Applebee's Waitress Canned After Posting Pastor's Receipt

[diznee25]

I read the comments at the end of the article, and I can't believe how many people refer to the pastor as a "he". This pastor happens to be a woman!

Anyway here are some thoughts:

1. Notice the crossed out tip reads $6.29. In the article, the pastor says she left $6.29 in cash on table. And the waitress claims she was stiffed....

2. The pastor makes note of only giving God 10%, so why should the waitress get 18%. But again, the cash the pastor left on the table was $6.29....which is 18% of the total amount. So the pastor crossed out the 18% gratuity, only to leave 18% gratuity on the table! Uuugh, so confusing!

Anyway, read for yourself, and see if you understand this:

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/applebees-waitress-canned-after-posting-pastors-tip-1B8198406

 

[Ephany]

My DH and I have been reading this the last day or so, there's a bunch of other articles online. I'm not sure I completely believe the pastor when she states she left $6.29 on the table. Who has exactly $6.29 in their purse? In one article she says everyone left cash, which is hard to believe. Everyone time I've gone out with a group, some people leave cash, some leave it on their card, some people are cheap and don't leave anything. I've also read that she called up the restaurant and demanded everyone be fired. I couldn't find any article where she apologized for being so rude and snarky on the receipt or that she felt bad the waitress was fired. I'm not sure what really happened, but her name will be associated with this on google for a very long time. Not sure that was worth $6.

And..... totally in my own experience and putting on my flame suit, when I was a server, it was not uncommon to get prayer cards or other religious tracts instead of a tip on Sunday afternoon.

 

[Deb in IA]

Good.

Pastor deserves to be embarrassed over a WHOPPING $6.29!!

And giving God 10%? Well, God doesn't sling food all day.

So much for helping the poor and needy . . .

 

[luvmy3]

I read the comments at the end of the article, and I can't believe how many people refer to the pastor as a "he". This pastor happens to be a woman!

Anyway here are some thoughts:

1. Notice the crossed out tip reads $6.29. In the article, the pastor says she left $6.29 in cash on table. And the waitress claims she was stiffed....

2. The pastor makes note of only giving God 10%, so why should the waitress get 18%. But again, the cash the pastor left on the table was $6.29....which is 18% of the total amount. So the pastor crossed out the 18% gratuity, only to leave 18% gratuity on the table! Uuugh, so confusing!

Anyway, read for yourself, and see if you understand this:

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/applebees-waitress-canned-after-posting-pastors-tip-1B8198406

Just wanted to point out that the pastor wrote "I give God 10%, why DO you get 18%?". If the pastor did leave cash, I read that different than "should". Maybe the Pastor wanted the waitress to really think about what we (as society) give God compared to what we give eachother. Or maybe the pastor was a big ol' stingy meanie. I don't care either way, but I see this stuff on Yahoo all the time and always think why what someone left as a tip or wrote on a receipt makes it as a top story there

 

[Janepod]

Much more detail here ... http://consumerist.com/2013/01/31/w...receipt-from-pastor-customer-fired-from-job/#


The person who posted the receipt is not the one who waited on the pastor.

I guess she's saying, the pastor didn't leave cash?

Either way, why write something like that on a receipt if you don't want someone to see it? Too bad it bit ya in the butt, jerk.

 

[crashbb]

I read the comments at the end of the article, and I can't believe how many people refer to the pastor as a "he". This pastor happens to be a woman!

Anyway here are some thoughts:

1. Notice the crossed out tip reads $6.29. In the article, the pastor says she left $6.29 in cash on table. And the waitress claims she was stiffed....

2. The pastor makes note of only giving God 10%, so why should the waitress get 18%. But again, the cash the pastor left on the table was $6.29....which is 18% of the total amount. So the pastor crossed out the 18% gratuity, only to leave 18% gratuity on the table! Uuugh, so confusing!

Anyway, read for yourself, and see if you understand this:

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/applebees-waitress-canned-after-posting-pastors-tip-1B8198406

That, of course, assumes that the Pastor is telling the truth. Based on the comment she wrote, if I had to guess, I'd guess that no money was left on the table (as you say, it would make no sense to leave that comment and then leave the tip in cash).

That and the fact that she actually gives her 10% to herself - as she runs a "storefront church" (her words from the article).

 

[KiKi Mouse]

That pastor was very rude. Wow.

 

[Jennasis]

If I found out that my pastor made such a jerk move like that (leaving a snotty note) I'd be looking for a new church.

 

[ReneeA]

If I found out that my pastor made such a jerk move like that (leaving a snotty note) I'd be looking for a new church.

