Make sure to look hopeless so passerby will think you need help <| sep |> I ' d argue that being entombed above ground still means you ' re buriedin concrete or whatever the sarcophagus is made of . <| sep |> I think there ' s more to the story . This is a cafe selling food at reasonable cost the sandwich he references 350 RS is about 5 bucks not a highend restaurant where one table can order a lot more than the next , when you include wine , and that the highest cost dish is perhaps 5 x higher than the lowest cost dish . So for them to obsess over the foreign customers in this kind of resturant I don ' t think can be justified by tips or size of order alone . In fact , I think more money is only one of multiple factors . Real Factors Entertainment of dealing with different people Indians see Indians every day . Just as we in America often enjoy talking with foreigners who have an accent , so do they . It ' s novelty . Status of white people the boss sets the tone , and seems eager to play the host to visiting whites . the employees follow . this pernicious trend also is true of Asian families where the immigrant parents suck up to whites , and the kids unconsciously pattern themselves after them Indians and Americans interact with staff differently This is not simply criticism . If you look at how the guy describes the food There is this Mehrangarh Cafe inside the fort that charges exorbitant prices for for basic refreshments like club sandwich 350 This sandwich costs about $ 5 . 5 bucks . And yet this guy is saying the price is exorbitant . Exorbitant is a pretty severe term . I get it income per capita is considerably lower in India but if you eat out anywhere at a normal restaurant not a dhabba which is a dingy roadside restaurant , it will typically cost $ 35 . So now imagine the server sees two customersWhite American Wow , it ' s only $ 5 ! In a restaurant at a tourist destination back home , it would cost $ 20 . Indian customer Why is it $ 5 ! I can make this at home for five times less . Also , it ' s just the way things are in India that Indian customers are more curt with the staff . If you compare it to here , American customers are positively buttkissing to the staff . It ' s a stark difference . When I spent some time in India , I instinctively acted there as I do here and the staff was typically very friendly . Conversely , when airlines go from India to the US , the passengers and the American airline staff are usually on the brink of war by the end of the flight . Neither is right or wrong it ' s just there ' s a different customerstaff tone there and here . I can also envision that if Indian customers feel that $ 5 is a lot , they will bark their orders even more so and feel less inclined to leave a tip and order fewer other things like appetizers . In India , it ' s rare to tip , and if you do max of 10 % typically . What annoys me though is that the Indian staff isn ' t just favoring the white foreigners they are practically disregarding fellow Indians . Unfortunately in India , there are fewer ways to petition the system . In the US , you could go up the ladder , and talk to the Fort director , make your complaints known . There , the director would just shrug his shoulders . Any change of this nature is made through personal connections . India still has a long way to go in terms of professionalizing its organizational operations .