Restaurant says employee fabricated racist message
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Saltgrass says that the story one of their servers shared on social media about receiving a racist note was "fabricated".
The server, Khalil Cavil, shared a photo of the receipt containing the note to Facebook.
The note said "We don't tip terrorists" and was shared thousands of times on social media.
Terry Turney, COO of Saltgrass released the following statement on Monday:
“After further investigation, we have learned that our employee fabricated the entire story. The customer has been contacted and invited back to our restaurant to dine on us. Racism of any form is intolerable, and we will always act swiftly should it occur in any of our establishments. Falsely accusing someone of racism is equaling disturbing.”
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Another day another hoax hate crime. There are a lot of racists who seem to want to implicate white people in crimes and other events. Unfortunately their racist behavior is getting dangerous for innocent people. Just like the Texas 14 year old who said he was kidnapped by a gang of red headed white people... social media blew up trying to track down anyone who matched the description. With some even calling for kidnapping and killing white kids in retaliation.
Why is there so much racism against white people and implying they did something? Seems if white people were as evil as they wanted to make it seem there wouldn't be a need to fabricate so much.
Sorry for reposting-didn't see yours until now. Deleted mine. I have to agree-this 'hair trigger PC' thing is out of control. Opening up themselves for a huge lawsuit. Not sure I would go back to this place, even for free food, knowing that someone could make something up and I'd be in trouble for no good reason, yet again.
No big deal. If yours had more traction put yours back and I'll delete this
Why is there so much racism against white people
That has to be the comedy line of the day.
That's a downright silly comment. Faking racist complaints only serves to water down real acts of racism by introducing doubts as to whether 'it really happened or not'.
Why is that funny? There is an increase in racist attacks like this. No different thank when someone claims a black person killed their kids etc. The only reason to lie and blame someone of something like this is racism and hate towards someone white
I would bet that this is not only time stuff like this has been done
It's not. I remember a story where a black female server claimed the white patron wrote a racial epithet on the bill. Turned out SHE wrote it herself. There are other stories of fake stuff like that.
fake hate crimes:
Hundreds if not thousands of fake hate crime accusations such as the one in this article and worst.
Just click on the page numbers on this fake hate crimes.
You'll probably remember some of them as you look through them.
That's a great list! I didn't have time to look at all of the pages yet but from what I saw, most of the reporting did NOT come from left-wing MSM or left-wing newspapers.
Thanks for the link ... I saved it for future reference.
This isn't the first time a server has pulled this crap and then after being caught said it was "a mistake". Nobody innocently makes a "mistake" like that. They do it on purpose. In each case, the media didn't verify and ran with the story which helped to fuel the outrage. Then, when the truth came out, they were forced to walk it back.
He's 100% correct.
Don't we have enough problems without people pulling this crap?
Looks like the $0 tip wasn't fabricated. Maybe this server was angry after getting shafted and wrote what he felt was the reason for the no tip and then took it too far by sharing it.
Unless, of course, the tip was in cash, but hey, let your imagination run wild, not that you don't already.
Looks like you don't know that many people (including me) tip in CASH so our servers receive ALL of the gratuity. Many restaurants split the daily total of tips between front and back of house employees.
Even if this weren't the case, Khalil Cavil LIED and made a weak-assed apology AFTER he got caught in his inflammatory lie. His family must be very proud of his "ethics".
This is the reason I always take a wait and see attitude every time the SWJs are up in arms about something.
This really isn't a full article and you haven't linked to one either. I did find a WaPo article about it which includes a pic of the receipt which, indeed, shows no tip on an over $100 tab. So, something happened between this customer and the waiter. There's no mention that the customer complained to the management about poor service as a reason for no tip. It's odd that someone would charge a dinner and then leave a cash tip but that would be unusual. Of course the usual sorts will jump all over this and try to claim I approve of the waiter's action which I DO NOT.
BTW, there's been plenty of this sort of fake stories in the opposite directions: claims by white people that they were attacked by blacks. The most famous one was the woman who drowned her kids in one of the Carolinas and claimed it was done by black men. There was a young white girl working for McCain in 2008 who claimed she had been attacked with a knife by a "6'4" black man of medium build" (gotta love that description) and it turned out she mutilated herself and had a history of a prior false claim of being attacked.
It's a zero sum game, this.
Or you could go back to the infamous Tawana Brawley case, if you want to keep going to whataboutisms.
If you read the other comments, many people (including me) tip in cash, as the server gets to keep the full tip as opposed to an income tax reduced tip. I understand this as I used to work part time as a chauffeur and we made our real money on tips.
I'l see your Brawley and raise you to Central Park 5--five innocent hispanic men wrongly accused of a brutal rape in Central Park. At least Al Sharpton didn't demand the death penalty for the DA who was wrongly accused. Your Colossal Shitbag wanted to lynch those innocent men before they were even tried (which they never were) and took out a full-page appeal in the NYT to push for it. So, it really isn't always a zero-sum game. In your case you're deep in the hole now.
As others said I also routinely tip in cash. Either because we got gift cards to get the Kroger fuel points or I like to know the waitress/waiter can pocket the cash without having to report it. If enough people do this then the waitress can claim she didn't make enough to meet minimum wage and get more money as well. Not sure how often they do that but it was suggested to me once
Most of us tip in cash so that the server/take out delivery person receives the FULL tip and doesn't have to share it with other employees or the US/state governments.
You know what would happen to a server who didn't pool the tips? It wouldn't be pretty and that person would not last long on the job. And I like how you hope you encourage tax evasion as well.
I could have predicted that there'd be a bunch of BS deflection over the cash for tips angle. And I'm glad you are all so predictable. So if this server was left any kind of decent tip, why make a big fuss? There's no indication he made a habit of this---in fact, as this and other similar stories proves, one can only try to get away with this once and ususally not at all.
I could have predicted that there'd be a bunch of BS deflection over the cash for tips angle.
The, "well they didn't leave a tip", is the biggest deflection of all. Take a bow.
That "deflection" happens to be the alleged basis of this whole mess. But I wonder why they didn't. Aren't you curious about that? And if not why?
I'm re-reading this and now wonder why (actually I know why) everyone's jumped to the conclusion that this was a racial issue. The brief summary doesn't mention the race of the patron nor do any of the news articles. And everyone seems to take it for granted s/he was white at that when s/he could have been Hispanic or Asian or....even black. Whatever the reason for not tipping (and this clearly is the case) there was something unpleasant happened between server and patron. And it's interesting that the patron did not complain to the management about the server.
now wonder why (actually I know why) everyone's jumped to the conclusion that this was a racial issue.
Do you think it's because every article on the subject and the hoaxer claimed it was a racist message? Is it really a mystery why it's a "racial issue" when the hoaxer said it was racism? Sheesh.
I'm trying to figure out what race would be offended by the term "terrorist." Of course, we're dealing with an accuser that obviously has poor judgment so there's really no point in trying to figure him out. Too bad we'll never know what happened at that table. But I do enjoy your willingness to keep zeroing out the sum of this game. I hope you want to dig up another past example of something like this where a minority made a false claim so I can go find some white guy or gal who did it. And then we can go on like that forever.
I said this was a zero-sum game at the beginning and our rightwingers were happen to prove that.