Applebee’s fires waitress who posted receipt from pastor complaining about auto-tip

Yahoo! ^ | January 31, 2013 | Dylan Stableford

[Altariel]

[C. Edmund Wright]

auto tip at Applebee’s? I’ll not be doing that place any more.

I’ve had to make my living in the F and B industry at two points in my life, and all auto tips will do is guarantee medicrity will overtake this niche. Being a bar tender, waiter or waitress is a great entrepreneurial training job.

[MacMattico]

$34.93 for 8 or more people at Applebees? huh?

[Impala64ssa]

And if 10% is good enough for G-D, it’s good enough for the gov’t!

[Figment]

Just wait till the COGIC convention comes back to St Louis. They’ll be coming in groups of 20 and leaving no tip after taking up two hours of time

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

In defense of auto-tipping for groups -- it's been my experience that there are always some people in any group that will opt to be a "free-rider" regarding the tips.

I generally tip well (unless the service is really sub-par). When I'm in a group that includes non tippers, and where there's a combined bill -- I (and other tippers) wind up looking like pikers, because the non-tippers really bring the average tip down.

This is just an example of the well-known phenomenon of "diminished personal responsibility" common to members of all groups. If you think: "No one will notice if I don't tip, because there are so many people in this group", then you're less likely to tip. Well, we tippers notice -- and the wait staff certainly notices.

[Last of the Mohicans]

Wow, that pastor is an ASS. He was quibbling over $2.79. The grace of God flows through him like a clogged LAD.

[03A3]

$34.93 for 8 or more people at Applebees? huh?

This was called Black Expo in Indianapolis. Four appetizers shared by 8 with water all around. I would tell my daughter to call in sick. Finally restaurants decided to shut down that week.

[cherry]

we tip well...by that I mean at least 15% but most often closer to 20%....but I hate auto tip and it insults me....

I work hard for my pay and no one gives me a "tip"....

at Olive Garden, we had a group of 8 or more so they automatically added the tip....then they had the audacity to give us a receipt for our credit card with an additional line for "extra" tip....balonnney....

[Charles Henrickson]

Alois Bell is a she-"pastor":

[Axenolith]

My thoughts exactly, what? What? were they splitting water and soup crackers?

[cricket]

And so the 'joke' was on the customer?

Sorry; no matter how painful; it is not the waitresses job to take onGiven her response; it does make me wonder; if her attitude 'betrayed' her; when serving this 'party'; and so perhaps; a full tip; less than earned.

Whatever the case - and do not like 'cheap tippers' - but it is her job to 'serve'. Not judge. . .then embarrass and make a bad joke of; a customer. It is her 'employer' she is repping; not herself.

Bottom line; she deserved to be fired. These kids growing up with 'realty tv' mind. . .and 'exposure' the name of the game.

[UnwashedPeasant]

How did the waitress harm the reputation of the “pastor” by exposing the truth? The “pastor” is admitting to having had an undeserved reputation.

[rwilson99]

Separate checks?

The fact is the worst day for tips is Sunday, and it’s bad witness for church goers.

[M-cubed]

Cherry...(great name BTW)

U have no business eating out!...U cant afford it...

who
are u saving that tip for????...Enquiring minds want to know????

[Ken H]

Whoa. Check out this You Tube posted today.

'Truth in the World Deliverance Ministries of St Louis , Pastor Alois Bell'

[Revolting cat!]

I lasted 47 seconds. Spastic!

[boop]

Yep. There was a big stink years ago when during the Black Expo (Or the Circle City Classic, I forget)in Indy that some of the shops at Circle Center mall would be closed during that time. They were called racist. But they simply couldn’t sustain the shoplifting losses.

[MWS]

Sheer lack of class on both of their parts.