
He is literally lying out his ass. He supported the hotel who accused single dads of being pedophiles for having their daughters with them

This is not true at all and I think you severely misunderstood my position on that. At no point in that topic did I advocate profiling single dads.
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Anarchy_Juiblex
03/14/18 4:11:06 PM
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eston posted...
GiftedACIII posted...
He is literally lying out his ass. He supported the hotel who accused single dads of being pedophiles for having their daughters with them

This is not true at all and I think you severely misunderstood my position on that. At no point in that topic did I advocate profiling single dads.


Sounds like a fun topic, what's the 2 sentences or less on that?
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DeanAuryn
03/14/18 4:15:13 PM
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If theres a problem, it needs to be resolved. I fail to see the problem.
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eston
03/14/18 4:16:41 PM
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
eston posted...
GiftedACIII posted...
He is literally lying out his ass. He supported the hotel who accused single dads of being pedophiles for having their daughters with them

This is not true at all and I think you severely misunderstood my position on that. At no point in that topic did I advocate profiling single dads.


Sounds like a fun topic, what's the 2 sentences or less on that?

It was this story:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-surrey-39514900
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Capn Circus
03/14/18 4:19:58 PM
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DifferentialEquation posted...
FrisbeeDude posted...
Fire everyone who had to do with this call being made. It's fucking absurd


You're being short sighted over something that would actually decrease racism. It's possible that some of the customers in IHOP are racists. If the waitress had the black teenagers pay up front, then the racist customers would have no reason to look at the black teenagers suspiciously (and thus improving race relations on the whole).


Wow, that sounds pretty progressive
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EverDownward
03/14/18 4:20:54 PM
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Squall28 posted...
Restaurants should have everyone pay up front tbh.

This
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Anarchy_Juiblex
03/14/18 4:31:31 PM
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eston posted...
It was this story:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-surrey-39514900


Seems like a non-issue really. Maybe they could do better, maybe not tipping off sex predators when they search online, I don't know the best solution but getting b hurt over either side seems ridiculous. That said, it shouldn't require a police investigation every time an adult male is with a minor. That ridiculous. Hotels though, special cases I guess? Ehhhh
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GiftedACIII
03/14/18 4:34:49 PM
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
eston posted...
GiftedACIII posted...
He is literally lying out his ass. He supported the hotel who accused single dads of being pedophiles for having their daughters with them

This is not true at all and I think you severely misunderstood my position on that. At no point in that topic did I advocate profiling single dads.


Sounds like a fun topic, what's the 2 sentences or less on that?


Topic ID is 76342288 . It's on that site. As usual, he's pulling out the weasel words again. What he's doing is justifying profiling since the man had did nothing suspicious.
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eston
03/14/18 4:43:14 PM
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GiftedACIII posted...
Topic ID is 76342288 . It's on that site. As usual, he's pulling out the weasel words again. What he's doing is justifying profiling since the man had did nothing suspicious.

Feel free to read through it yourself and you'll see that you are mischaracterizing my argument. Also, the article doesn't say what the staff found suspicious. The fact that there aren't loads of other instances of this indicates that they weren't actually profiling, unless you believe that fathers and daughters travelling together is a super rare thing.
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eston
03/14/18 4:43:57 PM
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
That said, it shouldn't require a police investigation every time an adult male is with a minor.

I agree, and that does not appear to have been the case anyway
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Alexanaxela
03/14/18 4:48:11 PM
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on a related but unrelated note, restaurants should start offering take-in. Where you call in your order, they tell you how long it's going to take to make, then you show up, and eat it there

i wouldn't do it, but some random person might like it
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FrisbeeDude
03/14/18 4:51:14 PM
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DifferentialEquation posted...
FrisbeeDude posted...
Fire everyone who had to do with this call being made. It's fucking absurd


You're being short sighted over something that would actually decrease racism. It's possible that some of the customers in IHOP are racists. If the waitress had the black teenagers pay up front, then the racist customers would have no reason to look at the black teenagers suspiciously (and thus improving race relations on the whole).


Subject black folks to second class treatment to make white people feel more comfortable...

