Not sure if anybody has said anything to this affect , but i don ' t think bad tips have as much to do with race , as much as they have to do with class . Think about it logically . In America , due to institutional circumstances , black people tend to unfortunately be concentrated in lower income , highpoverty sections of cities . We have to understand that for a lot of these black familiescouples , going out to basically any restaurant nicer than a TGICB ' s is rare for them . They might run you all over the place because they want a special experience that they ' re not used to . It ' s the same exact thing for white people . The reality is that , regardless of race , if you ' re not used to dining out , you probably don ' t know much about tipping etiquitte . I ' ve worked in central Indiana , and an upscale neighborhood in Chicago . People in Indiana tip like shit , but In Chicago I get guests of every race you could possibly think of , yet I average 2030 % of my sales nightly . It ' s not because of race , it ' s because they ' re privileged , and they ' re used to eating out