I work in Fast Food. I've noticed differences between black people and white people who come through

I SWEAR I AM HALF BLACK. AND I SWEAR ON MY LIFE THAT THIS HAPPENS MAINLY BY BLACK PEOPLE. Yes, every single black person that comes through isn't difficult, but a biiiiiiiiiiig portion of them are. It has almost become predictable. I can lip sync what they are about to say next or ask for. It's kind of creepy.

This is coming from me, a biracial guy (half white/half black), and my personal experiences in working fast food.

Our drink options are: Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Root Beer, Dr. Pepper, Hi-C Fruit Punch, and Light Lemonade.

- Majority of black people order Hi-C Fruit Punch.
- Majority of white people order Coke/Diet Coke.

The rest of the drink options are a random toss up between the few that don't fit into the majority.

We also carry a few non-fountain drink options: Sweet tea and Un-sweet tea.

- Majority of black people who order tea order sweet tea. In fact, I can only recall two black people, in the time that I've worked there (and I always work drive-thru where the majority of the people come), order un-sweet tea.

- Majority of white people order Un-sweet tea. Although, there is more leeway within the white fast food test subjects in their selection between sweet or un-sweet tea.

Easiness of orders: (Despite the fact that anyone can be rather irritating)

- White people: Seem to be able to order more quickly and more precisely. Tend to say "Thank you" more often. Tend to complain less, and, if they do, they seem more reluctant as a sign of respect to not make a big deal of something petty. Although, are more likely to not come back if we forget a pretty obvious item; such as a drink with the combo. White people have a more pleasant ordering voice (and this makes a difference when you've had a slew of rude orders). I always feel more appreciation from white people compared to black people.

- Black people: Slow, slow, slow orderers! You may think that I'm racist but, after many encounters I have had in fast food, these are the conclusions I have made from the majority of orders I have taken. Sometimes I sense that they are intentionally taking their time just because they know they can. Also, they ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS change their order. Here is a typical conversation I have with them:
Black customer: "I'll have number.......................................................​..........................Fo---Fi--NO! number 8 combo. WAIT. I'll just go ahead and get number 4 combo."
Me: "Alright, what size would you--"
Black customer: "NO! Scratch that. Keep the number 8 combo!"
Me: "O..ok. What size?"
Black customer: "Small."
Me:"What kind of drink would you like?"
Black customer: "Fruit punch"
Me:"Anything else?"
Black customer:" Um...........................................................​.............................................................​.............. (1 minute later I hear them on the cell phone talking about something unrelated to ordering)......."
Me: "H-hello?"
Black customer: "Yeah that's it!
"Me: "Okay, your total comes to $7.56, thank you!"
Black customer:"$7.56?!?! Hell no, lemme just get your dollar menu chicken sandwhich and value fries, and that'll be all for me (they pull up without me even giving them their total)"

Black guys mumble too much. I'm constantly asking them to repeat themselves. When I ask them to repeat themselves they immediately assume I just said, "Fuck your mom!" and get all pissy. Other times, they won't even TRY to speak louder or more clearly. Then when their order comes out wrong they get pissed off. The women ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS have something wrong with their food. Our fries will have just came up and they'll honk their horn and say they want fresh fries. The meat doesn't taste right. Their soda doesn't taste right. Their fries are too salty. Their fries aren't salty enough. The sandwich bun doesn't taste right. Their chicken nugget are cold. Their chicken nuggets don't taste fresh enough. The list goes on. This goes on all night for 8 hrs, and by the time the night is over I'm ready to jump off of a cliff.

If they order a shitload of food, they will sit at the window and open every single sandwich and inspect it while there is a line of cars behind them. I rarely witness a white person complaining about their fries. Our fries are usually always fresh, so no wonder. It is like black people are never satisfied. If they order a flavored tea (that we make with un-sweet tea) they will complain that the tea isn't sweet enough.

This is only grazing the surface, if I told you everything you would be mentally worn.

What validates my experiences even more is that my manager, whom is a black man married to a black woman, agrees with me completely. He's a preacher and he's always talking about how difficult black people are. His famous line is, "Who's holding up the line? You already know!"

That's strange, a lot of people ask for Fruit Punch and Sprite mix. You're onto something!

I never thought about it before, but you're right. And trust me I'm no racist.