This, folks, is going full CE
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Fony
03/14/18 4:51:43 PM
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
Statistics, confirmation bias, personal experiences, I'm just throwing out words because gamefaqs hates the spirit of free speech. Feel free to infer whatever you want.


Yet the IHOP's in black neighborhoods and mixed neighborhoods NEVER single out and ask blacks to pay before being served.
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FrisbeeDude
03/14/18 4:52:02 PM
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DeanAuryn posted...
If theres a problem, it needs to be resolved. I fail to see the problem.


Racists rarely do
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Medz1286
03/14/18 4:55:32 PM
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Did they have the money to pay?
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Bishop9800
03/14/18 4:58:17 PM
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Medz1286 posted...
Did they have the money to pay?


Common sense would dictate that they did. (Looks at who asked the question)

Nevermind......
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Medz1286
03/14/18 5:03:42 PM
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Bishop9800 posted...
Medz1286 posted...
Did they have the money to pay?


Common sense would dictate that they did. (Looks at who asked the question)

Nevermind......

Did they pay or walk out?
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RickyTheBAWSE
03/14/18 5:05:36 PM
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
FrisbeeDude posted...
Fire everyone who had to do with this call being made. It's fucking absurd


In what world is people losing their jobs over minor, frivolous shit a better option?
"Someone did something I don't like? I'm going to infer racial motivations, cry fopr their jobs, and try to get them to collect social benefits!"


you don't get to decide this for anybody. people like you can't figure this out even if your jobs depended on it.

keep your racial, sexual orientated, gender, etc... biases at home where it belongs, lolololol.

it's 2018 and nobody should be shocked that lacking the ability to check yourself can often cost your position at an establishment that feels like you misrepresent them. time to grow up.
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DeanAuryn
03/14/18 5:10:08 PM
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FrisbeeDude posted...
DeanAuryn posted...
If theres a problem, it needs to be resolved. I fail to see the problem.


Racists rarely do


Why are you implying Im racist?
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The Admiral
03/14/18 5:10:27 PM
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Why are black teens not paying at higher rates than other races?
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Anarchy_Juiblex
03/14/18 5:11:28 PM
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RickyTheBAWSE posted...
you don't get to decide this for anybody.


Well actually, when stuff makes it to court, that's pretty much the point of "jury of your peers".

Keep your racial, sexual orientated, gender, etc... biases at home where it belongs, lolololol.


Many states, including the Feds don't consider orientation a protected class. Wrong again buck'o.

it's 2018


Oh is it? So you're argument doesn't work if it's 2020? 1920? It's not independent of the context of the year?

and nobody should be shocked


Nor is anyone.
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RickyTheBAWSE
03/14/18 5:13:51 PM
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Squall28 posted...
Restaurants should have everyone pay up front tbh.


this, though.

it's silly to assume everybody is going to have the financial capability to eat, and teens are more likely to do silly things due to underdeveloped frontal lobes.

kids will be kids. charge everybody up front.
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Bishop9800
03/14/18 5:13:58 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Why are black teens not paying at higher rates than other races?


Please show me where it says that black teen are not paying for their food. I would like to see the numbers for this.
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Zeeak4444
03/14/18 5:15:53 PM
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I'm just confused what Anarchys claim about free speech has to do with anything.

Came out of nowhere. Even funnier because 90% of the topics on free speech are not free speech issues. Still baffeling how people think free speech is the ability to say anything, anytime, anywhere/on any platform.

On topic it's pretty messed up. There's many ways you could have addressed this issue without going for the lazy and rude route.
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RickyTheBAWSE
03/14/18 5:15:54 PM
#50:


Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
RickyTheBAWSE posted...
you don't get to decide this for anybody.


Well actually, when stuff makes it to court, that's pretty much the point of "jury of your peers".

Keep your racial, sexual orientated, gender, etc... biases at home where it belongs, lolololol.


Many states, including the Feds don't consider orientation a protected class. Wrong again buck'o.

it's 2018


Oh is it? So you're argument doesn't work if it's 2020? 1920? It's not independent of the context of the year?

and nobody should be shocked


Nor is anyone.


try again when you recognize context, nuance and have the integrity to not be obtuse.

literally said nothing.
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