[EagleInGA]

You don’t feel she violated his privacy and held the guest up to ridicule? How is that being service oriented?

You don't feel the customer reacted in anger to the Applebee policy and in doing so embarrassed his/her church (not to mention God)? What kind of witness is that?

[2ndDivisionVet]

The pastor has a First Amendment right to say, write or do whatever she pleases as long as it isn't defamatory or traitorous. She was expressing her opinion on the restaurant's policy of tacking on a tip, probably not in the most tactful way. The real problem here is an employee of the restaurant putting that check on the Internet. That she had to run to the furthest-left major newspaper in the world to complain about her termination tells me volumes.