When I pick a checkout queue at the supermarket there will be one with a white woman with a huge trolley full of shopping and one with black women (they never seem to shop alone) with a few things. I always go behind the white woman, because they're shopping will go through quickly with no hold-ups, packed, paid for and gone - the black women will cause a delay over one thing or another, changing an item for something else, taking forever to pay, arguing over something, then very very slowly packing their shopping and eventually strolling off. Always.

Imagine 3 McDonald's right across the street from each other. 1 in the Super Walmart, than 2 across the street, 1 outside of the mall and 1 inside the mall.

I just noticed that yesterday at Giant Eagle. STRAAAAAAAAAAANGE. I didn't think anything of it until you brought this up.

I like that, and I'm a whitey, lol. It's good, man.

Wait...Imagine 3 McD's? - Check.
1 in Walmark - check
2 across street - check
1 outside mall - erm...wait
1 inside mall - WTF? Wait..I need to recount my McD's!

= 5 mcD's or am I the retarded one?

Ummmm...I hope you all are aware of the Bell Curve. Therein lies all the answers...

Oh jeez OP, thats one one the things you'll learn in life. Never stand behind a black person at Walmart.

I never thought about it before, but you're right. And trust me I'm no racist.

When I pick a checkout queue at the supermarket there will be one with a white woman with a huge trolley full of shopping and one with black women (they never seem to shop alone) with a few things. I always go behind the white woman, because they're shopping will go through quickly with no hold-ups, packed, paid for and gone - the black women will cause a delay over one thing or another, changing an item for something else, taking forever to pay, arguing over something, then very very slowly packing their shopping and eventually strolling off. Always.

When I was in college in the 80s, it was like this even then. I used to work in the dorm cafeteria and there was a more demanding attitude by the African American students, as if they were getting back for the generations of stepping and fetching that their ancestors were forced to do, LOL.

Whether I worked the food serving area or the dishwasher tray return area, I noticed a cultural divide between the amount of special requests and dissatisfaction with taking the food as is, and I also noticed that the African American trays invariably were returned with a lot of wasted food, paper napkins shoved into glasses half full of liquid, and a general messiness that required a lot of extra cleanup before the tray could be put through the system. My coworkers and I all saw the same thing and used to joke about being able to predict the behavior

i live in Africa and confirm this obsequious behaviour, it's not intentional however.

This is coming from me, a biracial guy (half white/half black), and my personal experiences in working fast food.

Our drink options are: Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Root Beer, Dr. Pepper, Hi-C Fruit Punch, and Light Lemonade.

- Majority of black people order Hi-C Fruit Punch.
- Majority of white people order Coke/Diet Coke.

The rest of the drink options are a random toss up between the few that don't fit into the majority.

We also carry a few non-fountain drink options: Sweet tea and Un-sweet tea.

- Majority of black people who order tea order sweet tea. In fact, I can only recall two black people, in the time that I've worked there (and I always work drive-thru where the majority of the people come), order un-sweet tea.

- Majority of white people order Un-sweet tea. Although, there is more leeway within the white fast food test subjects in their selection between sweet or un-sweet tea.

Easiness of orders: (Despite the fact that anyone can be rather irritating)

- White people: Seem to be able to order more quickly and more precisely. Tend to say "Thank you" more often. Tend to complain less, and, if they do, they seem more reluctant as a sign of respect to not make a big deal of something petty. Although, are more likely to not come back if we forget a pretty obvious item; such as a drink with the combo. White people have a more pleasant ordering voice (and this makes a difference when you've had a slew of rude orders). I always feel more appreciation from white people compared to black people.

- Black people: Slow, slow, slow orderers! You may think that I'm racist but, after many encounters I have had in fast food, these are the conclusions I have made from the majority of orders I have taken. Sometimes I sense that they are intentionally taking their time just because they know they can. Also, they ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS change their order. Here is a typical conversation I have with them:
Black customer: "I'll have number.......................................................​..........................Fo---Fi--NO! number 8 combo. WAIT. I'll just go ahead and get number 4 combo."
Me: "Alright, what size would you--"
Black customer: "NO! Scratch that. Keep the number 8 combo!"
Me: "O..ok. What size?"
Black customer: "Small."
Me:"What kind of drink would you like?"
Black customer: "Fruit punch"
Me:"Anything else?"
Black customer:" Um...........................................................​.............................................................​.............. (1 minute later I hear them on the cell phone talking about something unrelated to ordering)......."
Me: "H-hello?"
Black customer: "Yeah that's it!
"Me: "Okay, your total comes to $7.56, thank you!"
Black customer:"$7.56?!?! Hell no, lemme just get your dollar menu chicken sandwhich and value fries, and that'll be all for me (they pull up without me even giving them their total)"

