Applebee's Waitress Told 'We Don't Tip Black People' By Customers

A waitress named Jasmine Brewer who works at Applebee’s in Radcliff, Kentucky, Said  earlier this month, four customers didn’t tip her on a $50 order. Instead, the diners left a handwritten note on a napkin: “We don’t tip black people.”

 The 26-year-old Brewer said the party responsible for the racist note consisted of two well-dressed couples.

“It looked like they were having a rough day, like they had just been to a funeral,” Brewer told HuffPost. “They ordered two 2-for-$20 meals, two Mountain Dews and two sweet teas.”

Brewer said she did everything possible to make the experience pleasant, even telling the group “Have a nice day” as they left.

“They said, ‘Have a nice day too!’” Brewer recalled. She didn’t know the customers had a problem with her until she saw the note.

“I did everything I could to make it good and in the end, I was the problem,” she said, bemused. 

The waitress said her co-workers were shocked by the racist note, especially her manager.

“She was livid and she’s white,” said Brewer. “She is dating a black man and they have two kids together. There are a lot of biracial couples working at Applebee’s,” she said.

Applebee’s sent a statement to HuffPost condemning the nasty napkin:

There are many people of course who's saying she wrote that herself and talks about other hoaxes, so part of me don't blame other people for questioning this. However, I do believe this woman since at this point you have to be an idiot to fake something like this when other people did it and it was exposed over and over. Not only does it make you look bad but it also makes the Black community look bad and real racist incidents are taken less seriously, not saying they're being taken seriously now anyway, but im sure many of you get my point. This is Kentucky we're talking about, a very racist state so I am not surprised this happened and I wish Brewer the very best.