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The original receipt is on reddit and on the site below.
[b]“I give God 10%, why do you get 18%,” a local pastor wrote on her receipt before tipping her nothing.[/b]

[url="http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/applebees-server-fired-for-complaining-about-cust"]http://www.buzzfeed....ning-about-cust[/url]

[url="http://www.pitch.com/fatcity/archives/2013/01/31/god-wants-you-to-tip-even-at-applebees"]http://www.pitch.com/fatcity/archives/2013/01/31/god-wants-you-to-tip-even-at-applebees[/url]

I didn't [i]want[/i] to believe this story when I first read it in [url="http://consumerist.com/2013/01/29/diner-thinks-that-saying-hes-a-pastor-allows-him-to-stiff-waiter-on-tip/"][i]The Consumerist[/i][/url]. A restaurant server says he got stiffed by a church pastor, who wrote on the receipt: "I give God 10 percent. Why do you get 18?" The diner wrote "pastor" over his signature. To absolve his sin, perhaps?

The waitress who posted the receipt was not the waitress stiffed that night. She thought the comment on the receipt was funny and snapped a photo of it, which she posted on [url="http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/17i382/my_mistake_sir_im_sure_jesus_will_pay_for_my_rent/"]Reddit[/url]. She [url="http://consumerist.com/2013/01/31/waitress-who-posted-no-tip-receipt-from-pastor-customer-fired-from-job/"]was later fired [/url]by her employer, a franchise restaurant in the Kansas City-based Applebee's chain.


The waitress thought the pastor's signature was illegible. It wasn't. The cheapskate was soon identified and called out. Let's just say he did [i]not[/i] turn the other cheek.

"The customer who had left the receipt," reports [i]The Consumerist[/i], "contacted her Applebee's location, demanding that everyone be fired, from the servers involved to the
managers." He had apparently forgotten Psalm 37:8: "Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil."

Local waiter, blogger and author [url="http://www.pitch.com/fatcity/archives/2011/07/15/waiter-and-blogger-david-hayden-hosts-book-signing-sunday-afternoon"]David Hayden[/url] is concerned about the story. "I fear that this mentality is becoming more common among many groups," he says. "That a tip is considered a luxury.

"I wish diners would remember, before leaving a tip, that in Missouri, servers work for $3.63 an hour. In Kansas, the server's minimum wage is $2.13 an hour. Those low wages help keep other restaurant costs down. In a way, servers are subsidizing part of your meal."


From articles I have read and based on what is on buzzfeed, apparently, the table was 20 people, so this is not unusual for an automatic tip be added.
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[quote name='gatorclaws' timestamp='1359668789' post='1212343']
The guy is a dickhead, but I also agree with the decision from Applebees to fire the person who posted the photo.
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And I agree with that too. It sucked, but you can't do that.
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What a douche. I worked at a little chain applebees to pay for school. This is a blessing in disguise for the server. It is an absolutely pitiful chain restaurant. Although, I did show receipts that I thought were funny to other people, I was never dumb enough to take a picture and upload them on the internet.

Side note: One day, a party of about 20 came in, probably 14 of them being little girls from a cheer competition, the other 6 moms. I messed up the checks considering the moms were trying to tell me by name which daughter was there and pointing to them. Needless to say, it was a disaster. I ended up getting a note where the additional tip was that read "NOT A CHANCE". I thought it was funny, but people can be harsh.

Usually would pin up the numbers I received too. Although, that probably wasn't smart.

Oh also, by not tipping, that chick loses money on that guy when they have to tip out hosts and bartenders something like 2.75% of total sales.
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[quote name='gatorclaws' timestamp='1359674645' post='1212358']
Are you seriously calling me sexist cause I didn't know it was a woman?

I didn't click on the link and the article contradicts itself with his/her/he being used.
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Pretty sure that was sarcasm.

But I know what you mean:

[quote]"The customer who had left the receipt," reports [i]The Consumerist[/i], "contacted [size=5][b]her [/b][/size]Applebee's location, demanding that everyone be fired, from the servers involved to the
managers." [size=4][b]He [/b][/size]had apparently forgotten Psalm 37:8: "Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil."[/quote]
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[quote name='T-Dub' timestamp='1359688280' post='1212378']
Pretty sure the tip was added to the bill, crossing it out didn't change anything as it was already part of the total.
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Unfortunately, it wasn't. To save headaches, it should be. The 6.29 crossed out is 18% of the $34.93.
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The problem is she doesn't give God anything. She may tithe to the church, but the church is not God, no mater how much pastors like to tell you it is. In fact, the tithes simply pay for her to spread the word she spreads, which in this case, I would imagine isn't correct.
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What a load of crap. Servers make dick an hour, Anyone that is reasonably intelligent knows that servers rely on tips to make money, fucking period. Fuck this douche, man or woman bedamned. It doesn't matter. If the service was bad I understand. If not there is ZERO excuse. Jesus, and this is at Applebee's, no less.
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[quote name='Bunghole' timestamp='1359690937' post='1212394']
What a load of crap. Servers make dick an hour, Anyone that is reasonably intelligent knows that servers rely on tips to make money, fucking period. Fuck this douche, man or woman bedamned. It doesn't matter. If the service was bad I understand. If not there is ZERO excuse. Jesus, and this is at Applebee's, no less.
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amen..... :D

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[quote name='gatorclaws' timestamp='1359674645' post='1212358']
Are you seriously calling me sexist cause I didn't know it was a woman?

