Posted on 01/31/2013 1:23:42 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
The note would only make sense if the cost of the meal was in the same ballpark as one day’s income for the pastor.
Yep. If you’re going to use Christ’s name, leave a tip.
So do I. Immediately, following a sex change operation!
“Notice the total bill is $34.93. So it’s not like the server had a table of 6 or more.”
“The customer’s bill had included an automatic tip of 18% because, according to Chelsea, it had been part of a table of 20. “It’s a plainly stated Applebee’s policy, and it is company policy for parties over eight. I cannot control the auto-gratuity at all; it’s done by the computer that the orders are put into, and the gratuity is not determined by the bill, but by the size of the party.”
Am I to understand that Applebee’s adds 18% gratuity to every bill?
Won’t be going there.
Mustang Ranch?
Good catch.
I missed that part. So yes... The 18 percent surcharge is justified.
They pay taxes on recorded tips, like when done from a credit card receipt (where the govt can track it). Most waitresses I know do not report cash tips to the IRS. They just tip out the bus boys, etc, and keep the rest to themselves.
I certainly couldn't do that job, I don't have the right temperment. :-)
LOL, no.
Hey, government gets away with confiscating 18% from middle income earners.
It was a party of 20 w/ a bill of over $200.00.
The $34.93 was the pastor's share after the table asked for separate checks.
Person claiming to be pastor leaves waiter note: ‘I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?’
I lived in Japan 14 years. Most places, the service is great and NO TIPPING is expected or even accepted. You make exceptions only for those rare circumstances like when my little girl threw up in the back of a taxicab . . . only fair to give the guy an extra $20 or so for inconvenience and cleaning.
Yeah, meals are more expensive there. So is most everything else. But if you calculate the cost of meals based on your earnings, it is actually more expensive to eat at a restaurant in the U.S.A. than the equivalent in Japan even BEFORE you add the tip.
Where I work, we don't pay our workers such niggardly wages that we expect our vendors or customers to give tips as a cost of doing business. Why does the restaurant industry expect such special treatment?
Did the waitress tell the pastor “Eat your peas”?
According to The Smoking Gun story there were at least 5 adults and 5 children in the part. Any party with 5 kids deserves to have an 18% gatuity added.
According to witnesses, the waitress wasn’t sufficiently impressed with the pastor’s “miracles” of loaves and fish.
My son waits tables. Almost without exception, blacks do NOT leave tips...or they leave an insulting tip of a couple of dollars on a $100 bill. And they work the servers to death. Even the black waiters have gone to the hostess and told her ‘NO MORE BLACKS IN MY SECTION.’ I don’t believe this so called pastor when she says she left money on the table.
If this article didn’t explain this then this is a badly written piece.
I’ve noticed a lot of junk lately deceptively written just to rile people up.
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