I didn't realize Paula Deen might have been referencing an actual specific restaurant:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2..._nostalgia.php
"I knew immediately which restaurant she was referring to -- Pittypat's Porch, named for the slave-owning
Gone With The Wind character, which claims to be the longest continuously operational restaurant in Atlanta. It opened in 1967, and hasn't changed much in the intervening decades. It aims for "an atmosphere similar to an old plantation."
I always associated waiters (black and white) in white dinner jackets with older restaurant traditions (since I have family from New Orleans, my main experience was with Galatoire's, Brennan's, Antoine's, The Court of Two Sisters, Tujaques) but not with slavery.