Notice the total bill is $34.93. So it’s not like the server had a table of 6 or more.
And so to add that 18 percent is pretty insulting to customers. Unless, of course it is clearly notated before hand that all meals are subject to an 18% surcharge.
But this is Applebee’s after all. Look at the poor working conditions as described in this article. I’ll eat at many substandard chain restaurants like Chili’s or whatnot. But I refuse to go to an Applebee’s.
“Notice the total bill is $34.93. So it’s not like the server had a table of 6 or more.”
In the first article it was pointed out that there were multiple checks for the group of 20. This was probably the pastor and one other.
The Pastor was a jack*** for doing this. And so was the waitress. A pox on both their houses . . .
“Notice the total bill is $34.93. So it’s not like the server had a table of 6 or more.”
“The customer’s bill had included an automatic tip of 18% because, according to Chelsea, it had been part of a table of 20. “It’s a plainly stated Applebee’s policy, and it is company policy for parties over eight. I cannot control the auto-gratuity at all; it’s done by the computer that the orders are put into, and the gratuity is not determined by the bill, but by the size of the party.”
It was a party of 20 w/ a bill of over $200.00.
The $34.93 was the pastor's share after the table asked for separate checks.
Person claiming to be pastor leaves waiter note: ‘I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?’
I lived in Japan 14 years. Most places, the service is great and NO TIPPING is expected or even accepted. You make exceptions only for those rare circumstances like when my little girl threw up in the back of a taxicab . . . only fair to give the guy an extra $20 or so for inconvenience and cleaning.
Yeah, meals are more expensive there. So is most everything else. But if you calculate the cost of meals based on your earnings, it is actually more expensive to eat at a restaurant in the U.S.A. than the equivalent in Japan even BEFORE you add the tip.
Where I work, we don't pay our workers such niggardly wages that we expect our vendors or customers to give tips as a cost of doing business. Why does the restaurant industry expect such special treatment?
According to The Smoking Gun story there were at least 5 adults and 5 children in the part. Any party with 5 kids deserves to have an 18% gatuity added.
I agree that the automatic 18% is insulting to customers, but the “Pastor” (according to the Bible, a female pastor is a possible as a male mother or a female father) shouldn’t have taken it out on the waitress.
If she objected to the 18%, she should have adjusted it to 15% or 10% or whatever she felt was earned. I actually LOVE the idea of crossing out the 18% and putting in a fair amount of one’s choice, but leaving 0 (unless the service was aggressively horrific) is not right.
Also, the “I give God 10%” comment is unbiblical because bragging about your giving is wrong (Matthew 6:1-4). Also, if she is on staff as a “pastor” she is likely receiving a good portion of the 10% (or whatever %) that the congregation is giving to the church.