BUZZFEE: Applebee's Server Gets Stiffed By Pastor Who Gave Her Tip To God, Promptly Gets Fired By Applebee's

[Botched]

Tipping question - what's the consensus of tipping on take out food (as in ordering over the phone and picking it up to bring home)? Tip or no tip?

I usually give a "guilt dollar".

[MintHillSkinsFan]

And here I thought Canadians were the rudest and worst tippers.........

Although it does annoy me when the tip is automatically added to the bill, I would never stiff the waiter/waitress unless they were completely useless. And then, like someone else said, I'd be spaeking with the manager.

[renaissance]

And here I thought Canadians were the rudest and worst tippers.........

Although it does annoy me when the tip is automatically added to the bill, I would never stiff the waiter/waitress unless they were completely useless. And then, like someone else said, I'd be spaeking with the manager.

But the tip is always automatically added for large parties. And the restaurant will usually tell you as much before they serve you, but at the very least it's written on the menu and it's ****ing common knowledge to anyone who's not a complete dumbass.

[The Evil Genius]

I may be mis-speaking, but I thought most states had a seperate min wage for wait staff. I thought it was 2.50 or 3.50

Perhaps I am mistaken

Depends on the state. California has been more progressive in ensuring that all workers make at least the state minimum wage (including hourly wait staff).

Not sure how accurate this is - but here a quick rundown by state.

http://www.paywizard.org/main/minimu...tipped-workers

[Forehead]

I usually give a "guilt dollar".

Yeah, that's how I am too. If I picked the food up, I'm not giving 10-15% or anything. I'll drop a buck or two in the jar if they have one, but the receipt is being zeroed out. When you stop to think about it, it's interesting how many things have tipping, not that it's required, but just accepted. Food service, barbershops, hotels, heck even the newspaper delivery guy (when we got the paper) had the Christmas envelope. Tipping is pretty much everywhere now, and if I've heard correctly, the concept is pretty unusual in other countries.

[MLSKINS]

I can't speak for that pastor, but I go by the rule, "If I got it, we all got it!" If God has blessed me with money and whatnot, what's the point of keeping it all to myself? At a restaurant, I will leave good tips. When someone outside 7-Eleven says, "Big man, you got any change." I give them a couple of bucks. It doesn't make me better than anybody, or make me feel any better about myself, I just feel it's the right thing to do. Aren't we supposed to help out our fellow humankind?

[gortiz]

I give strippers $1. Why would I give a clothed waitress 15%?

I love this crowd ...

[Rocky21]

Hell my wife makes me tip the girl at the Chinese buffet we go to because she brings us 2 beers (and they're nice).

[skinsmarydu]

what kind of tool writes "Pastor" before their name on a bill?

I thought the same thing. (You need to send her your sig, lol.!)

I can't speak for that pastor, but I go by the rule, "If I got it, we all got it!" If God has blessed me with money and whatnot, what's the point of keeping it all to myself? At a restaurant, I will leave good tips. When someone outside 7-Eleven says, "Big man, you got any change." I give them a couple of bucks. It doesn't make me better than anybody, or make me feel any better about myself, I just feel it's the right thing to do. Aren't we supposed to help out our fellow humankind?

Yep, I think that's what Jesus would do. I heard he was a pretty cool dude.

edit: Pastor is clearly not down for the cause.

[gortiz]

I never believed it until I waited tables. Doesn't hold true 100% of the time but most of the time it did. It probably depends on the restaurant too and the area. I'm a pretty liberal guy but it just seems to me like a lot of my black friends were taught not to tip or tip very little.

It's a cultural thing ...

When I worked at AOL for about ayear, the vast majority, and I mean the 95% of asians (Indians included) brought their lunch from home and rice was always part of the meal. They all had very similiar lunch bags to.

Ask any african american what they call the bill for their car, most (not all) will say "car note." Its weird.

I worked for a customer service department, and when you called folks that were Korean they almost all answered saying "yaboseyo" or hello in Korean. Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese folks did not say hello in their language, ever.

When I shake the hand of a guy from Centeral America, specifically Salvadoreans, you get a dead fish. Almost everytime.

When I worked construction, the contractors that did kitchen counters, specifically marble, were Brazilians. Almost every time. I'm talking several different jobs. There was one common thing they did. They all brought a microwave to the job site. Almost always. They brought a microwave, plugged it in at lunch and heated up their food. Only Brazilians did this. My buddy who got me the job and who at the time had worked construction for 20+ years, confirmed this. Folks from other countries never did this.

I think it's safe to say, that not tipping the standard 15% is something that African Americans don't due ... for the most part.

[MLSKINS]

edit: Pastor is clearly not down for the cause.

You know it

[Smoot4Prez]

The thing that people seem to be missing is that gratuity was added onto the bill automatically due to the size of their party. This is generally announced when the server first comes to the table and is posted in the restaurant and menu.

The pastor crossed out the added gratuity and wrote in the price without it, after having the bill split into multiple receipts to try to get around the automatic gratuity, even though only one person was paying.

This isn't just a cheap skate not wanting to tip. It's an EPIC cheap skate not wanting to tip.

This is the equivalent of the pastor writing, "I give God 10%, why should I pay you $8 for a hamburger?"

[Larry]

I may be mis-speaking, but I thought most states had a seperate min wage for wait staff. I thought it was 2.50 or 3.50

Perhaps I am mistaken

Well, the federal rule is (or at least was, when I was running restaurants, decades ago) that tipped employees had to be paid half of minimum wage, and that the restaurant had to guarantee that , after tips, they made minimum wage. (If the server didn;t get enough tips to make up the missing half of minimum wage, then the employer had to make up the shortfall.)

(Where I worked, this resulted in a third policy: Any waitress who claimed that she didn;t get minimum wage, got fired, under the reasoning that either she's lying, collecting more tips, and squeezing more from the employer, or her service must have been so bad that she's making the restaurant look bad.)

[skinsmarydu]

Federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13/hour.
My boss pays $2.25.

[pjfootballer]

Count me as "they should pay a decent wage and add it into the prices" category.

To me, what they're doing is simply fraud.

"We have 7 meals under five dollars! But, well, if you want something to drink with that, then that's three bucks more. And, well, you see, we don't actually pay our employees. So, well, you could just eat for five bucks, if you don't mind the waiter's kids going to bed hungry tonight. But it's completely voluntary. You don't have to pay more than the price we told you it was going to cost, if you don't mind us telling everybody on Facebook that you're an ***hole because you didn't voluntarily pay more than the price. Here, we'll even tell you how much we think you should voluntarily pay."

Add me also. I can't stand having to figure out a tip. Just put it in the price. In my wife's home country of Peru, they pay the wait staff a good wage, have the price included and there is no tipping in her country.