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| - Stop by the Vig with my wife for cocktails & dinner this weekend. It was a 30 min wait so we decided to dine at the bar. Seat's became available suddenly.
We sat down ready to get our drink and eat on but the white tatto macho bartender decided to completely ignore us. We weren't rude, loud, or demanding, and have been known to say "thank you" way to much in one night. However, the white tatto macho bartender looked us over and decided that we were not worth his time.
The white tatto macho bartender took orders around, accross from, directly next, and behind us. He didn't make eye contact or acknowledge we were sitting in front of him. Just in case you don't know the bartender I'm talking about, he is a white male, close fade side hair with a 80's INSYC boy band top. He has tatoos all over his arms, made sure to wear a sleeveless shirt to let the ladies know he has them. He seemed sureal the way he blatently took orders from everyone but us. I finaly had enough, there wasn't another bartender at the time to serve the only African American couple at the bar. I polietly but loudly said excuse me. "Hold on." he said. Walked away like I was bothering him to spend our money. Went over to another customer who has arrived after us and served them.
After serving that customer he started to dart to another customer but I stood up and said "We were next sir." "Oh yeah." He took our order and made them like the devil told him not to. It was the sloppiest margarita and tito's cranberry you would ever see. Matter of fact he didn't use tito's so I asked him remake it please. "I know what I used." he replied. My wife of 15yrs can feel when I'm about to hulk out so she asked him iff he would please remake it. He did but was not happy about it. While he was making it My wife whisphered "maybe he's having a bad day. Tip him, he might cheer up." I've bartended in the past so I know ain't everyday rosy behind the bar, you get real butt holes, I make special effort not to be that butt hole for this very reason. I do know, as a bartender, you check your attitude at the door, especially when you get a tipper. I tipped him $10 hoping he would change his attitude and let me enjoy a night out with my wife. Nope.
I tried to get second drinks by waving a glass, wife waving a glass, and saying exuse me. He acknowledged us "I'll be with you." and served someone else. He even chatted up with a few of them for over five minutes, while we waited for him to get back to us. After 30 minutes of him ignoring us a second bartender arrived. Girl with glasses. She took our order right away. However, she had to go near the white tatto macho man to get something to finish our drinks. He leaned in her ear, looked in our direction and they both giggled. She looked at us too like she heard a bad joke about us. I was done.
It took everything in me not to get unruly because this was blatant discrmination by that bartender. I didn't want to ruin our night out by dealing with a blatant racist bartender. Thank goodness Yelp exists to be able to express consumer business frustrations/mistreatment to people of color that might consider a night out at this Vig. You've been warned about white tatoo macho man bartender.
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