Posted on 02/11/2018 6:18:09 PM PST by BenLurkin
A Florida Outback Steakhouse worker says she filled a local megachurch’s $735 takeout order and then was fired when she ranted on social media about not getting a tip.
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Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens was holding a conference and called in an order to the local Outback Wednesday for 25 steak dinners, 25 chicken dinners and 25 side orders of potatoes that Yoder said she had to prepare, costing her other tips.
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A friend read her post and called the church to complain and was told that the person who picked up the food didn’t know to leave a tip.
“Coming in to eat or takeout, you should automatically be wanting to tip 15 percent,” Yoder said. “From there, you either go up or go down based on service.”
A church representative called the restaurant Thursday to make it up to Yoder.
Nevertheless, she was shown the door.
... Outback has a strict policy forbidding workers from posting about customers on social media, WSVN reported.
Outback even reimbursed the church for its big order.
“We did not call the restaurant to have her fired, we wanted to get the situation resolved,” church official David Lonsberry told the Palm Beach Post.
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Some “friend” she has. It’s one thing to have your rant on a personal page, but to have someone else, unbeknownst to you, get involved is a final insult. I’d drop the “friend” fast.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, lady.
I’m a big tipper in real life, having been a waitress myself, but it would not occur to me to tip for a takeout order. I would assume the food was prepared and assembled by kitchen staff rather than table servers, who are busy serving at tables.
(If the table server was free because nobody was at the tables, then she was not losing tips by helping arrange a takeout order.)
LMAO!!!!
OK. How does the take out order get boxed and bagged? Magic?
I get that you're cheap, but really.....
Me, either. I pay for service beyond the food I’m getting, and with takeout, there is no such service.
When I saw the title, the first thing I thought was they probably did not know you were supposed to tip. I would not have.
Back around 1974, I got a call from an oil company in Tulsa. We lived there at the time. It turned out someone had found our checkbook.
I followed directions and to my surprise, I was standing in the executive suite talking to the president of the company.
He gave me the checkbook and I thanked him. It was one of their employees who found it.
Maybe ten years later I thought about it and it hit me that I might should have left a tip. Still not sure.
A tip for oil?
Bzzt! You are doing a lot more work - refilling drinks, taking away dishes, checking on what else I want - when I eat in. I've never tipped for a carry out order, but then most of the time that is just a pizza or a bag or two of food handled by the kitchen staff rather than a waitress. I would probably tip for a multi-hundred dollar carryout order because a lot more people are involved.
She might be cute if she lost a couple grand. And lose the tats. Nothing says, “I going for my GED again this fall” like some bad ink.
No a tip for finding and returning our checkbook.
This was one of the big ones BTW. Office at the top of a skyscraper.
Lots of times it’s up to the waitress to assemble and bag the order, making sure the correct dressings and add ons are in the bag. Most restos it’s on the waitperson, not the kitchen. Sad, but true.
restaurants sometimes build in automatic tips for groups of more than 4 or 6 people.
If I had done the right thing - turning in something that wasn’t mine so it could be given back to the real owner - I would be deeply offended at being offered money. I think most decent people would be.
If that’s a standard practice, then the restaurants should have compensation built into their wage structure for wait staff who are pulled off serving tables in order to assemble takeout orders. I don’t see how customers could be expected to know.
That order was also walked out to the customers car.
The real issue for the waitress is the time spent on providing service for what was easily 5 or 6 tables of food was worth more than the $0 she got in tips.
For takeout orders the restaurant should take care of the compensation.
Sorry, I disagree. I’ve been in hospitality my entire life, and I refuse to tip fora pick up order. Waitstaff, bartenders, delivery, they get good tips. To the point that I get called spendthrift.
However, the better part of a thousand dollar order is another animal all together. If have tipped
Sorry, I disagree. I’ve been in hospitality my entire life, and I refuse to tip for a pick up order. Waitstaff, bartenders, delivery, they get good tips. To the point that I get called spendthrift.
However, the better part of a thousand dollar order is another animal all together. I’d have tipped just for good effort.
SOME people seem to be ignorant or intentionally stupid about what duties go into the jobs of other people.
For whatever reasons, the industry has accepted and implemented a very low wage scale for servers of food in restaurants. The arguments over whether this is "fair" or "just" is not something most would wish to discuss. It simply is the norm. It is also a system enabled by the consumers, many of which bristle at tipping, simply because they feel the price paid for a meal is what they are required to pay. They know very well that servers are paid sub-minimum wages and they are happy to go along with the system.
BFD. And no, I’m not cheap, I tip excessively thank you very much.
I call and tell them what I want. They give me a price and when I can pick it up. WHO DID ANYTHING PERSONAL FOR ME????
T.I.P.S = To Insure Prompt Service. When I pick-up, when they tell me to, who has been giving me special attention??? You expect a tip for putting food in a bag? That’s just idiotic. Do you tip a store clerk for ringing you up?
I get that you’re judgmental, but really....
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