{"id":32364,"date":"2013-02-01T06:48:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T13:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/render-unto-waiters-that-which-is-waiters.html"},"modified":"2013-02-01T06:48:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T13:48:45","slug":"render-unto-waiters-that-which-is-waiters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/render-unto-waiters-that-which-is-waiters.html","title":{"rendered":"Render unto waiters that which is waiters'"},"content":{"rendered":"

A table of 20 at Applebee gets their receipts for the evening for over $200 in food. There's an automatic 18% tip on there — not unusual for parties over 8 (and usually printed right on the menu). The payer of at least one of at least one receipt, a pastor at a local church, scratches out the auto-tip and replaces it with 0, noting "I give God 10%. Why do you get 18".<\/p>\n

Waitress friend of the server in question takes a camera photo of the receipt, and posts it online. It spreads around the Internet. Pastor allegedly calls Applebee and demands everyone at the restaurant be fired. Applebee fires the waitress who posted the picture.<\/p>\n

Thoughts:<\/p>\n

(1) The anonymous pastor was being anything but Christlike. In fact, she was being a jerk (to put it kindly). Not only did she show an execrable understanding of what tips actually mean to most waitstaff (much or most of their income), not only did she ignore the clear heads-up about large groups (because it takes extra time and focus to take, manage, and distribute their orders — especially since it seems they also split the orders across multiple receipts), but she was, frankly, a dick for trying to draw a parallel between her tithes to God and her tipping the waitress. \u00a0And waving around her "Pastor" title in doing so.<\/p>\n

And, no, claiming she left $6 in cash on the table, even if true, doesn't absolve her of making that comment. \u00a0Really — did she think of What Would Jesus Do? At least she realizes \u201cI\u2019ve brought embarrassment to my church and ministry.\u201d Hopefully there will be some discussion about it at the next vestry (or\u00a0analogous\u00a0church council) meeting at the church.<\/p>\n

(2) The waitress blew it. Because including the signature on the receipt picture, even if she thought it was illegible, was an incredibly boneheaded stunt. Because it leads precisely to this kind of predictable action from her employer. \u00a0You don't embarrass your employer, too, because your employer\u00a0want their customers coming in wondering if something about their behavior (good, bad, or indifferent) will be the next viral image on Reddit, with the customer's own name attached. (One might argue whether that would be a good thing socially<\/i> — but it's not something any restaurant is going to promote as a business<\/i> policy.)<\/p>\n

The waitress made a goof, and is more than paying for it. But she's also not the person here was behaving the most badly.<\/p>\n

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