Amen, sister. I'd be making it clear why I was leaving, too. Just because you are a " religious" person doesn't make you kind or decent.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

2. The pastor makes note of only giving God 10%, so why should the waitress get 18%. But again, the cash the pastor left on the table was $6.29....which is 18% of the total amount. So the pastor crossed out the 18% gratuity, only to leave 18% gratuity on the table! Uuugh, so confusing!

I would assume someone from his party came back to the table and left the tip.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

If I found out that my pastor made such a jerk move like that (leaving a snotty note) I'd be looking for a new church.

Or you bring it up to the church board or committee responsible for the pastor and suggest he possibly apologize or even "move on".

 

[Jennasis]

Or you bring it up to the church board of committee responsible for the pastor and suggest he possibly apologize or even "move on".

That too.

 

[Mickey'snewestfan]

While I agree 100% that the pastor was obnoxious here, I'm surprised that this is being viewed as a case f "embarassing" the pastor. I would hope that in the age of identity theft businesses would have very clear policies about employees copying of photographing credit cards and receipts.

Pastor was out of line but so was the server and whoever posted the receipt.

 

[palmtreegirl]

The pastor was very rude.


When I leave a tip in cash when I pay for a credit card, I always write "Cash on table" on the tip line.

 

[Briarmom]

She's a "Pastor" at her 15 member church, according to the article on the smoking gun. And she obviously lied about leaving cash, because no one would write that they didn't agree with tipping more than you tip god and then leave a tip.

She's a jerk.

 

[design_mom]

While I agree 100% that the pastor was obnoxious here, I'm surprised that this is being viewed as a case f "embarassing" the pastor. I would hope that in the age of identity theft businesses would have very clear policies about employees copying of photographing credit cards and receipts.

Pastor was out of line but so was the server and whoever posted the receipt.

I agree. The pastor was a complete and utter jerk (and I highly doubt she left cash on the table after writing a note like that. As a previous poster said, if I leave cash for the tip but pay by credit, I always write "cash on table" on the tip line. I usually leave cash for the tip if I have it, but if the tip was already figured into the bill, I would pay by credit card for all of it.)

BUT, I think the server who posted the receipt deserves to get into trouble for it. Not for "embarrassing" the pastor, but for taking photos of the receipt in the first place. In one of the articles I read, the server says she was surprised to be fired over it because there was nothing similar to the situation in the employee handbook. If I had a restaurant I wouldn't want employees carrying personal information (credit card numbers, signatures, etc) out of the store, even in photograph form. Both photographing the receipt, and posting it online (especially with the signature visible), showed very poor judgement.

 

[hellow]

While I agree 100% that the pastor was obnoxious here, I'm surprised that this is being viewed as a case f "embarassing" the pastor. I would hope that in the age of identity theft businesses would have very clear policies about employees copying of photographing credit cards and receipts.

Pastor was out of line but so was the server and whoever posted the receipt.

I was an accountant for many years, so I may think about confidentiality a little more obsessively than most, but I agree that the server should NOT have posted the picture of the receipt. But, I also agree that the note was rude.

 

[Couchy]

Just wanted to point out that the pastor wrote "I give God 10%, why DO you get 18%?". If the pastor did leave cash, I read that different than "should". Maybe the Pastor wanted the waitress to really think about what we (as society) give God compared to what we give eachother. Or maybe the pastor was a big ol' stingy meanie. I don't care either way, but I see this stuff on Yahoo all the time and always think why what someone left as a tip or wrote on a receipt makes it as a top story there

Except this is not an apples to apples comparison. A 10% tithe is 10% of a person's entire income.
The 18% tip is only 18% of the cost of the meal which is far less than the 10% God gets on a 10% tithe. The two should not be compared.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Don't stiff the restaurant help. They don't make squat for working a thankless job but the one perk they have is they can get the same job anywhere else. And therefore many of them have no reservations in doing something like that girl did. This girl's probably got several lined up already.

 

[nd5056]

...
Some time on Wednesday, Chelsea says the customer who had left the receipt contacted her Applebees location, demanding that everyone be fired, from the servers involved to the managers.
...

Isn't Church all about forgiveness and love??? What a prime example to live by.

I'd consider the Church to look into this as well, see if the Pastor's action is in line with their policy...

And what gets me the most, the squeaky wheel always gets the grease:

...But because this person got embarrassed that their selfishness was made public, Applebees has made it clear that they would rather lose a dedicated employee than lose an angry customer. Thats a policy I cant understand....