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Applebee’s fires waitress who posted receipt from pastor complaining about auto-tip
Yahoo! ^ | January 31, 2013 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 01/31/2013 8:54:33 PM PST by Altariel

An Applebee's waitress who posted a receipt with a note from a pastor complaining about the automatic gratuity added to the bill on the Internet was fired on Wednesday after the pastor complained to her manager.

Chelsea Welch, the waitress, wrote in an email to Yahoo News that the pastor (who has since been identified as Alois Bell) told Welch's manager at the St. Louis-area Applebee's that the ensuing firestorm had "ruined" her reputation.

"I give God 10%," Bell wrote on the receipt, scratching out the automatic tip and scribbling in an emphatic "0" where the additional tip would be. "Why do you get 18?" (There were more than eight people in Bell's party, triggering the auto-tip.)

Welch, who snapped a photo of the bill from a fellow server and uploaded to Reddit, defended her right to post the receipt. "I thought the note was insulting, but also comical," she told Consumerist.com. "And I thought other users would find it entertaining.”

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: applebees; dylanstableford; missouri; receipt; stlouis; tip; tipping
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1 posted on 01/31/2013 8:54:38 PM PST by Altariel
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2 posted on 01/31/2013 8:55:17 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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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.


3 posted on 01/31/2013 8:57:09 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Altariel
$34.93 for 8 or more people at Applebees? huh?
4 posted on 01/31/2013 8:58:39 PM PST by MacMattico
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To: Altariel

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


5 posted on 01/31/2013 9:08:24 PM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Altariel

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


6 posted on 01/31/2013 9:09:30 PM PST by Figment
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To: Altariel
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.
7 posted on 01/31/2013 9:14:29 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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Wow, that pastor is an ASS. He was quibbling over $2.79. The grace of God flows through him like a clogged LAD.


8 posted on 01/31/2013 9:15:55 PM PST by Last of the Mohicans
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$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.

9 posted on 01/31/2013 9:18:09 PM PST by 03A3 (The reset is gonna be epic.)
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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....

10 posted on 01/31/2013 9:19:29 PM PST by cherry
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To: Last of the Mohicans
Alois Bell is a she-"pastor":


11 posted on 01/31/2013 9:19:59 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (She's an impastor.)
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To: MacMattico

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


12 posted on 01/31/2013 9:22:54 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Altariel
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.

13 posted on 01/31/2013 9:36:21 PM PST by cricket (Too many Libs-at-large. They just need a home; somewhere else. . .far away.)
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How did the waitress harm the reputation of the “pastor” by exposing the truth? The “pastor” is admitting to having had an undeserved reputation.


14 posted on 01/31/2013 9:38:51 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant
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Separate checks?

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


15 posted on 01/31/2013 9:39:40 PM PST by rwilson99 (Please tell me how the words "shall not perish and have everlasting life" would NOT apply to Mary.)
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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????

16 posted on 01/31/2013 9:43:07 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Altariel
Whoa. Check out this You Tube posted today.

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

17 posted on 01/31/2013 9:47:53 PM PST by Ken H
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I lasted 47 seconds. Spastic!


18 posted on 01/31/2013 9:49:47 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: 03A3

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.


19 posted on 01/31/2013 9:49:47 PM PST by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: Altariel

Sheer lack of class on both of their parts.


20 posted on 01/31/2013 9:50:17 PM PST by MWS
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