El Vaquero

[amakasitae]

(I'm posting my Yelp review here verbatim, but to preface this story, in addition to having a large amount of heavily tattooed people, there were also two pregnant women and this was my bachelorette party dinner

Comments

[lutine]

What on earth do your tattoos/pregnancy have to do with it?

[kowechobe]

As the op explains, the restaurant manager and server gave shitty service based upon preconceived notions of how tattooed people act, ie. the statement of "I bet you were all planning on doing this [getting comped meals] from the moment you walked in here."

As a tattooed person, it's not uncommon for people to assume bad things about you, because apparently only the dregs of society get tattooed, or at least that's the misconception that's STILL going around. You'd think that we'd be more enlightened in this day and age.

[lutine]

I'm a tattooed person also and I would never assume that bad service was related to my tattoos. Perhaps the manager thought that way because they were a large rowdy group. I think it's quite a leap to assume that the tattoos were the sole cause here, or even a factor at all.

[meiousei]

But where does the OP mention that they were anything but polite diners? They complained about the service and asked that the check be modified after the meal, but it appears that the bad service occurred from the very beginning.

I mean, there's nothing in here that says the group wasn'trowdy, but it's kind of a leap for you to assume that they were acting that way.

[lutine]

Ehh, yeah, I was sort of gleaning that from the fact that this was a bachelorette party. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think it's a way more logical assumption than tattoo bias.

[meiousei]

Possible! But in my (admittedly limited) experience, people are usually well-behaved in bachelorette party dinners, and have their wild times on the town later - this was only 6:30 on a Thursday, after all!

[amakasitae]

I should have been a bit clearer, it was my bachelorette party and I'm also one of the pregnant ones, and we weren't being rowdy. That would've been totally understandable. But I think maybe three of our party had one margarita apiece, and we kept our conversation at a good level with family friendly topics.

[rainbow_vagina]

It was my bachelorette party.
We kept our conversation at a good level with family friendly topics.
Made me laugh. *Shrugs*

[talonvaki]

I don't. I've seen groups of tattooed people treated differently in places like restaurants. LOTS of times.

[lutine]

You think that not only one, but TWO separate people in a restaurant environment (where staff tends to be on the young side and at least around here, quite liberal) had an irrational prejudice against tattoos? Okay.

[meiousei]

I think it depends on what part of the country you're in. Not all restaurant employees are young, liberal, and open-minded. I completely believe that a group of people with heavy modifications and tattoos would be treated differently, and the server in this case was extremely passive-aggressive.

I'm from a fairly socially conservative state in the Midwest, and I could totally envision this type of thing going down, because I've seen it before.

[lutine]

-shrug- And do you see pregnant women treated badly too? Because the OP made sure to mention that also, as if THAT had anything to do with the service they received. It really just sounds like they're making excuses. I believe that they got bad service, I'm just not buying the whole "They were mean to us because of body art and babies, bawww."

[meiousei]

Not necessarily. But I think that a group of 10 people with heavy body modifications stands out more than two pregnant women within the group. I'm not sure what the pregnant women had to do with anything, and I'm not sure why the OP mentioned it.

*shrug* I'm not saying that I for sure know that they received bad service because of their collective appearance. I'm just saying that from the OP's side of the story, they appear to have been polite diners.

[peaceofelyse]

It may be because if the restaurant workers were already thinking that the people in OP's party were 'rebels' or whatever, they might also think that everybody in the party was into sex and drugs and got pregnant out of wedlock and omg sex before marriage is bad. Conservative people think like that sometimes.

[elialshadowpine]

No, but I have specifically seen tattooed pregnant women treated badly, and I have certainly heard enough comments about how a woman who is tattooed isn't fit to be a mother.

[fortifarse]

I was so pissed off when someone said something like this to my pregnant cousin bc of a wrist tattoo (that's absolutely beautiful ftr). Hell, one of my best friends mothers has two full sleeves, a ton of earrings (ones an industrial.....can't remember the names of the rest)/other piercings, etc...and raised one of the most incredible people I have ever met and is an amazing person. My cousin and her husband, also both visibly tattooed, make me smile every time I see them with their baby bc of just how exhilarated they still are to be a mommy and daddy. Fuck that attitude!