Man claiming to be pastor leaves waiter note: ‘I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?’

I know a lot of people in the restaurant business, and therefore a lot of waitresses. Virtually all of them hate to work the Sunday lunch crowd because church people tend to leave those little "tracks" instead of a tip.

Maybe people should start sending "tracks" to the TV preachers and putting them in the collection plate. They may pay the bills for a church, but most of the wait staff I know, have actual bills to pay and most bill collectors don't accept a "track" as payment.

The waiter should have replied-"I pay taxes on my 18% but your god doesn't pay anything on his 10%, why is that"?

Best, that looks like your handwriting. could this be? i wonder?

i would hope next time that pastor will pay what he thinks appropriate for the service, and be encouraging and uplifting with his comments. kinda like Jesus woud do

we are to bless people we come in contact with....just sayin'.

How do we know this was really a pastor.  Could have been an atheist who just wrote pastor on the receipt hoping it would cause a stink.  This is nothing but unsubstantiated rubbish written by a blogger hoping to get more hits.

Yes those church people and their dirty feet.  Always leaving "tracks".

hoob that was my exact suspect. it looks like bestes' handwriting.

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LOL!! I would think, could be wrong, that it would be easy to find out if he was a real pastor, seeing as how he had to use his real name and apparently was with a church group. Oh, and it could have been a pastor pretending to be an atheist pretending to be a pastor. BTW, you did see the part that said he was claiming to be a pastor, right??

I claim to be Barack Obama.  Must be true.  Now give me your money so I can redistribute it to my checking account.

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I wouldn't give the real obama my money, much less someone pretending to be him. And unless you have a truck load of secret service guys and media around you, and you are, as they call him, black, you'll have a hard time getting anyone to buy that.

Oh well, I'll just have to quit my job and enjoy your tax money instead.

 I have never been in the restaurant business, but I always leave a tip for the server to do as they wish because that is part of their salary and most of the time they deserve it. It means a lot if you plan on coming back to the same establishment.

I find it funny how the church wants you to send you money to the lord, but the give you their address!

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And seeweed is far worse than these so called "track tippers".

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I have no idea if the man was a pastor or not, but there's no blog involved here. It was posted on Reddit and then picked up by the news.

If he was really affiliated with a church, he should know we're commanded to give liberally, not 10%.

My friends who have been waitresses tell me the Sunday lunch is extremely bad for tipping, but the crowd is polite and that goes a long way.

Hi all,

I cannot speak for that person and why he did not want to leave a larger gratuity.   However, I will not accept a bill, in a hotel or in a restaurant, which automatically includes a tip.   The term "gratuity" means:  something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service; especially for good service.

When I get good service, I am always happy to show my appreciation by leaving a good gratuity.  My wife has always told me I leave too much.   But, good service deserves a reward.

On the other hand, when the "gratuity" is automatic -- there is no incentive for the server to go that extra mile.  Very often, in such cases, the service is substandard.  For that reason, I believe the gratuity should not be automatic -- and I will not support a restaurant, or other establishment, which removes this incentive to good service.

Just as we Christians will get extra rewards in heaven for going above and beyond in the service of our Lord -- on this earth a server should get only the extra rewards earned by service above and beyond.

Many restaurants do the automatic gratuity thing -- to justify them paying their help so poorly.  If the restaurant goes the extra mile and hires good servers, and the server goes the extra mile and provides service above and beyond -- the customer will be very happy -- and the server will be happy with the gratuity received.  And, the restaurant owner will be happy because he/she will have happy, satisfied customers who will return, over and over -- a win-win situation for all.  And, without the forced automatic gratuity.

Just my thoughts.

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

Bill

Both my daughters worked as waitresses in summers and holiday periods when in high school and college.  Both of them made very good money in those jobs, enough for them to buy their own cars, in fact.  They worked very hard to satisfy customers and they were duly rewarded.  The quality of table service in restaurants today is very uneven.  There are waitpersons who deliver the food and drink ordered and then NEVER come back even once to ask if anything else is needed, even a refill of a tea glass.  It is those who get a meager tip from me.  Those who are alert and attentive get a generous tip--at least 20 percent and sometimes more. I believe this is a more than fair way to deal with the matter of tipping.

Well, apparently it was a real pastor, seems to be a she instead of a he, but yep, the good pastor handled it in a christian fashion by getting the waitress fired. 

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An Applebee's waitress who posted a receipt with a note from a pastor complaining about the automatic gratuity added to the bill on the Internet was fired on Wednesday after the pastor complained to her manager.

Chelsea Welch, the waitress, wrote in an email to Yahoo News that the pastor (who has since been identified as Alois Bell) told Welch's manager at the St. Louis-area Applebee's that the ensuing firestorm had "ruined" her reputation.

"I give God 10%," Bell wrote on the receipt, scratching out the automatic tip and scribbling in an emphatic "0" where the additional tip would be. "Why do you get 18?" (There were more than eight people in Bell's party, triggering the auto-tip.)

Welch, who snapped a photo of the bill from a fellow server and uploaded to Reddit, defended her right to post the receipt. "I thought the note was insulting, but also comical," she told Consumerist.com. "And I thought other users would find it entertaining.”

Bell, a pastor at Truth in the World Deliverance Ministries Church, was not amused, and she called Welch's manager to complain.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/si...ceipt-193820748.html

http://gawker.com/5980558/past...eputation-was-ruined

The pastor called it a "lapse in my character and judgment" that "has been blown out of proportion." Somewhat an ironic statement coming from someone who ordered Applebee's to fire everyone who came into contact with the receipt.

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I would think you would leave your gift to God at church and your tip

at an eaterly at that place of business. Don't blame God if you can't

afford  gratuity protocol. The two aren't the same.

Knowing what was expected of me and the amount of money would

be a bother, I would have split everyone into smaller groups.

Usually the tips from a large group are bigger than the added gratuity, but restaurants still add them.   It was a nasty thing the so called pastor did, and she should be embarrassed. 

the pastor is likely a republican. they cant help themselves. they hate to give a thin dime away.

Here is a clip of one of her "sermons" .

I wonder if anybody still thinks this bunch should be getting tax-free status ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1-bhKg7cvA

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I think she is more crazy than anything. Just a cheapazz , sorry excuse for some religious nut that appears to need to skip a few meals at any restaurant.

I'm looking for one site where I read that the "pastor" had called for the firing of everyone at the restaurant, from servers to the manager. Ah, can't you just feel the love?