I didn't click on the link and the article contradicts itself with his/her/he being used.
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No, I don't think you are sexist. I was trolling you. Someday I will be in sois' league. Someday.

[quote name='Cat' timestamp='1359675580' post='1212359']
Pretty sure that was sarcasm.

But I know what you mean:
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In one of the links there was a photograph of the pastor, which removes all ambiguity.

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[b] [size=4]UPDATE: The Smoking Gun has found more info about the pastor, Alois Bell, who left the non-tip.[/size][/b]

[img]http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/1/31/13/enhanced-buzz-28760-1359658554-1.jpg[/img]
Source: [url="http://thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/alois-bell.jpg"]thegatewaypundit.com[/url]

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[url="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/tipping-pastor-apologizes-687234#lightbox-popup-1"]In a TSG interview,[/url] Alois Bell said that the online firestorm created by the receipt has left her stunned. "My heart is really broken," said the 37-year-old Bell. "I've brought embarrassment to my church and ministry."[/indent]
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[quote name='CincyInDC' timestamp='1359705566' post='1212409']
No, I don't think you are sexist. I was trolling you. Someday I will be in sois' league. Someday.



In one of the links there was a photograph of the pastor, which removes all ambiguity.
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Racist :ninja:

This woman has ZERO connection to God because if she did, she absolutely wouldn't treat another human that way.....a human who did absolutely nothing to her.

Speaking of racist....here's a joke:
What color canoe is best for use? Brown, because it won't tip :ninja:

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[quote name='CincyInDC' timestamp='1359746558' post='1212555']
I'll say it. When I was a server, black people and foreigners tipped the worst. I sucked at serving, though
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IIRC most other countries dont have the pay the server below minium wage and have them make it up in tips issues though, so tipping isnt generally done because of that.
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[quote name='Jamie_B' timestamp='1359746921' post='1212560']
IIRC most other countries dont have the pay the server below minium wage and have them make it up in tips issues though, so tipping isnt generally done because of that.
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This is actually very true and the biggest reason alot of foreigners don't tip. Even Europe, no tipping. Well, not really but generally that's the rule in every city, country I've traveled to in Europe.

I would like to add though that I tip well and I'm a foreigner. That's because I used to be a server myself. Unless you were plain shitty....then you get 14%
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The best tip I ever left was for our server at Red Lobster one night who sat there and opened up every one of the crab legs my young son ordered. That was probably one of the few times I left more that a 20% tip. She had a pretty funny line, something like 'my tip should be getting one of those crab legs I just opened.'
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people are pieces of shit no matter what they do. only because she is a pastor is no one calling her as much of a piece of total shit as she is.

it really doesnt get much worse, a person who has supposidly given their life to spreading the "good word" of god, using god as a reason to stiff someone who is literally bottom of the food chain as far as hourly pay, taking away part of their livelyhood, and on top of that basically saying they arent wrth it, they dont even give god that much...

holy shit < - literal pun, boom, nailed it.
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[quote name='CincyInDC' timestamp='1359746558' post='1212555']
I'll say it. When I was a server, black people and foreigners tipped the worst. I sucked at serving, though
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It's not racist to speak the truth. Black people generally speaking are horrible tippers. And they don't get the European excuse, either. They are just flat out cheap. I lived that stereotype for DECADES.
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[quote name='Bunghole' timestamp='1359943447' post='1212876']
It's not racist to speak the truth. Black people generally speaking are horrible tippers. And they don't get the European excuse, either. They are just flat out cheap. I lived that stereotype for DECADES.
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you lived the black people stereostype at the 99% white country club bar tending job?

[img]http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm87/simoneca/th_lollerskates.gif[/img]
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[quote name='Dalton4HOF' timestamp='1359944322' post='1212878']
you lived the black people stereostype at the 99% white country club bar tending job?

[img]http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm87/simoneca/th_lollerskates.gif[/img]
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I know how that sounds...but I encountered this over and over. Ironically, at the higher end places I worked where I encountered minority customers of means and education, this did not happen. At every Ruby Tuesday type place I worked it was extremely commonplace, sadly.
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I served at a place that didn't add a mandatory tip on large parties and so every time a large group of black people or church group came in none of the servers wanted those tables because the check was always $100 or more and the tip was ALWAYS $0. We didn't have hosts or bartenders to tip out but I think we made like $2 an hour and at the end of the night we had to declare our tips for tax purposes. The law required we declare all tips up to a certain percentage of our total sales, so when we got stiffed on big tables we couldn't take home any tax free cash at the end of the night. It sucked and those tables got fucked with by some of the staff because they were stupid enough to regularly come in there, act like dicks, and then leave no tip. Needless to say I tip well now when it's warranted.
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