Pastor refuses to tip "I give GOD 10% why do you get 18%"

[QuikSsurfer]

http://gawker.com/5980177/pastor-ref...r-tip-than-god

Unhappy with having to pay a restaurant's auto-gratuity of 18% for parties of eight or more, a pissed-off pastor used his receipt to express his indignation.

"I give God 10% — why do you get 18?," the man wrote above the autograt line before crossing out the pre-printed tip and signing the receipt "pastor."

The St. Louis-area server who posted a pic of the receipt on Reddit said the pastor was dining with a party of 20, and asked to have the $200+ bill broken up into smaller increments in a failed attempt to avoid paying the 18% tip.

"They had no problem with my service, and told me I was great," the server said. "They just didn't want to pay when the time came."

Redditors have been trying to track down the less-than-charitable Christian, but have so far been unable to identify the culprit.

At least one pastor was forced to issue a response denying responsibility, and the server herself has asked fellow Redditors to stop posting personal information of random people "who don't deserve a Reddit mob banging down their Internet door."

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UPDATE

Edit: Pastor has now apologized -- waitress fired.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documen...logizes-687234










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[Bump]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Was it a Cheesecake Factory? I bet it was Cheesecake Factory.

similar concept, only with 100+ beers on tap.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Bump

similar concept, only with 100+ beers on tap.

Taphouse Brewery!

[Rain Man]

Name That Tune would work with restaurants, too.

Pick a restaurant, someone. I can name that restaurant in five entrees or less.

[Hammock Parties]

I can't wait until everyone in the food service industry is replaced by ****ing robots.

You're all annoying ****s.

[Hootie]

DEATH BY CHOCOLATE
MONTE CRISTO
SOUTHWESTERN SAMPLER
TURKEY O'TOOLE

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by GoWalrus

I can't wait until everyone in the food service industry is replaced by ****ing robots.

You're all annoying ****s.

I used to joke at the pizza shop that they could ****ing replace us with one of those "take a number" systems and a self serve soda machine.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by GoWalrus

I can't wait until everyone in the food service industry is replaced by ****ing robots.

You're all annoying ****s.

The concept has already been proven with fast food restaurants. The server can be replaced at lower cost with a countertop. However, the more money you have available to spend on dinner, the less willing you are to hunt and gather.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

and Flop...I used to get $5 from a "ghetto" table and they'd make sure to give it to me and look me in the eye and thank me and I was so polite back to them it was sickening...I knew they weren't educated in "proper tipping" but they truly thought they were giving me a good tip and truly appreciated my service so who am I to not appreciate them appreciating me?

I always made enough money...I didn't feel the need to typecast my tables. Some people just don't know the proper etiquette...it is what it is. An asshole is an asshole, though. I loved when people would come in and just be angry at the world from the get go...why does those miserable people even want to go out? Or breathe?

I dealt with broke ass hillbillies all the time. I never gave a **** if they didn't know any better. You nailed it. We look at waiting the same way. I'm not too self conscious to say I was an elite server. At my size to accomplish what I did you had to be. I enjoyed my job. I had fun every day. Just like I do now. You get it bro. You were clearly elite as well. It's just a people job.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

The concept has already been proven with fast food restaurants. The server can be replaced at lower cost with a countertop. However, the more money you have available to spend on dinner, the less willing you are to hunt and gather.

I loved Buffalo Wild Wings SO MUCH MORE when they were just a countertop with food runners.

My friend who worked there said corporate got all sorts of positive reviews when they switched it to a wait restaurant. Said people preferred to get waited on...

I liked ordering my food...getting my own refills...and not tipping while not feeling pressure to leave a section while I'm watching a football game.

[Hootie]

we had a Buffalo Wild Wings on campus in Champaign about 13-15 years ago back when it was just called BW3...god it was ****ING awesome...order at a window...listen for your number...BOOM! HOT, FRESH FANTASTIC WINGS.

they closed it down for some reason and reopened off campus in a huge location when they rebranded it Buffalo Wild Wings...it was counter top (sweet!) where a food runner would bring your food out to the table and that was that...20 cent wing Tuesdays

now it's 60 cent wings and tipville

[Hootie]

I can't quit their Buffalo Hot Sauce though...the best wing sauce I've ever tasted. I love it. I buy 3 packs of the bottles when I go in...but I'm addicted to hot sauce.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

my last full time waiter job (I always waited, only bartended part time because I made SO MUCH more money waiting and I was WAY BETTER at it than bartending where chit chat is so much more a part of your job)...

