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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[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Pretty much.

Though I don't mean to denigrate servers at fast-casual places (after all, I advocate tipping 20% there too). The kind of restaurant I had in mind when I said "real restaurant" was a place in the $25-an-entree price range. It's just hard for some consumers to see all the work they have to do. That work is most evident at super-expensive restaurants; the amount of invisible work in great service is astounding.

You don't think servers at applebees do invisible work?

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Well, academia is my job. But as far as my classes, it's an art degree. Lots more freedom than the typical graduate-level coursework.

Fair enough. You've probably earned your way to a decent stipend. Ill stop snooping around.

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by BigChiefFan

$34.00 for 20 people and he doesn't want to tip? Sounds like b.s.

Well he was so cheap he had the bill split up several ways according to the op, the good pastor doesn't deserve to eat at I-hop.

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

You don't think servers at applebees do invisible work?

Quite the contrary. I said that its easier to see the "invisible" work at high-end places. When I said "It's just hard for some consumers to see all the work they have to do," the "they" was servers at casual sit-down type places.

[Chief Roundup]

Originally Posted by GoWalrus

You are a real smart boy.

I am not the one still living in moms basement. Boy.
Just wasn't sure you were aware being sheltered and all.

[Hammock Parties]

Am I going to hell, Chief Roundup?

[PhillyChiefFan]

Originally Posted by Dayze

if our waiter/waitress is friendly, helpful, refills our drinks w/out asking, or chips/bread (as applicable); our food comes out correct; he/she stops by 1 or 2 times etc.

we'll usually give 30%; and on our way out (or before we leave) ask to see the manager and let them know that he/she is doing a great job.

it's funny to see the waiter/waitresses reaction when we ask to see their manager (if we decide to). They usually come back blushing etc; and you can tell they appreciate it.

god knows I couldn't do it; putting up with assholes like Pastor ****face.

My wife and I were at a seafood buffet in Orlando when the table next to us started bitching up a storm saying that the waitress had lied to them. Said she told them there were crab legs on the buffet and there wasn't and they wanted to see the manager. We specifically heard her say there were only blue crabs.

After the manager stopped by to quell the situation and they had left, I requested to see the manager and told him that they were either deaf or stupid because we heard her tell them and that she was an excellent waitress.

She thanked us like 50 times and said that was the nicest thing any customer has ever done for her. We left her a great tip and you could tell she was appreciative of what we had said to her manager.

What a moronic thing to get upset about, even if she HADN'T told them why get pissy? I'll never understand some people.

Looking back I only wish I would have called them deaf or stupid in front of them before they left.

[warpaint*]

That "pastor" needs to brush up on his theology. It's 18% of the tab, not his paycheck.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by BigChiefFan

$34.00 for 20 people and he doesn't want to tip? Sounds like b.s.

read the op. split check.

[Chief Roundup]

Originally Posted by GoWalrus

Am I going to hell, Chief Roundup?

Probably like the rest of us. But you won't be alone. The devil will probably have you making vids about jesus.

[Hootie]

As a waiter I didn't like when customers told management I was doing a good job...it was always a nice gesture but believe, management doesn't give a **** and they already know who's good and who sucks on their staff...

That story about calling out the table of liars is an exception, though...That's cool as hell.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Quite the contrary. I said that its easier to see the "invisible" work at high-end places. When I said "It's just hard for some consumers to see all the work they have to do," the "they" was servers at casual sit-down type places.

I was going to say...

Sometimes I did shit for people that no one else would ever do and I'd think to myself..."if they only knew..."

In a good way, assholes.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by ct

pay up bitches

- that's offensive, yet very funny.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

Tips are excuse for Restaurants to underpay their help and add hidden cost to customers.

And it goes even further than that in Branson, and other areas now. Let me break down JUST how poor this whole system is. Now, many restaurants add what is called tipshare to a waiter's wages. Let me explain, they pay half the minimum wage, and then require the server to pay up to 3.5% of all sales for the night into the tipshare program. Great program, right? I mean, the bussers, food runners, hosts/hostesses, and bartenders should all get a cut right?

Wrong. They then turn around and pay those hosts, bussers, foodrunners, and bartenders 2/3 of the minimum wage and supplement the rest of their income with tipshare. It's ****ing incredible. A server works a 6 hour shift in which they make 3.33 an hour. They do $1000 in sales meaning they have to pay $35 into tip share and their wages make up $20. They actually pay $15 to work for the night.

And if you don't tip, and stiff them like the good pastor here has tried to do? They have to pay it regardless of what they make in tips. They literally paid to wait on you out of the hope that you're part of the majority and a decent enough person to tip them. That's why restaurants are pushing 18% instead of 15% these days.

Complete and utter bullshit.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

But you do gladly accept the gift card to use on your next visit

I have turned them down to make a point. No bullshit.