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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Oh please. Pulling the race/ethnicity/minority/women card is silly. Anyone who wants to abuse that doesn't even need to be refused service. They just have to CLAIM they were refused service. It's not a thing that happens by people who refuse to ever tip at restaurants where servers are tipped employees.

>Ring, ring...
>John's Fancy Restaurant, how may I help you?
>Reservation for 6, tomorrow at 7:30 please. For Susie Jones.
>(Host goes to check for reservations, and a big honking DO NOT SERVE pops up on the tablet.
>Sorry Mrs. Jones, we're all booked up for parties of six until 2026.

Susie shows up without a reservation...host sees her again...
>Sorry Mrs. Jones, there aren't any available tables for you tonight.
or...
>Sure Mrs. Jones, we can get you in, in hm - let me check, it's 5:30 now? Try 9:30, I think we'll have a table next to the kitchen then.

Susie shows up and the host doesn't want to deal with it, so Manager shows up:
>Ah Mrs. Jones. We're unable to provide you with service anymore, unless you pay your tip in advance. We require an 18% minimum gratuity and we can tally it before we send your order to the kitchen.

Another possibility:
>Hello Mrs. Jones. No, we won't be serving you now, or ever again. What's that? You'll call the press? That's fine. We've saved all the orders you've put in for the past month and have pulled up our video recordings we keep for security purposes all over the restaurant in plain view of our patrons, with time and date-stamp proof that you never tipped any of the servers, while ringing up significant charges and taking twice the time as our other diners. If you are that dissatisfied with our tipped servers, you are welcome to seek your dining experience elsewhere. Or we'll show the receipts at your press conference.

And yet another one:
>No service for you Mrs. Jones. Why? Because we don't like you. We have the right to refuse service to anyone as long as it doesn't discriminate against protected classes. Refusing to tip is not a protected class. Go away now, or we'll have a police officer trespass you.

Lots of options.

That was fun!