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I wonder how the waitressing at Applebees was?
Posted on 01/31/2013 1:23:42 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Yeah, me too. 1) I don't trust the management to give it to her and 2) I don't want to leave a trail for the IRS. Oh, I usually start at 20% for my base tip. I've given 30% tips or more for really good service. I frequent the same places often, and they know me. We're good friends.
Yep, me three. At my favorite place, I have my usual table, usual time, and I am such a creature of habit I rarelly have to order because they know what I want. (shakes head - I might need to get a new routine).
My lady appreciates the cash, and you know me, anything to help not leave a paper trail. :-)
People need to think. If you wouldn't want what you say or write broadcast to the whole world, maybe it's a good idea not to say it in the first place.
It was a table of 20.
No, I didn’t read it. You got a problem with that?
I think that both the pastor and the server were rude and unprofessional but I suppose that is just par for the course in todays culture.
Interesting tidbit (not so “bit”, this is long) - I was going back a forth with a lib aquaintance who was railing against those xxx@@@Xtians and their patriarchy, notoriously sh!ty tipping and keeping woymens waitstaff down eleventyandabillion!!!!!!! E-mails were, by Maude, going to be sent to that church by her and all she knew and that tax-exempt bastion of oppression would pay. Blah, blah, blech.
Now just glancing at that receipt one could tell that the note was left by one of the female persuasion merely by the style of handwriting. But I kept silent and let my lieberal friend rail away on the Facebook.
Then, as this incident “progressed”, she found that the pastor was, indeed, a woman. Well, then, lieberal aquaintance stated that there must be more to the story; however, still, Christianity is Teh Ebil and must’ve sucked this poor woman into its diabolical trap. Her venom continued and was still directed somewhat towards the woman pastor but diluted in rage. She then said that she would have to take a step back at this point and “reflect” on this new discovery. I remarked sarcastically that the pastor had moved up on the totem pole of liberal grievance and was thus accorded a smidgen of lieberal sympathy.
Meanwhile, some will call this waaacisssssst. Or not. However, I had connected the dots with the help, I should say, of a friend - a black female nurse who called it right away. She said that the demand that everyone be fired was the “here’s your sign”. Heh.
Then came the tirade from Ms. Hyphenated-Partner’sName that, really, Applebee’s and POS computer systems were really to blame in all this and government must do something, living wage, corporate restaurant suckage, more someone must pay monies (but not her), etc. On up the totem pole the poor pastor traveled nearly to the top, if only for the fact that she was Xtian. And Ms. Fight-teh-Power blamed the pastors’ bad behavior on her being a Xtian. Then came the unfriending *chuckle*.
Sorry for the length but I had to share this glance into the pretzel-twisted journey of an unhinged lieberal whose basis for judgment is purely emotional and indoctrine-driven.
Then you obviously have never owned a business that relies on customer satisfaction..........
With that being said, life isn't black and white, and if this employee is as good as she says, then give her a reprimand and let her go back to work........
When my son waited tables at Applebee’s, his comments about non-optimal tips from that group as being just the way they rolled and there was no connection he could discern to any other factor.
yea! lol
I am sure Applebee’s menus show that the 18% tip is added for parties over X. It’s done that way at almost all US restaurants.
In Europe the automatic tip (15% IIRC) is on every bill. A guest can then leave a gratuity if they choose. That causes problems when Europeans first eat at US restaurants and assume the tip was included in their bill. It works more favorably for European waiters.
The restaurant industry and the hospitality industry generally operate at incredibly tight profit margins vs most businesses. It’s one reason so many restaurants go out of business in short order (so to speak).
If a restaurant schedules, say, 10 waiters for a shift at the higher hourly wage, but has only enough customers to fill 5 tables, they’d lose money on that shift, and soon be out of business. If they understaff for a shift, customers get poor service and won’t return. As it is the waiters share the risk against their own ‘profit’ in the form of tips.
Wouldn't she need to read her Bible when doing her Theology Degree?
Her reputation is already rooned as far away as Copperas Cove TX Disclaimer: Faith, Truth and Deliverance Ministries is not afilliated with Truth in the word Deliverance Ministry...
This article is making a mountain out of a molehill.
If the waitress gave poor service, she shouldn’t expect a tip. Even if she gave good service and the customer was just cheap and obnoxious, waitresses know that you get a bad customer every once in a while — it comes with the territory. You just live with it and don’t start posting things on the internet. And the waitress was stupid to post on the internet with personal information. As a result, she got fired.
Or a weak attempt to stop some of the negative publicity the pastor has been receiving. The pastor's story doesn't smell right - if she's going to go ahead and leave an almost 18% tip anyway, what's the point of her "joke"?
The minister should be fired. The waitress should be fired. Both were wrong, for different reasons, and brought bad press to their employers.
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I wonder how the waitressing at Applebees was?
How do you know she’s an atheist?
As posted originally on Reddit’s Atheist page, the image contained the customer’s full signature.
Since when?
It's a public place, right? Applebee's is part of a publicly traded corporation, right?
Anyone can walk past a patron's table and see their plates, right?
How has it come to be that your dinner order at Applebee's is as protected as Obama's college records?
-PJ
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