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In reply to the discussion: Restaurants in the South. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)the young people doing the "waiting" and I know who their momma and daddy are, too) I think the issue is not ethnicity, it is language. If you are a poor English speaker, you just aren't going to be waiting on people, unless you're running the register at a McDonald's, where you only have to learn a very limited amount of banter and the manager is just a "What the fuck is this guy saying" away. Having a waiter who has trouble comprehending the customers is just not good for business.
The lack of language facility isn't an impediment entirely, though--you'll be hired if you're industrious, and you'll get a job where your lack of facility in English isn't an impediment--that's usually in the kitchen, on the clean-up crew, or doing the heavy lifting for the dishwashing team.
If you can "Paahk yo-ah caaaah in Haaahvid Yaaaahd" you can be a Manuel or a Maria and rake in those table serving tips, yee haw. Money for college!
There's just no way to "Find The Hispanic" by looking and there never, ever has been. Not all of 'em look like Juan Valdez.