Black guys mumble too much. I'm constantly asking them to repeat themselves. When I ask them to repeat themselves they immediately assume I just said, "Fuck your mom!" and get all pissy. Other times, they won't even TRY to speak louder or more clearly. Then when their order comes out wrong they get pissed off. The women ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS have something wrong with their food. Our fries will have just came up and they'll honk their horn and say they want fresh fries. The meat doesn't taste right. Their soda doesn't taste right. Their fries are too salty. Their fries aren't salty enough. The sandwich bun doesn't taste right. Their chicken nugget are cold. Their chicken nuggets don't taste fresh enough. The list goes on. This goes on all night for 8 hrs, and by the time the night is over I'm ready to jump off of a cliff.

If they order a shitload of food, they will sit at the window and open every single sandwich and inspect it while there is a line of cars behind them. I rarely witness a white person complaining about their fries. Our fries are usually always fresh, so no wonder. It is like black people are never satisfied. If they order a flavored tea (that we make with un-sweet tea) they will complain that the tea isn't sweet enough.

This is only grazing the surface, if I told you everything you would be mentally worn.

What validates my experiences even more is that my manager, whom is a black man married to a black woman, agrees with me completely. He's a preacher and he's always talking about how difficult black people are. His famous line is, "Who's holding up the line? You already know!"

Interesting. Messes are made by everyone equally at my job, unless you single out the Somalians. There are these Somalians that come through and when they leave you'd think dogs were out to eat. Chicken nuggets scattered all over the floor. Ketchup smeared all over the table. Chairs flipped upside down. You go out and you just stare at it for 5 minutes to let it process, "How is this possible?" LOL

Working in pizza delivery, I can confirm all of these behaviors. But it is definitely socio-economic and not cultural. If you live in a very poor white neighborhood, you will see all of this and more.

Very poor people and very wealthy people both act like this. Middle class people tend o be more polite and reasonable.

I have the same thing in the game store I work at.

Black people tend to be a nuisance, and when complaining they act like they own the place.

Whites tend to be more reluctant in complaining, and act all friendly when doing so. Last time someone had a broken product and he was almost ashamed that he came back for a refund.

Blacks tend to come up to me, put something on the counter and instantly think I can read their minds. Oh and the constant haggling, they always want something for a lower price.

When something is broken they want full refund (which isn't a big deal) and they want a discount on the next product. When I say I can't do that they scream shout and stomp around the store.

Usually to great amusement of me, my collegues and other shoppers.

In holland gift certificates can expire if a certain date has been stamped upon them. Our gift certificates always have those dates. It used to be valid for half a year (which I found rediculous and always always cashed them even though they weren't valid anymore by a month or two (I never went over three months, just to stay out of trouble).

Whites tend to be all: Well, that was stupid of me, letting it expire! anything you can do for me, though? *puppyeyes*
To which I will look at the date, and again, if it's over 3 months I wont cash it, but otherwise I would.

Blacks... They only come in after it has expired for like 2, 3 days, and if not that, always over 6 months... Never in between, I never saw one come in with a 1 month old card... And before I can say anything at all they scream and shout.

It goes like this: Person smacks certificate on the counter, looks at me with arms crossed. As if they were my owners (I feel like I am their slave sometimes). They say, that it's illegal to stamp a date on certificates and that they can't expire. They insist I call my regional manager, whom when being a rookie just complied to their demands but nowadays stands up for me. and when that doesn't work, they camp the store. Complaining to al lthe costumers. Sometimes I have to call police to remove them from my store. Thankfully the majority leaves on their own accord though.

Also, the only time you see them is during the holiday season and when we have rediculously low offers.

Also, their kids...

White kids tend to act more mature and civilized. When they are with parents they almost never are a nuisance.

Black kids always run around the store, jump on everything and climb in statues of game-figures. They never listen to their parents and always act like they own their parents in stead of the other way around.

And before you think I am racist (which in a way we all are, wether you are black yellow or white, we all don't trust another ethnicity). I do date blacks, and yes I am white. a couple of my friends are black or arabic or even asian.

My most favorite coleague is of asian descent, and she agrees with me, as does on of her black coleagues.

I know my text is full of spelling errors, just woke up and can't be arsed to fix this :P