Posted on 02/02/2013 6:16:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
An Applebee's diner refused to leave a tip for religious reasons. The waitress who exposed it wonders if Jesus will pay her bills.
I was a waitress at Applebee's restaurant in Saint Louis. I was fired Wednesday for posting a picture on Reddit.com of a note a customer left on a bill. I posted it on the web as a light-hearted joke.
This didn't even happen at my table. The note was left for another server, who allowed me to take a picture of it at the end of the night.
Someone had scribbled on the receipt, "I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?"
I assumed the customer's signature was illegible, but I quickly started receiving messages containing Facebook profile links and websites, asking me to confirm the identity of the customer. I refused to confirm any of them, and all were incorrect.
I worked with the Reddit moderators to remove any personal information. I wanted to protect the identity of both my fellow server and the customer. I had no intention of starting a witch-hunt or hurting anyone.
Now I've been fired...
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Last time I was in a cab, I was in a REAL good mood, and I gave the driver a $20 for a $7 cab ride and told him to keep the change. He couldn’t believe it and I had to tell him several times. He thought I was nuts.
If you don't want to tip a server, don't go to places that have servers. Get your overpriced food to go, or cook it yourself at home.
It's not a hard concept.
I taught my child to consider tax and tips before she decided to purchase meals at any “sit-down” restaurants.
As a former waitress, I tend to overtip, to make up for people like you.
If I can't afford a decent tip, I don't go to restaurants.
It is always cheaper to cook at home, or buy prepared foods at grocery stores, so why even bring up “overpriced meals” as your reason not to tip your sever?
You (and your ilk) are the ones who need to get smart, and stay out of restaurants.
It certainly would make you, other customers, servers, cooks and restaurant owners much happier.
Problem solved!
Thanks, I didn’t know that, as I don’t watch TV or go to movies (except atlas shrugged), and don’t support the left. I’ll watch netfliks when something interesting emerges. My news is from the internet and talk radio. I don’t care about the leftist media in any form.
I understand.
The point that re-nortex and I were referencing (if I am putting words in your mouth r-n, I apologize in advance) is that it is completely irrelevant how little their guaranteed wage is. The person must be a professional, and good at it, to make a living. To succeed, they MUST do their job, it is up to them.
If not, human nature dictates you will get Eastern Bloc quality service.
Thing that gets me is some well to do restaurant like The Metropolitan in Seattle ... dinner for two is like $150 plus. You tip $20. My peeve is the owner(s) don’t have to pay their waitstaff much because they feel the customers will make up their salaries. I remember once when I was in Tokyo, went to a great eatery, and without thinking left a tip. The waiter chased me down the street to return the money I left.
Eating out is indeed a luxury, and any one who makes a living serving should keep that in mind.
But people who eat out should remember that as well. I love to eat out. Sure, I think I can cook a tasty and enjoyable meal that will rival or be better than a restaurant meal.
But I enjoy the variety. I enjoy getting new ideas, or measuring up my culinary endeavors against those I am being served. And I enjoy interacting with the people who work at it for a living.
My wife recently went to a diner in Quincy, MA, a small diner with probably 5-10 booths and equivalent counter space. The room between the counter and the cooking gear was so narrow two people had to contort to work around each other.
We got seats immediately at the counter (we just lucked out, the place had a huge line but everyone wanted booths...) and we watched in amazement as a man and woman worked around each other at a blistering pace to create and serve food. The man cooking would crouch and duck his head, the woman with a plat of food would shove it right through where his head had been to place it on a shelf to be served.
The did this non-stop and smoothly while seamlessly keeping up a banter with each other and customers. I had to pull my phone out and record what they were doing. It was phenomenal to watch, the food was good and the atmosphere was great.
I just couldn’t reproduce that environment at home! And that is one example.
It is also true there are people who should not patronize restaurants. I will say, as much as I loved my mother, when she got older, she turned into a restaurant terrorist. I had two aunts who were the same way. It was often embarrassing to be with them.
You nailed...and quite succinctly, I'll add. The only point that I can append, and was alluded to elsewhere in this thread, is that the restaurant business is especially risky with a high failure rate. Those who enter as owners and franchisees, the job creators, know that going in and it's up to them to make a go of it or to flounder.
With the margins being so thin in that business and the competition being what it is, saving pennies here and there often makes the difference between survival and perishing. Modulo government meddling, I am convinced that every employer pays the employee the correct wage. Note that I was careful to use the term "correct" as opposed to "fair" since there is a difference. And, obviously, if that employee is dissatisfied with the wage, other opportunities ought to be pursued.
Nothing ought to come between an employee and his workers, whether it be the government or union thugs. The only law applicable are the realities of economics.
LOL! That’s exactly the experience I felt with those folks. They were having so much fun, that’s when I told them they were out of control, in a fun sort of way. They so appreciated to be accepted as normal in a normal environment, it’s in my top 3 waitress experiences. They wrote the president of the company to let him know how much fun then had and how their server made their experience memorable.
Don’t leave notes in public you don’t want viewed in public.
IMO the waitress can possibly sue.
The so called pastor is a creep IMO.
-——————————————————————————————Exactly. The Pastor’s attempt at trying to be witty backfired
She made herself look the fool, got the girl fired because she wouldn’t ignore it, and gives Christianity another black eye. What a representative of Christ she is
Wow. Well said. One of the reasons industry in these United States is withering is the interference of government. I am not one to say government should have no place in regulating the restaurant (or any other) industry, but I know too much regulation of all kind when I see it, and we are there.
If they want a tip from me they have to earn it!
I went to the cashier when they paid their bill and gave them their change they left on the table, “oops, you left this”. They didn’t care.
It was at an Applebees and the waitress was one of the worst I've ever had. Took forever to even ask what we wanted to drink (there were two of us). Screwed up the order. Screwed up when she tried to fix it. Never came around for refills (I finally got up and got my own at the wait station), and generally spent most of her time BS'n with her other waitress friend and standing around with her face buried in her phone. Worse, she acted like it was an inconvenience to work there.
I had to flag another waitress to ask if she would flag mine down my actual waitress for the check.
I left two pennies on the table and wrote on the receipt - "My two cents - find a different job because you suck at this one."
Every other time it is 20%.......25% for good service; once while eating on the road, I left 40% at a Dennys because the waitress was awesome (friendly 60 yr old woman that was very courteous)
Forgot to add that was the last time I ate at an Applebees..........11 years ago.
No one is under paid or under tipped. This is a free market. If anyone doesn’t like their remunerations, they can quit and get another job. Anyone who has not quit, is presumed to agree to their level of remuneration.
Yes, thank you for speaking for us secure elites.
Servers are the epitome of free market, anyone can get a job, waitresses are a dime a dozen. People don’t want a job when obama will give them what they need. It’s so sad.
Tips are optional. Otherwise, they’d be part of the price.
Your Japanese experience is a cultural difference. In Japan the $ for waiters/busboys, etc. is included in the cost of your meal. In Europe it’s also in the bill, tho a gratuity can be added. Tips are not included in the cost of American meals except for large parties. So, actually, in Japan and Europe you have no choice as you do in the U.S.
If The Metropolitan went the Japanese way your $150 dinner would be $180. Upscale restaurants expect a 20% tip, minimum. They do have the better, more experienced servers.
Restaurant profits are marginal. If we want our restaurants to stay open, we pay the fare. In the U.S. that includes leaving a tip that the waiter will then share with the staff.
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