I was 25-26 and I worked with either 18 or 19 year olds or 40+ washouts who hated life...

I dug SO DEEP into them when they'd piss me off and I'd always remind them of how competent I was and how I was glad I was simply an underachiever and not a complete dipshit waste of life who can't handle a friggin' waiter job while telling them I'm sure they'll have great luck in life etc. etc. etc.

I'd dig into the incompetent management staff as well...I'd tell them how terribly they ran the restaurant and how I wasn't paid to run everyone's ****ing food so if they wanted me to run everyone's food like I do every ****ing night they could at least hire hotter, younger girls for me to break down emotionally and eventually try to bang (least they could do)

the only people I would NEVER piss off were the cooks...I learned all the dirty spanish in the world to keep them on my side so they'd always hook me up when in need...that's the 2nd thing I do at a new restaurant (learn the computer first, win over the mexicans second)

looking back at my restaurant career...the only things that ever pissed me off were the incompetent people I worked with...

but I also made SO MANY life long friends over the course of 8 years...I would never trade my restaurant experience for anything...it was such a fantastic learning experience for me.

This post inspired me to grab my computer. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS win over the cooks, and the manager of the cooks. I would talk about the other servers and managers getting some chorizo when they were being dumb shits. GREAT shit! LOL, too funny. I used to talk some mad mexican racist assed bullshit on those guys and they loved it. I mean they LOVED it! Because they knew me, and talked shit too. I briefly talked about this shit in another thread. Incredible. I really had no idea this was some kind of science that got you your way. Psychology dude. You're a natural.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Bump

lol, now I'm pretty sure you are lying about ever waiting tables. LOL

I GUARANTEE that if you polled every waiter in America, 99% of them will vote Sunday as the day they hate working the most.

Sundays is an unspoken word at a lot of restaurants, you don't say the word Sunday. Because it's always a cluster **** and it's always a bunch of assholes and this goes for every restaurant I've worked in. You are full of shit dude.

Dude, I've tried to avoid talking about the complete ****ing ownage Hootie has had on you in this thread, but I can't. Not anymore. Sunday's are the best ****ing days in the industry. It's busy, there is volume, and it's the dinner menu all day long.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Have you ever checked out cruise ship reviews? A misplaced origami towel will ruin the whole trip. It's scary.

When I did my Alaska trip back in 2010, I came back from Anchorage to Vancouver on a cruise ship. It was inexpensive and much nicer than flying. I didn't have dress clothes so I didn't attend the "formal dinners", but a couple at my table apparently flew into a wild rage at an incident at one of the dinners. I was told later by another person at the table that there was yelling and anguish and in the end the couple walked out of the dining room never to return. The other people at the table were mortified to be sitting there while it was going on.

The incident? When they brought the dinners, they accidentally set the man's entree in front of the woman, and vice versa. When they complained, the waiter picked up the two plates and switched them, and they thought he should have thrown the food away and brought two new entrees.

I hope you stopped in Victoria for a day and spent some time at Butchgart (sic) gardens. It's incredible.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

I never ran into anything like that...most likely because the restaurants I worked at generally expected their food to be sort of "auctioned" off in big groups. I didn't like doing that and I always had a great waiter memory so I usually put the plates where they belonged but the servers who "auctioned" never got yelled at or anything. Most people were just ****ing happy there food had arrived and were ready to eat!

I learned though...some people are just ridiculous. Nothing you can do but laugh. I never really took offense to anything I always just lived by the "meh, at least I don't have to wake up and be them!" mantra.

We wrote it up, and put it in our orders by table number and it worked magnificantly. Food runners couldn't **** that up if servers put their orders in right. I'm the worst server, bro. I smoke. I NEVER ****ed up seat placement. And I did what I wanted, didn't work as hard as you, and made the most money in that place. Charisma. That's all it takes.