I know that 25 is extreme but people on the comments are wolfing looking for any excuse to attack black people who weren’t even acting a fool. We do birthdays and big parties all the time (not 25) but normally 15 or so and white establishments have no issue with you asking the waitress ahead of time that you want to split the checks.
what happened was either a case of a bad waitress or they wanted that super gratuity that you get when the check is tons of people