Right to be offended?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....uple-ones-dining.html

Has this black couple a right to be offended?

There I have also used the word black to describe the couple also, am I wrong?

Perhaps I should have described them as a person in a white checked shirt accompanied by a person with a white striped coat with a red scarf?

But then I can't get all this on the receipt, what then? Dare I suggest their gender?

Had I been a white customer in a black bar, I wonder how I would have been described, perhaps that miserable old white git sitting in the corner maybe?

But no they can't say that, that is both racist and ageist. How many points for a double whammy?

[another-view]

'They could have found another way to describe us. I don't feel it's appropriate.
'They could have just written "couple". The only other people eating apart from us was a large group.


Yep, they could have referred to them as whinging black couple.

[Quinlad]

This again?

[Sqad]

They are "black"

They are a "couple"

They are a "Black couple"........pretty accurate description, I would say.

[Gromit]

No.

They are black. It is unlikely they were the only diners, so black was used to decribe, differentiate from other customer.

It might be advisable for the establishment to start using tables numbers. It is a tried and tested method for billing diners and stops they need for careless desriptions

From the guy with glasses at his computer.

[ummmm]

Pathetic.

We've been described as the Irish table on more than one occasion. How very dare they describe us for what we are..!!!

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// From the guy with glasses at his computer ///

Rose tinted I take it? 8-)

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

//// We've been described as the Irish table on more than one occasion.////

Must stop that dancing on them eh? :-)

[anotheoldgit]

Zeuhl

/// I don't think this is racist.///

No but this is:

/// Them Ruskies are right so-and so's !!! //// :-)

[ummmm]

I don't AOG...I have a fear of falling off them :-)

[R1Geezer]

Here's what I think happenned, it says they ordered at the bar without a table number so clearly, this place does the same as most of these type eateries and has a numbered table system. They probably didn't know the number so the person taking the order used their initiative, rare theses days. A bit mis guided but not really racism. They are probably making a fuss because they're going for a compo claim I expect. If the woman is going to be an estate agent she'd better toughen up!

[naomi24]

I wouldn't worry if the restaurant described me as 'white', and these people are black, so there's no reason to take offence at the description. I do wonder at the restaurant's competence though. Things must get rather complicated when they have a full house! Maybe someone ought to suggest a numbering system to them.

[ummmm]

I think I'd go with R1's answer.

[naomi24]

Ha ha! My thoughts precisely Zeuhl!

[craft1948]

If I had been the only white person dining would I have been descrlbed as the old white lady?

[R1Geezer]

Naomi etc you are ignoring the fact that they do have a numbered system. I suspect the couple went up to order without noting their table and got stroppy when asked for it.

[naomi24]

R1 Geezer, the tables are numbered - theirs was number 18 - but the restaurant clearly takes orders at the bar downstairs before the customer goes upstairs to find a table, and therefore it might be an idea to have a more efficient numbering system, don't you think? Some pub restaurants give you a wooden spoon with a number on it when you order, so something like that might be an idea.