How do put my customers at ease when this keeps happening?
Last year I opened up a restaurant and the targeted clientele mainly consists of college students, skateboarders, artists, etc. This has worked out rather well especially being open late. In the past few months we started to have uniformed cops eat here. They tend to be rude to staff and don't tip well. Even worse, the other customers have been coming here less now that cops eat here. At first we tried providing poor quality and service to the cops to bore them away from here but one of them noticed we provided better service to "the stoners at the other table". We want to get rid of them and stop them from coming without facing retaliation. We want our customers feeling safe without feeling intimidated by other customers. Any suggestions?